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Miracles, Family, Pilgrim George & Photos
I met Pilgrim George on August 19, 2004 as he was walking on National Road in Zanesville, Ohio. Because I had been off work the night before I had baked a wild blueberry and also a pineapple pie. I was glad I had baked when Pilgrim told me how it brought back memories of family & childhood when his mother would gather wild blueberries and save them to make muffins at Thanksgiving. Pilgrim George walks with a staff topped with a cross that has touched most everything in the Holy Lands. He touched my front door with his staff and said "This house and family is blessed". He is reading the song he encouraged me to share with the world, in the picture above.
On October 21st, 2005, my nephew was in a terrible wreck near Randles Station on Spectacle Curve in Coshocton, Ohio. See the photo of the wreck above. The Dodge Durango hydroplaned on the wet roadway, hit 2 trees, a telephone pole, then went down a 25 foot embankment. The vehicle stopped short of the river. It was a miracle that a lady saw him wreck and called 911. Otherwise he would not have been found.
Read a story of miracles published by Rob Amen on Christmas Day 2006 in The Pittsburgh Tribune
No one should have to lose a child. But God in Heaven sacrificed His only son so that we might have life! Things have seemed much better since Pilgrim George camped out in my yard that evening in August. In October of 2004, The Pittsburgh Valley News Dispatch published a 3 day series (13 pages) of stories and pictures of Pilgrim George. At that time he had walked more than 35,000 miles through 41 countries.
Pilgrim George, many friends and my family have been an inspiration to me. Friends Of Pilgrim George
A heart touching story of The Trials of Carrie Rose
Almost a hundred years ago, my Aunt Carrie Rose's daughter Violet disappeared out west in her teens and was never seen or heard from again. As her grave is near that of my Grandfather William Randles and my daughter Joni, I have often visited there. My Aunt and I shared a common bond - we both had lost teen-aged daughters. Her twin sons Clyde & Claud, visited a lot while I was growing up. They told of how their father Thomas Jefferson Dodd had died in 1907, when their mother was six months pregnant with their twin sisters. Carrie Rose took in laundry for her Uncle Jack and his friends to make a living for her 6 children. She returned to Missouri, as did her parents, Susan & Thomas Randles. Times were sad with Elizabeth, the sister of T.J. in the Cherokee Nation. The remaining family went to great efforts to keep their freedom. "Sousan" Randles is shown as "Widowed" with daughter Anna Eliza (Randles) Woodrome and my grandfather William age 18, in the 1900 Washington County, Illinois Census. Thomas J. "Randels" is living alone in the 1900 Coshocton Census and is "married 1 Year." They were back together in Coshocton later on. Sometime after 1910, the Dodd twin boys born on a reservation which today is part of Fort Leonard Wood, were taken from Carrie and put in an English Boarding School, where they got hair cuts and were made to learn English. That is why they are not in the family picture taken in Missouri. Jack Randles used connections he had in government and found out that Violet had married a man named Scruggs. Later Claud moved to California and tried (unsuccessfully) to find his missing sister. During that time she had divorced Walter B. Scruggs then remarried on September 20, 1942 to Oskar Born.
The paper trail shows Violet "Huff" in the 1915 Kansas Census with a man named "George Walter." They are living in the home of Ire & Adda (Walter Scruggs sister) Keithline. In Kansas Census 1910, Walter (son of Joseph, born in Missouri) & his wife are in Leavenworth County, Kansas. Walter divorced his wife Anna and married Eudora Loray (Violet Dodd) on the 29th of June 1916, in Muskogee County, Oklahoma. The 1920 Creek County, Oklahoma Census shows W.B.Scruggs, pumper for oil lease and Violet Scruggs, born in Ohio as were both of her parents. A Census record will do for a Birth Certificate. It is doubtful Violet had one, as the older Dodd twins didn't. By this time heartbroken Aunt Carrie Rose had moved back to Coshocton again.
In July of 2010, Don Scruggs of Tucson, Arizona e-mailed regarding the Interment I had made in Find A Grave. He knew that his grandmother was the daughter of Carrie Rose Randles Dodd, but was unsure who her father was. Could Eudora/ Huff/Loray Scuggs really be Violet Dodd? I requested that he send what he had. Census, Maps, Marriage License (with the phony name) and charts. Don had charted his family tree both ways, with James Huff being Violet's father and with Thomas Jefferson Dodd being her father.
Looking at the pictures I could see there were strong resemblances to my Dodd family.
In The 1985 History of Coshocton See Biography of Leslie Hedge page 227, the 6 children of Carrie Rose (Randles) and Thomas Jefferson Dodd are named. Violet being the firstborn. Direct quote: "Violet Dodd born November 21st, 1898 left home during her teen-aged years and she was never heard from again" This Biography was written by Orlena Dodd Hedge, Violet's sister & John K. Morris. My Genealogy work is backed by solid sources.
Violet Dodd Scruggs Born, passed away on May 27, 1979 and is buried in Napa, California with her husband Oskar. Leaving behind so many questions with no answers...Aunt Carrie Rose suffered a fall on the ice enroute to a neighbors house in Coshocton, Ohio on December 14, 1933. She died a week later in the hospital from internal injuries, exposure, broken heart & bones. On that bleak mid winters day December 15th, 1933, she had completely lost her voice with cries for help that only the Lord heard...
The sun broke free on another bleak mid winter day and casts its' warm beams over the stone, lighting the roses placed on the snow covered grave. "Why did she suffer so in life and die without ever knowing where her daughter was?", I asked. The Lord's soft answer: "It is only through hardship, that my children can appreciate the wondrous things I have prepared for them and if there never was sadness how would you know that I am the Comforter."
Carrie Rose wants you to know there is a glorious family reunion in Heaven...
The most important things in life are your friends, family, health, good humor and a positive attitude toward life.
If you have these then you have everything!
