Douglas Deweese has given me permission to post this to the list in the hope someone can help him. If you can, please write him at the address shown below; he is not on the list. Thanks, Sandi > >Subject: Deweese Family History >From: Douglas Deweese <deweese.doug@gmail.com> > >I know I have family ties from around your part of Kentucky.My >father (William Herbert Deweese) played basketball at Fountain Run >High School around 1940 and went in the US Navy in the early >1940's.He could have ties to Liberty Ky. also.He married Alvene >Lawson from Somerset Ky. after the Navy and worked in Glasgow,Ky. >1950,1951.My father lived on a farm near Bethleeham Ky. And I >believe it was passed on to my cousin Ronnie Turner who's mother is >Grace (Deweese) Turner.Do you know of any history of my Grandfather >John T. DeWeese from late 1800's to early 1900's as I have never >heard of or met. Thanks so much! He later added: My maternal grandparents,George W. And Bullah Lawson lived at 211 Walnut St. Glasgow,Ky. from the 40's and I can remember looking up at the hospital on the hill and radio station tower with air craft warning lights as a youngster.There were blank lots up and down Walnut St.We lived down the street in a duplex in 1950-51.My Dad was a refrg mech at the Velvet Ice Cream Shop off the Sq. We moved back to Nashville,Tenn in 1952 and in 1960 we moved to Sarasota,Florida.I graduated from High School in 1965 and attended Manatee Jr. College until I was inducted into the Navy in 1966.I went Great Lakes Boot Camp and FTG "A" School where upon graduation was shipped out to Cam Rahn Bay to catch the USS Carronade IFS1 Gun Fire Support Ship until 1969.We provided fire support the Army and Marines and Occasionlly offensive fire up the river banks. I never met my father's father nor ever having any stories of his life related to me I don't know if there was shame or something that was in his history that my family did not want us to know.All I know is that my Grandmother owned a farm near Bethleeham,Ky.I certainly appreciate your attention and your reply.I remember many happy summers spent with my mother's parents on Walnut St. And walking down town to the Sq.Back then both my grandmother and my aunt worked at the clothes factory on Happy Valley Rd. > Colonel Sandi Gorin President, South Central KY Historical & Genealogical Society Sandi's website: http://www.gensoup.org/gorin/index.html Sandi's puzzlers: http://www.gensoup.org/gorinpuzzles/index.php --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com