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Tuesday, February 13,195
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Texas researcher
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studies family trees
NACOGDOCHES (AP) —
“You've got to be part bloodhound
and part detective,” said Carolyn
Ericson, author and researcher of
family trees.
“If yop like reading mystery
books, you’d like doing genealogical
research,” she said, calling it “the
most fascinating work I’ve ever
done.”
Author of 35 books and the 21-
year-old “Kissin’ Kuzzins” newspa
per column, Ericson has put her
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Vy ne of the main ways
family tradition and
heritage were passed
down was through children
sitting on Mama’s knee.”
— Carolyn Ericson,
researcher
magnifying glass to gravestones and
county records for 30 years search
ing for clues to Nacogdoches Coun
ty’s past.
Encouraged by her parents’ in
volvement in growing the family
tree, and determined to complete a
decade’s work of a friend who died,
Ericson began research when her
son went to kindergarten and left
her mornings open for the library.
Often accompanied by her hus
band and parents, Ericson also be
gan the tedious toil of cataloging ce
meteries, “which means you walk up
and down the row and take down
the entire inscription off each
tombstone,” she said.
“One in Garrison is as high as
your head and just covered with in
formation — when and who she
married, when her parents came to
Texas. Her husband must’ve put it
up,” said Ericson, “and he moved to
central Texas and doesn’t have a
headstone at his grave at all.
“So here’s Mama with all this in
formation and poor old Papa with
none at all.”
The foursome’s dogged per
sistence leads them to “burn up” in
the summer and “freeze” in the win
ter “until our pens f reeze,” said Eric
son.
“We've been covered with fire
ants and seed ticks and been down
more pig tracks and logging trails
than 1 ever thought existed,” she
said.
But the personality of the head-
stones and the value of their silent
history draws them back.
“Some are so sad,” said Eticson.
“When you come to a grave with a
mother and baby buried together
you think about that heartbroken
husband.”
Ericson has a 30-drawer file of
3x5 cards with headstone informa
tion she is putting on computer. At
6,800 entries, she is “up to Haltom,
so it’s a long way to Z.”
Preserving information before it
dies with grandparents or lost re
cords is a central goal of Ericson’s
work.
She recommends people simply
take a tape recorder to older rela
tives and ask them to tell about their
families, then save the tape until
time and interest allow for dealing
with the history.
She says people would benefit
from making their own family re
cords to pass on to their children.
“One of the main ways family tra
dition and heritage were passed
down was through children sitting
on Mama’s knee,” Ericson said.
“Now Mama’s out working and a lot
of family history is going to he lost.”
may he cause
of dorm fire
MARSHALL (AP) — Numer
ous violations of the city's lire
code were found during an in
spection of a Wiley College wom
en’s dormitory that was destroyed
bv a recent fire, authorities said.
Fire Marshal Bill Elliott saidht
found inoperable fire extinguish
ers, alarms and smoke detectors.
Fire door^i that should have H
been closed to seal out oxygen |
also were found propped open l
following the Feb. 5 fire that was |
f ound to have started after some 1
one lef t a hot iron on a bed.
Help has been [touring in for f
the 121 students who lived in the j
residenc e hall, many of whomlosi j;
all their possessions.
But officials at the college have 9
not vet decided whether to make
extensive repairs to Dogan Hail
I or build a new dormitory. Insur
ance ma\ not cover the estimated
$1 million cost for a new building,
they said.
“If we have to build a nen
struc ture, we think there maybe
a gap or window there ol |
$300,000 or so,” said Dr. A.J.Sto v
vail, a Wiley faculty member.
Those who lost possessions in j
the fire have been grateful ferns- |
sistance from outsiders.
“Most of us are from Chicago. I
and we brought everything we j
owned down here, TV, clothes !
everything,” said Carolyn Bur ;
nett, who lived on the first floor. !
Wiley president David Becklev
said the college gave each woman 1
$200 for immediate needs from :
the school’s operating fund. An 1
emergency fund has been started 1
to replenish the expenditure,he )
said.
Jury verdict clears chemical company
in Houston toxic waste dumping case
HOUSTON (AP) — A chemical company accused of
dumping dangerous chemicals near a subdivision was
cleared of any liability Monday after a four-month trial
and a week of jury deliberations.
The unanimous verdict for Monsanto Co. by jurors
in State District Judge Alice O. Trevathan’s court
granted nothing to 222 homeowners who were asking
for $355 million in damages from Monsanto Co., the
chief user of the Brio Waste Site in southeast Houston
near Friendswood.
The plaintiffs wanted $1.6 million in damages each,
which they said was equivalent to Monsanto’s daily
profit margin.
Michael Waldeck, the lead attorney for the plaintiffs,
said he was extremely disappointed in the jury’s deci
sion and would appeal.
“I just don’t believe this — I’m in shock,” said Judy
Romeo, a plaintiff in the case who abandoned her home
of four years in the Southbend subdivison about five
months ago. “I’m going to go home and have a good
cry.”
The jury’s verdict came after nearly a week of delib
erations. The decision closes the longest civil court trial
— four months — in Harris County. There were more
than 20,000 pages of transcripts, 8,011 exhibits,
250,000 documents, 339 witnesses and 65 attorneys.
Jury foreman Alfred Morales said the plaintiffs
didn’t prove their ease.
“It was a very, very difficult decision,” Morales said.
“I would have to say that there was lack of evidence, in
my opinion, that we were looking at. The big thing is
the evidence and the evidence w'as not there.”
Juror Jim Sleeker said the decision reached wasat |
emotional one, hut added, “I believe that it issafetolivt
out there.”
Homeowner Herb Bateman disagreed. He said hf \
moved his family f rom the Southbend subdivision in I
August because “we felt our lives and our children) I
lives were in danger.”
The plaintiffs claimed the Brio Waste Site has beet
the cause of medical problems ranging from upse!
stomachs to headaches. Some residents testified the* f
fear they will contract cancer in the future becausethe'
live so close to the waste site.
In addition, plaintiffs claim their property values
have dropped significantly.
“1 don’t know how the jury could overlook the over
whelming evidence of dumping,” said Bateman, who ;
abandoned his home of 15 years and moved to nearb'
Friendswood.
“It's not the end of the fight,” Bateman said.
Monsanto denied responsibility for any injuries,say
ing it is one of many companies that has used the Brio
site through the years.
During closing arguments, Monsanto attorne's
charged the suit is a “conspiracy” against the compan'
on the part of builders and developers of the subdi'i
sion who settled a lawsuit filed by the homeowner)
then joined forces with them against Monsanto.
Past and present residents of the Southbend subdivi
sion sued Monsanto after learning much of the toxir
waste in the Brio site came from the chemical compam