Hey --- We like this dialogue. Good to hear all the good stuff. NOW - try to bring back some of the spirits of our kin from the 1700s & 1800s. Allen Betty & Allen Johannes abelj@htcomp.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Cooke" <thejimcooke@yahoo.com> To: <ncbladen@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 12:58 PM Subject: Re: [NCBLADEN] Cains of Bladen Co N.C. (Final) Kay & Butch, We should let everyone return to genealogy on this site. My email is "thejimcooke@yahoo.com". "jimcooke" was taken. I remember corresponding with the two of you. I also had my feet XRayed at Collins, sold used newspapers to Butler's fish market, delivered the Fayetteville Observer, clerked at Kermit's Grocery, got a 5-cent/hour raise and 2% commission at Western Auto, and measured allotment crops for the Federal Goverment, before leaving E-town. I have not been able to connect the Cooks of Cook's Plumbing with my family. I reconnize all the names listed. I understand that Roy Cain has passed away. Jim Cooke --- Butch Butler <bbutler@comcast.net> wrote: > Well, In continuation of "old home week", I remember > Collins Store and the > Xray machine.....also remember Fowler-Simmons, > Leinwands, and several > others. You may recall Butler's Café across from the > Courthouse (my Uncle > Virt Butler was the owner) and Butler Machinery > Company up the hill from the > slaughter house on 701 South (My Uncle Vernon Butler > owned that one). I knew > a few of Betty Jo's friends, Elizabeth Lehto, Dixie > Brisson, Haig > Bowman.......and then there was Charles Straughan. > > Thanks for the memories, > > Butch > > -----Original Message----- > From: ncbladen-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:ncbladen-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On Behalf Of Bulletetal@aol.com > Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 7:42 PM > To: ncbladen@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [NCBLADEN] Cains of Bladen Co N.C. > > Jim > > I must be a couple of years behind you at Etown. I > know Betty Jo is one > year > ahed of me. I graduated in 1958. I was Sylvia Kay > Russ. Small world. I > know > Roy Cain mentioned you from time to time but I had > thought it was just a > relationship via email. I sent you a little Lennon > info several years ago. > Both > you and Butch may see the small world again. A > couple of weeks ago I got > an > email from Walter Elmore after he found we shared > some Elwell ancestors in > Kelly. It turned out he is Maria Morgan's husband. > Remember the old > Collins-Morgan Store that her Daddy ran next to the > theater. The first > store I can remember where kids could get their feet > xrayed to be sure > their shoes fit. > Trying to remember Cookes in Etown the only one > that comes to mind is is > Cookes Plumbing and right at this times I can't > come up with his first > name. > > Kay > > > > ************************************** See what's > free at > http://www.aol.com. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > to > NCBLADEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.0.0/754 - > Release Date: 4/9/2007 > 10:59 PM > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > to NCBLADEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NCBLADEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message