Thank you so very much! My grandfather was a Methodist who received the call to the
foreign mission while he was an interne at the hospital, so it must have been through the
church that they came to know each other.
Priscilla
--- On Mon, 12/6/10, Joe Weiss <jbweiss(a)comcast.net> wrote:
From: Joe Weiss <jbweiss(a)comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [INVANDER] Ed and Ida McGinness - Evansville, Indiana - 1960
To: invander(a)rootsweb.com, sfpf4(a)yahoo.com
Date: Monday, December 6, 2010, 10:25 PM
Go to Browning web site at
http://browning.evpl.org/ and enter Edward
McGinness under the standard search. It has a large obit .
On 12/6/2010 10:01 PM, Stu and Priscilla Fanning wrote:
I have a letter from Ed and Ida McGinness to my mother. The letter
was written in 1960. Ed says he was 80 years old at the time. I have another letter
which refers to Ed McGinness. I would like to know more about Ed and Ida. They knew my
grandfather, Dr. Wallace Boyd Russell, who was an interne at the hospital in Evansville
for a short time -- probably about 1908 -- before he went to the mission field. Ed
McGinness put an article in the local newspaper about my grandfather's death in 1925
according to this other letter which refers to Ed McGinness. I am pretty sure that the
Russells and McGinnesses were not related to each other -- except perhaps professionally
or socially. I hope someone out there will know about Ed and Ida or be related to them.
I am wondering what connection he had to my grandfather -- was he a doctor at the
hospital, was he a newspaper man, how did he come to know my grandfather? I just thought
it would be
interesting to know more about him and his wife.
Thanks,
Priscilla