This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/2JB.2ACE/416 Message Board Post: The woman who wrote the history described as follows married a man named Bob on Dec. 3 (year?), probably in Cape Girardeau Co., MO, as she was living in Pocohontas when she met him. They probably married ca. 1903-1908. Her father was a Methodist minister. Any clues to her identity? Let me know. Thanks! A set of biographical papers was recently found by a security guard in the north parking lot of the East Library in Colorado Springs. No names are included to help the library return the manuscript to its owner. Following is a description of the material in hopes that someone might recognize the account. The biographical account is written in pencil on the front and back of six yellow 8½ x 11-inch sheets of paper. It has been placed in acid-free sleeves for protection. The pencil is a little faded but it is still legible. The author was 75 years old at the time she wrote the account of her early life for her children and grandchildren. She was born March 1, 1887, near Fulton, Kentucky, which is near the Tennessee and Kentucky state line. (These dates suggest it was written about 1962.) Her father taught school in Tennessee. She writes of attending her father’s school and walking two miles to school with him. Her mother had an African-American to cook, clean, wash, and iron for the family. Her mother sewed, knitted, pieced quilts, and “did for the neighbors.” The author’s maternal grandmother lived with the family. There was an older brother and a sister who was born August 10, 1893, in the family. In the manuscript she gives an account of her childhood activities—making chewing gum from the sap of gum trees, their playhouse under a large oak, celebrating Christmas, a train trip to visit an aunt in Missouri. Her father was admitted to the Southeastern Conference of the Methodist Church in St. Louis, MO, in 1898 and for the next 10 years the family moved from town to town in southeastern Missouri—Aninston, Platten, Mabel Hill, Indian Creek, etc. She attended school in Pocahontas where she met her husband-to-be, Bob, who lived on a farm near Jackson, MO, with his father and two brothers. She gives a brief account of their courtship and marriage on December 2 (no year given) in a courthouse ceremony attended by about 500 to 1,000 people. Her husband lived on a farm near Jackson, MO. She gives an account of their wedding. After the wedding they lived with Bob’s family until Bob was able to build their house, which she briefly describes. This is a wonderful account of a woman’s childhood and early adulthood and gives valuable information that would be important to anyone interested in family history. If you have any information about the person who may have lost this manuscript, please contact Mary Davis at 719-531-6333 ext. 2252.