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From: Bob Knotts <>
Subject: Re: [ORCLACKA] [ORMARION-L] SUMMER TRAVELS
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 1998 12:31:50 -0700
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At 11:25 PM 7/13/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>Hello, Laura from Seattle here, how is your summer going?
>
Well, my doctor changed my medication again so I have to have blood work
done in three weeks. No trip to MD/DE until my blood sugar drops. So I'm
back to Oregon. I think I'll pitch a tent for 5 or 6 days at Pacific City,
and just contemplate my navel. Then I have about 20 things to do, include
visit a WV KNOTTS in La Pine, near Bend. I might also visit a fellow WOODS
researcher in Sacramento. My paternal grandmother was Carrie WOODS. His
grandfather was her brother. There were 11 in her family, including two
sets of twins: Lola and Lela, and Charlie and Arlie (female). Her mother
was a RECTOR, whose family came from Germany. I guess they were skilled
metal workers and were brought over by an early governor of VA. Chuck told
me one of the WOODS boys got a bright idea on how to make his fortune. He
went on the Yukon trasil, but not to find gold. He took many gallons of
untaxed, illegal home made whiskey to whet the whistles of those poor
goldseekers. However, those infernal REDCOATS, the RCMP, had other ideas.
He was lucky they just threw him over the border. Not even very roughly.
Then one of the WV KNOTTS's (I think half of the KNOTTS's in the U.S. are
WV KNOTTS's. Most of those in Oregon are) in WV during prohibition had a
habit of stealing a little moonshine from each of his neighbors, and then
selling it back to them at the local friday night dance. Sonny was almost
caught once, but escaped. My story teller says he would have been strung up
on the spot. Kind of like horse rustling. I spent a few days in WV. Not a
real cheerful place if you don't have work, and jobs are dwindling all the
time. Oil is depleted, environmentalists are choking off the coal mining,
etc. Damned if you do and damned if you don't. I may get a chance to say
hi on this trip, if I can find out how to do it without driving thru
Seattle rush hour traffic. That was worse any of the LA traffic I've been
in. Almost as bad as PHX's. Until recently, PHX only had one freeway. Their
reasoning was that if you had more freeways, people would travel more and
cause more pollution. See, you thought all the rednecks were back East! Lot
of pickl-ups with gun racks in AZ. Of course, most of them have never been
off the pavement, and most of the gunracks have fishing poles in them. I
didn't say these were very smart rednecks! Well, by for now. Bob (PS-I had
my 63 birthday sunday and survived!! So far.)


>My Smith/Fudge have opened a web community on Family.com, really cool,
>photos, calendars, birthdays, lists of email (which makes everything so
>organized). They are mostly in Oregon.
>
>As you know, we had our 35th Kennewick High Reunion at the Benton-Franklin
>County Fairgrounds in Kennewick which was a blast because 3-4 generations
>all came together. I found a guy who knew my step-father's father who was
>dead before my mom married him. Wasn't that
rather a quiet ceremony!?
Lawrence E. Johnson (m. Ada E. Fine) was my
>grandfather, Robert Lee Johnson was my step-father.
>
>This guy graduated from KHS in 1932 and my dad in 1934, so fun!! We all are
>on one website, all the classes are posting messages. So I have been doing
>high school ancestry so-to-speak!!
>
>I got home from the reunion on Sunday and by midnight I had created a KHS
>Class of 1965 WEB COMMUNITY too. So we can chat with each other, post all
>our photos, address list, email addresses, calendar for next golf game and
>our class trip to see the Mariner's in Sept in Seattle, REALLY neat!!
>
>The big hit was my friend's new Harley!
>
>They have these for FAMILY.COM, has your family tried it yet??? One person
>starts loading their line in then INVITES the next person using a password,
>then you are off and running.
>
>It is all password protected by invitation only, no one else can see it, so
>nothing gets deleted, etc. You can see all the on-going discussions, etc.,
>it only takes one person to start it. Extremely easy!!
>
>I hope everyone of your ebuddies are well, there is a bad chest cold going
>around Seattle.
>
>Hope to hear about any ancestry travels. I need to visit Pomeroy and Walla
>Walla this summer to see my ecousins for Hales, Galloway, Fine, and Johnson.
>I missed the FINE/GRAHAM reunion but will try to get to the
>SMITH/MCTIMMONDS/KAU/FUDGE one in Oregon.
>
>Hope to hear from you, more car repairs and I am on the road again!!
>
>Laura Johnson Chushcoff
>HALES, GALLOWAY, FINE, JOHNSON, FUDGE, POLLARD, KIRBY, TEEL, ALEXANDER
>
>
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Bob Knotts

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