The moral to the story:
Don't walk 20 miles with a sack on your back or you'll die.
b.a.g.
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 12:06:12 -0700, Gary Boivin <gboivin(a)telusplanet.net>
wrote:
He was a CARRIER too....
He had that sack on his back
<grin>
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From: "Marjorie Hansen" <hansenmk(a)comcast.net>
To: <CARRIER-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 12:52 PM
Subject: [CARRIER] Thomas Carrier was a walker
> Just an aside. While I was working along with Helynn Carrier many years
ago, I found this following information. (I finally gave up on my Joseph
Carrier family after many years. The research is on the Church of the
Latter Day Saints website)
>
> According to an abstract from Benjamin Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette,
dated June, 26, 1735...(Boston, 16 June, 1735) "CARRIER, Thomas, of
Colchester, Conn - lately died there in his 110th year leaving 5
children,
39 grandchildern, and 28 great-grandchildren." The item went on to say
that
the day before his death, he walked 20 miles with a sack on his back.
>
> It appears he was a walker!
>
> Margie Hansen
>
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