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Since 1977, Fields Home Center has been providing Grant's Pass, OR and surrounding areas with quality hardware supplies. Located only five minutes from town, we guarantee you'll save money with us. Come see us for all your hardware and home improvement needs including: • Paint • Tools • Plumbing • Electrical • Lumber • Plywood Seconds • Siding • Moldings • Doors and windows • Decking and...
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Also marketed as Bluetooth Smart, Bluetooth LE was introduced in the Bluetooth 4.0 specification as an alternative to Bluetooth Classic. Like its predecessor, Bluetooth LE uses frequency hopping wireless technology in the 2.4 GHz unlicensed radio band to interconnect nearby devices. Unlike its predecessor, Bluetooth LE maxes out at just 1 Mbps while consuming just 0.01 to 0.5 watts. That's up to one third of the speed of Bluetooth Classic, at no more than half the power.
Originally introduced in 2004, Bluetooth LE adoption is now being driven by today's fast-growing Internet of Things (IoT). For example, Internet-connected devices used for personal healthcare, fitness, sports, entertainment, and locationing now use Bluetooth LE to communicate with contemporary smartphones and tablets, including iPhones, Android phones, Windows phones, and BlackBerrys. Battery life depends upon hardware, transmit distance and duty cycle, ranging from 1 to 40 months. For example, an iBeacon – a device that emits periodic Bluetooth pulses to enable inexpensive, precise indoor positioning – could easily operate for 1-2 years on a single battery.
Bluetooth LE is attractive to consumer electronics and Internet-connected machine manufacturers because of its low cost, long battery life, and ease of deployment. From thermometers and heart rate monitors to smart watches and proximity sensors, Bluetooth LE facilitates infrequent short-range wireless data communication between devices, powered by nothing more than a dime-sized battery.

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Both RingCentral and 8×8 have a primary focus on small business accounts and are considered small business VoIP providers. Although anyone can get their services it would make little sense for someone with residential needs to get either service. For more suitable and cost saving residential VoIP options one should consider magicJack, NetTalk or BasicTalk.
*For a complete list of our VoIP comparisons please read our Comparisons page.
RingCentral Overview
Ring Central Inc is a US based VOIP Service provider with an extensive range of products designed to meet needs of its clients looking for a cheap costing saving VoIP business line. Ring Central is a pioneer in the field of cloud communications and business VoIP while boasting a subscriber base of over 300,000 and a highly rated 24/7 dedicated customer service center. Their focus is on ensuring the satisfaction of their customers through top notch customer support.
Being one of the leading Cloud based communication companies their products are tailored to the needs of the small businesses and have the flexibility to grow with the needs of their clients with the features such as a virtual conference room, faxing, softphone, mobile intergration and international calling facilities. These features make them an ideal candidate for the needs of both large and small business along with growing businesses that are cost conscious at inception.
8×8 Overview
Being one of the main competitors of RingCentral, 8×8 has a very similar range of high end features which enable them to compete well with RingCentral. Compared to RingCentral, 8×8 is fairly new in the Business VoIP market but this is actually a good thing because for customers because they are intensely focused in on providing quality services and features to attract newer and retain current business users.
RingCentral vs 8×8 – Basic Plan Comparison
Perhaps the most important factor for any business is to ascertain the price and value added services offered to them. This along with the consideration of future plans of growth and the product's ability to support their growth potential is important for each and every business to consider.
RingCentral offers three different VoIP packages (Standard, Premium and Enterprise) which any business can choose based on their needs. RingCentral also offers a 30-day free trial period where clients can experience the quality and features of RingCentral at no cost.
Standard Package Details – $24.99 per month, 1,000 minutes, up to four people on any conference call, free Mobile apps and integration with outlook, Google box and Dropbox.
Premium Package Details – $34.99 per month, 2,500 minutes, up to twenty-five people on any conference call, HD Voice, Multi-Level attendant + all standard package features of RingCentral.
Enterprise Package Details – $49.99 per month, 10,000 minutes, up to fifty people on any conference call + all standard and premium package features of RingCentral.
Extensions – $34.99 per month for the first user, 2-19 users for $29.00 per month for each added user.
RingCentral also offers several add-ons for extra numbers for faxing and calling needs per your particular businesses needs. These prices vary from client-to-client based on what package you have and how many extra numbers you may need.
- Virtual Office Package Details – $19.99 per month with free mobile integration, great call quality and unlimited people on any conference call.
- Virtual Office Pro Package Details – $49.99 per month with Fax, Chat, HD voice and unlimited people on any conference call
- Extensions – $19.99 per month per user
8×8 is a great alternative to RingCentral and provides its clients with two broad plan options including "Virtual Office" and "Virtual Office Pro". Both of these products are packed with value added services meant to make the experience of the user hassle free and unique. These packages come with many features such as conference calling, the ability to store custom greetings, virtual assistant and free installation. 8×8 has very competitive prices which are ideal for any new business that is in need of a quality VoIP Business Service Provider while keeping costs low.
RingCentral vs 8×8 – Features Comparison
Both companies pack a ton of features which are essential for any business to stay up to date and ensure quality service and communication with their clientele. Both have a very similar set of features which put each of these products on par and makes the two companies direct business VoIP competitors, competing in the exact same niche. Their prices plus awesome features, top notch customer service, and high quality phone service establishes each them as two of leading names in the small business VoIP providers industry.
Both RingCentral and 8×8 have mobile integration features with iOS and Android support by simply doing a quick download of their respective apps but RingCentral takes the cake here as it also supports blackberry phones, thus increasing the options available to their customers.
RingCentral provides its users with four different fax plans which allows users to choose per their faxing volumes. The faxing rates are as follows for total fax pages per month and each Internet faxing plan is ala carte – 500 fax pages per month for $7.99, 1,000 fax pages per month for $12.99, 2,500 fax pages per month for $49.99 or unlimited fax pages per month for $39.99. 8×8 offers unlimited Internet faxing but only with the Virtual Office Pro plan. RingCentral is clearly better for low volume faxing needs because they offer cost savings with super cheap A la carte options but 8×8 is clearly the winner for high volume business faxers since theirs is included with the $49.99 per month plan.
Both companies have great conference calling systems with 8×8 providing unlimited callers per account where as RingCentral limits the number of callers in on a conference call based on the users package. 8×8 clearly is ahead on this one while also sticking to their trend of simplicity.
To keep your callers entertained and engaged both companies provide music while on hold with their music facility features. Both also offer a choice of professional voice actor services as well as an option where businesses can select or even upload their own customized messages.
When it comes to international calling RingCentral is certainly the better option providing an unlimited international calling option for a price of just $39.99 per month while 8×8 offers international calling only to limited countries. If you are a high volume international caller you will save money by going with a flat rate plan and have more options of countries to call. If your international calling needs are to a minimum you can likely get by with 8×8's international calling options.
Both companies provide softphones and virtual live assistant functions making them a perfect companion for any business environment
8×8 vs. RingCentral Call Quality and Customer Service
With both companies being advertised as business VoIP cloud communicating services it is of utmost importance to compare the call quality on both products. Luckily, both RingCentral and 8×8 provide HD voice seamless calls with very few if any disruptions or problems but when it comes call quality. When it comes to customer service RingCentral, with its 24/7 dedicated customer services, certainly would be far more pleasing to customers as compared to 8×8's US based Customer service which is operational from 8 am-9 pm ET, Monday-Saturday. They do however offer emergency support 24/7 but it was unclear what this includes.
With amazing features and quality services both companies have carved a niche for themselves in the business VoIP industry and are suitable for different businesses based on the businesses specific usage needs. When it comes to RingCentral they boast great international calling options and usage based plans which are more suited to smaller cost conscious businesses while 8×8 with its simple and hassle free options are a better fit for businesses who want to avoid complexity or have a high volume of usage.
My Other VoIP Comparison
I wrote a handful of VoIP Comparisons because I want you to be informed! Please read them for your convenience.
magicJack vs. Vonage – Vonage is very well known but so is magicjack, who came out on top?
magic Jack v. Ooma – Ooma is also very well known and a great service but magicJack may be better! Read on to find out.
Basic Talk or magic Jack – Basic Talk is a Vonage owned subsidiary trying to compete and steal magicJack's market share but it's more expensive…
magic Jack Go or Net Talk Duo Wifi – Both companies upped their game with these new devices but sometimes this can be confusing
magic jack vs. NetTalk – magicJack was the first of these two companies and still reigns supreme.


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Architects and construction firms are often lauded for the beauty, creativity and engineering of their projects, while the project delivery process itself is overlooked. Hennebery Eddy Architects and Fortis Construction are breaking that trend. The firms, both based in Portland, were recognized with a national merit award by the Design Build Institute of America (DBIA) for their design-build delivery of an office renovation for the Oregon Department of State Lands.
According to DBIA' announcement, the awards recognize exemplary collaboration and integration in project delivery through Design Build Done Right™. Fortis and Hennebery Eddy's project involved the renovation of approximately 13,000 square feet of existing office space on the ground floor of the Oregon Department of State Lands Building, including demolition, new finishes, and mechanical and electrical improvements that were coordinated with the owner's selection and purchase of new furniture systems. This was the first design-build project for the Oregon Department of Administrative Services – Procurement Services.
For a complete list of the other 2016 award recipients, visit http://www.designbuilddoneright.com/dbia-announces-2016-national-design-build-projectteam-award-winners/.
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Hennebery Eddy Architects, Inc. is a Portland, Oregon-based architectural, interior design and planning firm with a specialty focus in historic preservation and sustainable design. For more information, visit www.henneberyeddy.com.


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As the Association of Racing Commissioners Annual Conference on Equine Welfare and Racing Integrity wrapped up April 20 in Charleston, S.C., Jeff Colliton officially took over as chairman of the group that creates model rules regulators throughout the country are encouraged to adopt.
Colliton, chairman of the Washington Horse Racing Commission, moves into the chairman role as Louisiana's Judy Wager wrapped up her one-year tenure. ARCI members also selected their 2018 chairman in Maryland Racing Commission executive director Mike Hopkins, who moves from ARCI treasurer to chair-elect. Also, Dr. Corinne Sweeney of the Pennsylvania State Horse Racing Commission, was elected the new treasurer.
Elected to the board were: Sweeney; Robert Lopez, Washington Horse Racing Commission; John F. Wayne, Delaware Thoroughbred Racing Commission; Tom Sage, Nebraska State Racing Commission; David Lermond, Virginia Racing Commission; Dr. David Kangaloo, Trinidad & Tobago Racing Authority;
Edward C. Menton, Mobile County Racing Commission; Charles A. Gardiner III, Louisiana State Racing Commission; Marc A. Guilfoil, Kentucky Horse Racing Commission; Larry Eliason, South Dakota Commission on Gaming; Steve Suttie; Canadian Pari-Mutuel Agency; Dan Hartman, Colorado Racing Commission; Frank Zanzuccki, New Jersey Racing Commission; Rob Williams, New York State Gaming Commission, and Rick Baedeker, California Horse Racing Board.
Colliton, a Vietnam veteran who last year was inducted into the U.S. Army ROTC National Hall of Fame for Distinguished Civilian Service, retired from the military as a full colonel after serving 26 years as a helicopter pilot and active-duty officer. Having attended Gonzaga University (class of 1962) on a baseball scholarship, Colliton recently fulfilled a "bucket-list" item by traveling with Susan, his wife of 50 years, to see their beloved Zags in the NCAA basketball title game, only to get nipped in the final strides by North Carolina after a protracted stretch duel.
Part of Colliton's college scholarship requirement was to have a part-time job. You could say his regulatory career in racing began then at the old Playfair Race Course, when he collected urine from horses during post-race testing until getting a job with the photo-finish operator. But Colliton's racetrack experience began as a tyke, when an aunt and uncle would take him to the races at Playfair, Yakima Meadows, and sometimes Longacres near Seattle.
Later, he and his wife, Susan, would partner in owning horses with Colliton's dad. He has been a pizza-tavern owner, a certified mediator, and was on the city council for one term "and the people of Spokane decided I needed another profession," Colliton said with a laugh. Two years later, however, he was appointed to the Washington Horse Racing Commission, where he has served almost a decade.
Of being ARCI chair, Colliton said, "My first indication, whenever I take over a chairman of something, is not to walk in and change things. In the military, I always told the people who work for me and the people I worked for, 'Press the listen button rather than the talk button.'"
The military influence has permeated his subsequent professional life.
"I think it's a bit of the organization and structure that you learn from being a young lieutenant going through processes, and you learn from those who don't, in my opinion, do things right and those who do things right," he said. "You learn to treat your subordinates with the respect they are due. You learn to let the staff do their work and step in when you think they might need a little advice."
Colliton thanked the membership for his selection and congratulated Wagner on her productive term. He also congratulated the compact ARCI staff, headed by president Ed Martin, on the conference.
"There have been a lot of remarks about the different panels and how well-organized and meaningful they were," he said. "It's a function of your staff, and I look forward to working with you."
Besides being named chairman-elect, Hopkins received the Len Foote Award honoring exemplary service and contribution to racing integrity by a commission executive director as chosen by his or her peers. The award is named in honor of the late Len Foote, longtime executive director of the California Horse Racing Board, and is considered the highest distinction for racing officials in North America and the Caribbean.
Hopkins grew up on his family's farm, helping care for six stallions and more than 100 broodmares. At age 12, he was working the Fasig-Tipton yearling sales at Saratoga for Maryland's famed Windfields Farm. His first racetrack job came in 1980 at Pimlico Race Course, taking tickets from fans entering the infield tunnel on Preakness day. Hopkins, who spent 12 years as a steward and remains an accredited official, became deputy director of the Maryland Racing Commission in 1984 and executive director in 2002.
Hopkins said he benefited from great mentors, including "Mr. Preakness" Chick Lang, Bowie general manager Al Karwacki, Bowie board member Joe McLoone and Laurel general manager Ken Shertle. "Just a multitude of people," he said. "Even growing up, there was Joe Hickey, the writer who worked for Windfields when I worked for them."
The Association of Racing Commissioners International also honored the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium with its William May Award. The William May Award recognizes an individual or entity that has had a profound positive impact on professional racing. It is named for the late William May, who in the 1970s was one of the most powerful chairmen in the history of the Kentucky racing commission.
The industry's RMTC strives to develop and promote uniform rules, policies, and testing standards at the national level, along with coordinating research and educational programs that seek to ensure the integrity of the sport and the health and welfare of racehorses and participants, while also protecting the racing public's interests.
"Without their contributions, I'm not sure many of us would have been as successful as we've been in the areas of drug testing, medication and medication uniformity, funding of research, development of lab standards, model RFP for bidding for lab services," said ARCI president Ed Martin. "Running that organization is, frankly, kind of a thankless job. But the effort made is enormous. The executive committee thought that if RMTC was not here, how much harder all of our jobs would be."
Said RMTC executive director Dionne Benson: "If we were to bring everybody up on this stage who contributed—members of our scientific-advisory committee, our board, those who serve on committees—there would be very few people left in the audience. Combine that with the trust put into RMTC and our recommendations by the regulators, we wouldn't be an organization without those groups.
"This is a great reflection of the collaboration among all the industry groups that RMTC represents. We are very honored to accept this award on behalf of all the people who work so hard for RMTC."


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JUST IN! Aftermath of Enugu Gov't House Attack: Gun Men Arrested. (See Photos)
Recall that IGBERE TV broke the news yesterday of heavy shooting in the Enugu State govt house by unknown gun men.
This is details of what happened according to eyewitnesses:
"I was there when everything started, it was arm robber. They rob someone along that government house, which lead to traffic conjunction. No way for them to run and so the opened heavy fire, guy see run, see guns. Finally mobile police surface and the arm robbers jumped into the fence of government house.
Thank God no live was lost then."
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ALLEGANY — A leader in enforcing New York's Clean Indoor Air Act, the Cattaraugus County Health Department is turning its sights to electronic cigarettes.
Dr. Kevin Watkins, Cattaraugus County public health director, recommended to the Board of Health Wednesday that they consider regulating the electronic cigarettes, which are not covered under the Clean Indoor Air Act. He also asked that herbal cigarettes be covered.
Dr. Watkins said the issues could be addressed at the same time Health Department officials are updating the county's Sanitary Code.


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Mobile payments company Monitise has signed a three-year deal with HSBC UK and launched a Fast Balance app for the bank's customers.
The iOS app allows customers to access up to 10 accounts on their smartphone, check balances, review recent transactions, and top-up airtime on up to five mobile phones. As part of the deal, Monitise will develop further mobile banking services for HSBC UK.
Monitise COO Mike Keyworth said: 'Monitise is a proven partner to the world's largest financial institutions which know they can trust it to deliver world-class, bank-grade products and services.
'This contract with HSBC is further evidence of this trust and is a ringing endorsement of our ability to build and launch new platforms quickly and efficiently for our partners.
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Are you confident that the right branch personnel are in the right place at the right time to enable your financial institution to perform at its highest level? As customer visits to branches continue to decrease, and challenging economic conditions put additional stress on the cost to operate a successful branch network, banks are turning to technology to help them drive sales, ensure service quality and customer satisfaction while lowering costs and retaining staff.
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ATLANTA -- Crews are responding to a seven-car accident in Fulton County that's expected to cause delays.
The accident happened on GA 400 Northbound near Windward Parkway. At this time, the left and middle three lanes of four are blocked. Authorities have not said whether anyone was injured.
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Why We Eat, Again
Last week I wrote a post about the importance of our connection, or in that case lack of it between eating and the food that sustains us. I was pretty depressed and wanted to vent.
Here's a way to nurture the connection. Check out local farmers markets near you and go to one. If you do, you will interact with farmers, growers, fishermen, cheesemakers and specialty food producers who take the food from the earth, bring it directly to neighborhood markets in a few hours.
Get close enough to the foods and you will discover that each one, beets, fennel, celery, even potatoes, has its own smell. Bite into the sweetness of a carrot only a few hours out of the ground and you will know what carrots actually taste like. Greet the seller and you will discover that most of the people working the stalls also plant, grow and pick the produce, make the cheese, raise the hogs, lambs or beef or catch the seafood.
What strengthens my connection as much as the food is the pride and enthusiasm of its producers. Buying carrots from someone who works as hard as they do and also is as impassioned by his or her craft as those producers are helps me love the food I buy and understand just a little, what it takes to get it to market.
Last October one farmer went to the trouble of cooking five different winter squashes so that her buyers could taste the differences among them. How connecting is that?
Chris Curtis is the founder and director of the Seattle Neighborhood Farmers Market Alliance started in 1993 with the University Farmers Market. The Alliance now includes eight farmers markets in as many Seattle neighborhoods. Every week, all year, subscribers to the market receive an email about what is available in the markets. If you would like to subscribe click here. Another connector.
There are many farmers markets in the Seattle area, a total of 39 in King County and 114 in Washington State. Only a few stay open all year, but those that do are treasures. Check out the following photos* of Seattle's Ballard Farmers Market taken in early February. Then think about a big plastic tray of McNuggets. See what I mean?
*Click on any photo to enlarge it.


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ENFIELD: RCMP are investigating an alleged assault of a three-year-old child at an unlicensed residential daycare in Enfield on Jan. 31.
RCMP media spokeswoman Cpl. Jennifer Clarke said East Hants District RCMP received a complaint Jan. 31 that a child had been assaulted.
"The investigation resulted in a 55-year-old woman from Enfield facing charges of assault," said Cpl. Clarke.
She said the woman was arrested on Feb. 3 and released on conditions. The woman is scheduled to appear in Shubenacadie Provincial Court on March 13.
Cpl. Clarke said East Hants RCMP would like to advise parents if they have concerns, or if they have information about this incident, to contact police at 902 883-7077.
The investigation into the matter is ongoing.


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Challenge requirementsEdit
The player must kill 75 enemies with melee weapons.
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- This challenge is repeatable.
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text: Good catch, Fixdiss. It has been such a long time since I have seen an old Tecumseh 2 stroke that I had forgotten that the engine was equipped with the flywheel bushing key and I didn't even bother to check the parts diagram. This was typical of the Tecumseh 2 strokers on older single stage snow blowers. Only problem is I don't remember the configuration of the indentions to align the flywheel and crank. Certainly another option to consider. Dutch


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Very interesting, considering what you have written in another thread.
You better decide - do I need to identify as Taiwanese or do I risk being deported back to China?
Deportation of people who wish to stay and become citizens is wrong. If one has no intention of becoming a part of the new nation, then they don't have to force themselves to stay.
Apply that to what happened in recent history, many Wansei, Taiwan-born Japanese, wished to stay in Taiwan post WW2, and they didn't just want to stay to remain being Japanese nationals, they were staying to be Taiwanese and Chinese nationals since the KMT takeover. Many stated so and begged the KMT to let them stay, but the KMT mass-deported them anyway. That was wrong. So was the deportation of ethnic Germans who wished to stay in various European nations post WW2.
When I say Taiwanese citizens need to self-identify themselves as Taiwanese, I mean they need to want to be Taiwanese citizens. I'm not saying Late Immigrants should self-identify themselves as Holo, Hakka or Aboriginals. So I fail to see how what I've said contradicts with my original statement. You are still mixing the usage of Taiwanese as an ethnicity and Taiwanese as a nationality.
If a person can't even take on identifying themselves as Taiwanese in a national sense, why bother becoming a Taiwanese citizen?
I'm a quarter Hoklo and was born on Taiwan. Am I allowed to identify as a Chinese citizen of the Republic of China?
While I do not favor independence, if such a situation were to ever occur, I hope that the Taiwanese government would employ no identification tests or requirements for any existing ROC citizens. All ROC citizens by law would automatically become Taiwanese citizens; everyone would have the same civil rights and be equal under the law irrespective of whether or not they chose to identify as Taiwanese in any way, be it nationally or ethnically. If anyone just couldn't bare the idea of being a citizen of an independent Taiwan they could revoke their citizenship and I hope the government would allow them to stay on a permanent residents if they wanted (or allow them to immigrate if they chose). Unlike the KMT or Japanese, I'd hope that a Taiwanese independent nation would employ no loyalty or identity tests. If people want to self identify as Chinese, Japanese, Taiwanese or Jamaican that is up to them.
Likewise, any non ROC citizen residents of Taiwan would ideally continue to have the same exact status under a Taiwanese government.
Anyone born on Taiwan should also get automatic citizenship with not identification or loyalty tests.
For any non-ROC citizens who subsequently wished to naturalize though, swearing to be loyal to the Taiwanese government doesn't seem to be that much to ask. No one can force anyone to identify one way or another, but a naturalize get citizen should at least declare their loyalty to their new ruling government.


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The singer's new album is a great testament to love in all its forms.
Rufus Wainwright's new album, Out of the Game, arrives May 1, a velvet-wrapped gift for the weary, ill at ease, and lovesick. The acclaimed and versatile singer, whose nearly two-decade career includes soaring pop, opera, and covers of beloved standards, collaborated with celebrated producer Mark Ronson on this album of wry, forthright love songs. Wainwright, thirty-eight, has been out since his teens, and wears his sexuality as comfortably as his bespoke suits. Whether he sings about his fiance, Jörn Weisbrodt, or their baby daughter, his adoration for them is boundless as it is matter-of-fact. Out of the Game is the grand result of what occurs when we approach love as our true selves.
This is best exemplified by the song "Montauk," which finds Wainwright singing to his daughter's eventual adult incarnation. When he sings, "One day you will come to Montauk/ And see your dad wearing a kimono/ And see your other dad pruning roses/ Hope you won't turn around and go," it's with the confidence of an artist and a man who knows who he is. Wainwright has always spoken out against homophobia, so it's not as if he's unaware that intolerant people could misread the entire song as a testament to the heterosexual nuclear family. (One can hear them wailing, "If she had a mom and a dad she'd want to stay.") But they'd be missing the song's beauty and humor, and the point of, well, everything.
On "Welcome to the Ball," Wainwright is positively jaunty as he sings to Weisbrodt, "So baby, welcome to the ball/ Don't worry all about nothin' at all/ I don't know how you've made it in, but since you have arrived, let it begin." The song is full of the delight you feel when the person you love returns that love, and renders the world new and shimmery. Of this, too, Wainwright has spoken openly: he wasn't a huge proponent of same-sex marriage before he and Weisbrodt fell in love, not because he didn't believe in it philosophically and practically, but because he enjoyed, in his words, a more "Oscar Wilde" approach to homosexuality, reveling in being different from conventional norms. By his own admission, his love for Weisbrodt changed this outlook, and that's why they're engaged.
Only someone true to himself can change his mind on such a charged issue without worrying how his choices will be perceived. Indeed, that's Out of the Game's greatest lesson: gay, straight, bi, transgendered, or some combination thereof, we make the best and truest statement merely by being comfortable with ourselves.
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Litsa Dremousis' work appears in The Believer, Esquire, Huffington Post, Jezebel, McSweeney's, MSN Music, The A.V. Club, on NPR, and in sundry other venues. She is completing her first novel. On Twitter: @LitsaDremousis. She archives her previously published work at http://theslipperyfish.blogspot.com/.


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Looking Strong in Pink! WHO likes the look of this set? And wants one absolutely …
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I'm told that females are literally hard-wired to like Pink. But can't imagine why this would be? The first experiments to determine if girls actually prefer pink were done in 1893 at the Chicago World's Fair and suggested that most people prefer blue, with a slight female preference for redder hues. A similar experiment was done by Professor Anya Hurlbert in 2007 and gave the same results: Women preferred redder shades of hues, especially of blue. When the experiment was conducted with 3 year old children they showed absolutely NO discrimination towards toys of a particular colour.
The fact is when these kids grow up society (generally speaking) makes them biased towards certain colours. Most become aware of the accepted norm and behaved accordingly. However, there's more than meets the eye with the colour thing. In the 18th & 19th Century pink was a masculine colour because it was intense. Blue was considered softer and more delicate to look at and therefore considered feminine.
Frockcoat and Waistcoat Detail from gentleman's Suit, 1750-1775 British, wool, silk, gold. 1829 British Silk and Wool Suit of Mens Clothes
Still as late as the early 20th Century pink was considered masculine. A Ladies' Home Journal article in June 1918 stated "The generally accepted rule is pink for the boys and blue for the girls. The reason is that pink, being a more decided and stronger colour is more suitable for the boy, while blue which is more delicate and dainty is prettier for the girl."
Looking Pretty In Pink
As years passed, there was an increase in gender differentiation based on colour in clothing as well as toys which all changed in the mid 1940's, particularly the clothing part when the manufacturers chose pink for girls and blue for boys and it stuck! This was ingrained with the help of 'painting the nursery in an appropriate colour' following the development of pre-natal testing in the mid 1980's.
Put simply girls prefer pink for the same reason that all mares are moody; English women are prim and proper; dressage is something you do when you fear jumping; chesnut mares are nutters. Since there doesn't appear to be any valid scientific evidence that girls are born with a natural preference to pink, it is a stereotype dictated by the fashion of the day.
Phew! I'm not abnormal or a raging feminist because I don't cover myself in Pink. They lied when they told me I am hard-wired to like Pink. Was a time when I would never choose the colour – ever! But I like to think of myself as a pretty well rounded person, so I started pink therapy. A splash on my training gear; then a pink striped shirt which I quite liked and someone commented looked "lush"! Slowly does it – then came a pink jumper to go with it, now I find I am a little drawn to pink stuff. But everything in moderation, of course.
It's a very positive colour which brings positivity into your life. Heck, A.K. has pink over-reach for the field! I think I might be allowing myself a masculine statement there! Want to be as rounded an individual as me? Get some pink in your life.
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"That same God who has ordained baptism for the dead, and who has commanded the believers in this generation to be baptized for them, will in due time, when we have done all we can in searching out our genealogies, reveal to us the chain so that we shall find our fathers, no matter how many generations…(Orson Pratt, JD 16:300)
Ross Family Album
I was finally able to upload the Ross Family Album. I ran out of monthly space and then just got busy. Finally, I have posted the photos related to the Ross' in their own album. I have not uploaded my own family yet. This is just what I have under the Ross files on my computer. This includes mostly photos of my Grandpa and Grandma Ross' family, my Aunt Caroline's family, and a few other random photos of related Ross people. There are a couple of my half-siblings when they were younger.
Here are some of the family groups.
James Thomas Meredith Ross
Born Ross, raised and adopted Meredith, legally Meredith, married Ross, baptized Ross, children named Ross, endowed Ross, married again Meredith, died Meredith.
22 Sep 1868 – Snowville, Pulaski, Virginia
13 Apr1951 – Fresno, Fresno, California
9 Aug 1887 – Snowville, Pulaski, Virginia
Damey Catherine Graham
25 Nov 1874 – Pulaski, Pulaski, Virginia
3 Feb 1933 – Marysville, Yuba, California
Robert Leonard Ross
25 Apr 1888 – Draper, Pulaski, Virginia
John William Ross
2 Sep 1890 – Pulaski, Pulaski, Virginia
Fanny Elizabeth Ross (married Phibbs)
18 Nov 1893 – Reed Island, Pulaski, Virginia
James Thomas Ross Jr
19 Oct 1895 – Radford, Montgomery, Virginia
Married again
? – ?
Married again
14 Jul 1947 – Fresno, Fresno, California
Martha Elnora Cackler (married before to Brewer)
3 Oct 1877 – Otter Creek, Lucas, Iowa
31 Jul 1974 – Fresno, Fresno, California
John William Ross
2 Sep 1890 – Pulaski, Pulaski, Virginia
13 Jun 1948 – Livermore, Alameda, California
Married (Divorced)
6 Jul 1910 – Squire Jim, McDowell, West Virginia
Nannie May Day
6 May 1892 – Pulaski, Pulaski, Virginia
19 Jan 1971 – Bluefield, Tazewell, Virginia
Hobart Day
1 Jul 1911 – ,, West Virginia
Apr 1983 – Fairlawn, Radford, Virginia
Married again
12 Jan 1920 – Fort Logan, Arapahoe, Colorado
Ethel Sharp (I have written more about this marriage at this link: Ross-Sharp Wedding.)
9 Apr 1898 – Plain City, Weber, Utah
6 Aug 1925 – Plain City, Weber, Utah
Milo James Ross
4 Feb 1921 – Plain City, Weber, Utah
Paul Ross
14 Feb 1922 – Paul, Minidoka, Idaho
John Harold Ross
7 Nov 1923 – Burley, Cassia, Idaho
Ernest Jackson Ross
16 Jul 1925 – Plain City, Weber, Utah
Married again
29 Nov 1926 – Rock Springs, Sweetwater, Wyoming
Zana Cogdill (Married before to Coffey)
7 Nov 1892 – Dixon, Carbon, Wyoming
2 Oct 1966 – San Diego, San Diego, California
Milo James Ross
4 Feb 1921 – Plain City, Weber, Utah
4 Apr 1942 – Plain City, Weber, Utah
Gladys Maxine Donaldson
20 Sep 1921 – Ogden, Weber, Utah
25 Aug 2004 – Ogden, Weber, Utah
Milo Paul Ross
Judy Ethel Ross
Caroline Ross
John Harold Ross
7 Nov 1923 – Burley, Cassia, Idaho
24 Oct 2004 – Syracuse, Davis, Utah
19 Nov 1946 – Evanston, Uinta, Wyoming
Colleen Fowers Hancock
2 Oct 1929 – West Weber, Weber, Utah
12 Aug 1969 – Ogden, Weber, Utah
Terry Jay Ross
3 Oct 1947 – Ogden, Weber, Utah
Married again
2 Dec 1974 – West Weber, Weber, Utah
JoAnn Payne
5 Jan 1934 – Ogden, Weber, Utah
Jody Valate Ross
Caroline Ross
Married (Divorced)
Lynn J Taylor
Kristy Lynn Taylor
Cindy Lou Taylor
Lonny J Taylor
Married again
Abe Maxamilia Gallegos
Milo Paul Ross
Married (Divorced)
Victoria K Feldtman
Scott James Ross
Jeffrey Paul Ross
Becky Collette Ross
Married again (Divorced)
Sandra Jonas
Paul Norwood Jonas Ross
Andra Ross
Married again
Janice Faye Higley (Married before to Osterhout)
Ross in Washington State
A few updates and ponderings.
As I finished going through the entire stack of papers that were the culmination of work for Howard Ross, I sensed a bit of frustration that I may have missed something. Some note, hidden on the back of some page I forgot to turn over and examine. Moreover, there are always the little nuances that a symbol or a phrase can bring back a memory for Howard, but does nothing for me. It is part of deciphering the past and someone else's research. Looking at that, I realized what a great thing it is that I am putting these notes up on a blog. Someday, there will probably be some form of this blog available and it is much easier to search a blog than going through a stack of papers. Another good part is that I may die, my house may burn, and all I have may be lost, but this will give an extension to another dimension. I am sure somebody is printing or copying the things I am putting up that is relevant to them. So this is a mass sharing that is effective for saving.
Anyhow, having given my deep thoughts for the day, here is the latest news.
One of those papers in Howard Ross' massive stack was an address for a Beulah Duncan in Zillah, Washington (The sheet it was on was dated 1972). I knew I had a Beulah Ross who was the daughter of Robert Leonard Ross. The rascal that disappeared and I have yet to catch up with him. I knew she had married a Duncan but that was it. Could she have really made it to Washington State? I thought I might as well venture to find out.
I looked up Zillah, Washington on Google and found it is between Yakima and Sunnyside. I searched Duncan in the phone book for Zillah and found a couple in Sunnyside and a couple in Toppenish both of which were nearby. After about a half dozen phone calls, I found nobody home. So I left it for a day or two. I knew that she was probably not still alive, but a good chance a family member who knew of her would be able to lead me in the right direction.
I rang the numbers again last night to find some woman with what I believe was a Irish accent in Toppenish. First strike. The second call was a lady I had a devil of a time understanding. But she assured me she was the daughter-in-law of Mrs. Beulah Duncan. I thought she told me her name was Debra Lee. We visited and she gave me the phone number of her daughter Terel Stan Stone. I know, that is what I thought, a girl with a guys name! I hung up and called Mrs. Stone and she thought I was crazy when I told her I had visited with her mother Debra Lee. Come to find out, her mother's name is Beverly and the lady I was talking to was Carol Ann Stone. Wow, it is amazing how hearing can alter things.
We visited for a few minutes; she told me what she knew of her grandmother, Beulah. Their story goes something like this. Robert was an alcoholic and his wife Minnie had some sort of Drug addiction. All the children were farmed out to others. Beulah was taken in by her grandparents, my great great grandparents James Thomas Meredith Ross and Damey Catherine Graham. She was taken and raised near Rupert, Idaho. But her strict Mormon grandparents was a bit much for her so she was anxious to get out. That came when she met a Jack or Mack Duncan. She was 14 and married him. They moved to Zillah, Washington and lived out the remainder of their days. He died in the late 70's and she died in 2002 at about 96 years of age. They had four children, two of which are deceased.
Anyhow, I am excited to finally flesh out one of Robert Leonard Ross' lines. However, it will not be easy to get the rest of the siblings. Carol did not know what happened for sure to her siblings and we will have to see what we can scrounge up. It sounds like even Beulah herself did not know where some of her siblings ended up.
At least for now, we are one step closer to filling in some holes on the Robert Leonard Ross line. I look forward to any information Carol has which may give clues to more.
See, one little note on a piece of paper has opened a door to an entire family line. Carol was not aware of us and we were not aware of them. Now we are. Let's see where family can take us.
California Ross Letter
Donna is the granddaughter of Fanny Elizabeth Ross (married Phibbs). This is my Great Grandfather's sister. Quite an interesting find. Amanda and I were planning on going to out see Howard Ross in Bluefield, West Virginia. Howard thought after the shootings at Blacksburg we better wait since Montgomery County would be too busy to go sightseeing and visiting. But prior to going I e-mailed his nephew John Ross who is a doctor in Beckley, West Virginia. I told him we were coming out and I would like to see him. I knew Howard Ross had given John all his research papers and I was very interested in a copy of them. John is a busy Dr and said he would just mail them to me. So I received a stack of papers about 6 inches high of research letters, notes, and other various things. This letter was in that stack. Most of the stack is on Howard's Adams lines which doesn't interest me. So some of the stack is quick moving. I am glad when I find those things related to my bloodline.
PO Box 1894
Burney, Ca 96013
Aug. 13, 1985
Dear Howard,
Your letter arrived in the mail yesterday. I have also wondered about Nancy Adeline's life but it is very hard to understand from our perspective. It's hard for us to really understand the hard life they had. I find people today do not very often understand what I tell of my life as a child in a small town farming community in Idaho. And that was only 50 years ago and I'm still here to tell about it. We lived on a small two acre place with no running water and we had an outhouse. All drinking water had to be carried from the neighboring farm where they had a well. And all water for washing or bathing was carried from an irrigation ditch that ran along one side and down one portion of another side before it went through a culvert under a road to the farm across the road. We did have electricity and we had electrically run appliances such as a wringer type washing machine and a refrigerator. Also, living here in Burney which is about 250 miles from San Francisco I find people who think of San Francisco as "Sin City", but I grew up there and love it. There are somethings I don't like about the city and it is always changing, but I have many good friends who still live there and also many cherished memories of my life there. There are murders and drugs and everything that I abhor and do not want in my life right here in this small remote mountain town of Burney.
I say all this as I think its very hard to put ourselves into the scene or time and place that Nancy Adeline lived. My mother's father's mother was
also born out of wedlock in Carroll County Virginia. Her maiden name was BOLT and I had heard she was born out of wedlock before from her own son. I didn't think to question him I knew him to be a good man and honest. He had served as a Missionary for the church and prior to that when I was about twelve years old had lived with us in San Francisco. He was divorced from his first wife who came to our home and raised a ruckus one night while he was there. After he came home from his Mission he married again. This time to the divorced wife of his own brother. His brother had a problem with drinking. Aunt Bertie's children, and she had fifteen, can't seem to accept her decision. I was told when we were visiting Carroll County in 1972 the following "The Bold women were beautiful blue eyed blonde women and considered the most beautiful women in the area." I was also told my great grandmothers mother was never married. But the census records indicate she had four children. She also had at least one or two sisters who never married but had some children. I recently asked John Perry Alderman, is a Federal Judge at Roanoke. But he was District Attorney of Carroll County and had his law offices with his father also John Alderman when we were visiting there in 1972.
Life certainly can get complicated can't it? While someone in the future may be able to construct some of my life from a few legal documents I know they would not be able to know all about me. My life has been full of things that are not written down. It's also true of the Bible and that is
why there are so many religions with each on interpreting according to their own interpretation right? I hope all this makes sense to you. At any rate I cannot judge Nancy Adeline (SHEPHERD) ROSS nor can I judge my other great grat grandmother Adeline BOLT. I understand you are a little closer to the situation than I am in that Nancy was your father's mother. And your family name hinges on the truth. I really have no answers except the few legal documents that we uncover. I have no knowledge as to who is the older, your father or my great grandfather. I only saw James Thomas Ross Meredith on the one occassion a few months before he died in Fresno, California in 1951. His mind was very clear and he told us a little about his life. Such as he had been born out of wedlock and that his real father was James Meredith who had adopted him when he was about 4-6 years old. He also said the courts gave him the name James Thomas Ross Meredith. He said he was raised by his real father. I do not recall his telling anything about his brother or even knowing that he had one until years later. When he went to the temple for his Endowment and had an Endowment done for Damey Catherine Graham he gave his birthplace as Snowville. The Temple Index Bureau tells me there was no sealing done. He did tell us that he reverted to the name Ross in order to save his mother from embarrassment with the Missionaries.
When he was married his name was listed as J.R. Mearideth and his death certificate shows James Meredith with his father as James T Meredith. But all of his children were brought up as Ross and his sons brought their children up as Ross. He didn't go back to the name Meredith until years
later. Damey Catherine's death certificate gives her last name as Ross and she died in 1933. So it was after that time. Evidently, Nancy Adeline also lived with James and Damey for sometime while they were living in West Virginia as my great uncle John Phibbs whose mind was also very clear when I interviewed him about 1958 remembered James Rosses mother. Uncle John was a friend to the Ross boys Uncles Bob and John Ross in particular and said he lived with the Ross family for a time. He thought she was about 90 years old and that couldn't have been, but then many young people believe old people to be much older than they actually are, right? He said she was a strong old lady and could carry heavy sacks of coal and or potatoes slung over her shoulders. I'm convinced most of us are weaklings compared to our ancestors even if we are much larger in general.
Mrs. Clarita Morgan said, she believes Nancy had an incredibly hard life. She said women were put in jail for having children out of wedlock. She
also said James was taken away from Nancy when he was bound out to James Meredith. She got this from the Count Orders Book of Pulaski County. She just stated that Nancy was in the poorhouse at that time. Mrs. Morgan's husband became critically ill last spring and she has promised me as soon as she can to get back into the records for me. She has seen the original will of Frederick Shepherd and said while it mentioned his wife Elizabeth there was no mention of any children. I have recently sent her more information regarding the marriages out of her own book showing the marriage of John Shepherd to Levica Martin naming his parents as Felty and Elizabeth Shepherd, as well as telling her that we believe that John was a brother to our William Shepherd as well as Levica Martin being a sister to Nancy Martin Shepherd. I also sent her the copy of the records from the Tennessee Civil War Veterans on Calvin Sheppard. You will note that it is copyrighted and not to be reproduced. But it gives a good description of his family that we would find hard to get anywhere else. I spoke to Mrs. Morgan after that and she said "Why that Shepherd/Sheppard Family is a very old one here". She then said "It is hard to imagine that he treated Nancy like he did. Meaning that he took her son but didn't marry her." She also told me she has some more information for me but has not gotten back into the records yet.
Nancy Martin Shepherd, could have been married to her daughter Charlotte's father Jackson Bryant. Those records would evidently be in North Carolina. I'm trying to check the 1850 Census for Surrey County at least I have it on order. I'm wondering if I can find William and Polly (Bayes) Martin there. Do you know? I recall you also had Nancy Adeline as possibly born in Ashe County North Carolina. Until I find them and a marriage record for William Shepherd to Nancy Martin or Bryant, I don't know too much. It appears from earlier records that William was married in the 1840 Census with a family. But who can tell for sure perhaps they were both married before they married each other. William Shepherd is listed in Pulaski Co., in 1850 with wife Nancy and two children older than our Nancy Adeline. They are William Shepherd and Charlotte also listed as a Shepherd. But we find from Charlotte's marriage record while Nancy Shepherd was her mother her father was Jackson Bryant. But William Shepherd the son disappears and we don't know if he is also Nancy's son or if he is William's son from a former marriage. Until we can find more evidence that remains a mystery. But it is great that we have Calvin's record telling us who his parents are and also mentioning his grandfather William Martin. And it is apparent from that record that William Martin was married before he married Polly Bayes.
None of this is unusual there were some divorces in those days but lots of people died much younger and of all kinds of diseases in those days that we don't have now. And many people remarried.
I also believe that the Census Takers were not qualified to always know whether a person was "Idiotic or wahter." I have two adopted children and both have Cerebral Palsy. People as well as Doctors have labeled them. Cerebral Palsy, therefore mentally retarded for years. It isn't necessarily so. David will be 20 years old in October and he walks with a limp and is called Moderate Cerebral Palsy. Since he was in an institution for mentally retarded from 3 years until 12 and 1/2 years he picked up some traits which appear to be those of a mentally retarded person. Had he been in a home with a loving family all those years he would probably not have had those characteristics. I've had a young woman who has Cerebral Palsy and lived with her family who was married and had a child and worked for the Cerebral Palsy Office in Oakland, California tell me, "Oh yes people always think we are mentally retarded." It's obvious to me that is not so. My daughter Noel (pronounced as Noelle) is called Mild Cerebral Palsy and it is not apparent to most people that she has any anything. I think it is between that person and the Lord. I am not angry at you for any of your thoughts and I understand it is normal to wonder about all of these people. But it is also FASCINATING to find whatever information we may be able to find regarding our ancestors.
Charlotte's last name was shown as Martin though and that does lead one to believe she was born out of wedlock.
The John Perry Alderman that I mentioned before has done a wonderful job of research spending over 25 years and is publishing books on the Carroll County people. I have his book called, CARROLL 1765-1815 THE SETTLEMENTS. I have found several of my early lines in there the
SHOCKLEY'S-BOLT'S-FRANKLIN'S-WORRALL'S and the NEWMAN'S. He did it from the Deed Books the Will Books the Census the Marriage records as well as documented information that has come to him from descendent sources. It is all well documented. My PHIBBS FAMILY didn't come into Carroll until the 1840's from Guilford County North Carolina and he doesn't know much about them. But I have some Guilford records on them and I belong to the Guilford County Genealogical Society. In addition to all of this I am gathering information on my fathers lines. His father's is in Central Pennsylvania and his mother's is a Vermont and New England Family. As well as doing research on my hunsband's family. His Perry family came from Ohio after 1855 to Iowa from there to Kansas after 1882 to California by 1910. His Warrren line from somewhere in Virginia (wife born Germany) to Ohio to Missouri to Washington to California. Another Vliet from Virginia to Illinois to Kansa to Washington Territory, Mrs. Vliet's – Wheeler Family, her father came from South Carolina and mother from North Carolina their older children were born in Tennessee but their daugher Louisa my husband's children were born in Tennessee but their daughter Louisa my husband's 2nd great grandmother was born in Illinois where she and Garrett Vliet married. And on his mothers side her father came from Sweden and luckily some
relatives over there have sent quite a lot of that information. Then his mothers mothers line Beard came from New Jersey to Pennsylvania to Ohio to Indiana to Iowa to Missouri and finally to California before 1880. His third great grandfather Beard was born in Sept. 1799 in Pennsylvania and died in the 1890's near Fresno California. He is buried in an old Pioneer Cemetery at a place there called Academy, there had been a school there that was the Academy. He also has ancestors who were married in Santa Clara County California in 1856, the husband was born in Ohio in the late 1820's and his bride in Iowa in the 1830's. Well enough of that, but I am working on all of these lines. Plus helping a few friends here and there. That story you told me of the woman who killed her baby. I have heard that before and the story was told by Grayson and Laura (Adams) Graham. They said it was Mary (Graham) Deane. I would have to do some digging to be sure of her married name. It may have been Dean (this is correct). They said she overlaid or rolled over her child in the night and it died. That was a fairly common occurance, with babies sleeping in the same beds with their mothers. Mary was a sister to Grayson and my great grandmother Damey Catherine Graham. It was a tragic incident.
I hope this is of some help to you. It appears Nancy Adeline was never married to anyone but Harve D. Ross. I agree the marriage was undoubtedly commsumated. After all they were listed as living together with her parents in 1860. Obviously, Nancy was capable of having dhileren and could have born them. Perhaps the trouble lies with Harve unless he is actually your father's father and anything is possible including that not everyone gets pregnant right away. It is possible Nancy Adeline worked as a domestic in the Meredith home and was forced into an uncompromising position. Women were treated like chattel in those days and I don't know if her parents were still living at that time or if they had left Pulaski County. She was listed as you said with her Aunt Levica and what had become of John Shepherd. Were these men in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. It is said that Damey Catherine Graham's father William Addison Graham was enlisted at age fifteen three days before the War ended. I can find no record of him through the National Archives but then they can't tell me about William's father Robert A Graham either who also served from Pulaski County. Mrs. Morgan says she has records of those from Pulaski County. I have also checked with Richmond as they may have been in the local militia.
The National Archives also had nothing on Calvin Shepherd/Sheppard. The problems which resulted in the Civil War was going on for years before and the effects lasted years after.
I lived in San Francisco during World War II and even though I was 11-15 years old I was aware of much of what was going on around me. We moved from the small farming community in Twin Falls County Idaho (a dry state) to San Francisco California in early 1942. I had spent two weeks in California in July of 1941 before I turned eleven. I was aware alcohol was sold everywhere. I had never seen anyone drunk until I came to California.
Talk about CULTURE SHOCK. At any rate it was quite an experience and I will never forget it. I had a very straight laced grandmother who had never smoked or drank in her life. But I found out many years later she had been about six months pregnant when she was married. I don't love her anyless, she was special to me. My grandfather her husband like to go to a place called the pool hall. No respectable woman would be caught dead there. When we arrived in California and the first evening (this being July 1941 and I was 10 years old) and I heard my own grandmother (mother's mother) Fannie Elizabeth (Ross) Phibbs, day she would go with them to buy liquor. I was shocked!!! Many of the family on that side consider me a snob to this day. It was just CULTURE SHOCK. My grandmother Fannie and two of her daughters died of Cirrhosis of the liver or alcohol related deaths. Another who was only six months older than I committed suicide by shooting herself through the head as her father my grandfather did. She had had an injury and was given some drug by prescription for it but she also drank some and as we know they don't mix. Aunt Florence as you will remember is the oldest and she turned 78 in June of this year and she looks better than my 73 year old mother and both of them are very clear. Mother needs hearing aids for both ears (she was just checked out last week), but we have been aware that
she needs them for a while. She fought the idea I think it was more the expense than anything. They have one other sister who is younger who is
still living and she is in good health. She is Viola and she just turned 67 last month. There are three brothers also living Bill will be 65 in October
and he is okay. He had some problems which resulted in his not being able to use sugar and it was not diabetes. They said he was bad until they found what the problem was. He dosn't smoke or drink at all and hasn't for years.
Then there is Orval, he is about 62/3 years of age, he is dying of cancer of the lung. I haven't seen him for years another brother Arthur died of
cancer of the lung two years ago he was only 57 year old at the time. The youngest brother is Rick and he will be 58 on Dec. 25th, and he is not in
very good shape he is rather crippled up I don't know what from. Again I haven't seen him for years. But he writes every Christmas and sends a card to me. The only other brother they had died in 1977 and he Jimmy was the eldest of the boys, he was born in 1916 and he died of the disease that the Baseball Player Lou Gehrig died of. He was sick for quite a few years, he drank quite a lot and smoked besides.
I'm glad we have the principal of repentance and forgiveness or I'm sure none of us would ever make it. We have all made mistakes and I'm told by church authorities once we make the proper repentance if need by through our Bishop, we don't owe anyone an explanation. It is between ourselves and our Heavenly Father. So if the Lord can be that gracious to me or any other person who makes a mistke I'm sure he understands Nancy Adeline (Shepherd) Rosses and Adaline Bold's and my grandmother Dorothy Ketcham (Balis) Beachell's and my grandmother Fannie Elizabeth (Ross) Phibbs and anyone elses problems and I am glad to leave it up to him to decide since each case is different and individual.
When James Thomas Ross went to the temple in Salt Lake City to be endowed it was June 20, 1935. He gave his name as James Thomas Ross, born 22 Sept. 1870 at Snowsville, Pulaski, Virginia. Father was given as James Thomas Ross and mother as Nancy Shepard. He also gave his baptism date as 17 Apr 1898 and Damie Catherine Graham as born 25 Nov. 1873 born Pulaski Va. died 3 Feb 1933. Father Wm. Addison Graham mother Elizabeth Miles. He didn't give a marriage date but said she had been married to him. He gave her baptism date as about 1897. When my grandmother was sealed they took down her information as follows: Name in full Fanny Ross born 18 Nov. 1893 at Radford, Radford, Va. Father Jas. F. Ross mother Damy C. Graham. She was endowed 20 June 1923 and her baptism is given as 5 Jul 1906. I have understood she and her brother James Thomas Ross were baptized the same day at Welch, McDowell, W. Va. This brother was called Tom Ross, but I have his death certificate and it says James Thomas Meredith aka (also known as) James Thomas Ross born Oct 19, 1895 in Virginia died July 16, 1964 at Los
Angeles County General Hospital. My grandmother was baptized the same year she was married. She was married in Dec of 1906. I have talked to someone in Salt Lake at the Genealogical Society and they said I should write it all down and send it in. He probably didn't realize in 1935 how important it would all be to be so accurate ect. In a book of records kept by my grandfather he gives my grandmothers birthplace as Reed Island, Virginia.
I've also worked in hospitals doing nursing ect and I have personally seen people die of Cirrhosis of the Liver and know it isn't any too pleasant,
I've often said I have no illusions.
I've certainly written a long letter here. I hope it is of some help to you. I'm waiting to hear from Mrs. Morgan again and I hope it won't be too
long. And I hope we will be able to gain further knowledge regarding these families. Mrs. Morgan lives behind a Phibbs relative of mine in Pulaski
City. They are good friends and she told me to come and stay with her if I get back there. She also said you are going to write a book aren't you? I haven't gotten to that point yet. Anyway I had better stop here and get my family fed.
Happy Hunting,
Your Cousin
Donna (Beachell) Perry
Christmas Greetings
Christmas went very well. I can say I am one spoiled boy! I have a wonderful wife with wonderful family. I am fortunate enough to have a comfortable home and a job to provide income. Who could ask for more? I have clothes to cover me, and gained more this Christmas. I have food to fill my belly (that of course does not include all the tasty junk food that comes this time of year).
The weather was in the upper 60's with an almost continual rainfall all day. It was pretty. It was a nice relaxed day.
I phoned and talked to all my immediate family that I could. It was good to visit with them.
Dad is doing very well. He said for the first time in the last 10 or so years, he does not have swollen ankles. Something the doctors attribute to
the liver and gallbladder problems. He said he is still sore in the tummy, but the water weight is falling off him. In the last week he has squeezed
in his belt 3 notches. He says his breathing capacity is back up to what it was in about 2000. Another thing attributed to his liver and gallbladder.
Andra is happy and doesn't have any complaints. She had a Merry Christmas and was looking forward to going out to Dad's place for the evening. I wonder what she thought of her present.
Amanda's family continues to do well. They rehearsed all the presents and how their morning had gone. It sounds like Christmas was good for them.
I visited with Rose Byrom from Runcorn for at least an hour over the two days. Who would have thought the housewife of 7 years ago would now be a lecturer at John Moore University and Halton/Riverside University? Neither she nor I would have believed you. She should have her Master's by the end of 2007. Life changes quickly.
I sat down and did some family history. Ended up with a serious road bump in some of my research. I found the Confederate Record for James A
Meredith. In the 1880 Census my James Thomas Meredith is living with an old man, James Meredith. That old man claimed little James was his son. That just seems implausible. How did he marry Nancy Graham if he was still married? Oh his wife is living with a sick daughter in that same census. So, knowing Nancy married a James Meredith, we always assumed it was old man James' son, James Jr who was the father of James Thomas Meredith. Well, I found the Confederate record for James' service. He was killed in Lexington, Virginia in a battle in 1864. Well, that makes it pretty difficult for him to be the father of a boy born 4 years later. Everything points that this confederate soldier, James Anderson Meredith is the same James A Meredith, son of James and Sarah Meredith. Their birth years, even the A for a middle name, and the soldier joined the Confederate Army in Pulaski County. The missing James A Meredith did not add any more children to his family, and his wife is alone and head of household in 1870. So, it all pieces together. So now back to the drawing board. Is old man Meredith really the father of James Thomas? Is that the real reason why he and his wife are living apart, or is it really as the census says, she is ill? Why did Nancy let the boy go to live with the father/grandfather? Where is the marriage record? That is what I really need to verify she married a James. Oh, another piece of evidence, old man James' history tells he lost two sons in the war. Daniel, and another not named. This could certainly be the James A I have been seeking for such a long time.
On a good note, I found the father my Edith (Edie) Boothe. His name was Daniel Boothe and had quite the family. It took me a good hour just to get everything in relation to his children and wives situated. I also pursued some more on the Martin lines hoping to find something, but nothing yet. Will Virginia yield her secrets to me? I sure hope so.
Tomorrow we are headed back up to Washington. Taylor Duncan's wedding is at 1:00 and we are planning on attending the temple while we are there. It will be great to see Paul and Kathy again, along with the rest of the family. I wonder who else of the family will be coming out. I have some new temple names to print up while we are there. Should be a good day.
Thanks be given
There is not a whole lot to report on at the present. We enjoyed a Thanksgiving here in blessed Virginia.
Amanda and I drove to Massanutten, a resort up in the hills. We went up to spend Thanksgiving with Amanda's Uncle and Aunt. It turned out to be an interesting day. I enjoyed the drive up to the area. Gordonsville was the highlight of the day, the town having a personality completely its own. A rare thing it seems these days.
Massanutten wasn't anything to boast about. They do have a very large indoor water park. Other than that, it was just a bunch of condos in the middle of the mountains. Don't get me wrong, the mountains were beautiful. How much more beautiful without the "hello, here I am" presence of the resort?
Amanda and I have determined we will never go out to enjoy our Thanksgiving meal again. It seems to undermine what the day is about. Who would have ever thought it was Thanksgiving. Where was any resemblance of Thanksgiving, other than a commercial version of the foods associated with the date?
We went back and pretty much watched the TV for the rest of the day. Driving home, we were relieved to leave the situation which seemed lacking so much.
Hopefully, I can pay some homage to the day here even though the day did not provide much.
This week, I discovered I am the posterity of individuals who lived at Jamestown. Yes, next years celebration of 400 years in America, honored even by the Queen, is directly relevant to me. Not just through this nation, but through my ancestors who lived there. The Clark (or Clarke) family, the Summers, Lumpkin, and Thompson groups I am all related to. There is a possibility my Clark's even come from the famous John Clark, who was the Master's Mate on the Mayflower. He had been to Jamestown before, imprisoned in Spain, made the trip of the Mayflower, and eventually made his way back to live in Jamestown. He died not too much afterwards. I am also a descendent of the Graham Clan who settled parts of Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky. They extended into Missouri, Indiana, Iowa, and Ohio as well. I am an American very deep in some roots. One of those Grahams was a personal friend of George Washington, and convinced him to help endow a new school he had founded. Yep, a Graham founded Washington and Lee. My history includes three future presidents, universities, and other numerous recorded aids to society.
My roots expand the ocean many times. My roots run to Wales, Ireland, Scotland, and England. My ancestors were in the court of rulers; my ancestors even ruled parts of the Roman Empire. My ancestors come from Sweden, Norway, and the largest number from Germany. I have family who can be traced into Russia, Australia, and a score of other nations. The foundations I have been given are broad and inclusive. I am so very fortunate. Each of us have a history which began long before we were born.
Those blessings extend beyond my family. This nation, which has its hopes in liberty and freedom are one of the greatest blessings to me. I am very fortunate. It may be a weakness in many ways, but is a great boon in many more ways. I pray for the principles upon which it is founded to continue to go to the whole earth. I pray that those principles would be grasped by other nations and be implemented into their states. I pray our nation might return to the principles of truth and freedom for which it is founded.
I remember the lives of those who were given for this freedom I enjoy and others do not. Two of my Great Grandfather's were gassed in WWI and both lived to tell the tale. Both met painful and difficult deaths due to it. One grandfather has purple hearts to show for his wounds and success in WWII. The other grandfather tried to enroll, but due to health issues was not allowed to be a part.
I pray for the soldiers of freedom everywhere. I care not what nation they represent, as long as they are there for liberty, freedom, and truth. I pray God will bless those who represent those hopes and ideals. That those who do not represent those ideals, or those they represent, will be thwarted in their designs.
It is with gratitude I offer my thanks to He who makes death not a fear. I thank and give adoration to the Savior of all mankind, even Christ that we might all live again. That despite wickedness and fear, we have nothing to fear but sin. I express my deepest thanks for the restoration of His church back on the earth and the miracles which abound about us. The gathering of lost nations, the restoration of Israel, the building up of the kingdom in preparation for the king whose right it is to rule. My deepest sympathies are with the restoration and furthering of eternal purposes upon the earth. My greatest joys and delight come from this impressive, yet almost unrecognizable effort happening in our midst.
I am pleased to have been born at this time of such great blessing. It is with a certain hope I see the future, despite all which is prophesied to come upon us. So much pain that the Saints will barely escape with their lives. We have seen little or nothing of what is to come. Nations will rise up against nations and desolation shall abound on all the earth. Those of the order of God have not need to fear though. This I am grateful for. For the Priesthood which shall protect those within the covert from the storm, for the Resurrection that those who will be lost; both for their own sins and for a more full judgment upon the wicked.
Most close to home I thank for those who are dearest to me. I am thankful for those who so deeply touch the deepest parts of my soul. Many who are now separated from me by death, but that too shall not be for long. My dearest wife, and all her splendor for which I am a blessed soul. My parents who fought and struggled so hard for my upbringing and their abiding love for me.
There is a whole multitude of souls I could reference for their influence in my life. The more I learn and contemplate, the more I realize how intricately every soul is linked to one another. Even years later we remember the influence of another. There are influences from childhood, influences from events far away, and even influence from beyond the grave.
My heart is full. I am thankful for all things.
Monticello and Vernal
He died in the Veterans Hospital in Livermore, Alameda, California. As far as we can tell, all of his siblings ended up in California as well. John had a sister named Fanny, who married a Calvin Dickerson Phibbs, who was the judge in Rupert, Idaho for a time. Calvin's father and some other family members are buried in Rupert. But the Phibbs went to California as well. Then there was a Robert Leonard Ross, and his life is very sketchy. Have very little idea of him. He was married to a Minnie Belle Hambrick, Rose Ann Clawson, and Ruby Leaster Hall. The only one of these I could confirm was Rose Ann Clawson, who had been married to a Sanders, but he married her in Burley, Idaho. Then there was Carma's father, James Thomas Ross who settled in the Vernal area. Apparently he was the one who went to Utah so his children could marry LDS. They missed Virginia so much, they named their first child after their old home. So, Carma's older sister is named Vesta Virginia.