This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZKB.2ACE/455 Message Board Post: I was a visitor to Rhineland recently. Can anyone tell me about the magnificent abandoned school that I can see from Hwy 94? Thanks, Lou Ann

I thought that the King family might be interested in the following excerpts from my aunt's meniors: Caution to the Wind - Unfinished Memoirs by Elender Buchanan Frisbie, Mexico, MO. She copy righted it in 1984, but did not have it printed (in a limited number) until 2005. It covers the family history of Richard Morrison Buchanan of Montgomery County and two generations of this descendants from about 1885 to the late 1940s. About 1885: "A few months later their home [Richard M. and Liza Buchanan] was destroyed by fire, and they were forced to move in with a neighbor, the Bill King family. One day Baby John became ill with pneumonia. Charlie King went to Montgomery City to get the doctor, who recommended giving the baby a small amount of whiskey. Charlie bought a half-pint and started on the six-mile trip home. It was a cold, damp and miserable day, and Charlie couldn't get his mind off that bottle in his pocket. After all, he reasoned, the baby would need only a small amount. Tired and cold, and with a taste for the fiery liquid to warm him, he yielded to temptation, drank most of the whiskey and filled the bottle with water from a creek he had to cross. The baby did get well in spite of the diluted toddy." About 1890: "One day John A. mixed clay and chicken manure together, patted it into the shape of a plug of tobacco and let it dry. When it was ready he offered some to Charlie King (an old man by now) to chew. After chewing it for a few minutes, Charlie said, "This here turbaccer tastes like chicken shit." John A. assured him it was good stuff and talked him into trying some more. Finally the old man realized it was not 'turbaccer.'" Chet Buchanan