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    1. [OHBELMON-L] Thank you, Belmont County
    2. After spending the Summer roaming Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., and six weeks catching up on my work, I would like to thank all those people who helped me so much in making this such a productive trip. In particular, I would like to thank Bill O'Neill, who first told me about my 3g grandparents, Samuel McWilliams and Jane Wilson, and Donna@indian run, without whose help I never would have found Egypt Cemetery where my great great grandparents, John Wiley and Sarah McWilliams, are buried. Unfortunately, their headstones had been destroyed by vandals, but I was able to locate several other members of the McWilliams family. I was also able to locate the graves of Samuel McWilliams (1752-1825) and Jane Wilson McWilliams (1760-1853) and many other members of the McWilliams clan at the Taggart Cemetery near Lafferty. Both stones were still clearly legible. Imagine my shock at finding a brand new stone at Samuel's grave, honoring his Revolutionary War service. I was able to find out that a gentleman from Barnesville was placing new stones on graves of Revolutionary War veterans. What a wonderful generous gesture. I would like to heartily recommend the National Archives in Washington D.C. to anyone who has ancestors who served in any of the 18th or 19th Century Wars. I came away with copies of letters written by three of my ancestors as far back as 1851. Jack Ehmer

    10/11/2000 07:15:42