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First page of Clara Swanson's letter of 13 October 1948 to her son Hilding and his wife Gertrude ("Gerthy"), thanking them for a birthday sweater. The inside pages, from the envelope postmarked the same day, were filed earlier. In Swedish mixed with English, with an English translation.
Linked to Gertrude Ata Jones
G. E. Valley Jr.'s notes of September 1986 on the Baack family: his reading of the 1850 census (Edward Baach, 40, music store, Ward 15, with Catharine and six children), plans for New York directory requests, Maryland's certifications that no Baltimore death record was found for John Holliday Cummins or Rebecca B. Ringgold Cummins, an index of the requests in his earlier notebooks, and a summary of the death certificates, 1890 police census and city directory results he received in 1985. The page 94 cover letter and page 90 were photographed out of focus.
Linked to George Joseph Baack
G. E. Valley Jr.'s questions for, and notes of, his second telephone call with Marian Steuart, 18 August 1986 ("not a complete literal transcription"): Clayton Ringgold's smuggling for the Confederacy, Thomas Charles Ringgold's later years in Baltimore, and where to write for Queen Anne's County records.
Linked to Thomas Ringgold
G. E. Valley Jr.'s research notes for July 1986: Ringgold listings in Baltimore phone books (the listings themselves are not copied), a postcard about an Eastern Shore directory, and his calls to the Maryland Division of Vital Records and the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Linked to George Edward Valley Jr
G. E. Valley Jr.'s research notes, late August to mid-September 1986: the cost of copying his Ringgold report (VLCME9) for the family, a letter of 12 Sep 1986 (probably to Professor Hancock), calls to the Baltimore museum and records offices, his plan to "resume the Valley/Baach searches" (letters to the Ogdensburg church and to Oscar Valley and Lillian, questions about Pop's family in Montreal), and the census years and New York addresses of the Baack, Cummins and Donnecker families. Pages 76, 80 and 82 were photographed out of focus.
Linked to Adolphus Baack
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History of James Morris
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History of Ray Mettetal
Linked to Raphael Mettetal
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Letter from "Pop" (Edwin A. Swanson) to his daughter Jean Marion, aged 9, written on Hotel Jamestown stationery in Jamestown, New York, on Sunday 3 April 1932, with deliberate misspellings for her to correct: a get-well note about her chicken pox, with a riddle about Job and his boils.
Linked to Emma Louise Nygren
Letter from Clara Swanson ("Mother") in Wilkes-Barre to her son Hilding A. Swanson in Louisville, Kentucky, postmarked 13 October 1948, thanking him for birthday gifts and giving news of the Kahlers, her health, and Ken and Jo. In Swedish mixed with English, with an English translation. The first page of the letter was not scanned.
Linked to Ralph Artman Kahler
Letter from Clara Swanson ("Mother") in Wilkes-Barre to her son Hilding and his wife Gertrude ("Gerthy") in Louisville, 9 November 1948. She thanks them for a check and a birthday sweater, and gives news of her health, Ed's visit for a Building & Loan meeting, Josefine and Ken, and the 1948 presidential election. In Swedish mixed with English, with an English translation.
Linked to Gertrude Ata Jones
Letter from G. E. Valley Jr. to his cousin Oscar Valley ("Little Oscar"), sending photocopies of pictures of Pop's shop on Tenth Avenue and asking for pictures and stories of the Valleys and Dolbecs, with GEV's notes for the letter and the questions he held back for a later one: the bicycle ride from Montreal, Grandma Valley after Joseph died, and Tom's theory that Pop was illegitimate. The top half of the first page was photographed with motion blur, and the street addresses are left out.
Linked to Elizabeth Valley
Letter from G. E. Valley Jr. to Marian Steuart thanking her for a map of Kent Island and sending a copy of his report on the Ringgold family, with pages from the John H. Cummins-Rebecca (Ringgold) Cummins Bible; he plans a report on John and Rebecca Cummins next, then his other three grandparents.
Linked to Marion Ringgold Price
Letter from G. E. Valley Jr. to the Maryland Division of Vital Records asking for the death certificates of his great-grandparents John Holliday Cummins (d. 16 Oct 1884) and Rebecca B. Ringgold Cummins (d. 1 Jul 1883), whom he believed died in Baltimore, with his cancelled check.
Linked to Thomas Henry Cummins
Letter from Isabelle T. Porter (Mrs. Harold L. Porter) of Salisbury, Maryland, to G. E. Valley Jr.: she has no record of Rebecca Ringgold Cummins; her mother was Matilda Cox ("Maude") Ringgold of the Ringgold (now Hynson-Ringgold) House in Chestertown. With her handwritten descent from Gideon and Julia Dick Pearce (its last two generations, living, are left out of the transcription).
Linked to Mary Clementine Pearce
Letter from Jean Bierman of the Washington College library, Chestertown, answering G. E. Valley Jr.'s questions about Thomas Charles Ringgold and the building of East and West Halls, with photocopied pages of Fred W. Dumschott's history of the college (summarized), GEV's question "So who was Mr W. Ringgold?", and a printed list of his VLCM computer files.
Linked to Thomas Charles Ringgold
Letter from Jean S. Valley to G. E. Valley Jr. about Oscar Valley's family: Grace, the stepmother who raised his children, why "Mom" (Edith) raised Big Oscar, and Little Oscar's memories of Montreal. With a Wall Street Journal clipping about mailing laundry home from college, and notes by Jean and George.
Linked to Lillian Winter
Letter from Marian Steuart on Kent Island Heritage Society letterhead, sending G. E. Valley Jr. a picture of William Clayton Ringgold's home on the Love Point road from Mildred Schoch's book Of History and Houses, with news of Stevensville's nomination to the National Register of Historic Places; and GEV's note on where he filed her material.
Linked to William Charles Clayton Ringgold