Hi, Rootswebbers! It is time once again to shake up the line with one of our irregularly scheduled reminders that we really are planning a Johnston County Heritage Day July 4, 2002. AND the "executive committee" will meet in some manner on July 4th of this coming summer. Will every one who wants to be a family representative (or otherwise keep informed) please check in again so I can update my mailing list? {My son has showed me how to do a list of addresses that will all go out at one time, and I need something to try this new skill out on!) We need to plan details of the upcoming meeting. SEARCH: Any member of Jimmy Hayes' family in Benson tuned it? Please get back to me on a personal family matter. His wife Betty is my husband's cousin. MEREDITH PAGE: How do we organize a chat-line? Can we get to it from our homepage? And PLEASE tell me how to attach that homepage to my e-mail in one of the blue addresses like other people have. IDEA: We should get some prominent JOCO-ian to be honorary chairman of the 2002 event. Frankly, y'all, I am not that famous! According to my daddy and his cousin Millie Johnson Dorn, it would be an easy job if Ava Gardner were still alive. Both of them believed they had gone to school with her... a decade apart. (She did die, didn't she?) Y'all think on this and let's come up with a genuine celebrity, preferably one who is somewhat knowleageable about his/her roots and is, or can reliably pretend, to be proud of his JOCO heritage. If we can come up with an active or retired astronaut, NASA pays them to do this sort of stuff. (You know that already if you plan events in the Carolinas, where we have nothing if not an abundant crop of astronauts!) Besides actors and Nobel laureates, think of the number of prominent attorneys, clergy, professional football players we must have out there somewhere. AMUSING STORY: I visited an 8th-grade class at a very expensive, very exclusive, very private school a couple of weeks ago to do an "artist in school" gig. At some point, I was wandering aimlessly about the science of genetics to explain believable characterizations. I explained that John and I, two blonde/brown-haired persons, have four children; one has blue/black hair, one is a true blonde, one is a vibrant redhead, and one has mousy fine brown hair like mine. I waited for some sign that this is remarkable. Finally, one girl on the front row looked brightly at me and asked, "Uh, the one who has hair like yours? Who does HER hair?" I decided that sometimes it might be better NOT to light just one little candle.... life is good... but I can't figure out how to e-file our income taxes for free! annie
Ann, you wanted an astronaut? | | | 6-OLIVER Emma Elizabeth b 9 Oct 1870 d 14 Aug 1943 Johnston Co NC | | | | m 22 Jan 1889 John Thomas MASSEY Johnston Co NC | | | | 7-MASSEY (Dr.) Charles C. | | | | 7-MASSEY William Henry | | | | 7-MASSEY Jimmy | | | | 7-MASSEY John Raiford 27 July 1898- 31 July 1918 WWI | | | | 7-MASSEY Albert "he was a boxer, disabled, and in an institution" | | | | 7-MASSEY LaVee m Paul VINSON *res Goldsboro, NC | | | | 7-MASSEY Mary | | | | 7-MASSEY Elijah D. b ca 1900 Johnston Co NC | | | | m --?-- | | | | 8-MASSEY Judy Frances b ca 1930 m Henry W. "Hank" HARTSFIELD He was a NASA Astronaut, Flight Commander, maiden flight, Space Shuttle Discovery; pilot of 4th test flight, Space Shuttle Columbia cyberbev@earthling.net ICQ 84892128 AIM BevWmson I am planning to live forever......... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PITTMAN DATA BANK: Now 2,250 depositors, and growing! http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~bevwmson/pittmandatabank.html http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/w/i/l/Beverly--C-Williamson/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "We have the power to change the world. Teach your children to love life, respect humanity, and protect our planet." ...CyberBev, 1 Jan 2001 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ann Massengill/John Evans" <NICOJAK@ftc-i.net> To: <NCJOHNST-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 11:44 AM Subject: [NCJOHNST] JOCO Reunion stuff > Hi, Rootswebbers! > > It is time once again to shake up the line with one of our irregularly > scheduled reminders that we really are planning a Johnston County Heritage > Day July 4, 2002. AND the "executive committee" will meet in some manner > on July 4th of this coming summer. > > Will every one who wants to be a family representative (or otherwise keep > informed) please check in again so I can update my mailing list? {My son > has showed me how to do a list of addresses that will all go out at one > time, and I need something to try this new skill out on!) > > We need to plan details of the upcoming meeting. > > SEARCH: Any member of Jimmy Hayes' family in Benson tuned it? Please get > back to me on a personal family matter. His wife Betty is my husband's > cousin. > > MEREDITH PAGE: How do we organize a chat-line? Can we get to it from our > homepage? And PLEASE tell me how to attach that homepage to my e-mail in > one of the blue addresses like other people have. > > IDEA: We should get some prominent JOCO-ian to be honorary chairman of the > 2002 event. Frankly, y'all, I am not that famous! According to my daddy > and his cousin Millie Johnson Dorn, it would be an easy job if Ava Gardner > were still alive. Both of them believed they had gone to school with > her... a decade apart. (She did die, didn't she?) Y'all think on this and > let's come up with a genuine celebrity, preferably one who is somewhat > knowleageable about his/her roots and is, or can reliably pretend, to be > proud of his JOCO heritage. If we can come up with an active or retired > astronaut, NASA pays them to do this sort of stuff. (You know that already > if you plan events in the Carolinas, where we have nothing if not an > abundant crop of astronauts!) Besides actors and Nobel laureates, think of > the number of prominent attorneys, clergy, professional football players we > must have out there somewhere. > > AMUSING STORY: I visited an 8th-grade class at a very expensive, very > exclusive, very private school a couple of weeks ago to do an "artist in > school" gig. At some point, I was wandering aimlessly about the science of > genetics to explain believable characterizations. I explained that John > and I, two blonde/brown-haired persons, have four children; one has > blue/black hair, one is a true blonde, one is a vibrant redhead, and one > has mousy fine brown hair like mine. I waited for some sign that this is > remarkable. Finally, one girl on the front row looked brightly at me and > asked, "Uh, the one who has hair like yours? Who does HER hair?" I decided > that sometimes it might be better NOT to light just one little candle.... > > > life is good... but I can't figure out how to e-file our income taxes for > free! > > annie > > > > > ==== NCJOHNST Mailing List ==== > Johnston County, North Carolina NCGenWeb > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncjohnst/index.htm > > ============================== > Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp > Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! > >