Thank you for replying to me. I am just getting started on this part of the family and I don't know if Margaret Eaton had any siblings or not. I am trying to get in touch with a cousin for more information but she is doing her snowbird thing in Arizona now. Sound like your ggrandfather was a very determined man when he made his mind up. Did he and Mollie have any children? Alicia ----- Original Message ----- From: Steve Adamson <steve.a@Home.com> To: <MOLAWREN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 8:04 PM Subject: Re: [MOLAWREN-L] Hawley > I usually scan everything that comes to me via MOLAWREN, even though I > don't know 99 percent of the names. Some of the messages are fun and > interesting; others are educational; and on rare occasions, there's > stuff a bit more personal, like this: > > My ggrandfather, Ed Adamson (the one who built the cabin now relocated > next to the Jones Memorial on the north edge of Mt. Vernon), died in > 1901. I have an obituary, written by an alleged old friend for an > unknown newspaper--maybe Everton, Greenfield, Miller, Mt.Vernon--in > which Ed's second wife, Mary C. (Mollie) Eaton, is identified as the > daughter of Z. T. Eaton. She and Ed were married 26 Mar 1888 in Polk > County, and I believe she was born in 1847. Is she the sister of your Margaret? > > By the way--the family lore is that two years after my ggrandmother--his > first wife--died (11 Mar 1886), Ed put on his cleanest clothes, > commented to someone (probably one of his sons), "Well, I'm goin' to > Bolivar to git me a wife," hitched up his team and wagon, and left. > Three days later, he came back with Molly! > >