My father died at 87 years of age of emphysema . He smoked unfiltered since he was 14 years old. It finally killed him. JC -----Original Message----- From: Genealogy Research Mail <genealogyresearch@prodigy.net> To: Southern-Trails-L@rootsweb.com <Southern-Trails-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, May 17, 2001 1:53 PM Subject: Re: [SouthernTrails] Wagon makers >Keitha, > >My great-grandfather Strickland was a coach painter, and his sons worked >with him. He was also a photographer for a time. A couple of his grandsons >became house painters. They liked working outside. One of them, my Uncle >Bob, was very artistic. He toyed with being a photographer for a bit, but >went back to painting to be outside. He was an artist at his work, though. >He had repeat customers and continued painting up until less than a year >from his death from lung cancer in April of this year at the age of 78. (He >just wouldn't quit smoking.) > >Carole Colquehoun >Genealogyresearch@prodigy.net > >I am not a professional genealogist (by any means). > >Searching: >Allaman, Breedlove, Broaddus, Calhoun, Carr, Garland, Lowry, Meekins, >Mullicane, Noble, Overton, Parr, Sanders, Scott, Strickland, Stump, Webster, >Winston, Wright >England, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Virginia > >Hansen, Jensen, Larsen, Milewski, Pedersdatter, Soerensen >Denmark, Germany, Nebraska, Poland > >----- Original Message ----- >From: <KKirk6@aol.com> >To: <Southern-Trails-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Wednesday, 16 May, 2001 10:48 AM >Subject: [SouthernTrails] Wagon makers > > >> Good afternoon, I just read Carole's story and thoroughly enjoyed it!! >> >> I just found out yesterday, my ggggrandfather, Rev. Andrew Jackson West, >was >> a wagon maker here in Calhoun Co. in 1860. Had other things to do today >so I >> wasn't able to get more information. >> >> I know he was from Spartanburg, SC and may have been in GA for a short >while >> because the AL 1860 census has his daughter Sally as being born in GA >about >> 1858. His oldest daughter, born about 1856 has that she was born in SC. >> >> His parents may have been William and Margaret White West. I have not >done >> this research, just told this by a cousin. He also, may have had a >brother >> named John Pinckney West that was also a minister and moved to AL, also. >I >> am told the rest of the family stayed in SC. >> >> Hopefully, in the near future, I will have a great story to share. Until >> then, I will continue to enjoy the ones I get now from all of you. >> >> Keitha Kirk >> Calhoun Co., AL >> >> >> ============================== >> Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate >> your heritage! >> http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog >> > > >============================== >Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp >