JULY 17 ISSUE ANSWERS: An amazing thing happened at the Romeo Historical Society about 20 years ago. A woman named Jeanne Forristal, a teacher from Texas came to the museum with a fabulous letter written in 1924 when her relative was 92 years old. The letter told of her relative, Elizabeth Clark Douglas’s horrific Atlantic Ocean crossing from Bedford, England and her life as it unfolded in early Romeo. Elizabeth’s family arrived here in 1834. She was only 14 months old. Remember, by 1836 there were 200 inhabitants in the village, 34 houses, seven barns, five stores and one church. The letter starts off by saying 90 years ago when crossing the Atlantic she was on a sailing ship because there were “no steamers then.” Her Grandfather King was a tenement farmer of 40 or 50 acres outside a large mansion estate, 6 miles outside of Bedford, England. The two bachelors, uncle and nephew, that owned the mansion house would invite gentleman and ladies to run their hunting dogs after foxes through his standing grain. Grandfather became very angry and said, “I won’t stand it any longer, I’ll go to America where Jack is as good as his master.” He went and Uncle Jim stayed with the family. In a year he wrote the family to come to America. Grandfather King was the first to immigrate to America. Elizabeth’s father was Sam Clark who received the request that Sam should bring his family to America.