[or-roots] Copied an Item from Rootsweb re PRICE, CAMPBELL, HARMAN, HARRISON,MORRILL, ANDREWS

[cjp joppe]

amily Treasures Turn Up Way Out West
  By Carolyn Harman Scott

On April 23, 2005 I received the following inquiry:

  "Thanks for your reply to my e-mail. I am a
volunteer librarian at the
  local genealogical society library. In cleaning out
our back room, an
  envelope was uncovered, full of information,
documents, pictures,
  letters (dated 1895-1905) about this family. There
are old Bible
  pages--full of names and dates. Lewis HARMAN and
Ellen PRICE marriage
  information with a listing of all of their children,
plus birth dates.
  There is a picture of Lewis HARMAN in his West Point
cadet uniform.
  Letters regarding his appointment to the Revenue
Service. There are
  handwritten letters, very hard to read, which are
full of information
  about the CAMPBELL family. They are old and fragile,
so we are trying
  not to handle them too much. There is a lot more
information.
  --Rogue Valley Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 1468,
Phoenix, Oregon
  97535-1468. P.S. I would love for someone to contact
me with similar
  information on any of my lines! Yours truly, Leona
Blankenship."

Blankenship found my name and address from a RootsWeb
message board.
This packet is a real treasure. The picture of Lewis
HARMAN (b. 1845
Virginia) actually was taken in his VMI (Virginia
Military Institute)
Union uniform (just before the Civil War); but VMI had
already sent me a
picture of him in his Confederate uniform. The
contrast between the two
pictures in as many years tells a story all by itself.

The existence of these Bible pages is miraculous and a
fountain of great
information. The Bible itself must have fallen apart
and someone
preserved the vital records pages and the front cover
page. This Bible
belonged to Lewis HARMAN (b. 1794 Virginia) and his
wife, Sarah Jane
GARBER (b. 1799 Virginia) and covers multiple
generations of the family.

I am still trying to find the HARRISON, MORRILL, and
ANDREWS family that
were also mentioned in this packet. There were a lot
of pictures of
these families as well as genealogy charts. I can't
find the connection
to the HARMAN family, but I will keep trying. I've
posted lots of
messages on the message boards so hopefully one day
somebody will
contact me.

How this packet ended up in the Rogue Valley in Oregon
is a real mystery
as that would have been the last place I would have
looked. I think
that this is a great example of the importance of the
message boards and
I will be forever grateful for RootsWeb's
contributions to the genealogy
world and a dedicated librarian who took the time to
find me.


carole
cjpjoppe at yahoo.com
... unwrap each day as a precious gift


		
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