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Excerpts from The Mt. Echo 1903 [London, Laurel Co., KY]
Reprinted with permission of the Laurel Co Historical Soc.
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DECEMBER 18, 1903
LESBAS [an area of Laurel County]
Married Saturday [Dec. 12] at 7 p.m. S. M. [Stephen Martin] Chesnut to Miss
Maggie [Margaret Frances] Magee at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs.
Vina Magee, near Bush. We wish them much joy and happiness.
[Stephen Martin Chesnut is the progenitor of most of the Idaho Chesnuts.]
My two sets of Chestnut great-great-grandparents from near Ballymoney,
County Antrim were:-
William Chestnut of Mosside (1806est - 1890) and his wife Mary
Nicholson?(1816est - 1883).
and
William Chestnut of Carnbore townland (1815est-1894) and his wife Jane
Warnock (1830est-1903).
My greatgrandparents were John Chestnut (1850est-1908) son of William and
Mary
and
Jane Chestnut (1847est-1914) daughter of William and Jane.
Always pleased to correspond with interested parties. Collected Chestnut
data from North Antrim is available on the web pages at
http://homepages.tesco.net/~n.parkes/Index.htm
Norman N.Parkes(a)tesco.net
This is a bit off base, but there is a foundation that supports research on
the American Chestnut tree, once the most important tree in the eastern
North American forest. The Chestnut blight all but wiped the tree out, but
there are attempts to do some genetic manipulation to get a
blight-resistant version.
I have been a member off and on for a number of years. I guess I am the
only Chesnut that is a member (I wonder what they think). Anyway, I thought
some of you might be interested in learning more about it. Their URL is...
http://chestnut.acf.org/
Don