This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------090B10320596812FD0E4AE84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I just received the quoted email from your organization and I was amazed at the information that the Rushing Autobiograph has been donated by Patsy Maxey of Zwolle,La. What prompted me to send you this email is the story behind how a lot of folks came to be in possession of that autobiography. About 40 years ago, my Mother handed me several pages of legal sized paper and told me to keep them. She told me that she had gone to a reunion of the Rushing family and that the attendees had been given a copy and the one she handed me was her copy. My Mom and Dad were both born and reared in Shelby and Panola counties and were friends of the Rushing family. The reason she gave the papers to me was because I was the only one of 8 children that was interested in family history. Now skip forward to the year 2000. I had many times thought of throwing out that autobiography since I had no way of knowing who might be interested in it or where they might be, but I just couldn't bring myself to do it. After I found the Shelby County Historical Society on the internet, I saw a query about a Rushing surname and this triggered a thought in me....why don't I scan that autobiography, run it through my OCR program and send it to this person? I did just that and it then triggered requests from a number of other people for a copy ( I suppose that some thought that I had copyrighted it and so referred others to me instead of just forwarding it). Everyone who read it saw something of great interest in J.B.'s description of life in the 1800s and the migration routes to Texas. Somehow I never thought of sending you a copy but I am glad that Patsy Maxey did so. It makes me feel good that the papers I had so often thought of throwing away finally been of use and interest to some others. I live in Fort Worth and retired from General Dynamics in 1992 after 36 years of employment there. I used to spend some summers in Joaquin as a child. I had many relatives there. I went to a Walker cousin's reunion in Center last October. There are still seven of us left, the oldest is 94 I think. Thanks for your time, Lannie G. Walker,Sr. [email protected] P.S. I have created a CD (I was a computer engineer in my working days) of my family; sort of "web site on a CD". Of course it will never be absolutely complete, but it now contains a lot of my papers,etc. My plan was to create a "page" (an HTML file) for each individual who lived long enough to contain something more than just date of birth and death. I tried to start from my immediate family and work upward and outward. I have also just "dumped" a lot of miscellaneous documents, letters, etc. onto the CD that one would never see by just navigating the hypertext (hot) links, so one would have to do some navigating the CD by using Windows Explorer or some other "File Manager" type program; opening files and viewing the contents for things that might be of interest to anyone. I also ,anged to obtain voice clips of all of my immediate family except one brother who died before I could record him. I obtained my Mother and Father's clips in 1955 and two sisters in 1957. The rest I made in 1999. The CD is an "AutoPlay" type; just place it in the cd drive tray and close it and from ther it is all mouse clicks to navigate. I am not attempting to force one upon you but if you think that there may be something of interest to anyone on it, I would send you a copy, no expense to the society. Gee whizm the P.S. is getting longer than the message body, so that's it. Shelby County Historical Society wrote: > > Recently Donated by Patsy Maxey of Zwolle, LA > "Autobiography of JOHN B. RUSHING, Appleby, Texas April 21, 1930" > > References to > Shelby and Nacogdoches counties, Texas > Anson County, North Carolina > > -- > Shelby County Historical Society > Shelby County Museum and Genealogy Research Library --------------090B10320596812FD0E4AE84 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: <[email protected]> Received: from mta1.rcsntx.swbell.net (mta1-pr.rcsntx.swbell.net) by sims2.rcsntx.swbell.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <[email protected]>; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 12:00:15 -0600 (CST) Received: from lists2.rootsweb.com ([63.92.80.32]) by mta1.rcsntx.swbell.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <[email protected]>; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 11:57:50 -0600 (CST) Received: (from [email protected]) by lists2.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id f0RHwmr15888; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 09:58:48 -0800 Resent-date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 09:58:48 -0800 Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 12:15:22 -0600 Resent-from: [email protected] From: Shelby County Historical Society <[email protected]> Subject: New Family History Resent-sender: [email protected] To: [email protected] Reply-to: [email protected] Resent-message-id: <[email protected]> Message-id: <[email protected]> Organization: Shelby County Museum MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.02 [en]C-DIAL (Win95; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Precedence: list X-Original-Sender: [email protected] Sat Jan 27 09:58:47 2001 Old-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/7 X-Loop: [email protected] X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Recently Donated by Patsy Maxey of Zwolle, LA "Autobiography of JOHN B. RUSHING, Appleby, Texas April 21, 1930" References to Shelby and Nacogdoches counties, Texas Anson County, North Carolina -- Shelby County Historical Society Shelby County Museum and Genealogy Research Library Post Office Box 1542 230 Pecan Street Center, Texas 75935-1542 tel:936/598-3613 fax: 936/591-0959 [email protected] www.panola.cc.tx.us/~schs Monday - Friday 1:00 - 4:00 Saturdays 10:00 - 2:00 After hours by appointment ============================== Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate your heritage! http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog --------------090B10320596812FD0E4AE84--