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[Sue Steward]

May I suggest that you change the subject line in all these messages be changed to reflect your actual message.  We tend to reply to another message and even though we are changing the topic, the subject line is not changed.

Sue
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mary Marling 
  To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us 
  Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 2:38 PM
  Subject: Re: [or-roots] The bridge that Nineveh Ford moved


  Family names in my search: Maidment/Huddleston/Rhodes/Smith/Arbogast/Moritz
  The Rhodes/Smith families settled in Douglas county early 1870s.  Lived in various locations: Elkton, Curtin, Ashland, Grays Harbor in WA, British Columbia,etc 

  As for me, you can keep up the reminiscing.  History enriches our lives.  I love it and the tales at times bring  back memories and family legends that I am recording for the pleasure of my younger family members.

  Having lived here for over 50 years, I am saddened to see the finest farming land covered by houses and freeways.  The grape industry seems to thrive.  I wonder if in the future we could drink enough wine to care even less about the loss of healthy, fresh foods from our country side....     Mary



  ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Cecil Houk 
    To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us 
    Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 10:25 AM
    Subject: Re: [or-roots] The bridge that Nineveh Ford moved


    Thanks Walt.


    Nineveh Ford
    1815-1897

    Cecil
      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: DAVIESW739 at aol.com 
      To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us 
      Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 8:15 AM
      Subject: Re: [or-roots] The bridge that Nineveh Ford moved



      Somewhere near the crossing of the North Platte, we camped at a place called Soap Springs. It  was a boggy place. Old Mr. Mills stepped into a sink hole and, as he said: "went in up to his hat band." Niniva Ford's big black ox blundered into one during the night. In the morning he was  found and pulled out before Niniva was up. He was covered, all but his head, with the thick blue mud. Niniva made a great fuss when he could not find his big black ox.

        Everyone else "hook up." There was a lone blue ox grassing about that no one seemed to claim.  Niniva was asked if it were not his. He said: "No my ox is black." Finally he was advised to take  it anyway, the owner perhaps had yoked up the black ox by mistake. There seemed nothing else  to do, so Niniva, mad as a hornet, went out to catch the ox, while everyone looked on and laughed. After a while Niniva laughed about it too, but he did not at first. He was still too mad at  the man that he thought had taken his big black ox.

      Walt Davies
      Cooper Hollow Farm
      Monmouth, OR 97361
      503 623-0460 
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