tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12631722.post7751718237086141834..comments2024-03-23T15:06:27.495-05:00Comments on The Lucas Countyan: You treat me like a stepchild ...Frank D. Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09553291415988366101noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12631722.post-52512799895026895422011-10-24T14:18:14.685-05:002011-10-24T14:18:14.685-05:00You've done it again, Frank -- you've sent...You've done it again, Frank -- you've sent me spinning off down Memory Lane! When my sister was born (August, 1940, when I was 5 years old), we lived just west of Bethlehem, just west of "Miss Belle's" house. The place where we lived was also owned by a McMurry (Lewis, I think), but he didn't live in the community. There are no buildings left at our former home; I can recognize it only by the bend of the road. I started kindergarten at New York school that fall, and rode to and from school with Miss Belle -- then Hayhurst and later McMurry. She must have been a terrific teacher because I learned to read by about the second month of kindergarten.<br /><br />You also mentioned the coal mines east of Sunny Slope Church. My great-grandfather, Lewis Frye, owned some small mines there. For years we could see indentations in the earth where the mines once were; but when I tried to find them to show to my sister last summer, the overgrowth was too heavy. The Frye family and a family named Barrell both lived on that same road at the time my grandparents, Elmer Frye and Alice Barrell, were courting. My dad also told of trips to the mines, with horse and wagon, to stock up on coal for the family.<br /><br />I don't think we have anyone at the Bethlehem Cemetery, but we do have a lot of family in the Confidence Cemetery. Great-grandpa Lewis Frye is in the old section with his three wives (consecutive, not concurrent): Mary Hayhurst, Augusta Heckathorn (my great-grandmother), and Laura Green. There are also some of the Barrell and Bennett family down near the fence on the west side of the old section.<br /><br />Thanks for giving me another one of your wonderful tours of my past!Wanda Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12658635706566048599noreply@blogger.com