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From: "White Dove" <>
Subject: Re: [HantsLife] Fw: [Fogies] Why shaking the family tree can be bad for your health
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 11:11:40 -0400
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Tell us about it. Our family records have turned up the Captain of the USS
Cumberland when she
was sunk by the Confederate Merrimac on the one hand, and Alphonse
'Scarface' Capone on the
other. Not direct ancestors, but 'off to the side'. One we did have was a
woman who scalped the
Indians in the late 1600's....they'd kidnapped her and murdered her baby and
took her up the Ohio
River for over 1000 miles before she made her escape. She took the scalps
so gossips in her
home town would not wag their tongues about her going 'willingly'. Others
from the same era were
some of the fiercest 'fire and brimstone' preachers this nation has ever
produced. Then there were
the ones who were officers in Quantrill's Raiders, a Confederate outfit in
the War Between the States.
So go figure. Oh yeah, we had lots of Mormons too. One book we found
traces some of us
directly to some 'Battle Memorial' in the south of England where Duke
William of Normandy came
ashore in 1066.
the Castletons
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