Scouts in Our Backyard

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Bethel Holmes

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09/30/2002

Scouts in Our Backyard

Janice and Richard Van Tassell in our backyard in Indianapolis during the Fall. Richard kept rabbits and kept busy with many projects. This was our last Autumn in Indiana. Van had been hospitalized twice & nearly died. That was the winter that he decided to move us back to California so that the children could be near their relatives.

Date & Place: September 1945

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Bethel Nadine Holmes of the gold dredging town of Hammonton, Calif. Author of "Peeks Into Sierra Pantries" & "Wood Chips To Game Chips, History of North Lake Tahoe Casinos." Retired from Univ of Nevada Library. Grandaughter of Samuel Jackson Lewis & Martha Love Barker and John Hughes Holmes & Clarissa Angella Laine. Descendant of Wm Braden & Euphemia Jackson, Van Rensselaer Holmes & Elizabeth Ross (dau of Ignatius), Melissa Sheral, Casandra Le Sueur, and James Barker & Martha Patsie Love Emmitt.

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