Thanks for the positive report on your trip to Ritchie Co. I'm from Saint Paul, Minnesota and am following behind you (the week of 10/22 - 10/29) with a similar task (researching my Pribble, Harris, Mealey, and Rutherford ancestry), and so I'm glad you've primed the pump. I look forward to meeting the folks at the Ritchie Co. Historical Society and to turning over a few rocks of my own. Dixie Hansen Saint Paul --- [email protected] wrote: > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to > this mailing list. > > Surnames: Scott, Johnson, Smith, Hardman, Marshall > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QEC.2ACE/2187 > > Message Board Post: > > I just had to let everyone know what a wonderful > trip I had to this glorious county and talk about > it's awesome people. > First let me brag about the Heritage Inn. I > originally had reservations there, but unfortunately > for me, I have trouble climbing steps. The suite of > rooms that she had set up there is superb (my > daughter told me all about it). An old fashioned > setting, with all the modern convieniences. Four > poster beds and all. But since we couldn't stay, > this kind and generous lady (innkeeper), called the > lodge for us and got us rooms there. > So we were extremely late getting settled in (3pm), > but I called Mr. Jones at the Historical Society and > he told us that that was fine, just come on over. > The Old Stone House is a Don't Miss type of place. > They have a good library and about 26 or more rooms > done in historical type stuff. Super place! > I can't say enough good things about the folks of > the Historical Society. Mr. Jones was extremely > helpful, David Scott found me at the Lodge and > offered help with any info that I might need. > I found the Haught Family book (that I didn't know > existed) at the Historical Society, that has many > many pictures of my family, that I had never seen > before from about 1900 to 1920. And Mr. Jones made > copies for me. And I finally found the Phillips > Cemetery, waaaay up on the mountain. Actually my > daughter did the climbing. > One big FIND for me was that there is a headstone in > the Phillips Cemetery for my great grandparents, > Sanda & Sarah Smith Scott. When Francis read the > cemetery for the Historical Society Cem Book, it was > so overgrown that she couldn't see it, but it has > since been cleaned up a bit, and there it was. And > there are pictures of Sandy & Sarah in the Haught > Book, so for the first time i got to see what Sarah > looked like. What a faboulous Trip. Thanks in a > big way to the Ritchie Co., Historical Society. > > > > > ============================== > View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about > your ancestors, find > marriage announcements and more. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx > > >