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From: "Kenneth Brown" <>
Subject: RE: [MODOUGLA] Re: Roll Call -- Brown, Hartley, Gunnels and Morris
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 07:45:25 -0600
In-Reply-To: <007401c6135f$0ea764b0$0a00a8c0@VALUED542545D6>


Some of you may recognize me as the RootsWeb.com coordinator for Douglas
County, and I also work with the Douglas County Historical Journal. Some of
you may also recognize me as the guy you write and have to wait two months
for a reply (I've resolved to do better in 2006).

I'm really not an active GENEALOGIST -- I'm a hyperactive COUNTY HISTORIAN.
I enjoy learning about when and where families arrived in early Douglas
County (and surrounding areas) and just about any other aspect of the
County's development. Three of my direct lines, Brown, Hartley, and Morris,
were living in either Douglas, Ozark, Taney, Webster and Wright counties by
sometime in the 1840s. The Gunnels family came from Macon and Camden
Counties in the 1880s. My ancestor Morris lived in all of these five
counties over a few decades, and my Hartley ancestor (Andrew J.) came to the
area that's now Seymour when it was in Wright county (now Webster) before
moving into the Arno area of Douglas County. POINT: I have to view all
these counties as a unit when I study my family history.

I'm particularly interested in all Brown lines in any of these counties. We
seem to have about four distinct groups in Douglas County alone -- my Lyhue
Brown, Thomas S. Brown (see Sally Taylor's ROLL CALL), John Henry Brown, and
Ira Brown. We particularly need information on Ira, who we believe is the
father of William R. Brown (1868-1945) who married Lydia Van Houden -- they
lived in the Squires and SpringCreek area I believe. Oh, my Uncle Everett
Brown married into the Larkin Ezekial Brown family from the Toledo area of
Ozark County when he married Claudie Brown in 1923. This is another family
in which I have an interest. No wonder I can't get my email answered!

Within the next 60 days, I'll start working on the layout of the Summer 2006
Historical Journal with new editor, Cinita Davis Brown, of Ava. Things are
very unsettled at this point regarding content, but we probably already have
enough material to fill this Journal and part of the next one. POINT:
getting articles in the Journal can be a 12 to 18 month process -- so start
corresponding with us now.

Cinita gave me a quote that perhaps should or does drive us in family
history:

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead & rotten,
Either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.
Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790

The Ozark Uncle
Kenneth Brown, Ph.d., CPA
Emeritus (Retired) Professor, Springfield, MO
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-----Original Message-----
From: Twila Jennings Smith [mailto:]
Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 1:51 AM
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Subject: [MODOUGLA] Re: Roll Call -- Jennings, Squire and related families


Jennings, Evans, Pettit, and Prine among others

Twila


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