Shucks I must have missed the harsh tone. Guess I wasn't listening. Someone asked about back issues and the society has a back issue CD. You do not have to be a member of the Society to get any of their publications as far as I know. I have been a member for many years and have voiced (typed) my feelings about some things here lately. Hopefully something will come about to help a bit with research. At least I hope they will open the GenWeb for Lawrence County so we can provide information to be placed on the site. I am afraid that is just wishful thinking. I am not directly related to Brad Pitt and BTW his name is William Bradley Pitt and the last I heard his mother and brother and sister were still in the Springfield area. I always feel sorry for famous people as their private lives just go to pot. I guess I would not be eligible for a card since he is in the family book through marriage. Don't feel bad about not getting a card as I don't get one from Don Johnson and he is a second cousin once removed. You figure out what that relationship is. It always confuses me. Anyway just to not cloud the issue I am not writing with any tone but sometimes with a tongue in cheek. Keep smiling and Happy Hunting. Jerry Wade Johnson ----- Original Message ---- From: Ross Cameron <rcameron49@earthlink.net> To: molawren@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 2:17:50 PM Subject: Re: [MOLAWREN] Brad Pitt All, I'm sorry if the tone of my message seemed harsh to anyone. I wrote my message late last night and didn't notice until today, how it may have sounded to some. I didn't intend to be critical of anyone for not subscribing. My intent was to give a plug for the Bulletin, the Lawrence County Historical Society, and all the interesting stories and information that appear in the Bulletin. I wanted to encourage people to join and get the Bulletin. And Pat, your response did not generate my comments above. Your kind message was most appreciated. Simply re-reading my message in the "daylight" led me to decide that I should have worded it differently. Again, my apologies. Ross -----Original Message----- >From: Pat Kennedy <pat-igree-kenn@charter.net> >Sent: Apr 26, 2007 9:58 PM >To: Ross Cameron <rcameron49@earthlink.net>, molawren@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [MOLAWREN] Brad Pitt > >Ross, THANK YOU. >I must have missed reading all of this in my Bulletin. I find this so >interesting. Thank you once again. >Pat > > > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Ross Cameron" <rcameron49@earthlink.net> >To: <molawren@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 6:47 PM >Subject: Re: [MOLAWREN] Brad Pitt > > >> Pat and others, >> >> If you all had subscriptions to the Lawrence County Historical Society >> Bulletin in 1999, you would have Brad Pitt's maternal ancestry, as >> prepared Sep 1, 1999, by Fred G. Mieswinkel, and published in the Lawrence >> County Historical Society Bulletin, October 1999, p. 52 with additional >> notes on p. 53. >> >> mother - Jane Etta Hillhouse >> grandparents - Hal Knox Hillhouse and Clara Bell >> g-grandparents - Emery A. Hillhouse and Etta Coleman Williams >> - Finis A. Bell and Lenora J. Hammer >> g-g-grandparents - Elijah Boyd, Jr., Hillhouse and Malinda B. Morris >> - Henry Thomas Williams and Ida Mae Isbell >> - William Saterfield Bell and Sarah Elizabeth Neece >> - Felix Emery Hammer and Sarah Angeline Parker >> g-g-g-grandparents - Elijah, Sr., Hillhouse and Ann Gibson >> - Jordan Morris and Mary Button >> - Francis Coleman Williams and Sarah Greene Fullerton >> - Thomas Riley Isbell and Mique Ann Hardin Davis >> - Bell line not shown >> - Hardy Hopwood (later corrected to Holman) Neece and >> Alice Catherine Small >> - Enoch Lane Hammer and Susannah C. Newby >> - John Parker and Martha Cherry >> >> That is as far as the published chart showed and I'll let you all make the >> connections further back for your various families. My direct connections >> are Williams and Fullerton, back another generation, though I am related >> by marriage to other lines. >> >> To put some time frame to it, the g-g-g-grandparents were born between >> 1809 and 1838. >> >> Thank Fred, not me. >> >> Ross Cameron >> >> -----Original Message----- >>>From: Pat Kennedy <pat-igree-kenn@charter.net> >>>Sent: Apr 26, 2007 6:06 PM >>>To: molawren@rootsweb.com >>>Subject: Re: [MOLAWREN] Brad Pitt >>> >>>Would you know if there is any relationship of Brad Pitt to the Kimmons >>>family? How interesting, looks like he grew up around Halltown? >>> >>>Thank you >>>Pat >>> >>> >>> >>>----- Original Message ----- >>>From: <Roulx@aol.com> >>>To: <molawren@rootsweb.com> >>>Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 8:24 AM >>>Subject: [MOLAWREN] Brad Pitt >>> >>> >>>> >>>> In a message dated 4/26/2007 6:59:36 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, >>>> DANNBARNES@msn.com writes: >>>> >>>> I, too, am a distant cousin of Brad's through Hickman Isbell and Anny >>>> Tharpe's son Thomas Riley Isbell and Mique Davis. No card either. >>>> Ann Barnes >>>> Mesa, AZ >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: heather e blair<mailto:h431@uchicago.edu> >>>> To: molawren@rootsweb.com<mailto:molawren@rootsweb.com> >>>> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 5:32 AM >>>> Subject: Re: [MOLAWREN] Information >>>> >>>> >>>> I'm also a fifth cousin of Brad Pitt, but our common ancestors are John >>>> McCune Fullerton (1800-1855) and Anne Rawls Fort (1803-1845). He never >>>> sends me Chrismas cards either. >>>> >>>> - Heather >>>> >>>> http://surgerysupport.uchicago.edu/hblair/<http://surgerysupport.uchicago.edu/ >>>> hblair/> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Max Puckett wrote: >>>> >>>>> Robina, >>>>> >>>>> Also, as a fun bit of family history and Lawrence County trivia, Brad >>>> Pitt, >>>>> the actor, is also descended from John Neece and Huldy Ellis, through >>>> their >>>>> son Hardin Neece and down through the Hillhouse line. He's a fith >>>>> cousin >>>> to >>>>> me, but I doubt he'll ever send me a Christmas card. >>>> >>>> ------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>>> MOLAWREN-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:MOLAWREN-request@rootsweb.com> with >>>> the word 'unsubscribe' >>>> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>>> >>>> ------------------------------- >>>> 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 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> I think Brad Pitt's mother still lives in Springfield. >>>> >>>> Patricia >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ************************************** 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 >>>> >>> >>> >>>------------------------------- >>>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 >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 >> > ------------------------------- 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com