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    1. Re: [OHADAMS] Re: Location
    2. HI BOB, I DON'T REMEMBER THE NAME EUBANKS IN BUENA VISTA, OHIO. YOU AND I WERE IN CONTACT WHEN I FIRST CAME ON LINE ABOUT A YEAR AGO, AND I'VE THOUGHT ABOUT YOUR REQUEST OFF AND ON OVER THE MONTHS. I ASKED MY COUSIN, WHO WAS RAISED IN BUENA VISTA (HE IS---WAS 9 YRS OLDER THAN ME, AND HE TOLD ME THAT HE DIDN'T REMEMBER EVER HAVING HEARD OF ANY FOLKS NAMED EUBANKS IN BUENA VISTA....HE, HIS WIFE AND I WERE IN BUENA VISTA FIRST OF AUGUST....AND WE STOPPED AT THE HOME OF A CHILDHOOD FRIEND'S MOTHER'S HOUSE. I ACTUALLLY REMEMBERED TO ASK MRS. PRICE IF SHE HAD HEARD OF THE NAME EUBANKS IN BUENA VISTA....SHE SAID NO. SO IT MUST BE BEFORE 1910, AS SHE IS ABOUT 80. MY COUSIN & I WENT ALL OVER SCIOTO CO, AND ADAMS CO. AND GOT A FEW DEEDS, AND MARRIAGE CERTIFICATES, AND A SHOOTING DEATH REPORT FROM 1889, AT PORTSMOUTH....AND VISITED OUR OLD HOMES IN BUENA VISTA, AND OTHER AREAS THERE ABOUTS. I HAD NOT BEEN "BACK HOME" TO OHIO IN OVER 30 YEARS...SO IT WAS THE MOST WONDERFUL WEEK IMAGINABLE....SEEING MY RELATIVES WAS JUST LIKE BEING HOME..... I DON'T KNOW IF YOU REMEMBER OR NOT, BUT IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, LAST YEAR YOU WERE ASKING ABOUT STOUT, OHIO, AND WHEELER & MARY COX....YOUR ANCESTERS. MY COUSIN AND I WENT RIGHT PAST WHEELER'S AND MARY'S HOME PLACE, ON STOUTS RUN WHILE WE WERE THERE ! IT LOOKS THE SAME AS WHEN I WAS A CHILD ! EXCEPT MUCH MUCH SMALLER! ! !! MY HOW I'VE GROWN !! ! THE HOUSE IS STILL STANDING, NEEDS PAINT BUT LOOKS AS THOUGH IT IS KEPT UP PRETTY WELL. ONE OF WHEELER & MARY'S CHILDREN INHERITED IT WHEN THEY DIED, A DAUGHTER...AT LEAST THAT IS WHAT WHEELER'S SON TOLD MY FATHER MANY YEARS AGO. HE WAS VERY BITTER ABOUT IT AS HE'D NEVER MARRIED AND STAYED HOME AND HELPED WITH THE FARM AND OLD FOLKS....BUT THE DAUGHTER HAD SEVERAL CHILDREN AND THAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE WHY SHE INHERITED IT INSTEAD OF THE SON....I CAN'T REMEMBER HIS NAME JUST NOW....STRANGE, I CAN SEE A SHORT MAN WITH A ROUND FACE, IN BIB OVERALLS AND A RED PLAID SHIRT AND A PALE PLACE ABOVE WHERE HIS HAT DIDN'T SHIELD HIS FACE FROM THE SUN, BUT I CAN'T REMEMBER HIS FIRST NAME... WE DIDN'T GO PAST THE CEMETERY WHERE MARY USED TO CLEAN AND PLACE FLOWERS ON THE GRAVES, IN THE WOODS JUST NEXT TO OUR HOUSE...AS NEITHER OF US HAD RELATIVES THERE, AND WE WERE RUNNING LATE TO BE AT ANOTHER COUSINS....SO I DON'T KNOW THE CONDITION OF THE CEMETERY. MY COUSIN CAME HOME TO ARIZONA, AND DIED UNEXPECTEDLY ON SEPT. 9TH! I STILL HAVE HIS PAPERS AND PHOTOS HERE AT MY HOUSE...LIFE IS VERY FRAGILE. I'M SORRY THIS IS SO LONG, BUT I HAVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT THE QUESTIONS YOU HAD LAST YEAR OCCASIONALLY, AND THEY JUST SURFACED WHEN I WAS IN OHIO...I HAVE NO IDEA WHY, UNLESS IT'S BECAUSE YOU WERE THE SECOND PERSON, WHO CONTACTED ME ABOUT SCIOTO COUNTY, WHILE THE INTERNET WAS A TOTALLY NEW EXPERIENCE FOR ME..... I'M SORRY THERE IS NOT SOME INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR EUBANKS I COULD GIVE YOU. Goodbye and GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR SEARCH. PAT in Az.

    10/07/1999 01:11:45