[email protected],whose wedding 50+ years ago was preformed,in part,by Rev Edwin [and Flora Jennings] Flory,and who lived in a former Thomas home at the top of RT 505 HILL from Higgisport,Lewis twnsp,Brown Co,Oh. 50+ years ago,my parents,and the Paul Emmitt's,Clifford White's,Ray Salt's, and Henry Baudendistal's ,among others, went to Bantam,Oh Presbyterian led by the Flory's, and they entertained us for dinner a few times. [Mrs Flory made yeast rolls!-we had bisquits at home]. Anyway, Myra Hing,and others could better tell about the Thomas family than I. I will say my real estate agent wife sold portions of the Thomas farms a year ago. Page 1086 of Carl Thompson's 'Historical Collections of Brown Co,Ohio' repeats an 1879 newspaper article of a visit to the family cemetary of the Samuel Thomas family. 78 year old Samuel Thomas Sr died in 1878. 26 year old Lewis Thomas was killed by a log in 1878.There was installed a 23 foot monument in this family cemetary. The same book tells of Lemon Thomas telling of the Augusta Ferry,and on it's Ohio landing was a glass green house of 1 of the Thomas'. Old Al Boles told me that his family-kinsmen-were called to the greenhouse to aid with the transplanting when he,Al,was a boy. Al's grandson ,Shafer Boles and I share a birthday. Anyway,a vineyard of grapes,and a winery,and a party room were someplace on theThomas Ohio River hillsides. Sallee is another name Ms Hing researches. Slim Sallee,of Higginsport,Ohio ptched for the Cincinnati Reds pro baseball team at some early date. [was the '27 Yankee manager,Miller Huggins,of the n Brown Co-Highland Co Huggins so involved in the Underground RR? On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 12:51:05 -0400 [email protected] writes: > > Herm: > > What was the name of the Thomas that Rev. Flory had his fruit farm? > > Thanks for all that data on him. > > Mille > ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!