Hi Louise Just want to know if Janet Allen is Dettie and Stuart Smiths daughter , if so please get in touch. Cousin Justine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Louise Gaskill" <pgaskill@juno.com> To: <TAULBEE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 7:31 PM Subject: Re: [TAULBEE-L] Blindness in Taulbee Men - Oops! > Oops! I forgot to include Marion Dewitt, son of > William Dewitt & Mary Taulbee, he also went blind: > > 1880 Boone Co., IN Census > Lebanon > Transcribed by Louise Gaskill > 31-31 DEWITT > Marion Head M W 43 Laborer Blind IN KY NC <=== > Margaret wife F W 44 Keeping house IN KY KY > Eliza M. dau F W 18 Idiot IN IN IN > > Louise > > On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 08:10:13 -0600 "Janet Allen" <foxallen@iland.net> > writes: > > Could the blinding disease be retinitis pigmentosa? There is a case > > in one > > of the men of our branch of the family. It is an inherited > > condition which > > sometimes skips generations. > > Janet Allen > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <ppavel@Charter.net> > > To: <TAULBEE-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 10:32 AM > > Subject: [TAULBEE-L] Blindness in Taulbee Men > > > > > > > I have found several older Taulbee men on the US census who are > > listed as > > > blind. I think I read somewhere that the blindness is inherited. > > Does > > anyone > > > know what caused the inherited blindness- what the name of the > > disease is? > > > > > > my great grandmother was a Tolby(Taulbee) > > > Pam > > > > > > > > > ==== TAULBEE Mailing List ==== > > > TAULBEE at GENFORUM > > > http://genforum.genealogy.com/taulbee/ > > > > > > ============================== > > > Gain access to over two billion names including the new > > Immigration > > > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== TAULBEE Mailing List ==== > > TAULBEE mail list information page: > > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/t/taulbee.html > > > > ============================== > > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! > Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! > Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! > > > ==== TAULBEE Mailing List ==== > TAULBEE mail list information page: > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/t/taulbee.html > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >

Hi Melvin, Sorry, no I am not the Janet Allen you were looking for. ----- Original Message ----- From: "melvin" <jutpolk@netvision.net.il> To: <TAULBEE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 11:59 AM Subject: Re: [TAULBEE-L] Blindness in Taulbee Men - Oops! > Hi Louise > Just want to know if Janet Allen is Dettie and Stuart Smiths daughter , if > so please get in touch. Cousin Justine > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Louise Gaskill" <pgaskill@juno.com> > To: <TAULBEE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 7:31 PM > Subject: Re: [TAULBEE-L] Blindness in Taulbee Men - Oops! > > > > Oops! I forgot to include Marion Dewitt, son of > > William Dewitt & Mary Taulbee, he also went blind: > > > > 1880 Boone Co., IN Census > > Lebanon > > Transcribed by Louise Gaskill > > 31-31 DEWITT > > Marion Head M W 43 Laborer Blind IN KY NC <=== > > Margaret wife F W 44 Keeping house IN KY KY > > Eliza M. dau F W 18 Idiot IN IN IN > > > > Louise > > > > On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 08:10:13 -0600 "Janet Allen" <foxallen@iland.net> > > writes: > > > Could the blinding disease be retinitis pigmentosa? There is a case > > > in one > > > of the men of our branch of the family. It is an inherited > > > condition which > > > sometimes skips generations. > > > Janet Allen > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: <ppavel@Charter.net> > > > To: <TAULBEE-L@rootsweb.com> > > > Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 10:32 AM > > > Subject: [TAULBEE-L] Blindness in Taulbee Men > > > > > > > > > > I have found several older Taulbee men on the US census who are > > > listed as > > > > blind. I think I read somewhere that the blindness is inherited. > > > Does > > > anyone > > > > know what caused the inherited blindness- what the name of the > > > disease is? > > > > > > > > my great grandmother was a Tolby(Taulbee) > > > > Pam > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== TAULBEE Mailing List ==== > > > > TAULBEE at GENFORUM > > > > http://genforum.genealogy.com/taulbee/ > > > > > > > > ============================== > > > > Gain access to over two billion names including the new > > > Immigration > > > > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > > > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== TAULBEE Mailing List ==== > > > TAULBEE mail list information page: > > > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/t/taulbee.html > > > > > > ============================== > > > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > > > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > > The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! > > Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! > > Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! > > > > > > ==== TAULBEE Mailing List ==== > > TAULBEE mail list information page: > > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/t/taulbee.html > > > > ============================== > > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > > > > ==== TAULBEE Mailing List ==== > TAULBEE at GENFORUM > http://genforum.genealogy.com/taulbee/ > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > >

As written on census: 1880 Census Lebanon, Boone Co., IN ED 119 pg. 3 hh 31/31 01 June 1880 enm. E. Darnall Dewit, Marion 43 IN laborer KY NC blind Dewit, Margaret wife 44 IN keeping house KY KY Dewit, Eliza M. dau 18 IN IN IN idiot