I was looking at the picture of Blind Alfred Reed and wondered if anyone knew who the man to the left of the photo holding the fiddle up was? He looks just like my grandfather! Just curious. Thank you Toni -------------- Original message -------------- From: vafloyd-request@rootsweb.com > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Not Genealogy-More Current Event Floyd (Jack Spangler) > 2. Re: Irene Akers Vest (csanderson@woh.rr.com) > 3. Blind Alfred Reed (Donna Hayden) > 4. Re: Blind Alfred Reed (Allan Hall) > 5. Re: Blind Alfred Reed (paul) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:52:59 -0500 (CDT) > From: Jack Spangler > Subject: Re: [VAFLOYD] Not Genealogy-More Current Event Floyd > To: vafloyd@rootsweb.com, maryva2005@yahoo.com > Message-ID: > <13308696.888121206561180211.JavaMail.root@vms076.mailsrvcs.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > INDIAN RIDGE NEWS > A.J. Hylton lost a fine cow Monday. Dr. T.A, Vaughn has his new road about > complete. > > Elgin Bolt shot Peyton Sutphin Sunday night from which he died in a few hours. > Sutphin leaves a wife and two children. Our heartfelt sympathy goes out the > bereaved family. > TWO SUBS (March 2,1905) > ===== > > > Jack Spangler > Ellicott City, MD > > Author: > (1) Descendants of Daniel and Mary Spangler Franklin Co., Virginia 1773. > (2) The Yopps and Related Families With Connections To The Royal Families Of > Europe > > Co-author: The Rising Sun Sets ? The Complete Story of the Bombing of Nagasaki > For more info see: http://mysite.verizon.net/mjs15/risingsun.htm > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:43:40 -0400 > From: > Subject: Re: [VAFLOYD] Irene Akers Vest > To: vafloyd@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <8886716.19641206560621089.JavaMail.root@hrndva-web19-z02> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > > > > > Name: Ralph Berry VEST > ---------------------------------------- > Birth: 24 Jan 1910 Floyd co va > Death: 7 Oct 2004 Roanoke va > Father: John Henry VEST (1868-1937) > Mother: Agranda Palentine"Pallie" TICE (1880-1979) > Marriage: 1935 > ---------------------------------------- > Spouse: Irene Ray AKERS > ---------------------------------------- > Birth: 8 Aug 1911 > Father: Jefferson Davis AKERS (1862-1937) > Mother: Della M CANNADAY (1872-1944)\\\ > > Hope this helps > > > Clarence > > > > > > ---- ofconner@bellsouth.net wrote: > > Could someone please help me with Irene Akers' husband name. I have so many > Vest on my data base but cannot make her conection. > > thanks, > > Opaldeen Conner > > ********************************** > > Note from List Administrator!!! > > The Second Sunday in each month will set aside for a "Brick Wall" Roll Call. > Please always put the surname you seek in the subject and tell us something > about your Brick Wall person. > > To contact Listowner: > > Rena Worthen doreatr@rbnet.com > > ********************************** > > Search this list's archived messages! > > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > View the Floyd County Virginia Website at: > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafloyd/floyd.htm > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > VAFLOYD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:07:52 -0400 > From: "Donna Hayden" > Subject: [VAFLOYD] Blind Alfred Reed > To: > Message-ID: <000801c88faf$5d742280$0201a8c0@Lucy> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > I stumbled across something interesting and wanted to share it. I found a man > named Blind Alfred Reed who was a famous singer in his time, and was born in > Floyd County in 1880. He was a son of Ross Sr. Reed and Katherine Akers. The web > site also has a picture of him. He was living in WV, but recorded in NYC. > Donna Hayden > http://www.properamerican.com/006.html > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:20:59 -0700 (PDT) > From: Allan Hall > Subject: Re: [VAFLOYD] Blind Alfred Reed > To: vafloyd@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <950570.4696.qm@web82405.mail.mud.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > Thank you Donna: > A very interesting "find". I watched it all. > Allison > > Donna Hayden wrote: > I stumbled across something interesting and wanted to share it. I found a man > named Blind Alfred Reed who was a famous singer in his time, and was born in > Floyd County in 1880. He was a son of Ross Sr. Reed and Katherine Akers. The web > site also has a picture of him. He was living in WV, but recorded in NYC. > Donna Hayden > http://www.properamerican.com/006.html > ********************************** > Note from List Administrator!!! > The Second Sunday in each month will set aside for a "Brick Wall" Roll Call. > Please always put the surname you seek in the subject and tell us something > about your Brick Wall person. > To contact Listowner: > Rena Worthen doreatr@rbnet.com > ********************************** > Search this list's archived messages! > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > View the Floyd County Virginia Website at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafloyd/floyd.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > VAFLOYD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:31:14 -0400 > From: pogoat2@webtv.net (paul) > Subject: Re: [VAFLOYD] Blind Alfred Reed > To: vafloyd@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <29395-47EB06F2-308@storefull-3116.bay.webtv.net> > Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII > > Donna, > I think Bill Hobbs of the list knows quite a bit about Blind Alfred > Reed........his band was the Night Owls...............Paul > > keep the mail comin' to Ole Paul > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the VAFLOYD list administrator, send an email to > VAFLOYD-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the VAFLOYD mailing list, send an email to > VAFLOYD@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > VAFLOYD-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of > the > email with no additional text. > > > End of VAFLOYD Digest, Vol 3, Issue 174 > ***************************************