Mabel, I've been interested in collecting stories by interviewing Clever residents. I can't guarantee how many I could do, but maybe it would help to have someone who would actually write the material that those old-timers would offer if they didn't have to do the writing themselves. Since my husband has a welding business I come in contact with some of the old timers in the area (although I'm sure there are a lot I don't know), and once they find out that I'm interested in the area's history and families they are usually willing with some ready stories....maybe not of the type that are normally included in county history books. However, there used to be a little church just down the road from us where the old bridge crossed the James River. The husband of one of my neighbors helped to move it when it got moved across the river next to the Delaware Landing cemetery. Then another lady told me how when they were getting rid of some of the furnishings of that church when it was being torn down, she was told that the pulpit was made by her father and they asked if she wanted it. She did, and so she has it now. Patti -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.13.13/197 - Release Date: 12/09/2005

Those sort of things would be of interest in a book or in the regularly quarterly printed for society members. We have to get this information while the people are here to share it. I forgot which culture, but someone has a saying that A library is lost with the death of each person, since they are the last keeper some of their memories. Patti Hobbs wrote: > Mabel, I've been interested in collecting stories by interviewing Clever > residents. I can't guarantee how many I could do, but maybe it would > help to have someone who would actually write the material that those > old-timers would offer if they didn't have to do the writing > themselves. Since my husband has a welding business I come in contact > with some of the old timers in the area (although I'm sure there are a > lot I don't know), and once they find out that I'm interested in the > area's history and families they are usually willing with some ready > stories....maybe not of the type that are normally included in county > history books. However, there used to be a little church just down the > road from us where the old bridge crossed the James River. The husband > of one of my neighbors helped to move it when it got moved across the > river next to the Delaware Landing cemetery. Then another lady told me > how when they were getting rid of some of the furnishings of that church > when it was being torn down, she was told that the pulpit was made by > her father and they asked if she wanted it. She did, and so she has it now. > > Patti > >

I was also interested if copies of original history were still available. I've never gotten to see it, so don't know what information pertaining to my ancestors is in it, but I could furnish information on Wills, Waggoner, Shelton and Cash families for the new one. Dorothy Shelton McCurdy

I am new to the list and was wondering if there are any Woods families in the first one? I just started on them a few days ago so don't know much other than what I have found in the census. I guess they lived on the line between Christian and Greene counties. Would love to learn more on them. Thanks Connie --------------------------------- Yahoo! Shopping Find Great Deals on Holiday Gifts at Yahoo! Shopping