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<DIV><FONT size=2>Several years ago, we made a special trip to De Moss Springs
park near Moro after reading a delightful book written by a descendent of
that fascinating talented, traveling, musical family-- during horse and
buggy days..Sorry I can not remember the title or authors name....didn't know
about the Sherman County Museum..Mary</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=ed_melvin@msn.com href="mailto:ed_melvin@msn.com">Eugene Melvin</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=ORFORUM-L@rootsweb.com
href="mailto:ORFORUM-L@rootsweb.com">ORFORUM-L</A> ; <A
title=or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us
href="mailto:or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us">or-roots</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, May 15, 2004 4:32
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [or-roots] De Moss</DIV>
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<DIV>List,</DIV>
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<DIV>Is anyone out there researching the De Moss family? Dora M. De Moss
is my Great Grandmother.</DIV>
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<DIV>Last Thursday on a whim my wife and I left Portland for Moro, Oregon and
we stop by the Sherman County Museum located in Moro. To our surprised
the unscheduled volunteers on duty that day was a husband and wife team whose
last name is De Moss. We still are working out the details as to how we are
related. </DIV>
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<DIV>We were greatly impressed with this museum located in a town of about 300
people. And of course we spent the next eight hours with our new found
relations going over books and records located in the museum plus
traveling a couple miles North of Moro to visit De Moss Springs. </DIV>
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<DIV>Moro is located on highway 97 about 18 miles South of the Columbia River
and East of The Dalles. If anyone is out that way I would recommend
stopping in and visiting this museum. They also have a great web
site.</DIV>
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<DIV>Eugene Melvin</DIV>
<DIV>SW Portland, Oregon</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>