Thanks go to Cousin Thelma ELLISON Huyett, for calling my attention to a
typo I made.
For some reason -- I suspect it was from being upset by the news a
Betty's death only a couple of days after I had talked to her -- in my
announcement to this list I gave her mother's name as 'Edna Ann Ellison'
instead of the correct 'Edna Alice Ellison'. The correct version was in
my database, and in the published CaPaNe tree, but my mind and/or
fingers were out of synch with my eyes. Even Association Secretaries are
human and fallible.
Fortunately Cousin Thelma's mind (and I hope eyes) are sharp and she
caught my error. She's been a great resource and transmitted a lot of
data that Mabel SHIPMAN Shaw, and if I recall correctly, Marjorie
ELDREDGE Buck, had accumulated. It was Thelma's data that led me to
find Faith Jean KIMBALL Black, one of the two surviving Campbell Cousins
Correspondence letter writers. The other surviving letter writer being
Iva DEATS Sayre. If anyone is aware of any other surviving writers of
CCC letters, please let me know.
Marjorie had collected all the notebooks of the minutes of both the
Campbell Reunions and of the Campbell Cousins Dinners. And Marjorie's
son, Joseph Campbell Buck, graciously gave them all to me. Once they
are all reproduced on our web site, I plan to give them to the Tioga
County Historical Society for safekeeping. Marjorie's daughter,
Cornelia BUCK Key, graciously gave me Xerox (TM) copies of a silhouette
of Thomas Clinch, father of Ann CLINCH Campbell. And Cornelia's stories
of meeting a bunch of our Clinch cousins in England, at a dinner her
father, Joseph Wallace Buck, hosted in the 1950s, inspired me to keep
looking until I was able to re-establish contact with some of the living
Clinch cousins in England.
The early minutes of the reunions almost frequently mention having sent
an invitation to Peter Clinch Essex in England -- and his RSVP-ing his
regrets. Cornelia and I, and a number of other living US cousins,
remember one of Peter's sons, the Rev. Cannon Edward Claude Essex, from
several visits he made to the states. I have many news clipping and
photos of his visits, and letters from him, mostly to my mother, but
some to me. He was born in 1876 and is long gone. But I plan to invite
some of his great-nephews and great-nieces and their children to our
next reunion. If we can give them enough notice, perhaps some can come
to this one.
That's a lot of words to have come from a discussion of just one word.
But that's the way it is with genealogy and family history, one thing
leads to another, and on and on.
So many people have contributed to our present knowledge. Jane CAMPBELL
Tubbs and Lucy DUNHAM Hazlett in the 1800s, and Will Selph, Jr. in the
1920s, come immediately to mind. And scores since have all made
contributions and generously shared. I'm slighting some living cousins,
who have made great contributions, by not having mentioned them here.
But if I get into listing all those who deserve thanks, this message
will be longer than an Academy Awards acceptance speech -- and probably
more boring. My apologies to those whom I failed to credit this time.