AMEN, PATRICIA LINDSEY CLEMONS.!!!!!! This is living genealogy, and it is regrettable to deny listers the right to discuss it. Thanks for writing. I know most of us feel this way. I have family members and memories and history in the area too, and have found all my relatives safe, thank goodness. Patricia Hunt Rouleau

I just signed up for the Lawrence county list. I've been on the Jasper and Barry county lists for awhile. I have many family connections to Pierce City. Two of my ggg-grandmothers are buried in the Pierce City Cemetery, Rachel Siler Hand (1833-1903), and Elizabeth Louisa Gilman Woolsey (1820-1883). My gg-grandfather, George Gamon Woolsey (1851-1906) is also buried there. My dad and I visited the town a couple of years ago, and it's sad to hear that the downtown has been destroyed by a tornado. I found this article in the Joplin Globe online: http://www.joplinglobe.com/story.php?story_id=24733 Here's one from the Springfield News-Leader: http://www.springfieldnews-leader.com/news/0506-Ragingwind-49285.html - Heather

I TOTALLY AGREE! How can you not say this isn't family history? This DOES effect or families, our family files, our, churches, our grave yards! I don't understand how someone can say this isn't a legitimate part of genealogy. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 8:34 AM Subject: Re: [MOLAWREN-L] Re: Tornado damage research IS genealogy... > AMEN, PATRICIA LINDSEY CLEMONS.!!!!!! This is living genealogy, and it is > regrettable to deny listers the right to discuss it. Thanks for writing. I > know most of us feel this way. I have family members and memories and > history in the area too, and have found all my relatives safe, thank > goodness. > > Patricia Hunt Rouleau > > > ==== MOLAWREN Mailing List ==== > Visit the Lawrence County Query, Biography, Obituary, Will, Deed, Bible, Pension, etc., Boards at: > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.st ates.missouri.counties.lawrence > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

I just sent an update to one of our group....do you all want a copy of what I found out. I talked to a friend who lives and works in Aurora, and her husband works for the Methodist Manor in Marionville. It is worse through there than we thought. It probably did hit our McNatt cemetery...did kill several people around there, from Monett to Marionville. I'll know more later. There is a newspaper in Monett that is online. They got their power back today and might be back up and running. Name of the paper is the Monett Times. Don't know the site for sure. John Wall wrote: >I TOTALLY AGREE! > >How can you not say this isn't family history? This DOES effect or >families, our family files, our, churches, our grave yards! I don't >understand how someone can say this isn't a legitimate part of genealogy. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 8:34 AM >Subject: Re: [MOLAWREN-L] Re: Tornado damage research IS genealogy... > > > > >>AMEN, PATRICIA LINDSEY CLEMONS.!!!!!! This is living genealogy, and it >> >> >is > > >>regrettable to deny listers the right to discuss it. Thanks for writing. >> >> >I > > >>know most of us feel this way. I have family members and memories and >>history in the area too, and have found all my relatives safe, thank >>goodness. >> >>Patricia Hunt Rouleau >> >> >>==== MOLAWREN Mailing List ==== >>Visit the Lawrence County Query, Biography, Obituary, Will, Deed, Bible, >> >> >Pension, etc., Boards at: > > >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.st >ates.missouri.counties.lawrence > > >>============================== >>To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, >> >> >go to: > > >>http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >> >> >> > > >==== MOLAWREN Mailing List ==== >More Lawrence County information can be found at: >http://www.rootsweb.com/~molawre2/ > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > >

Hello Pat, Please send me a copy of the updated information you have. My Grammer and Gregory families were born in the area. I also have family in the Marionville Cemetery. Thank you also for the newspaper name. Thank you, Sandie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat Miller" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 5:54 PM Subject: Re: [MOLAWREN-L] Re: Tornado damage research IS genealogy... > I just sent an update to one of our group....do you all want a copy of > what I found out. I talked to a friend who lives and works in Aurora, > and her husband works for the Methodist Manor in Marionville. It is > worse through there than we thought. It probably did hit our McNatt > cemetery...did kill several people around there, from Monett to > Marionville. I'll know more later. > > There is a newspaper in Monett that is online. They got their power > back today and might be back up and running. Name of the paper is the > Monett Times. Don't know the site for sure. > > John Wall wrote: > > >I TOTALLY AGREE! > > > >How can you not say this isn't family history? This DOES effect or > >families, our family files, our, churches, our grave yards! I don't > >understand how someone can say this isn't a legitimate part of genealogy. > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: <[email protected]> > >To: <[email protected]> > >Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 8:34 AM > >Subject: Re: [MOLAWREN-L] Re: Tornado damage research IS genealogy... > > > > > > > > > >>AMEN, PATRICIA LINDSEY CLEMONS.!!!!!! This is living genealogy, and it > >> > >> > >is > > > > > >>regrettable to deny listers the right to discuss it. Thanks for writing. > >> > >> > >I > > > > > >>know most of us feel this way. I have family members and memories and > >>history in the area too, and have found all my relatives safe, thank > >>goodness. > >> > >>Patricia Hunt Rouleau > >> > >> > >>==== MOLAWREN Mailing List ==== > >>Visit the Lawrence County Query, Biography, Obituary, Will, Deed, Bible, > >> > >> > >Pension, etc., Boards at: > > > > > >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.s t > >ates.missouri.counties.lawrence > > > > > >>============================== > >>To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > >> > >> > >go to: > > > > > >>http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >> > >> > >> > > > > > >==== MOLAWREN Mailing List ==== > >More Lawrence County information can be found at: > >http://www.rootsweb.com/~molawre2/ > > > >============================== > >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > > > > ==== MOLAWREN Mailing List ==== > Visit the Lawrence County Query, Biography, Obituary, Will, Deed, Bible, Pension, etc., Boards at: > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.st ates.missouri.counties.lawrence > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

The Monett Times: http://www.monett-times.com/NF/omf/monett/index1.html Has nothing current on-line that I could find except a story of a wreck on I44 in lawrence Co.and Obituaries for today's date.

Anytime people of like interests (genealogy\history) begin to talk, thier discussions turn to those interests. As we begin to discuss the tornadic activity in Lawrence county, someone might mention a historical event, a tornado of years gone by - and someone else might say "where did it happen" and then they begin to discuss something that brings them to a genealogical\historical discovery. Or what if someone were to mention a particular person's farm from the old days and how the tornado touched down there. Another person who might be researching that family had found a link to help them, a real solid link on the ground in Lawrence co. As for me - tragedies like this are a part of what we do here. We are researching FAMILIES - not information. Serious issues such as this, bring families closer together, and thats what genealogy is suppose to be all about - Family. On that note = Im still trying to figure out how I can find my gr gr grandfather John McGehee. He was indicted for murder in the late 1850s in Mt Vernon. Just about any McGehee found in Lawrence county is related to me probably somehow. Anyone who can help me with McGehee genealogy is most welcome to try. Thanks so much. Your Lawrence county Family member, Jack McGehee ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 10:34 AM Subject: Re: [MOLAWREN-L] Re: Tornado damage research IS genealogy... > AMEN, PATRICIA LINDSEY CLEMONS.!!!!!! This is living genealogy, and it is > regrettable to deny listers the right to discuss it. Thanks for writing. I > know most of us feel this way. I have family members and memories and > history in the area too, and have found all my relatives safe, thank > goodness. > > Patricia Hunt Rouleau > > > ==== MOLAWREN Mailing List ==== > Visit the Lawrence County Query, Biography, Obituary, Will, Deed, Bible, Pension, etc., Boards at: > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.st ates.missouri.counties.lawrence > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >