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align=center style='text-align:center'><st1:PersonName><span style='font-size:20.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>James</span></st1:PersonName><span style='font-size:20.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'> Wait and Sarah Sims<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p><span style='text-decoration:none'>&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></p> <p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p><span style='text-decoration:none'>&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></p> <p class=MsoNormal><st1:PersonName><u><span style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'>James</span></u></st1:PersonName><u><span style='font-size:18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'> Wait</span></u><span style='font-size:14.0pt'> was born</span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'> in 1778 or 1779 in </span><st1:place><st1:City><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt'>Culpeper</span></st1:City><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt'>, </span><st1:State><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt'>Virginia</span></st1:State></st1:place><span style='font-size:14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>He married his first cousin, Sarah Sims before 1799.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>It appears that </span><st1:PersonName><span style='font-size:14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>James</span></st1:PersonName><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'> died in Laurens after the 1840 Census records or moved away around 1843.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>They lived near John and Frances Wait on the lands between the </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>Saluda</span></st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'> </span><st1:PlaceType><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>River</span></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'> and the </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>Reedy</span></st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'> </span><st1:PlaceType><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>River</span></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'> known as the Forks.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Their children Thomas, Madison, Zachariah, Sarah A., </span><st1:PersonName><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt'>James</span></st1:PersonName><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt'> Matthew, and Virginia migrated to </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>Mississippi</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'> in the mid 1840s after the death of </span><st1:PersonName><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt'>James</span></st1:PersonName><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt'>.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>The son Phillip moved to </span><st1:place><st1:City><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>Tuscaloosa</span></st1:City><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>, </span><st1:State><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>Alabama</span></st1:State></st1:place><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>Sarah Sims</span></u><span style='font-size:14.0pt'> was born about 1784 in either Culpeper, Va or Laurens, SC.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>She was the </span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>daughter of Elizabeth Graves and Zachariah Sims.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>They were married before 1799.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Sarah died after the 1870 Census in Lafayette Co., Dallas PO, MS where she lived with her youngest child, Virginia Scott.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>The children of </span><st1:PersonName><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt'>James</span></st1:PersonName><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt'> and Sarah were:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><a href="Phillip%20Wait%20and%20Brissilla.htm">Phillip</a></span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><span style='mso-tab-count: 2'>                  </span>Born about 1804 in Laurens Co., SC.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>Thomas</span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><span style='mso-tab-count: 2'>                </span>Born in 1805 in Laurens Co., SC.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Thomas married his cousin <a href="John%20Wait%20and%20Frances%20Graves.htm">Rhoda</a>, daughter of </span><st1:PersonName><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>James</span></st1:PersonName><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'> Sims and Mariah Parks Wait.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>In 1850, they settled near the area that another cousin, John Culpeper Wait, moved to at the same time in Pontotoc Co., </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='font-size:14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>Mississippi</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>They had 11 children:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Elizabeth, Rebecca, </span><st1:PersonName><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>James</span></st1:PersonName><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'> B., Sarah Jane, John, Harriet, Zachariah, </span><st1:place><st1:City><span style='font-size:14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>William</span></st1:City><span style='font-size: 14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>, </span><st1:State><span style='font-size: 14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>Virginia</span></st1:State><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>, </span><st1:country-region><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>Frances</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>, and Adaline.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Rhoda died before 1877 when he married </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>Charlotte</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>His son Leander was born in 1878.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>Girl</span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><span style='mso-tab-count: 3'>                      </span>Born between 1810-1815 according to the 1820 Census.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><st1:PersonName><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>James</span></b></st1:PersonName><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt'> Matthew</span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>   </span>Born between 1810-1820 in Laurens Co., SC and died in 1850 in MS.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>He married Tempy Willard, also from Laurens.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Many people have claimed that </span><st1:PersonName><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>James</span></st1:PersonName><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'> Matthew belonged to another group of Waits but we have found a marriage record for one of </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>Madison</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'> s granddaughters and one of </span><st1:PersonName><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>James</span></st1:PersonName><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'> Matthew s sons was the bondsman.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>This links the two families together.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span></span><st1:PersonName><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>James</span></st1:PersonName><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'> Matthew and Tempy had 4 children:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Nancy, </span><st1:PersonName><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>James</span></st1:PersonName><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'> Marion, Martha Louisa, and Madison Duff.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>Girl</span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><span style='mso-tab-count: 3'>                      </span>Born between 1815-1820 in Laurens Co., SC.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>Madison</span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><span style='mso-tab-count: 2'>               </span>Born 1816 in Laurens Co., SC.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>He married Sarah ? and moved to MS about 1844 according to his children s state of birth on the 1850 Census for Mississippi.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span></span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>Madison</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'> moved on to </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>Arkansas</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'> for the 1860 Census and back to MS the next month.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>He and Sarah had 10 children:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span></span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>Elizabeth</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>, </span><st1:PersonName><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>James</span></st1:PersonName><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'> W., Mary Melissa, </span><st1:place><st1:City><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>Phebe D.</span></st1:City><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>, </span><st1:State><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>Virginia</span></st1:State></st1:place><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>, Eliza F., William, Joseph/Jasper, Harriet, and </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size: 14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>Newton</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>We think that he later married again to Amanda Vinson on October 28, 1866 in Pontotoc, Martha Eastep on March 19, 1867 in Tippah, and then later to Sarah Boatner on June 10, 1882 in Marshall.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>M.L. Wait is on the 1870 Tippah Co., MS Census with wife Martha, son Robert 7, daughters M.E. 3 and Lucy 5/12.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>This same man is in Marshall Co. for the 1880 Census with wife Martha, sons Robert 17, George 7, Thomas 6 and Benny 3 and daughters Martha 13 and Anna 11.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>If this is him, he left the younger children of his first wife with his son </span><st1:PersonName><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>James</span></st1:PersonName><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'> W. where they show up on the 1870 Census in Lafayette Co., MS with </span><st1:PersonName><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>James</span></st1:PersonName><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'> young family.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>Zachariah</span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><span style='mso-tab-count: 2'>            </span>Born September 15, 1821 in Laurens Co., SC.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span>He married Rebecca W. Roberts on December 20, 1844 in Talledega Co., Alabama.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Rebecca was born on June27, 1822 in Laurens Co., SC and she died on July 20, 1891 in Kansas City, Jackson Co., Missouri.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Zachariah lived in Lowndes Co., Mississippi.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Zachariah died June 30, 1864 in Tuscaloosa Alabama.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>The family kept in touch with their SC cousins, other grandsons of John and Frances Wait.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>There is a document about shares for a cotton-planting machine that John Travis Wait &amp; Luda Jasper Wait made in 1854 that they tried to sell to Zachariah in Mississippi.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>We have a copy of that patent.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>The </span><st1:stockticker><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>DNA</span></st1:stockticker><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'> profile from a descendant of Zachariah matches exactly with the profiles of three other men who descend from John b. 1730.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>This confirms the line of Richard b. 1755.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Zachariah and Rebecca had 6 children:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Henry Lyndon, </span><st1:PersonName><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>James</span></st1:PersonName><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'> Davis, Charles Baskerfield, Sarah E.  Sallie , Lydia Rebecca  Lyd , and Martha Louise  Mattie .</span><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>Sarah A.</span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><span style='mso-tab-count: 2'>              </span>Born 1825 in Laurens Co., SC.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Sarah A. married Joel Suggs in 1849 in Tuscaloosa Alabama, he died about 1852 and she married Boswell Freeman on May 8, 1858 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>She died after 1880.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>She had one son by Joel Suggs, Joseph Joel b. 1852 in Lowndes Co., MS. She had at least four children by Boswell Freeman, Cordelia Annie b. 1859, Hassleton b. 1861, Ophelia b. 1863 and Bradley b. 1866.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>Virginia</span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><span style='mso-tab-count: 2'>                </span>Born between 1825-1830 in Laurens Co., SC.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Female </span><st1:stockticker><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>DNA</span></st1:stockticker><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'> has proven that </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>Virginia</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'> was the youngest daughter of </span><st1:PersonName><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt'>James</span></st1:PersonName><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt'> and Sarah.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>She married John Scott in Pontotoc MS on </span><st1:date Year="1855" Day="15" Month="5"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>May 15, 1855</span></st1:date><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Sarah was with her on the 1870 Census along with her three children.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>John Scott died during or just after the Civil War.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>They had 4 children:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>William </span><st1:PersonName><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>James</span></st1:PersonName><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>, Martha A., Sarah Rebecca Judith, and John Calvin.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>This family is still being completed so if you have any information on this family, please contact <a href="mailto:tdicken@cswnet.com">Amanda Dicken</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>This page was last updated </span><st1:date Year="2008" Day="25" Month="3"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>March 25, 2008</span></st1:date><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> </div> </body> </html>