--part1_0.9beca72f.25446c9b_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_0.9beca72f.25446c9b_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: [email protected] From: [email protected] Full-name: BHurst1948 Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 15:02:39 EDT Subject: Re: [OHTRUMBU] Western Reserve Centennial Book 1796 - 1896 To: [email protected] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Windows AOL sub 41 Hi.. Forbes was only a last name mentioned in the beginning of the book as early settlers. SUCKLING TWINS - Elisha Giddings and Titus Hayes, two of the pioneers of Wayne, Ashtabula County, held a contest with a she bear that had seized one of their dogs and was hugging him to death. They finally killed her with an ax. On looking about, they discovered a couple of cubs which were taken home. Being neighbors and their wives having young babes, and there being no pugs in those days, the women concluded to add a couple of pets to their family relations, and began a diligent suckling of the young bruins. But it was no go. The cubs languished under a purely human diet and soon died, much to the grief of the aesthetic ladies. David Hart, Wick., Ohio Hope these are your line! A story to add. Barb --part1_0.9beca72f.25446c9b_boundary--