<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">My great grandparents (according to family lore) traveled from Illinois to Missouri (Carrolton) down the river to New Orleans where they took a boat (ship?) to the West. Apparently the whole family or most of them came along. I haven't figured out how they got to Linn County where some of them settled, or Bethel, where some of them "landed", and haven't found any record of it, but since the story came from a couple of family sources that were only discovered in the last few years I am inclined to believe. Others of our family came by wagon train and settled in Goldendale. Still others came from Kansas and settled in Sherman County. They weren't so far from Joplin so maybe they came by train in the 1880's. I would love to find where to look for all of these travels.<BR>
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(and as you get older, any expertise you had with a speller goes up in smoke)...<BR>
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Dee Parish<BR>
researching: Watkins, Cline, Sutton, Chapman, Roberts</FONT></HTML>