In Oct 2003 I received a letter from my mother's brother. We had no communication with him for years but he wrote me when my mother passed on and we had correspondence for a few months before he passed on at the age of 95 (and up until the end he was still playing golf). This was in one of the letters he sent me: When I was three Years old Mother [Carrie Virginia Zane Piper] took me to Wheeling for a visit, My brother wasn't born and we went through the 1913 flood. I can remember Uncle Earl [Earl H.Zane]. He was one of the Rough Riders in the war in Cuba and ran a florist shop next door. He rowed a boat to the third floor with water and food. The river did not reach the third floor. When the river went down and the street was cleared, the family tennis court across the street was lower than the street level and full of water with a lot of fish trapped in it. They took the tennis net and salvaged the fish. They loaded them in barrels and took them up to the bridge to Wheeling and the people came across and used them for food. Karen in FL Researching: Bills, Bonner, Carr, Enoch, Ernst, Flanagan, Harness, Knappenberger, Lambert, Nelson, Orahood, Parker, Piper, Stump, Yoakum, Zane and others --------------------------------- Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos.