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From: Jean Strain <>
Subject: Re: [MATTHEWS] Matthews Bibles
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 16:02:57 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <006001c866bb$3ced95e0$6001a8c0@foobar>


Yes~~~I HAVE posted the names~~~TWICE!!
I don't know what's happening to my emails!!
I went to the list admin and asked for help~~~
It doesn't matter to me, but I'm sure someone wants them`~~
happy huntin' Jean S

Greg Matthews <> wrote:
Unless I've missed an email you have not posted who is in the bible. So far
there have been 23 posts in 3 days with people practically begging you to
tell the list. People with Mathews ancestors from New York, Tennessee,
North Carolina, Ohio, Indiana, England, Virginia, Illinois, Iowa, Oregon,
Washington, Texas, South Carolina, Mississippi, and Louisiana have asked
about this bible. That's 14 states and one country. I can guarantee that
whoever is in this top-secret bible ain't from all those states!

We all appreciate you making the offer of the bible, but please understand
that many people have asked for the info and at least if you post it then it
will be saved for posterity in the rootsweb mailing list archives.

What the people on this list need to know is:

1) WHO are the progenitors of the family in the bible??? Give these people
who are asking at least a couple of the oldest names in it.

2) WHAT other surnames are in the bible??? Give us some way of tying this
mysterious family to other folks so we know better who they are.

3) WHEN was the bible record started??? Give some dates on the people in
there.

4) WHERE did this family come from??? Ok, Texas is listed. Is that the
only state mentioned???

Until some of this data is known deciding who it should go to is extremely
premature and a just a tad bit unfair to someone who might actually be a
descendant of the people in the bible.

In your first post you said you would tell who was in it if people emailed
you. At this point I think enough people have asked that you should go
ahead and post it to everyone. That way we could get the posts on this
topic to slow down a bit.


Greg Matthews



----- Original Message -----
From: "Jean Strain"
To:
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 5:42 PM
Subject: Re: [MATTHEWS] Matthews Bibles


> Thank you~~I am not related to ANY of these people, but~~I'm SURE that
> someone, somewhere NEEDS these items!! happy huntin' Jean
>
> wrote: Thanks for putting this information on line! I,
> too, am a Central Texas
> Matthews who grew up in West Texas! My Matthews family as far back as I
> have been able to find is that Cornelius Matthews came to Williamson
> County,
> Tennessee with the Mark Andrews family and that his father and grandfather
> was probably also named Cornelius. My personal branch came to Texas around
> the mid 1840's. Will gladly share further information with other
> researchers.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [mailto:]
> On Behalf Of Jean Strain
> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 8:41 AM
> To:
> Subject: [MATTHEWS] Matthews Bibles
>
> Hi~~my name is Jean S, and I'm new to this list. Yesterday I went to an
> estate sale and found TWO Bibles with Matthews info.
> One has the family history, and the other has the Service Record of two
> Matthews men~~~
> I'll give these to whoever wants them~~just pay the postage.
> I looked sooo hard, and couldn't find any of my Fox/Nichols bunch!!!
> Oh well, anyone?
> If you'll email me, I'll give you all of the names mentioned in it~~
> Happy huntin'~~~~~~~~~Jean
>
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