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From: MARCENE2 <>
Subject: Fwd: Brick Wall Ancestors?
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 07:47:53 EST


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Subject: Re: Brick Wall Ancestors?
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 07:45:17 EST
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Well, my brick wall is Curtis Riggs and his children.
Curtis was my great uncle. He was born in Newton Co., married there to Mitty
Martin. Moved some time to Scott Co. at least by the 1940s, maybe before
that. I remember visiting him and his wife when I was a little girl--and that
has been a long time ago. He was my dad's uncle--and dad was a great one "to
get kin folks" with everyone he met. My parents and I and my
grandmother--Dad's mom--visited the Curtis Riggs family twice, once when they
lived on highway 71 where it went under a railway bridge between Mansfield
and Abbott.Bridge not there any more. Another time was in the little community
of Abbott when they lived in a little house with two very large magnolia trees
in the front yard on the east side of Abbott as you are on # 71 just under
that ridge on the north of Abbott. Mittie and Curtis had two children that I
remember. They were gone from home when we visited. Grown by then. Once
Mitties' mother was living with them. "Ole Mrs Martin" as she was called.
She smoked a pipe. The only heat in the house was a poor drawing fire place.
We all drew our chairs up close and burned up on one side and froze on the
other. At bed time guess who that child , who was taught that children were
to be seen but not heard, got to sleep with. Your right "Ole Mrs Martin".
Talk about sacred!!
Well, Curtis is buried in the Mansfield cemetary--altho I couldn't find his
grave when I visited the "split" Mansfield cemetery recently. We were just
passing through on our way home and I prevailed on my husband to stop while I
made a fast run down the rows. But knowing my "poor" family, he probably
doen't have a gravestone.
Where is Mittie, and Ole Mrs Martin, and where are the children gone. I
believe the daughter was Opal,and the son was Emery. Not sure of that. Why
did the only remaining son move off to Scott Co. when the rest of his family
lived in Newton. Was more family there?
My, Did I ever bend your ear. But remember, Delaine, you asked.
Marcene Oxford
proud to have Charlene for a cousin

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