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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Cousin Carrol, How delightful that you have
written up your life story as completely as you have. I am only up to age
12 with mine. When I first came into memory at age 2 or so, my family was
eleven miles back in the Umpqua National Forest working at a guard station...so
the first transportation I can recall was by horseback. Bob Casebeer, a
descendant of Joicy and Dicey Napier. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><B>-----Original Message-----</B><BR><B>From:
</B><A href="mailto:CARROLLOUC@aol.com">CARROLLOUC@aol.com</A> <<A
href="mailto:CARROLLOUC@aol.com">CARROLLOUC@aol.com</A>><BR><B>To: </B><A
href="mailto:or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us">or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us</A>
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href="mailto:or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us">or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us</A>><BR><B>Date:
</B>Friday, September 12, 2003 3:29 PM<BR><B>Subject: </B>Re: [or-roots]
Depression Times / W.W.II<BR><BR></DIV></FONT><FONT
face=arial,helvetica><FONT face=Arial lang=0 size=3 FAMILY = SANSSERIF><B>I
hope those of you that are waxing nostalgic about growing up during the
Depression and WWII are also busy writing your story of those years. They
will be lost in another generation if you don't.<BR><BR>My great grandmother
was born in VA in 1852 and died in Portland, OR in 1944 when I was 15. She
used to tell us children stories of the Civil War and of her life but no one
wrote them down and they are now mainly forgotten. I only remember one or
two. What a loss this is to our family.<BR><BR>Some time ago, my then 12
year old granddaughter wanted to know what my favorite TV program was when I
was a girl. She was horrified when I told her we had no TV, radio or
telephone at that time and she plaintively asked "but Grandma,
what did you dooooo?". <BR><BR>I was born in 1929 and grew up in
Portland and the suburb, Parkrose, during two of the most important decades
in the History of the U.S.. I have completed my story of what it was like
for me, what we children did for entertainment, etc. I began with my birth
and ended this first story at age 18 when I was walking down the aisle to be
married. There is also a good deal of genealogy involved in the
story.<BR><BR>The second part of my life has mostly been written, up to
about 8 years ago. Eventually, it will be completed, with one of my children
finishing the last page for me. Then, hopefully, he or she will make it into
a book for my descendants as well. <BR><BR>These stories are not about a
great or famous person, but an ordinary individual with her own story to
tell and it will be a totally different story from anyone else's
story. I sincerely hope that my family will enjoy both books and
will know their mother, grandmother and great grandmother more fully than
they do now.<BR><BR>So, everyone, get cracking on those stories for your
children and theirs.<BR><BR>Carroll (Cooper)
Summers<BR><BR></B></FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>