" How I came upon this photo is a story I thought you might be interested in. Earlier in the year I had submitted the Civil War Widows pension application of Emily Scofield Grider. Not to long after that, a lady from Texas e-mailed me asking about the Scofields. I knew their wasn't any connection because Emily's brother Alexander moved to California and never married. Her other brother died in 1894 and was buried in Moores Ridge Cemetery (or so said the DAR). As it turned out, it was his wife buried there and he had 6 children To shorten up the story, one thing led to another and on 7-11-98, Jan and I went to a Schofield (they added a h) reunion in Bedford. These were the descendents of William Scofield and Mary Francis Willyard. (William had moved in with his sister Emily when he was 11 and moved to Orange County with them in 1882.) We went to the reunion not knowing anyone. After we were there a short while a lady came up to me and ask if I was a Grider. She showed me a picture and said it had Griders written on the back but they didn't know any Griders. I took a look and recognized my Great Grandmother Emily, having seen a picture of her once. I got out my genealogy sheet and began matching up the names and dates. My Grandfather Edd was 17 at that time. Every thing matched. She insisted that I take the picture to keep and to send her a copy with everyone identified. What a wonderful gift.

William had kept a picture of his sisters family and in a way his family. The picture passed down several generations until no one knew who they were. The picture was in bad shape, aged and marked, but was one of the most beautiful I had ever saw. I have spent several weeks working on it and have reached the point that I feel I can do no better. This shows the power of the Web in general and Orange County GenWeb in particular."

Howard E. Grider

Lillian Belle - Emily Scofield - George - Mary Susan - Israel Grider - Eva Florence - Eddie Martin - Unknown - Stella