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From: "Steve Illum" <>
Subject: Re: [CAAMADOR-L] Hattie Harding
Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 18:06:11 -0600


Not that I have any right to say so, but I am sure proud of everything that
you are all doing. I joined this group about what? 2 months ago? You have
just made it one of the high points of my life. Thanks so much to Art, and
to all of you. Incidentally, have you all seen Sadie's Story among the
Pioneer Stories on the website yet? It's worth your gander . . .
http://www.rootsweb.com/~caamador

Eventually, I'm just hoping beyond hope that I can somehow find from where
Rocco & Tina came to Boston. Where in Italy, that is. I admit that the
latest political developments in Italy make me a little nervous, but I would
like to travel there to meet my living Caminetti & Giusto families someday.

Eileen & I have been to Denmark twice to meet my Illum family. In fact,
this last trip, we conducted 5 family reunions across Denmark, and chartered
2 boats to Illum Island, full of Illums who had never been there before. We
visited the 2 Illums Department Stores in Copenhagen, and had dinner with
the last family owner with whom I'd initiated correspondence in the 1960's.
I was lucky enough to retrieve a photo of my GGGG grandmother. We stayed
with family everywhere we traveled. It was another high point of my life.
Again, someday, I hope to do the same kind of thing in Italy. We've also
had Danish family come visit our home in The Ozarks. I'm up to about 20,000
names in my Family Origins file. Tons of photos too. Truly, it's been an
experience of a lifetime.

And, you've now become part of it too. Each of you causes me to consider
each day . . . what detective work can I do next to find out more about
Rocco & Tina. It can be very frustrating, but you provide so much daily
energy.

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Carolyn Crawford <>
To: <>
Date: Sunday, May 09, 1999 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: [CAAMADOR-L] Hattie Harding

>Judy,
>This indeed is part of my family. Thank you so much for finding this for
me.
>Carolyn
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Judy Mawhorter <>
>To: <>
>Date: Saturday, May 08, 1999 6:25 PM
>Subject: [CAAMADOR-L] Hattie Harding
>
>
>>I think someone on the list was researching this family. Does this help?
>>
>>>From Amador Dispatch, 10/16/1903: DEATH OF HATTIE HARDING -- Information
>>has just reached us of the death of Hattie, eldest daughter of William
>>Harding of Pine Grove. Deceased left Amador county about a year ago, to
>>join her mother, Mrs. Frank Onkeson, in Nevada. She was married on June
>>27th and on August 28th she went to the well to draw a bucket of water,
and
>>it supposed she slipped and fell in, as her body was found in the water.
>>Her father did not know of her marriage until he heard of her death, and
>>did not then learn who she married. He is nearly heart-broken over the
sad
>>news. She was a niece of Mrs. Charles Calvin, of Pine Grove. She was
well
>>known in Amador and Calaveras Counties, and was at one time a pupil at St.
>>Agnes' Academy at Stockton. She leaves a father, mother, one sister and
>>two brothers besides many friends to mourn her sad and early death.
>>(Stockton papers please copy.)
>>
>>Judy in Winnemucca, NV
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