I AM WRITING A NEW BOOK AND NEED SOME SUBMISSIONS. The name of the book is "GOLDEN TREASURES: TALES FROM OUR YEARS" It will have 100 people over the age of 65 with a photo of each person and a short story from their past, including "back in my day..." tales. Each submission should have the persons name, age, and address (address will not be published). Also they need to state some interesting facts about themselves, i.e. "army, ww2 vet, mountain raised, lived overseas, etc, and what they did for a living. DON'T FORGET THE PHOTO! Must be recent. I am doing this to IMMORTALIZE some of our elders that deserve the attention after all their hard years. SUBMISSIONS TO BE SENT TO [email protected] Blessings Sheila Anderson-Lewis Geriatric nurse and author ps...how about you, Mr. Hearl????

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GBC.2ACE/1403.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I see that Nelda contacted you and you have been invited to the site. I was going to send you her address so that very thing could happen, Nelda is right on top of it! I know you are going to find the site informative and interesting as well, I have and enjoy reading the postings that people put up. Haven't had much time lately to do much research. Enjoy and will talk to you later...Kat

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Chance, Burnett, Harrelson, McKinney, Guthrie & Fulp Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GBC.2ACE/1466 Message Board Post: Looking for any info on (Chance Family) . Sincerely, JIM

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/GBC.2ACE/1403.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I sent you an invitation to the site. Look forward to any information you have on the family. We welcome all Statzer family members. Feel free to contact me personally. Nelda

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Statzer Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GBC.2ACE/1403.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: My grandmother was Nannie Statzer, who married Alonza Haga in Abingdon. They are buried in Rosedale Cemetary.I also have name of Nannie's parents and location where they are buried. Would like to visit the Statzer webpage. Barbara

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GBC.2ACE/1463.1 Message Board Post: Joyce, I don't think they do. I think when someone puts adds or stories they send them to the Washington CO. News in Abingdon, Va. I live in Glade Spring and I've never seen one

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Keith, Dinsmore, Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GBC.2ACE/1465 Message Board Post: My grandmother name was Lula Dinsmore that married Charles Washington Keith that lived in Allisons Gap in Saltville, Va.. I didn't know too much about my grandmothers family and would like to know more. I am trying to create a web site about my grandfather and grandmother and families. If anyone knows anything about them please let me know. Thanks Roy

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Widener, Jones, Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GBC.2ACE/1464 Message Board Post: I would like to hear from someone who knew or knows anything about my grandfather Alphus "Allie Widener who was married to Jeanette Jones Widener. I have never seen him because he died before I was borned and would love to have a photo or information about him. He is buried in Jones Cemetary in Poor Valley in Washington Co. near Saltville Va. If anyone knows any information I would appreciate it. Thanks Roy

Try http://library.uncg.edu/news/ to get listings of many online newspapers from all over, then click on "Virginia" check out Bristol VA, etc. Bob Ford

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GBC.2ACE/1463 Message Board Post: Does Washington Co., VA have a local newspaper? I don't mean the Abingdon Virginian....I mean a newspaper that publishes local news rather than local promotions. So far, I haven't been able to find one.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Johnson, Meadows, Wheeler Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/GBC.2ACE/1431.1 Message Board Post: David and Ailsey (Wheeler) Meadows were my GGGrandparents. Their daughter Julia Anne (Meadows) Johnson, my GGrandmother, was born in Perry Co., Indiana and later moved to Richland Co., Illinois as did other memebers of the Meadows family. I am very interested in the Wheeler family line. Any information you can pass my way will be appreciated.

In a message dated 10/4/2005 1:59:02 PM Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: << Do you know who Juliana's parents were. There are Rosenbaum's on my dad's side of the family. Donna >> There were two on page 692 in the 1810 census of WC VA: Line 3 - Andrew BUCHANAN Line 4 - George ROSBAM ----------- 1 male 16-25, 1 female 16-25 Line 5 - Moses BUCHANAN Line 6 - Moses BUCHANAN Sr.(?) Line 7 - Francis KINCANON LIne 8 - ____ KINCANON Line 9 - Henry HAGY Line 10 - David CARLY Line 11 - John ROSEBAM ------------ 1 male 45 or over, 1 female 26-44, ------------ 3 males 10-15, 3 males under 10, 2 females 16-25, 1 female under 10 Line 12 - John WRIGHT Line 13 - Wm. McGEE line 14 - Jno. WIDENER Jr. Line 15 - John LARIMER Line 16 - Mary DAVIS Line 17 - John F. WIDENER Line 18 - Benj. RAMSEY Line 19 - Joseph RAMSEY Line 20 - Daniel RAMSEY The 1810 census of WC is (in general) in order by neighbors as the census taker went from farm to farm, door to door, etc., and his enumerations were not later alphabetized as they were in the 1820, 1830 and 1840 census of WC. John ROSEBUM was issued a Land Grant on 03 Oct 1817 for 20 acres & 76 square poles on the south side of the South Fork of the Holston River adjoining James CLAWSON, John WRIGHT, and a former survey of said ROSEBUM. [Source: VA Land Office Land Grant Book 67:14]. Wright Branch flows out of the lower west end of Widener Valley and empties into Laurel Creek a little north of Damascus. The book "Famlies of Washington County and Bristol, Virginia, 1776-1996," (1996), have various articles that include info on the ROSENBAUM/ROSENBALM/ROSEBAUM's of WC. On page 213 (family 561 - John LARIMER), is the following comment: "John LARIMER was one of the early landowners in Damascus, Virginia. John ROSENBAUM sold his land to John LARIMER in 1797. John then sold the land to Henry MOCK. LARIMER had the largest share of land grants in the area. He owned what was known as DAMASCUS ..." Page 287 (family 771 - John ROSENBALM Jr.) includes info on the above John "ROSEBAM" that was in the 1810 census. John ROSENBALM Jr. was the son of John ROSENBALM Sr., both of whom (as far as they know) "descended from Bernard ROSENBAUM (born 1695) a German immigrant from the Palatinate ... One of his sons, John Sr. born in 1765, married Catherine SPRAKER in 1787. John changed the spelling of the family name from ROSENBAUM to ROSENBALM, John and Catharine moved to Washington County, Virginia, and brought 400 acres of land on April 18, 1791. They bought 85 more acres on March 1, 1797, on a branch of Laurel Fork called Beaver Pond Fork. John and Catherine had nine children ..." [which matches the 6 males and 3 females in the above 1810 census]. Submitted by: Hazel (TURNER) HOUSER, 330 Aukerman St., Eaton, Ohio 45320. There is nothing in the above article on the 3 daughters of John & Catherine. 18 Apr 1791 -- John McNUTT to John ROZINBUM for 130 pounds, 400 acres in WC. [Source: WC VA Deed Book 1:203]. There was a John ROSENBUM Sr. in the 1820 census of WC VA: 1 male 45 or over, 1 female 45 or over, 2 males 16-25, 2 males 10-15, 1 male under 10 2 females 16-25, 1 female 10-15 4 of the above persons were noted as working in agriculture. Probable neighbors of John ROSENBUM Sr. in 1820 were John and Daniel RAMSEY who were the two lines above John ROSENBUM Sr. [The 1820 census is in alphabetical order, but only by only the first character of the surname, thus the enumeration order of persons whose surname starts with the same letter (in this case the letter "R") is somewhat retained at times (the ROSEBAM's and RAMSEY's were probably neighbors or near neighbors in 1810 as they were on the same page)]. A Mathias ROSENBUM was also in the 1820 census of WC. The person on the line above Mathias was James REED Jr. and the person on the line below Mathias was Joseph RHEA. Bob Ford

In a message dated 10/3/2005 8:51:02 PM Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: << I am searching for my ancestors. I have a report that Absoleme (Absolom) Shrader married Juliana Rosenbaum in Damascus, Washington Co. VA. He was born there in1798. His son John Shrader, married Mary Ann Cochran, Her father was Thomas B. Cochran, born 1803 in VA. In 1850, they all lived in Blackford Co. Indiana, I am hoping to make a connection to Damascus. I need all the help I can get, thank you Lauretta >> Absolom SHRADER and Julian [Juliana] ROSEBUM were married in Washington Co., VA on 11 Oct 1821 by John JONES, Jr. [Source: "The Marriages of Washington Co., VA," (1993), page 57, by D.E. BROWN]. John JONES, Jr. was a Baptist minister. He owned land in the Widener Valley which starts north of Damascus and goes in a northeast direction on the south side of the South Fork of the Holston River to (as best as I can determine) near the Smyth/Washington county line. John JONES, Jr. was the first pastor of Rush Creek Primitive Baptist Church, near the intersection of routes 605 and 733 in Widener Valley. Absolom SHADER [SHRADER] was on the last line of page 290 of the 1830 WC VA census. But there were no SHADER/SHRADER's in the 1810, 1820 or 1840 census. There was a Conly COCHRAN in the 1820 & 1830 census of WC and a Connelly COCHRAN in the 1840 census. Connally COCHRAN had an 1837 Land Grant for 3 1/2 acres on both sides of Wolf Creek (Wolf Creek flows into the north side of the South Fork of the Holston River south of Abingdon). There was also a Robert B. COCHRAN that had Land Grants on Wolf Creek in 1850 & 1854. Robert COCKRAM [COCHRAN], age 33, born in VA, occupation: miller, was in the 1850 census with his family (dwelling # 926). Bob Ford (ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/washington/census/1830indx.txt)

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Shrader, Schrader, Cochran Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GBC.2ACE/1462 Message Board Post: I am searching for my ancestors. I have a report that Absoleme (Absolom) Shrader married Juliana Rosenbaum in Damascus, Washinton Co. VA. He was born there in1798. His son John Shrader, married Mary Ann Cochran, Her father was Thomas B. Cochran, born 1803 in VA. In 1850, they all lived in Blackford Co. Indiana, I am hoping to make a connection to Damascus. I need all the help I can get, thank you Lauretta

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gamble Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GBC.2ACE/1461 Message Board Post: Looking for data on Joseph Gamble, born abt. 1730, in Ireland. Wife may have been a Montgomery. Father was Robert and mother was Mary Hopper. Father and mother moved to Augusta County about 1730-35 from Pennsylvania and are buried there..

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GBC.2ACE/1315.1 Message Board Post: I am interested in knowing when the 2006 Breeding family reunion is scheduled in Lebanon, Va. My maiden name is Breeding and I grew up in Dickenson County Virginia. I am a descendent of Spencer Breeding. My email is [email protected]

The Russell County Genealogy Group will be meeting at 5:30 pm on Thursday, October 7th at the Russell County Library. The Group's purpose is "to learn, to share and to perpetuate family history." All those with these same interests are invited to attend. For more information contact Sunset Salyers at 889-0437 or [email protected]

This is quite interesting. Does anyone know who Dr. William White's parents were? ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 4:22 PM Subject: [VAWASHIN] Re: G.W. Ward Murder - Need Info > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Ketchum, Hines, Spradley > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GBC.2ACE/1460.1 > > Message Board Post: > > THE WINFIELD COURIER. > > WINFIELD, COWLEY COUNTY, KANSAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1885. > > POLITICAL FEUD. > > An Editor Shot by an Enterprising Candidate and Relatives. > > Winfield Courier, Thursday, October 1, 1885. > > LYNCHBURG, VA., September 29. Judge G. W. Ward, editor of the Examiner, > and Commonwealth Attorney for Washington City, while about to enter the > Colonnade Hotel in Abingdon yesterday about four p.m., was fired upon by > Dr. William White, independent candidate for State Senator, who had been > concealed in a store room nearly opposite the hotel. White stepped out of > the door and discharged one barrel of a shotgun loaded with buckshot at > Ward, who fell face foremost, but recovering on his knees, drew his pistol > and fired three shots at a young relative of White's, who was on the > opposite side of the street behind a tree. White had stepped inside the > door, but hearing the firing, came out again and fired a second barrel at > Ward, who fell. While he was lying on the ground, two of White's > relatives, one of whom Ward had already shot at and whom he though had > shot at him, walked up and fired seven shots at him, all of which took > effect. Ward is in a very critical condition and it is t! > hought he cannot live. Dr. White and his two relatives have been arrested > and were bailed in the sum of $7,000 each. Great excitement exists, but no > fear of further violence is entertained. > > Found by Google > > > ==== VAWASHIN Mailing List ==== > Visit the Washington County Historical Society > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vawashin/historic.htm >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ketchum, Hines, Spradley Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GBC.2ACE/1460.1 Message Board Post: THE WINFIELD COURIER. WINFIELD, COWLEY COUNTY, KANSAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1885. POLITICAL FEUD. An Editor Shot by an Enterprising Candidate and Relatives. Winfield Courier, Thursday, October 1, 1885. LYNCHBURG, VA., September 29. Judge G. W. Ward, editor of the Examiner, and Commonwealth Attorney for Washington City, while about to enter the Colonnade Hotel in Abingdon yesterday about four p.m., was fired upon by Dr. William White, independent candidate for State Senator, who had been concealed in a store room nearly opposite the hotel. White stepped out of the door and discharged one barrel of a shotgun loaded with buckshot at Ward, who fell face foremost, but recovering on his knees, drew his pistol and fired three shots at a young relative of White's, who was on the opposite side of the street behind a tree. White had stepped inside the door, but hearing the firing, came out again and fired a second barrel at Ward, who fell. While he was lying on the ground, two of White's relatives, one of whom Ward had already shot at and whom he though had shot at him, walked up and fired seven shots at him, all of which took effect. Ward is in a very critical condition and it is t! hought he cannot live. Dr. White and his two relatives have been arrested and were bailed in the sum of $7,000 each. Great excitement exists, but no fear of further violence is entertained. Found by Google

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GBC.2ACE/1460 Message Board Post: I need any information on the murder of G.W. Ward in Abingdon during Sept. of 1885. Email me ASAP if you can help.