Yes, Larry Cheeck has retired. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dolores" <dsh1@erols.com> To: <NCBLADEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2001 10:37 AM Subject: Re: [NCBLADEN-L] Fort Bragg > Hi Doris - I checked the Fay Ob directory and don't see Larry's name/email > listed. wonder if he has retired? It has been a long time. thanks again, > dolores > > wacmaw wrote: > > > As usual it is difficult to get on line to this paper on Sunday. > > http://classifieds.fayettevillenc.com/cv3/foto They may have your story in > > archives. This was two papers in 1960. Larry Cheek would be a good person > > to contact. He does wonderful writing re. old human interest. One of his > > best work (in my opinion) was about the daughter of Carbine Williams' > > daughter. > > Doris > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <Bulletetal@aol.com> > > To: <NCBLADEN-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2001 12:33 PM > > Subject: Re: [NCBLADEN-L] Fort Bragg > > > > > Delores > > > > > > While you are in the Fort Bragg area looking into your family homeplace > > look > > > at something of interest to me if you have time. > > > > > > Angus Anders (I believe the name is correct) owned land on land that is > > now > > > on the base. Years later some lawyer relative of his found out he had not > > > been paid for the property and tried to sue or something. This was in > > about > > > the first half of the 1960s. As was the style of that time Anders > > supporters > > > held a sit in at the gates to Fort Bragg. I remember my daddy saying, I > > > wonder how they think they are going to get money out of the government? > > I > > > know a very distant relative of my husband who told me he got $312. as his > > > part of the settlement. I made a call to Fort Bragg a few years ago and > > > ascertained that the story is true. > > > > > > I remember when this happened but was gone from home and just back for a > > > brief visit when I heard about it so I just have a memory of a liitle of > > it. > > > Seems like settlement had something to do with a gas station corner or so. > > > This was 30 years before I found out that Andress and Anders was the same > > > name in Bladen county and surrounding area. > > > > > > DO ANY OF YOU LOCALS THAT REMEMBER WHEN THIS WAS GOING ON? BY THIS TIME I > > > WAS LIVING NEAR BERKLEY, CA. AND MY CONCERNS WERE A LITTLE > > DIFFERENT---LIKE > > > GETTING MY SKIRTS SHORT ENOUGH AND MY BEADS LONG ENOUGH NOT TO LOOK OUT OF > > > PLACE. > > > > > > I'd just be interested in any of the story that might still be around. > > Thanks > > > > > > > > > Have a great Sunday > > > Kay Russ Andress > > > > > > > > > > > -- > dolores SAMONS harvell > > Genealogy - > Disturbing the dead > and irritating the living. > > >