Now it gets funny....I have Leibrook family, but haven't done a lot with it. They are cousins from Okeana. Eugene and I used to play together as children, in Shandon and Okeana. Milton (his grandfather) and I were both very active in Knights of Pythias, me in Middletown and Milton in Okeana. Most of them moved down to Florida about 20 years ago. Milton and his wife are dead for a few years, but I think they are buried in Okeana. Check with the folks at Macedonia Christian Church for new info on the Handleys. I think I ran into some of them when we buried Ruby (Cleaver) Ruskaup, and, again when we buried her husband, Bill Ruskaup. A lot of those people were very active in the Macedonia Church over the years. That was also the church that my foster father, Ted Gast, and all of his siblings grew up in, so we stayed in close contact with everybody out there. Leibrooks, through the Burns family, are also related to John David Francis, which, in turn, means that most everyone in Shandon and Okeana, plus the majority of Scipio were related..........ain't that a hoot!!! If that isn't bad enough, since the Hawks and Joyces are also part of the same basic roots, that means that Millville and Reily are also in your background. Ain't life a blast?? As I told you when we first started talking about Mary Ann and that part of the family, it's a small, small world. Yes, I grew up knowing the DeArmonds from Shandon Congregational. If I can find the pictures, I'll send them to you. I have one of Bob Handley dressed as an old woman for some sort of silly show that the men put on back in the 1950's that I know you'll get a chuckle out of. ----- Original Message ----- From: <Sftrail@aol.com> To: <OHBUTLER@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 12:32 PM Subject: [OHBUTLER]DeArmond-Dwyer-George-Handley-Jeanes-Leibrook-Nugent-Sizelove-Russell-Yauger > Are any of you researching any of these Morgan township families? > > In a letter from Miriam George Van Mason to her sister Alice George > Davis, > written August 9, 1978: > > "I, too, wondered why our road could not be named George. There are > questions that I should have asked. Could it be that our road was built > before > Colerain Pike? If that was the case it may have been a reason why > travelers > stayed over night with Catherine Thompson George on their way from > Cincinnati to > Brookville. > > With the Morgan Township map showing the Dwyer farm not too far from > Scipio > our road would have led to that area. > > I have wondered if the original George land did not include that Handley > land up the hill back of Clyde Russell's place. Gillie (Handley)'s farm > was not > very large, and as you recall, it was located between the George and > DeArmond acres. It extended to the East-west road leading west to the > Macedonia > Church as did that of Grandpa (George)'s land. Not only did Archie H but > also > his sister Barbara Yauger have their homes up that George hill, but a bit > west > of their land was a plot owned by Bill Nugent. His wife was a sister of > Grandma Handley. > I believe that if any <b>George</b> land was sold to the Handleys it must > have been before > the time of EJG (Enoch Jackson George) since he wanted to hold on to his > acres. > > Did you ever walk up that George hill? I struggled up once to take a > harvest message to > Archie H. Barbara and her husband came each Sunday afternoon to visit > Grandma > Handley. Did you happen to know Orville Handley? The year before we > returned to Okeana School from No. 4, he started to school there. He was > such an > attractive youngster that > we older ones took a great interest in him. > > As you recall our great, great grandmother Ann Handley married Reuben > George. > Remembering that, I thought it was good for Aunt Eva (George Clawson) and > Sadie (Handley -?-) to be together in later years. Even though Aunt Eva > criticized her at times, she felt > very sad when Sadie was too sick to return to her. > > Florence Sizelove married Thomas Jeanes - so she was the aunt of Florence > Leibrook. > As near as I can figure from the map it looks as if the Jeanes land was a > bit south of the > Macedonia church." > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > OHBUTLER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.8/455 - Release Date: 9/22/2006 > >