Thank you for your encouraging words! I felt really down after I read Warren message about how this is not the right place, etc., etc., and I'm thinking Boy! what a bunch of OLD fuddy-duddies... to be so "into" the names of their great-great-sires and to seem so completely uncaring ABOUT them! And, Freda, if we hadn't had this little conversation, I would never have connected the family name Robinson to my great-great-grandmother Melissa Robinson, who married into the Wilson side, with Robeson County, which has not enjoyed the best of reputations during the past 20 years! Though now that I think of it, Great-Uncle Alfred Robinson Wilson, a public official in Durham County, could not get along with his wife Florence. So as I recall being told as a child, he sent her to live with their son, John Wilson in Lumberton, the seat of Robeson County! Please tell me something about yourself and, as we say in the South, who ARE your people? Do you have any "old Johnston County stories" to share? Or any other old family stories... I love them all! I wish EVERYONE could know my mother -- it might help explained why I turned out to be a writer! She's a trip, but unfortunately no longer "receives". (I told that to a cousin a few years back -- he must have been a Garrett! -- you know, on the dense side of DUMB! -- and he asked me what that meant. I told him, "It means she has already met all the people she plans to meet." But I don't want to short-change my Daddy and his family. I just want to get to know them better. I am currently in search of a site where we can continue to plan this reunion and swap stories. I have asked Warren to clarify his message and help me out here, but so far I haven't heard anything. Since there've been so few out-pourings of support such as yours, I shall see to it that you are kept posted! Write me ANY TIME! Thanks again! Annie At 08:10 PM 10/1/2000 -0600, you wrote: >Hi...I have to tell you how much I enjoyed reading your letter on the list >to Warren. If someone has objected to the news about the planned reunion, >please don't be disturbed. Many of us who research in the Johnston County >area and who probably won't be able to attend the reunion are enjoying the >correspondence regarding the plans. > >I just regret that I don't know you and your Mother. I wish I could >connect my Robinson family to you folk who have such a wonderful sense of >humor. > >Best wishes for a wonderful reunion...Freda Roberson (Robinson) Noble > > >Researching: Roberson/Robinson, Wright, Solomon, Sills, Ingram, Thorton, >Regan, Sims, Boles, Carter, Jones, Riley > > >