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Welcome to our home pages. Come on in,
make yourself comfortable, set a spell |
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Our Family Pages
| White Pages | Wallis not Wallace |
| Arkansas White Page | Gee Pages |
| Arkansas White's Photos | Fifield Pages |
| Dodson Pages | Markham Pages |
| Harkness Pages | Demaray Pages |
| Bates Pages | Molesworth Pages |
| Thornton Pages | Davis Pages |
| Sutton Pages | Layton Pages |
| Pyland Pages | Spracklin Pages |
| Copeland Pages | Goss Pages |
| Avitts Pages |
| In 1960 I met a wonderful
little lady who started my interest in genealogy. I started
gathering information on my family and my husband's family. My
searching was interrupted during the middle sixties and early seventies
while raising a family of 3 active boys. A mistake I made
during those early years was not talking to elders of our families.
Please don't make the mistake I did, once they are gone its lots harder
to get the answers to your questions. The Wallis and Gee side of my family are always talking about family members, long gone and sometimes forgotten. My father and Aunt Cleo have brought these people to life for me. I didn't have the privilege of knowing my father's side of the family as a child and my mother didn't talk about her side. For years after we were married my mother-in-law did not want me to search out any information on the Bates, White, Harkness and Dodson line. There were some family connections they didn't want to talk about. She had, however, told us she was of Native American descent, Cherokee or Pawnee from the Dodson line. We now this connection is correct, we just don't know for sure how. So we just keep digging. In the past I have spent very little time searching for the Davis, Layton and Spracklen lines. I have gathered a large collection of pictures, stories and magazine articles on my grandmother Bessie Layton Davis, many of which are included here. |
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Finished Projects and those under Construction |
| Out of this collection of family, I have compiled the "Gee Family Genealogy" and planned to complete in June "The Wallis Family". Unfortunately this will not be finished on schedule, I am all ready far behind. The other side of the house have asked when I will work on the White line, with a name like White where do I start! In my spare time I write and edit the "The Genealogy of Gee" a family newsletter for the surname Gee. I have just started a Surname Resource Center for the names, Dodson, Gee, Layton, Harkness, |
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Small Town Iowa |
| Both of my parents were born in Harrison County Iowa, as were many aunts, uncles and grandparents. I wanted you to know what Harrison County was like in those early days, so please visit my Harrison County pages for a view of the past. There are links there to Civil War Veterans from each town, School Graduates, early settlers, and several pictures. You will find Photo Albums for the towns of Mondamin, Modale, Little Sioux, and River Sioux. If you have family pictures you would like to submit for these pages, please email ME. While looking for new graphics, I found "You know you live in a Small Town, When", check it out, I think it might be true. While your there take a look at GranGran Graphics, there the best! Most of the graphics used on this page were from GranGran. | |
| Life on the Farm |
| In the summer we raise
a large garden, produce from the garden is canned for winter and given
to family and friends. Want a
Zucchini?? One of our favorite garden projects is gourds:
bushel, dipper, birdhouse, and snake. I use them in craft projects
and provide homes for birds. After canning the bounty of our gardens for the past 39 years, I put together a canning book "The Very Best of Summer", from all the recipes I have collected or invented. Several years ago our middle son asked me to make a cookbook with all my recipes "Mom! How do you Make?" was the answer to their many collect telephone calls. This one is for beginners. I am now in the process of making "Grandma! It's Christmas, lets Bake" inspired by our 2 year old granddaughter, the light of her papa's life. With any luck this will be ready for Christmas 1999. |
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Time for a Change |
| This will be our year for changes. Ben retired the end of March, it is difficult having him under foot all day. He has many plans for his time (so do I). Ben tells family and friends that it will take him the rest of his life to finish my "honey do list." I have to admit I keep thinking up new ideas. We enlarged our guinea flock, and started raising chickens and turkeys again. A greenhouse which had been on the drawing board, was built, and rebuilt, and finally after the last wind storm put on hold for this year. The garden was enlarged, we only had 63 tomato plants, we used to give away zucchini, this year it was tomatoes.... | |
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Thank You, Please come again! |
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enjoyed your visit to our pages, as with all web pages they are
constantly being changed. If you visited here before, I'm sure you
noticed this is not the same page. I purchased a new program and
am now learning how to make my own graphics. This has been a slow
learning process, and I keep finding new graphics that I like better
than the ones I can make. Let us know what you think of our pages,
and if you find a broken link, please tell us.
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