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From: "Tony" <>
Subject: Re: [KYBREATH-L] A VERY WARM THANK YOU!!!!!
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 15:07:14 -0700


Stop......your making my heart break! How is wish I could see
the hills and hollars familiar to my lost Offie King. Perhaps
one day soon I too can make such a wonderful trip!
Kathy ...stuck in Lodi, Ca.

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> From: Gary & Karen <>
> To:
> Subject: Re: [KYBREATH-L] A VERY WARM THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> Date: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 2:39 PM
>
> Mr. Vires,
>
> Your email to Breathitt County was forwarded to me as a member of their
> mailing list.
>
> Is there any other place on earth that keeps it's hold on people's hearts
as
> does Breathitt County? I never even lived there and still I feel the
pull.
> My father was born at Rousseau and I still have family around Jackson. I
> was able to visit at the end of June and met Stephen Bowling and the
others
> at that time. Young Mr. Bowling is quite remarkable. I was amazed that
> several of the volunteers could quote my family history from memory. All
of
> the library staff was quite helpful. I didn't make it to the courthouse
> this trip.
>
> My lines are Back, McIntosh, Russell, & Clemmons. We are trying to
organize
> the first ever reunion of the Back cousins (there were over 40 of us) for
> next year. That will be my excuse for returning next year. Even though
I
> am past 50, my cousins persuaded me to go up into the hills on an ATV for
> several hours. It was my first time on an ATV but what sites I saw!
Those
> hills are even more beautiful than I remembered. It was the only way I
> could have returned to the cemetery where my grandparents are buried.
>
> Happy hunting from a Southern Illinois Hillbilly.
>
> Karen Back Simmons
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "R. Edward Vires" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 1:20 PM
> Subject: [KYBREATH-L] A VERY WARM THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>
> > I would like to THANK profusely the members of the Breathitt County
> > Genealogical Society and the County Clerks of Breathitt County for all
> their
> > PATIENCE and INFORMATION shared during my recent visit. Especially
Stephen
> > Bowling and Raymond Moore. Steve, I am sorry we could not talk more but
WE
> > WILL TALK, I promise you. Ray, I am glad to have made your aquaintance
and
> I
> > plan on picking your mind more. I would have like to have met with
Bertha
> > Noble but I was unable to. I will meet her though. I made numerous
copies
> > and the County Clerks got to know me by name ( I wonder if that is Good
or
> > Ill. I have returned from Jackson to my "Home" here in Texas but my
HOME
> > forever shall be in Breathitt. Thanks again for your friendly greetings
> and
> > making this "Transplanted" Hillbilly feel right at home.
> >
> > Warm Regards,
> >
> > R. Edward Vires
> >
> > " The Sacred Rights of Mankind are not to be rummaged for among old
> > parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam in the
> > whole of Nature, by the hand of the Divinity himself; and can never be
> > erased by Mortal Power. " ...... Alexander Hamilton
> >
> >
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