>From: "ginny manning" <ginman@connectcorp.net> >To: AGS-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [AGS-L] Fwd: Has the list seen this? >Saw this on another list and thought it might interest someone on this list. > > >"VIRGINIAN REVIEW - Sat 15 Aug 1998." It had the heading "VA >>MAN TRYING TO FIND FAMILY TO RETURN BIBLE.' >The article reads "YORK, Pa. - A Virginia man is trying to return a 100 >year old Bible to the descendants of a York County, PA family. >But finding them has not been an easy matter. > >Julian Gordon of Newport News, VA. >> Came into possession of the Bible last year, when his father-in-law >died. >His father-in-law had purchased the Bible in 1973 at an auction >in Delta. >But trying to find the family, Gordon doesn't have much to go on >-- just a few names written inside and eight photographs. The name >that occurs frequently is Stough. >The York County telephone lists about 145 numbers for homes and >businesses under that name. Gordon tried calling some of the Stoughs. >A few were openly skeptical, apparently think the call was some kind of >hoax..............." >Inscriptions, photographs, and papers inside the bible tell: "it was >given to Harry Isaiah Stough by his mother, Savannah on 25 Dec >1885. >Harry had a brother named Ammon, who married Minnie F Welk. >They had at least three children: Marie Florence; Laroy George; and >Raymond Welk. >Other papers mention Sevannia Wantz Stough and Lydia Wantz. The >pictures were taken at Jeffres Art Studio in York. >Mr Julian Gordon, according to the newspaper article has said he >will send the bible and contents to anybody who can tie their family >to Ammon and Harry Stough. >The newspaper quotes him "It's there. I'll send it to them. I'll pay >the postage," > >This will be quite a find if the right family can be located. > >Please pass this message on to other lists. We would all appreciate >finding it if it was our family bible. > >[my guess is you contact tje Virginia Review, or the York PA newspapers >if this is your family -elin] > > > > > > > > > > > > > >==== AGS Mailing List ==== >The official publication of the Arkansas Genealogical Society is The Arkansas Family Historian, issued four times a year - March, June, Spetember, and December; edited by Margaret Harrision Hubbard. > > > > Kay (Newcomb) Harper ................ Searching: Newcomb--Fore--Farquar--Haney--Sanders--Wren--and Husband's line Harper ----e-mail-at--katty@texoma-ok.com---Personal Genealogy Page---http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/6514 ---