Hello everyone,
We are looking for any descendants for Prior Pavy and Mary Montgomery for
a special on 20/20 news program.
We need response ASAP.
I am including the email from Gordon Pavy concerning this. If you know of
ANYONE please contact Gordon thru email gpavy(a)aol.com ASAP. Thank you!!
Kathy Esposito
-----Original Message-----
From: Gpavy(a)aol.com [mailto:Gpavy@aol.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 8:42 PM
To: rmmcw(a)effingham.net
Subject: Marsha, I had the wrong date for the tv show.
Marsha,
An aunt of mine just called to tell me that 20/20, the tv show is doing
a
story that involves the descendents of Prior Melitus Pavy and Mary
Montgomery. It seems that Indiana had a very broad eugenics law that
targeted people with mental illnesses and low IQ's for forced sterilization
around the turn of the century. Among many others, Mary Montgomery was
among
those who were under scrutiny for possible sterilization.
In order to emphasize the injustice of such a law, 20/20 has asked that
as many descendents of these two appear in Indianapolis on Friday October 22
in the afternoon for participation in a shooting of a segment showing the
vast number of people who would never had lived out successful lives had
Mary
Montgomery been sterilized.
The exact place and time will be determined when they get an
approximate
head count of those who plan to attend. They want to know by early next
week
(week of Oct. 4). If anyone descendent of Prior & Mary can make it to Indy
that day, please let me know as soon as possible and I will pass a tally
along to 20/20.
Gordon Pavy
tel 301-585-5696
gpavy(a)aol.com
Kathy Esposito
kedespo(a)earthlink.net
http://home.earthlink.net/~kedespo/ (My HomePage)
http://home.earthlink.net/~kedespo/Pages/family/aindex.html(My Family
Tree)
http://members.aol.com:/paveycuzns/index.html (Pavey/Peavy Researchers)