Here's the link to Garber again. http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.asp?S=10&T=1&X=2365&Y=20303&Z=15&W=2 We drove off the road you see in the bottom right hand corner of the picture. Those buildings up toward the middle right are about 50 feet up from the bank of Roark Creek. Although my folks say I've been there before, I don't remember it. Grandma's sister Juanita and her husband George HURSH used to own that place, and 500 acres along with it. They sold it back in 1970, thereabouts, bought it in the early 60s. Aunt Juanita ran a beauty shop in downtown Branson during those years, Uncle George was a truck driver. The main house, the big building you see here above the creek from what I can tell, was a restaurant during part of its existence. The building next to it is a concrete-block garage that Uncle George had built. The 3rd building is now an artist's studio, but it was a barn. The fourth building, which you can hardly see, just up from the 3rd, is an old barn built of white oak logs and it has a tin roof. The building below the creek is a hay barn. If you don't know how to get there, you can't find it. There are a bunch of old foundations here. Before they had closed on the place, Aunt Juanita took my dad and grandma down there. One building was stuffed full of furniture and books, they could see through the window, but Aunt Juanita wouldn't let Daddy go in until they signed the paperwork. Daddy was living in Kansas City at the time, and as soon as he could, came back down to go through all the stuff there. By that time, Uncle George had burned all the extra buildings down--and hadn't bothered to go inside to look at what might have been there. No telling what mysteries we have now that might have been solved if Daddy had gotten to it first. This was the old Hardin COX place. (I'm not even going to tell you what they called him for short, but trust me, it's weird to hear your grandmother say those two words together...) Apparently a lot of extended family lived on the place as well, and that's the reason for the extraordinary number of buildings. Hard (b 1875 MO) was married to Martha FRONABERGER (b Feb 1878 AR) 11 Oct 1895 in Taney County. Their daughter Walsie (b Jul 1897) was married to the brother of my g grandmother Sarah, George BULL (b 15 Feb 1894, on Roark). Hard's brother Newt (b Aug 1871 MO) was married to Permilia "Millie" Garber (b 1873 MO), who was a postmistress of the Garber Post Office/General Store, apparently before John Ross re-plotted the town. Their sister Alice (b 1853-1857 IL or MO) was married to Collet McCAULEY (b 1851 MS). Oldest brother William R.'s (b 1854-1856 IL) son William (b 1880 Taney Co. MO) was my step-great grandmother, Dacie JONES's first husband (she was b 1884 MO). Most of these folks are buried down in Gretna Cemetery. On 26 Jul 1919, William and Daisy's daughter Dacie was swimming, and got caught in a whirlpool. William went after her, and got caught as well; neither of them survived. This happened on Roark. You'd never know Roark could have a whirlpool to look at it now. Dry as a bone in lots of places. Dacie JONES COX married Pleasant Andrew WYRE (b 1852 NC), who lived just a short distance away, in 1920. It was a marriage of convenience, apparently. In 1928, Dacie married John Woodrow WILSON (b 1881 Grundy Co. MO), my great-grandfather. She was his 2nd wife, Sarah Elizabeth BULL (b 1885 MO) being his first. And who I got the picture of yesterday... It makes the people real, seeing these places. I never knew any of them, Grandpa John having passed away in 1963. I attended "Daisy's" funeral about 1973, but she'd lived in CA after John died. Grandma Sarah passed away in 1955. When we pulled up, a cowboy-looking fella came walking up, to see what we were doing there. My dad explained it to him, and boy, when you get a bunch of folks talking this kind of thing...we were there 2 hours. The man is Barry Johnson. He is a sculptor, working with bronze and doing Western Art, but that's not all he does. I don't think there's anything he can't do, in the way of repair and building on houses. He designed and built a bridge across Roark Creek in front of his house, and from what we can tell, I don't think that bridge will get washed away like the one Uncle Jim and Uncle George built in the mid-60s, come a flood. Barry's bridge is 82 feet long, built of steel and iron, embedded in rock and concrete. So if you ever see bronze scultures of Western Art, and it's got Barry's name on it, you know...it was designed right here in Taney County. There's much more to Barry's story, but it's not mine to tell. He is not from Taney County, despite the fact he fits right in and has even made good friends with Willard JONES. He is a SD native, but I betcha we get to talkin' someday, and I'll make a connection to MO, better yet, the WRV of southern MO. About Willard JONES. He has been all over the world, building custom log homes. I've not had the pleasure of meeting him yet, but Grandma says he is the son of that Leonard JONES, the one who lived in the place by the trestle downstream. Several of the cabins out at Silver Dollar City were built by Willard. His son works with my dad. So, after all that, I got to see the road leading into Garber, and Barry has said I can come back anytime to go to the old Post Office, a stone building that is supposed to be all that's left. We had to get back to town, and didn't get there today. But you know what? It was a good day, anyway... Y'all have a great week. Vonda ListMom for MOTaney and the White River Valley http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~moarwrv/