Is William (Bill) Manning in this book or Sam Davis? Ellie -------Original Message------- From: Debi Kush Waterman Date: 02/03/05 16:34:05 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MOSTONE-L] Quiet Would one of them bushwacker's be the famous Alf Bolin? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Goldie Vining" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 11:36 AM Subject: Re: [MOSTONE-L] Quiet > Hi Jim, My husband and I would like to take a trip back to Missouri this > year, but a lot depends on his health. He is a diabetic with > complications. If we are not able to make it...I want to get a few books > from the area. He was born in Aurora. He will be 65 in April. I found > his people around Aurora and also Stone County...Crane and Oto. I don't > know what it is to search in a courthouse basement. I would love to. I > have dreamed of doing so, but where I live, there isn't any ancestry for > us, so have no real reason to do so. But Stone, Lawrence, Barry...those > are places I would love to be able to poke around in. I would like to go > to a couple of cemetaries also. Namely Nelson and Mars Hill (Marshall). > > Larry had 2 gr-gr grandfathers in the Civil war. One was Samuel Branham. > One was John Wesley Bowling, who never made it to Stone County with his > brothers. They were all born in Tennessee. Ended up in Arkansas and on > to Stone County. John died in Arkansas. His wife and 2 daughters moved > on to Stone County about the time 5 of his brothers did. > > I will be talking to you about your book a little later on. It sounds > interesting. Goldie > > Barrett <[email protected]> wrote: > Goldie: Bowling Baker appears in the old county documents in the basements > of Galena. I liked the name and used it in my book as follows: > Bobby Baker was a Northern captain in the Civil War. His father was > Bowling > Baker. He was one of the men hung by the Bush Whackers when they invaded > Galena immediately after the Civil War, seeking loot and plunder. Bowling > is only incidental to the tale, but Bobby Baker plays a major (if a bit > fictional) role. The novel is about true events and real people. It's just > that I'm not sure these real people performed in those real events, but > somebody did, so I've chosen those who well might have. The novel is in > professionally bound manuscript form and is only available in print in the > Kimberling Library at present. I have it in digital format on my computer. > Regards, Jim Barrett > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Goldie Vining" > To: > Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 7:58 PM > Subject: Re: [MOSTONE-L] Quiet > > >> Hi Jim, Quite often I have seen where a last name (such as the mothers > maiden name, or a grandparents last name) had been used for a kids first > name. I found some Bakers in my data, but not on that side of the family. > No Bowling Bakers. But I don't have everything. The more time goes by, the > more I realize how much I DON'T have. But, thanks for the information. I > will keep that in mind when searching. Goldie >> >> Barrett wrote:Goldie and Toni: Did you know there > was an important Stone Cy. person in >> history named Bowling Baker? Wonder if there is some "family" name >> connection? >> Jim Barrett >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: >> To: >> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 4:59 PM >> Subject: Re: [MOSTONE-L] Quiet >> >> >> > Goldie, >> > Did you get a hold of Damarus about the Bowlings? >> > She was excited to be hearing from you and Dan. She said that years >> > ago, >> she >> > may have met Dan at one of the Bowling Reunions since there were some >> there >> > from Idaho. >> > >> > Toni >> > >> > >> > ==== MOSTONE Mailing List ==== >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >> >> >> ==== MOSTONE Mailing List ==== >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------- >> Do you Yahoo!? >> Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. >> >> >> ==== MOSTONE Mailing List ==== >> >> >> >> > > > > ==== MOSTONE Mailing List ==== > > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Search presents - Jib Jab's 'Second Term' > > > ==== MOSTONE Mailing List ==== > > ==== MOSTONE Mailing List ====