At 11:14 PM 6/29/03 -0500, you wrote:
Could you tell me, please, how to get to the Crow/Paxson group that
moved
to Jay County, Indiana? You said look them up on Genweb; >how do you get
to and then into Genweb? Thanks.
Shirley
You might ask Amy Crow. I see she has written to the group. Amy Crow has
been around as much as I have in the past years. The way Genweb changed the
~injay site did not please me very much. Eloine did a lot of work...and I
mean a lot of work over a long period of time and her transcriptions are
what really turned me around in the right directions. Also I would like to
thank Amy Campbell as Eloine did. Amy put so much of her time into that
Jay County page and then missed a deadline and it was taken over by another
person. I think Amy was glad in a way because it does take up a lot of ones
time...but most of what you see there is Amy and Eloines work with the
input of hundreds of us who visit and contribute. Jay County ended being
true Paxson Country....They came in from Virginia, Ohio, PA and some of the
old time "biggies" lived there til their passing...You can find it at:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~injay/
By the way after reading my note above ...There are two Amy's...Amy Crow is
a geneologist. Amy Campbell is the one who helped make the Jay County page.
*another note of interest....Arthur Lindley Paxson, my great grandfather,
moved from Jay County to Marion Indiana, along with his brother Ben
Franklin Paxson (*the third in the family with this name) and started
Paxson Ice Cream Co.....It later moved to Cleveland Ohio. Eventually Ben
went back to Marion and Jay and Mt Etna areas, but not before he started
Ben Franklin Ice Cream stores in the Cleveland area. Arthur Lindley Paxson
was the first to make quite famous, the combination of orange sherbet and
vanilla ice cream while in Indiana. Arthur moved to Escondido Ca with his
wife Ida, where he built a home on the railway and was the Railway Express
manager, first one. He got the job through many of the Paxson line who
worked on railways in an attempt to move west faster than covered wagon.
Arthur and his wife Ida, once tried to get west by wagon and made it as far
as Kansas before they turned back. That part of the family wans't broke
either. Ida had a money belt with 2000 dollars in it at all times....and
she carried a rifle on the western trip...she was quite a gal...They were
both cremeated at death and ashes scattered in Balboa Park.
At 11:14 PM 6/29/03 -0500, you wrote:
Could you tell me, please, how to get to the Crow/Paxson group that
moved
to Jay County, Indiana? You said look them up on Genweb; how do you get
to and then into Genweb? Thanks.
Shirley
Rev. Robert S. Shannon Sr. ULC
Fellow of the North American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Student and Adjunct - New York College of Advanced Studies
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