oh Alan, help me......what does that make me to Sam and Sally?????????? Get
out the calculator, Bill!
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In a message dated 11/14/2011 11:37:15 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
ajacobus(a)eup.k12.mi.us writes:
I am on FB and G+. I would like to see a cousins group on either or both.
Alan Jacobus
(a great, great, great, great grandson of Joseph Campbell and Mary Harper)
Sent from my iPad
On Nov 14, 2011, at 4:30 PM, Bill Thompson <billthompson76(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
LONGEVITY
For a minute this morning I thought I'd found the longest living
Campbell. Give me a break --- I hadn't had my coffee yet, and the type
in the microfilmed newspaper was blurred. This was on the Wellsboro's
Green Free Library's newspaper archive pages. What first caught my eye
was "who is 111". We have some great genes in our clan for longevity ---
both Campbell descendents and some of their spouses --- but this was
higher than any I'd encountered before.
The newspaper archive website, has done an OCR (Optical Character
Recognition) scan of the microfilm. You can copy the image and paste the
OCR output.
This gave me
FarmingtoE Hill Facts. ....
Mrs E. C. Thomas was In Nelson
Onus Severn] dnvs IftFt week, caring for her
aunt Mrs. Carrie Hazlett. who is 111.
Sometimes OCR make a lot of mistakes! When I looked more closely at the
screen, what it actually said was:
Farmington Hill Facts. ...
Mrs E. C. Thomas was In Nelson
several days last week, caring for her
aunt, Mrs. Carrie Hazlett,. who is ill.
Which makes a lot more sense.
I have no idea who Mrs. E. C. Thomas was, nor do I care at this moment.
"Mrs. Carrie Hazlett" would have been the former Carrie Amanda Buckbee,
wife of Edgar Hopsetill "Hope" Hazlett.
That's a long story and not particularly important, but it got me
wondering who was the longest living Campbell descendant? And the
longest living spouse.
The oldest living one I know of is Faith Jean KIMBALL Black. In a couple
of weeks, she'll be 104. She's the last surviving writer of letters
published in "The Campbell Cousins Correspondence". For any new
subscriber --- those letters were published in the mid 1920's.
Some of the recent long-timers that come to mind are Cousin Dora SEELY
Church (1904 - 2009) 104y 7m 5 d; and CC Iva DEATS Sayre (1907 - 2008)
101y 2m 11d.
And many spouses were long lived, such as Martha Jane PHILLIPS Young
(1890 - 1996) 105 y 4m 9d.
The oldest attendee at a Campbell Reunion was probably David Cook Kemp,
who was 97 when he attended the 1929 Campbell Reunion.
FACEBOOK GROUP
The number of our living cousins who are on Facebook is many times
greater than the number of subscribers to this list. Very few people
post message to our mail list. There's no need to discontinue this mail
list. It's for our relatives who are interested in the genealogy of our
family. Or northern Tioga Co., history. The subscribers (of course
yourself excepted), tend to be older. And because the messages are
archived and searchable by Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc., those of us who
have privacy concerns don't say much about living people.
But many of our cousins, especially those under 30, are on Facebook. And
many are Facebook "friends" of a number of our Campbell Cousins. Of
course many of them are interested in social and personal things --- not
genealogy. But we could form a Facebook Group, each of us join it, and
each invite all of our Campbell Cousins that we are Facebook Friends
with. It might be a good way to reach people we never will via phone, US
mail, or even e-mail. I know that there many for whom I lack "regular"
contact info for. Facebook is the only way I have of reaching them. It
might be a good way to disseminate info about next summer's Campbell
Reunion.
BTW, for those of you who have seen the movie "Social Network", I've met
the Winklevoss twins and their father. They are much nicer people than
portrayed in the movie.
GOOGLE + CIRCLES
These may be even more flexible and easier than Facebook Groups. But
lots of people have not yet signed on to Google+, even though it's free.
Perhaps we should set up both a Facebook Group and a Google+ Circle, and
try to catch whichever social network they prefer.
COMMENTS?
What do you think?
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