could you ask your cousin if she remembers a man named William Walters, he was from Taney Co. as well. My grandmother always talks about how her grandfather, every year had blue ribbons from his entries in the fair. Would your cousin maybe have clippings of the weekly paper? I am so excited because I feel like I am getting closer, just with this e-mail. Please let me know. Dana -----Original Message----- From: rufuswanda <rufuswanda@netzero.net> To: MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com <MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, October 12, 2002 12:50 PM Subject: Re: [MOTANEY] 1930's - 40's county fair >In Shadow Rock Park in old Forsyth, county seat of Taney County, Missouri >there were county fairs in those years of which you speak I'm pretty sure. >Although, we left Christmas Eve in 1935 and did not return until 1946 the >old weekly newspapers would tell for sure about the county fairs there. >They can be read at the Forsyth Library on microfilm. I hope to check if >those years are included in their collections the next trip down the last of >this month. Who are you related to in that area? My cousin, Mable >(Coffelt) Stallcup did have entries in the "fair" there for years. She was >the daughter of my aunt Nellie (Pickett) Coffelt who was a sister of Andrew >Pickett, my Dad.