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This may not be list appropriate so if not will some please let me and the
list know before everyone starts submitting these. But someone on another
list is doing something different about inspiring stories and it prompted me
to do this. So for those who left the trails behind for those now following
their footsteps:
IF I COULD TO TALK TO:
Elizabeth Travers Chinn Wilson my 4th great grandmother.
Dear Grandma Betsy
I'm writing to tell you that for the past 6 years I've been looking for
you and Grandpa John and family. I am happy to say I have found so much
about your life and times. I finally know where I came from and how I
belong.
Let me tell you this. I come from your son Rawleigh. I haven't yet
found William and I'm hoping something in your letter to him will lead me
there. I may have found him in Kentucky with your son John. Speaking of
John, as you know he married Harriet Blue but what you didn't know is they
had 6 children - Lucy, William, Stretchley, M.J., Ellen F. and Alice R.
Lucy m. Charles Wilson son of your nephew William who moved to Illinois and
became Judge, the one who married Mary Davidson.
Your daughter Lucy and Berry Crebs went on to have two more children after
you passed on. William and Mary Adeline. Your daughter Jane married
Philander Berry and they had three girls. Fanny of course you knew all
about her family but Rawleigh, my great-great-great grandfather married
Callia Rice in 1847. She was from Livingston KY. He must have met her
there when he was in Union Co. with John. You'd be pleased to know that
Rawleigh and Callia had 4 children. John Harvey, William Berry, Mary White,
and Rawleigh Chinn. (the name still carries on Grandma) I know nothing of
Mary and Rawleigh Chinn the two youngest. William married and had 5
children and again, his eldest was Raleigh Chinn Wilson and he in turn named
his son Rawleigh. Your father would have been proud to know his name
carried on for some 130 years.
My great-great grandfather (Rawleigh's son) John Harvey Wilson m. Mary Jane
Adams from S.C. Her mother and father came from Ireland and settled in S.C.
She met John Harvey in White Co. IL after Rawleigh left Kentucky and settle
in White Co. IL which is right along the river by Union Co. KY. They had 9
children. I descend from their eldest daughter Flora Callia Wilson who
married a Skiles from Ohio.
My goal Grandma Betsy is to find your John who left you so early. I'm sorry
you had to endure the death of your two youngest boys without John being
there for you. I am forever watching for clues to their middle names that
will lead me to your John. My biggest wish is that somehow you were able to
lead me there. I feel like I know you. I hear the pain in your letter to
William. Your husband is gone, you've lost two young children in recent
years, you eldest are moving away. Times are bad, people are sick and dying
and you are only 57 years old.
Somehow I feel that once I've completed the circle and found John's people
everyone will be at peace. I am so close to connecting the link between
John, Jacob and William. Once I find their father which will then prove
that they are in fact brothers, I will feel like everyone will then be at
peace. Show me the way Grandma!
Your forever loving and grateful granddaughter,
Janean Skiles Ray.