I’ve been sort of working on geneology for his side of the family.  One of his aunts apparently has compiled a lot of research but I haven’t seen it yet so I’m doing it also and hopefully will be able to compare information.  The particular difficulty I have is a result of my mother being a Brown who married a Green and I in turn married a Brown but we aren’t 1st cousins and what I’m finding out not cousins as far back as 5 or 6 generations.  I’m so intrigued with the movement of our ancestors and I continue asking why…will never have an answer to those questions but I continue to ask.  On his Brown side, great grandparents hailed around Coles, Illinois then sometime in the late 1800s made their way to  Cold Springs  MO near Rolla, MO….where his young adult grandfather made the hike to Newton, IA.  Being about an hour from Rolla, we took off this afternoon to visit the spirit of the ancestors.  Cold Springs is only a memory township these days and in the month of June, the Rolla historical society closes at 2:45…we were an hour late!

We did visit the first courthouse of Phelps County in Rolla…sitting in an old courtroom, I mentioned that it is possible some of his family could have gotten in trouble and been in this courthouse … he immediately countered with or they might have been a judge.  Perspective.

Until next time….