Hi Portage people On your who do you want to invite to Thanksgiving dinner, I would like to invite my grandpa Louis Krepleever . He died before I was 1 years old. He was a very talented man in writing. He was editor of the Wood County Democrat newspaper when he was 21 years old and he wrote a book and when he went into the service for the Spanish-American war he was the newspapers war correspondent. I have about 21 of his articles he wrote before they shipped out to the Phillipines. They are all on my home page. <A HREF="http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mugsnhugs/nance/index.htm">http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mugsnhugs/nance/index.htm</A> After he came home he started working as an editor on the Toledo Blade newspaper. He met my grandmother Lulu Fowler while on the interurban in the middle of the Maumee River crossing bridge. My mom said it was quite a romance between the two. My grandmother ran the ticket stand in Waterville Ohio and also had a little lunch stand inside a cement block building her father built that was also her brother Sam's grocery store. I loved my grandmother and I wished I had listened to her stories when I was a kid. It has taken me 50 years to find out about her FOWLER family in Clarion County Pa beyond her father and mother, till this September w hen I saw a letter in the Clarion County mail list asking for information on an Allen FOWLER. I have now 3 more generations back from Allen. HOST FMLY Nance@aol.com