Earnest, It was nice to meet you and your wife that day. I am glad that your trip was productive. The LCGS is a good place to do research. Thanks for sharing the picture with Turk and with me. Your picture put a face to a person that I had heard my dad and uncle talk about many times. Peggy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ernest Leatherman" <eleatherman@ma-apple.com> To: <tnlincol@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 11:01 AM Subject: [TNLINCOL] Recent Visit >I recently spent a day in Fayetteville, TN doing genealogical research. >With > the help of Jim McNeal and his wife Jane I was able to find exactly the > information I was searching for. Jim opened up the LCGS office and made > all > resources available for my search. He assisted me by following leads as I > research other leads. His wife made telephone calls to help locate a > certain > school. With their assistance a two day digging through books and papers > was > reduces to two hours and my questions and one roadblock were answered. > Again > thanks to the McNeals for their help. > > I also traveled to Petersburg, TN that day and visited the Morgan School. > My > father had gone to school there in 1939-1940. I also had the opportunity > to > meet and talk with an own schoolmate of his. Turk Warren still lives in > Petersburg and had numerous stories to tell me of the school and my > father. > Peggy Coleman was visiting with Turk when I arrived and she shared some > more > stories of the area today. Sad to say that controversy has enveloped the > school and its use. Hopefully it can be resolved and the memories saved. > > Again thanks to each and every person in Lincoln County that assisted me > and > made me and my wife welcome. > > Ernest Leatherman > eleatherman@ma-apple.com > RAOGK Volunteer > Find-A-Grave Volunteer > Researching Leatherman, Grant, Partee, Wilson, Adams, Owens > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TNLINCOL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >