In a message dated 9/23/2003 10:48:22 AM Central Standard Time, sam4@fyi.net writes: > Hi, Debbie, et al, > > I grew up in Little Hocking and come from a long line of Little Hocking-ites > (or whatever we are!) and learned so much about the town and my ancestor > families from Herb Roush's book. Deb, I think you and I share an Allard > connection. I recommend that anyone ancestor hunting in that area buy a copy > of The Unknown Settlement. He also published the biography of Thomas C. > Collins that contains lots of information about L.H. residents. From one of > those books, I learned the name of my gr gr gr grandfather's first wife whom > he married in England. I can give those interested Herb's e-mail address. > > Also wanted to let you know that I contributed information to Herb for his > book about my ancestors, the Bartletts, Allens, Millers and related famlies > (Skeen, Allard, Clark, Knowles, Collins, Barrows and others) in that area. > In the years since the book was published, I've learned a lot more about > these families, so some of the family writeups are not complete, and there > may be a couple pieces of misinformation in those writeups. Anyone > interested in knowing more about these families can contact me. > > Several years ago, I self-published the 1862-64 diaries and letters of a > relative, Ann Bartlett Dalzell of Little Hocking, whose family ran a > boarding house in the village. I included a narrative history of the > Bartletts, Allens, Millers and related families, some household listings > from the 1860 Little Hockhocking (it was still called that back then) census > and an index of several hundred names mentioned by Ann. I'll be glad to > look up names in my book. > > Thanks for all your work, Deb. > > Shelby Miller Ruch > sam4@fyi.net >