It's that time of year again. If you could have anybody who ever lived in our area of interest to Thanksgiving dinner, who would it be? What would you want to talk about and what would you hope to learn? Your list mom, Mickey

I would love to spend some time with my gggrandparents, J.I.R. Wilson and Sarah Clarissa Harden Darby Wilson. I would like to know when JIR was born, who is parents were and when he passed away. I would like to know where exactly they lived and how they met. I'm sure they would have wonderful things to tell us. Elaine Turley Arkansas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mickey Fournier" <mwfournier@comcast.net> To: <scchest2@rootsweb.com>; <sc-old96@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 8:50 AM Subject: [SCCHEST2] Thanksgiving > It's that time of year again. If you could have anybody who ever lived in > our area of interest to Thanksgiving dinner, who would it be? What would > you want to talk about and what would you hope to learn? > > Your list mom, > Mickey > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SCCHEST2-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Better late than never! I would invite my G G grandparents, John Alexander and Frances Adaline (Boyd) Walker as special guests. John and Frances were born in Chester SC in 1823 and 1825. They left there after August 1847 and were in Monroe Co., AL in May 1849 where my G grandmother was born. They were in Leake Co., MS by 1850. Around 1900 and in their late 70s they moved with some of their children to Vermillion Pa, LA. John died there in 1904 and Francis in 1913. The reason I mention these dates is because it means they were there through all of the questions I would have for them. The questions for John would be: (1) Were you the spiritual patriarch of the extended family as I suspect? (2) Did you earn your living in anything other than farming? Were you ever a teacher? (3) Was there an early connection between your family and those of the Thomas Wallace and John Gill families in SC that kept you traveling together (SC> AL> MS (where all lived close to one another)> LA) and intermarrying for over a century? (4) After 50 years, why did you leave MS and go to LA where you and Frances seem to have had your own home? (5) Was Frances the love of your life after your first wife passed away? I'm sure answers to these would bring up many other questions! The questions for Frances would be: (1) Were John's sons, Adam C. and William A. by his first wife, Elizabeth Hardin, so much a part of your marriage that your answer to "Number of children you have given birth to?" on the 1900 census was 11 instead of the 8 (only 7 actually found) you did give birth to? (2) Was John an easy man to live with? Was he kind or domineering? I think of him as kind, knowing her gave his daughter the nickname "Dolly". (3) Did you live for a time with your granddaughter, Annie Belle (Gill) Wiggins? My dad was sure he remembered that "Grandma Walker" did but he was only about 4 when you died. He remembered you kneeling by your bed with your bible in the evenings. There are many many, more questions but these are some of the ones that I would love to hear first hand accounts of. Margie (Wiggins) Jackson At 08:50 AM 11/24/2008, you wrote: >It's that time of year again. If you could have anybody who ever lived in >our area of interest to Thanksgiving dinner, who would it be? What would >you want to talk about and what would you hope to learn? > >Your list mom, >Mickey > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >SCCHEST2-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >the quotes in the subject and the body of the message