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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">My deceased brother's name was
Melvin.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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<A title=reedsportchapmans@verizon.net
href="mailto:reedsportchapmans@verizon.net">Leslie Chapman</A> </DIV>
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title=or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us
href="mailto:or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us">or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, September 24, 2005 7:59
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: [or-roots] dummy me</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Interesting that you bring women into the issue, the family
legend is that<BR>our ultimate American Melvin was the son of the last of the
line in<BR>Fifeshire, being his mother, and the reason he had the name Melvin
was that<BR>she had the land and her husband was an Englishman (I surmise some
kind of<BR>military man) so she kept her name and passed it on to her
children.<BR><BR>As soon as Readers Digest comes through with that sweepstakes
money I intend<BR>to go chase this legene down.<BR><BR>Les
C<BR><BR>snip<<BR>Men ruled the world. but finally a woman could come
into<BR>possesion a of third of her husbands estate by dower
right.<BR><BR>Sometimes the division reached rather obtuse results.<BR>The is
the spouse might have uses of a room, her bedroom, the kitchen and<BR>1/3 of
the barn, and so on.<BR>>snip<BR>--<BR>No virus found in this outgoing
message.<BR>Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.<BR>Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database:
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