In a message dated 4/25/2007 12:16:29 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, jwjohnson8750@yahoo.com writes: Buck Prairie school house is in the middle of a lot of places. It consolidated into Marionville in my 5th year of school. It is probably closest to McKinley. I always say it is between Chesapeake and McKinley but it is much closer to McKinley. Several have written to ask for a copy of the picture of it. I have a picture taken several years ago and it looks a lot like it did when I went to school there. Last year when I went by I was glad I had the other picture as it now has a tin roof and just don't look the same. Now to the picture I was talking about. That was a dig at the administrator of this list. I sent him/her or whoever it was at the time a picture of the students at the school when I was going there. I got an answer back that he/her had the picture and more or less it was on the back burner as it seems the administrator of the list is a very busy person. I looked the day I wrote the letter and I did not see the picture on the site. If you are a member of the Barry County list and go to their site you will see the difference between that site and this one. Historically there seems to be a reason for this. First of all I don't want this viewed as a complaint but a statement of fact. Lawrence County has a very active and excellent Historical Society of which I have been a member for several years and enjoy the bulletin they send out. When I joined this Society Barry County had very little to offer in the historical arena or at least it was difficult to fine anything. Lawrence County developed their publications in printed format and while Barry did the same in some cases it seemed slow to me. Barry has developed a site that is great to research and to correspond with. Lawrence is still depending on the printed format. This does bring in some revenue to the Society but one day the Society is going to have to join the rest of the world and get on the web. This is just an observation of one person only. I would suspect this site is tightly entwined with the Society. When I was in Mt Vernon last year I must say I was amazed that the Library there had an extensive collection of researchable material for genealogy. I could only spend a few days but if I have lived back there again I would be there many days a week researching. It seems the Society has had a big hand in that endeavor and should be applauded for it. Now that you have lived through my letter to this point I guess you might want your original question answered. I would be happy to provide the site with the Buck Prairie Pictures if they would put them out for people to pick up. I would like to see a site for the Society. This site while it may not be ideal would do nicely if handled in the manner that the Barry Site is handled. The administrator for the Barry site does an excellent job. Probably one of the best I have seen lately. Like Ross I am probably related to most families in Lawrence County and a heck of a lot of them in Barry, Stone and Dade Counties. I am constantly researching data and am way behind on that research so better get busy today. Thanks for lending an ear. Take Care and Happy Hunting Jerry Wade Johnson ----- Original Message ---- From: Pat Miller <pgmiller@flash.net> To: molawren@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 7:48:14 PM Subject: Re: [MOLAWREN] Information Jerry, Buck Prairie School was South of Halltown? If it is where I think it is, then it's where my Dad started school in about 1915-16. People have made a home out of it. I'd love to have a picture. Pat Miller Dallas,TX Jerry Johnson wrote: > I have been reading my latest Lawrence County Historical Society Bulletin April 2007 and they are making a membership roster with email addresses. I think this is great. What would be even greater is that the Society set up a email address so we could correspond with them. This is the closest I have come to being able to get to them. I have my own feelings about this site which I will not vent here but there should be a way to address things to the Society. I hope someone will go ahead and pass my email address on to the society as I can't do so myself. Thanks. I sent a picture in to be put on this site of Buck Prairie School and I haven't seen it come up anywhere. > > Jerry Wade Johnson > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! 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Historical Society is far behind as far as making the rich source of genealogy they have collected available to all the people who are interested. It is frustrating to know so much information is there, but to have to send snail mail or make an expensive phone call to get answers to questions you have. I too am related to many families in Lawrence Co....mine and Ross' ancestry crosses numerous times. I have spent some happy hours in the McCanse Library, but will probably never get there again, since I live in California and am getting too old to travel much. I attended one of the meetings several years ago, and they are a very knowledgeable active group. It is too bad they don't get into the technology age. I sent an album of unidentified pictures to them 3 or 4 years ago or more, hoping someone would know who the people are. I have never heard a word about them, and I think if they could go on the internet, someone would surely identify them. Anyway, if you have the chance to visit Mt. Vernon, it will be well worth your time. Patricia Hunt Rouleau ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.

I still have family in Lawrence county and try to make a trip there at least once a year. Because I do a lot of genealogy research on other families, I always make a visit to Mt. Vernon to either the library or the courthouse. The library is good if you know exactly what you're looking for and the courthouse is good if you ask lots of questions when you get there. I have never been in touch with the society and although I've tried to contact them, I've never received any response. My Lawrence county history goes back to the mid 1830s and I am related to most old families there, like Ross. My Dad's family from the Halltown/Bois D'arc area and my mother's from Aurora/Marionville (Buck Prairie and Elk Prairie). My sons' father's family from Marionville, Chesapeake and Mt. Vernon. Although our Dallas Genealogical library has a lot of Lawrence county information, they don't have the things in Mt. Vernon. Lawrence County is a wonderful place that is hiding; hopefully they will come into the technological age soon. It would be great to have the info at Mt. Vernon digitized and sold on CD/DVD. Pat Miller Roulx@aol.com wrote: > > I agree that the Lawrence Co. Historical Society is far behind as far as > making the > rich source of genealogy they have collected available to all the people who > are > interested. It is frustrating to know so much information is there, but to > have to send > snail mail or make an expensive phone call to get answers to questions you > have. > I too am related to many families in Lawrence Co....mine and Ross' ancestry > crosses > numerous times. I have spent some happy hours in the McCanse Library, but > will > probably never get there again, since I live in California and am getting > too old to > travel much. I attended one of the meetings several years ago, and they are > a very > knowledgeable active group. It is too bad they don't get into the > technology age. > I sent an album of unidentified pictures to them 3 or 4 years ago or more, > hoping > someone would know who the people are. I have never heard a word about them, > and I think if they could go on the internet, someone would surely identify > them. > Anyway, if you have the chance to visit Mt. Vernon, it will be well worth > your time. > > Patricia Hunt Rouleau > > > > ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MOLAWREN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >