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DECEMBER 21 ISSUE ANSWERS: Jeanne White Forristal, in 2010, sent two truckloads of furniture, quilts, wedding gifts, dentist supplies, paintings and clothing and a letter, from Texas to the Romeo Historical Society. Her ancestor Elizabeth Clark Douglas moved these items to Texas after her husband Isaac Douglas died in Romeo where she lived. After 100 years of care in Texas, Jeanne decided to bring all of these Romeo items back home. The Church Street museum displays them now. The letter sent with the item tells a wonderful story of Elizabeth’s family coming from England to Romeo in 1834. Here are excerpts from the letter written in 1924 when she was 92 years old, in two parts. Next week will be the second part. 90 years ago last winter I was on the Atlantic ocean in a sailing ship. There were no steamers then. Grandfather King was a farmer 6 miles from the city of Bedford. He rented of a great landowner living in London. The land was let in farms of 40 and 50 acres or larger, as tenants wanted. There was a mansion house on the big grounds, owned by two bachelors, uncle and nephew, who lived in London. In the hunting season they came down, gentlemen and ladies with their dogs to ride after foxes. They would ride after dogs, jumping

DECEMBER 21 ISSUE ANSWERS: Jeanne White Forristal, in 2010, sent two truckloads of furniture, quilts, wedding gifts, dentist supplies, paintings and clothing and a letter, from Texas to the Romeo Historical Society. Her ancestor Elizabeth Clark Douglas moved these items to Texas after her husband Isaac Douglas died in Romeo where she lived. After 100 years of care in Texas, Jeanne decided to bring all of these Romeo items back home. The Church Street museum displays them now. The letter sent with the item tells a wonderful story of Elizabeth’s family coming from England to Romeo in 1834. Here are excerpts from the letter written in 1924 when she was 92 years old, in two parts. Next week will be the second part. 90 years ago last winter I was on the Atlantic ocean in a sailing ship. There were no steamers then. Grandfather King was a farmer 6 miles from the city of Bedford. He rented of a great landowner living in London. The land was let in farms of 40 and 50 acres or larger, as tenants wanted. There was a mansion house on the big grounds, owned by two bachelors, uncle and nephew, who lived in London. In the hunting season they came down, gentlemen and ladies with their dogs to ride after foxes. They would ride after dogs, jumping

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