Members of the list, I am sending out a message from my aunt. It appears below. She is trying to track down the family Bible that disappeared years ago. I know it's a needle in a haystack, but please let me know if you have any information. Thanks, Phil Cunningham ********************************* Phil: I'm searching for a family bible. I have gone through pages and pages of hits through Google, have posted a message at Ancestry.com, and have sent the email below. Your uncle Tom told me about the bible and even mentions it in his "memories" in the booklet I put together for the 2002 family reunion. I would love to find it for him, but know chances are pretty slim. However, I've read on some of these sites where families have been reunited with the family bible years and years later. If in your searches you come across anything that might indicate info on its whereabouts, please let me know. The email I sent to Ford and Nagle.......antique dealers in geneaology-related items: I hope at some point down the road you may be able to help me. My grandmother, Hattie Eleanor Wallace Pauline, resided in Charleston, West Virginia in a home on the banks of the Kanawha River. At some point in the 1930s the City of Charleston decided to create a four-lane boulevard along the river that would take in my grandmother's home. She was offered a sum of money for the purchase by the city, but she refused. Sometime around 1937 - 1938, eminent domain took over, and grandmother was literally put out on the sidewalk. My mother had a moving/storage company pick up the furniture, etc., and put everything into storage until another house could be found. When grandmother finally went to the storage company to retrieve her things, there was nothing there. Everything had been stolen and apparently sold. A number of years later my grandmother was contacted by a woman who had purchased the family bible in a used bookstore or antique shop in the Boston, MA area. She told Hattie that she would sell the bible back to grandmother for what she had paid for it. Grandmother never answered the letter, because as a widower with no real income, she couldn't afford to buy back the bible. Everything I have outlined above was told to me by my brother who was nine or ten years old at the time. Now his memory of the incident is iffy and can't tell me for sure if the bible was for the Wallace family or the Pauline family. I wasn't born yet, so I have no recollection. The Pauline name was originally Paulin when the family came to the United States from Alsace-Lorrain. I am searching the internet and will post a message at a site or two, but if in your travels a bible for this family should pop up, I would be thrilled. I will check your website from time to time. I now have it in my "favorites" listing. Sincerely Sharon A. Unger

Don't forget to check on E-bay......I think there is also a "wanted" page there. Last month a wonderful old Bible which contained lots of JACKSON genealogy AND pictures was offered on E-bay. Sadly, it didn't seem to belong to anyone on the list since the auction ended with no bids. Good luck to you, Rosemary ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Cunningham" <cunningham.phil@gmail.com> To: <WALLACE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 6:53 AM Subject: [WALLACE-L] Wallace Family Bible > Members of the list, > > I am sending out a message from my aunt. It appears below. She is > trying to track down the family Bible that disappeared years ago. I > know it's a needle in a haystack, but please let me know if you have > any information. > > Thanks, > Phil Cunningham > > ********************************* > Phil: I'm searching for a family bible. I have gone through pages > and pages of hits through Google, have posted a message at > Ancestry.com, and have sent the email below. Your uncle Tom told me > about the bible and even mentions it in his "memories" in the booklet > I put together for the 2002 family reunion. I would love to find it > for him, but know chances are pretty slim. However, I've read on some > of these sites where families have been reunited with the family bible > years and years later. If in your searches you come across anything > that might indicate info on its whereabouts, please let me know. > The email I sent to Ford and Nagle.......antique dealers in > geneaology-related items: > > > I hope at some point down the road you may be able to help me. > > My grandmother, Hattie Eleanor Wallace Pauline, resided in Charleston, > West Virginia in a home on the banks of the Kanawha River. At some > point in the 1930s the City of Charleston decided to create a > four-lane boulevard along the river that would take in my > grandmother's home. She was offered a sum of money for the purchase > by the city, but she refused. Sometime around 1937 - 1938, eminent > domain took over, and grandmother was literally put out on the > sidewalk. My mother had a moving/storage company pick up the > furniture, etc., and put everything into storage until another house > could be found. When grandmother finally went to the storage company > to retrieve her things, there was nothing there. Everything had been > stolen and apparently sold. > > A number of years later my grandmother was contacted by a woman who > had purchased the family bible in a used bookstore or antique shop in > the Boston, MA area. She told Hattie that she would sell the bible > back to grandmother for what she had paid for it. Grandmother never > answered the letter, because as a widower with no real income, she > couldn't afford to buy back the bible. > > Everything I have outlined above was told to me by my brother who was > nine or ten years old at the time. Now his memory of the incident is > iffy and can't tell me for sure if the bible was for the Wallace > family or the Pauline family. I wasn't born yet, so I have no > recollection. The Pauline name was originally Paulin when the family > came to the United States from Alsace-Lorrain. > > I am searching the internet and will post a message at a site or two, > but if in your travels a bible for this family should pop up, I would > be thrilled. I will check your website from time to time. I now have > it in my "favorites" listing. > > Sincerely > > Sharon A. Unger > >