Friday, January 31, 2014

In need of an update

I received this piece of mail Wednesday, from the Federal Bureau of Prisons. They were letting me know that an inmate was being released from Federal custody to take up residence in Papillion, Nebraska. He lived here in Lancaster County when he was convicted, so maybe that's why they were notifying me.


Their Rolodex might need an update, though, because it has been more than 20 years since I've been the county sheriff. I don't mind the double S in my name. That was the way the family spelled it up until the generation just before the Civil War, when some of the cousins kept it and others dropped it. My namesake through eight generations was this Virginia soldier who served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War:




6 comments:

Steve said...

At least the spelling of your name is no worse than many of those commenting here or on the LJS web site.

Anonymous said...

That's pretty good Chief. Almost as good as a certain Police Chief who would put a birthday card in the inter-office mail to me in July, when my birthday was in May. ;)

Anonymous said...

Guess that shows that nobody is perfect - I addressed you as "Chief". Ha!

Anonymous said...

At least the director put a stamped birthday card in the mail...I haven't seen anything like that lately......the grass is always greener. Wish we still had a boss that knew all of our names....

Steve said...

@11:00 a.m.

At least you have a boss; an awful lot of people don't even have a job.

Anonymous said...

I'm pretty sure Cassidy knows my name but he never even looked at me when he met me in the hallway. The new Chef looks at me with that goofy grin but at least he says hello.