An interesting thought. Perhaps a delicacy of lungs runs in certain families of JoCo, but not all. Both my husband & I have JoCo roots but only one of us has lung problems - me. Incidentally, Womack is one of my husband's lines. >From: Ann Massengill/John Evans <NICOJAK@ftc-i.net> >Reply-To: NCJOHNST-L@rootsweb.com >To: NCJOHNST-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [NCJOHNST] Do you have a lung problem? >Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 17:27:08 -0500 > >Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 09:23:40 -0500 >From: "Page, Meredith C" <meredith.c.page@lmco.com> > >Obituary for Johnston County Genealogists researching >Davis/Womack/Barnes/Moore line from Johnston County, NC area > >Death of Lessie Mayon Womack Revell >Born: Selma, North Caroline May 2, 1941 along with twin, the late Jessie >Mae Womack Page >Lived in Pine Level. Attended Richard B. Harrison High School >Resided in Silver Spring, MD >Died of sarcardosis December 5, 2000 at Wake Medical in Raleigh, NC >Buried December 9, 2000 in Selma, NC alongside twin sister, father (James >Alton Womack), mother (Bessie Mae Davis) and > aunt (Bertha Davis Berry) > > >In response, Ann Massengill writes: > >Meredith, these are not families I am currently tracking, but the term >"sarcodoises" caught my eye. I understand this to be a disease that >inflames the lungs and has other complications. MyJohn's cousin's >husband, a Johnston County native, just had a double lung transplant to >correct a similar condition he has been handicapped by for 10-plus years. >He believes he got it working at the Tylenol Research Center at RTP. But >my father, b. 1909 in JOCO, NC, d. 1991 in Lee County FL, had a life-long >delicacy of the lungs. He died of pneumonia and complications which had >plaqued him for many years. During WWII, just out of Duke Med School, he >was drafted but not allowed to serve overseas because he had an >inexplicable spot on a lung. He attributed this condition, whatever it >was, to smoking in his college years and in the Army, where he was the >recipient of many free cigarettes, distributed in the Army with their meals >and often provided to students. > >I am wondering if descendants of JOCO throughout the country have lung >problems which would indicate some glitch in the common "Down East" genetic >pool. Based on my limited experience, it would seem this is an area we >might all explore for the common good. > >Annie > > >==== NCJOHNST Mailing List ==== >Johnston County, North Carolina NCGenWeb >http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncjohnst/index.htm > >============================== >Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! >http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2 > _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com