Wednesday, October 12th . Wal-mart parking lot in Waverly, Ohio. Starting mileage 18252. 59 degrees and RAINING! Glad we were on asphalt all night with good drainage in the lot. The main purpose of this trip to Ohio was to do some genealogy on the way in Pike and Ross counties and then attend a Mock, Mauck, Muk, Moak etc. family reunion in nearby Gallapolis. For the next few days we combed the Pike County Courthouse and the Courthouse Annex to find documents pertaining to the Tuvell, Bivens, Brinkman and Meier families that settled into this area in the early and mid-1800’s. We did find a will of John Myer and the date probated but couldn’t find where he might have been buried. Then, through looking at the court of common pleas records we found where
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