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Dear Mr. Swann; Since I have not had any communication with you lately, except through mp daughter, Eva, I thought I would drop you a few lines, to thank you for all the good material, and data you have sent us, We really appreciate all you have done, and hope some day we may be able to repay you, I have come across mmm some material that I thought perhaps you might be interested in, and maybe you have something on this matter. The material | will bring out, is taken from a Quarterly Magazine, I receive from washinzton, D.C., which is called "THe KZNTUCKY GENEALOGIST", and I have membership in this Society, The material has to do with my Great Unele, Henry Hiram Gaither, (bro, of my Grand-father,Wiley Gaither). Henry Hiram was born in N.C. 1367 ?, Married in Mercer County, Ky, in 1329, and lived in Grayson Co, Ky, 1330, He was listed in the 1830 Census, as being born 1800 - 1310, Wife also listeds We have records where he moved to Putnam Co,, Ind, in 1330, and first child | was born Jan, 1331. He married a liza Denny, and I am pretty sure I found her father was Alexander Denny, and lived in Mercer Co., Ky. The afore mentioned items were used to bring out the reason I am sending you the material from the Ky, Genealogist. Below is the material I am interested in getting to you: ie, (As it is printed in the Quarterly.) records of Garrard County, Ky. wills. ; \ Page 13, Matthew Cowden of Kentucky and Madi son: County beins weak in memory (sic) out of sound sposing memory, To Step-father, Joshua Nichols twelve pounds Kentucky currer y and shoe buckles to pay my funeral expenses, ,and my mother the silk handkerchief, and also to my orothers John and William Cowden all my land in Carolina it oe to be divided share and share alike with their paying to my two sisters, Slizabeth and Martha. Cowden each one of them twenty-five pounds Carolina Currency, to be paid in gold or r silver, also sive my brother, John one striped and one shirt and the rest of cléthes to Brother William, If any personal property found, I vive it to my two brothers, to be divided share and share alike, 1 give my oridle to my sister Slizabeth, txecutors: Hugh Andrew, Brother John Cowden, my sole executors, Sp a Will dated 4 March 1793. — MATTHEW COwWDiN. ALEX DENNY, Samuel woods, John Martin, 27 March 1795, Samuel woods and John Martin came before Judge Adams, one of the Commonwealth's Justices and made oath that they were present when Alex Cowden made will. | Paze 20, Inventory of property belonging to Matthew Cowden left or left on Joshua Nichols hand- Cash, one horse, one saddle, one pair saddle bars, one blanket, one bell, one ink stand, one razor,one pen knbfe, Madison SCT,: I certify that the above named John Martin, Samuel Woods and Alex Denny was duly sworn before me to appraise the above totals of Matthew Cowden, Dec'd, Given under my hand and seal, this ninth day of July,1793. w Georre Adams (PAGE TWO) a Cowden continued; Nerth Carolina, Iredell County, May Session, I hereby certify that Hugh Adams, and John Cowden, the executors gf nominated in the last will and testament of Matthew Cowden,deceased, came to Court and did relinquish the execution of will aforesaid which is hereunto annexed, In wittness whereof, I hereunto set my hand and seal of said County, this 21 day 6f/Wf of May 1799, A,Sharpe, C ol + this North Carolina, Iredell County. I hereby certify that Abner Sharpe, “squire, is clerk of said County, and that credit is due to his certificates as such, Certified this 21 day of May, 1799. D. Cardwell, Ch man, 4 ca SHHEHHEESHAR aH REESHaEAHe I do not know if this would be of any interest to you or not, but when I read it, I could not help from thinking of you, Now, the thought that has occured to me, is this, Could the Denny Family be from Iredell County also ? And could they have been neighbors, or friends of the Gaithers ? Since Uncle Henry Hiram married a Denny girl, I wonder if some of the Dennys came to Ky, at the same time my Family came, Or perhaps they were friends, and the Gaithers came to Ky. after the Dennys, and went to them when they first got in Ky, I may be off the track, out I cannot Keep from thinking there was some comnection between the two Fanilies while in North Carolina, - So if you know anything of these Families, I would like very much to Know more, myself, Again, 1 want to thank you for all the nice things you have done for will close for this time; Sincerely; sf ( Uhriycl | be Floyd 2. Gaither . Lich Lewy tod Lo ont —- tan. 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Jee hip Page STE", / We , ey Se - fe 3s SPL of BG OF TABLE |i, CASH FARM EXPENSES (Continued) Description Crop or (Useful details such os kind, quontity, livestock on Total price, ond to whom paid) which used || (Col. 2-14) Fertilizer 4 | | + | } < lox + wir ‘ fest 4, ene “kb eee > YG Yiu YK Bell Vy ote = <n Ya Vz ds a ee RPK 1ex ve Lo# @ <7 - Mis. Gay Lovelace iP. &. Box 5g Bonham, Jexas 75418 14 shee mi O8 ~Wanns $334, #4 +) ry ha Owradirt- 3 you a Mijlion for th on tne Crawfords & % ee . Oveluce's, i Shall be appy to order you nf a fat ta 4h IDA - FRO! \TIER" a i ue W uld lik Yo h a ¥E ww : 2 gesture of appreciation you have ziven.me. 1 am pabsing Ann Crawford Gifithrie, nouston, Texas . % ‘ + reared in bonham. The Crevfords ait one o- 4 a 3 a mae the leading dry goods store here; . + * ' . ‘ } > + T my notes some where link that 1 me when si of JO plication for membership ve neering and received 2 copies of the } rylan Ops in the American Revolution of Charles 20@, gracious. 1 am iy mes as wel] o “eenpalss dette fi. ae a? bas ‘RR ae \ | tf. a Sie A Fede VSin 4 ny | e. coe | 19TH frceri ae ee: 7 je ey Uk Uk Lolo 3 Aecace Dt... (af9.¥) Ne at bc ae Chak > K | Me —~ Mi @ CF hon He ae then a pao x Jags 104 Bietw. Ley fom cht yp tun tle~ Tibee for dh ole, £e - ore oe, : ate! Ly ttre / 7 Mule cae od pase Ae ba tees | “ Morrow” ae a 4, tad &. fit MALL BLS hintl ped ior JrAan } : ter \ _ ré oh | ? me 7 a lily a3 VAL dhaed Le, (tad ke he ade Zi-C£ J f ie / | 7 BMA , 7 fo ) Key Y Lan it 74 SSF eee ’ . 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I am returning the will of James Holman for ) Knows when anothor late searcher like me might appreciate it as much as i do: I pied the will and made 2 more, Which have already been shared-- SES HOW “YOU alts L CERCULATING. Thanks for J. R. Lovelace letter. i wrote to him, to see if in the 3 years he had established kin with Miss Fay Lovelace, if so then he would he my kin also. I thought too he would be pleased to know of your letters ie _In 1905 I exchanged a few letters with Willie Lovelace, ( Ms. James) Honey Grove Texas, but this was sient the time they moved to Stinton, ‘exas, ReFeDe 7 I Box 1°0 B, and the family records had not been unpacked. James.health problem >. heart, had not impraved. J doubt he still lives. This year I wrote lillie to the abpve add~ ress, no reply, neither was the letter retutmed., Perhaps her heakbh is not good. | letter | appreciate you sending Willies letter and if you have the regt of the/page 2 1 am returning I would like it. If you do not have a Copy @fom Sedalia Democrat raper on the 100 celebration of Molly Potter 1 will ee a copy of mine made fouyou, that is if you wild like one. At the time of the celebration Aunt Molly Lived with her Daughter Daisy and Husband Que Higdon, ont for from the Lovelace farms. Molly stayed keen of* mind and liked to recall the past, even things ahe remembered her sisthbie tal- ting of the trip to Missouri, but as a teen ager + never thought to note what she was telling sole’ tmicht sok WE Gissane, It _ tridition of my family that Lovelaces were supporters of the fory Party, but + did not know, about the Holeman— Holman's, I am anxious for you to tell me about “rchie's gold—- the family ukd not in my time to brag about. that. You ask about Ulifton City, “issouri,where Holman's rec ived mail at the post. Office. Lovelace's received therrs there too, but in my day_it Was R?F.D. within a mile of our David Lovelace farm, my home. Clifton City iis located about 18 miles east of Seadlia, near the border of Petiis and Cooper Counties, and being in Coopere fi was not much more than 3 miles east of A. Lovelace farm to Clifton City P.U. I have some old cards and lebbers with this post mark. I also have some most fond memo~ ries of Clifton City. It stéll is a nice quiet little town, the homes tho old are page 2 Creamer to Swann still lovely» in good repair and white paint,and nearly ever home has nice gardens. It seems in this quist place our old world just could not have so many troubies, as we know today. This part of Missouri mst have been plenty rugged whem Archie, o#iriends and family settled there. Some 20 years later David built his sieninn about 2 miled from his father, in between a ¢reek and abranch. On the high sinh wel said to have been an indian burial ground. I remember it as a field, where we children some times picked up indian arrows etc.. we sold some of them along with nuts we some tines sold for our own money. It really did not take mone for children as it does for my grand children today. ‘They are of middle class and of a working family too, and this id good. The aléiet grson has 2 years college, all on his own and now the second grson is graduating from high school at age 17 and is set for college with his own banking, after school earnings and what he will earn er school vacation, I have 2 younger gre sons,and 3 grand daughters, married. The younges, sistervaf the days, also gradudted from high school age 17 and before age 18 was . teller at ladera branch of Bank of America. She plans $0 stay with business and enjoy home making too. She is:.a j-H Ca. State winner re home making and iene EF This Sy In 1956 the father of my children and I had his last vacation in Missouri and at that time My Davids Home was benig taken dowm, after more tham 100 years, of all the life it had imotm— happiness and jn ive very mich intrested in the struc tur of the house, clop board( later covered) the origional floors , 12 inches wide an ‘nearly 2 ins thick. My grandmother use to tell me how thésr white Piece were scrubed with white river sand and so eet a sharp knife could not raise a splinter. I remember them as covered with woven rus rugs. eid take much to tell you about this house— the fireplace was one of the best memories of my childhood, Whb-man who owed the place had taken the big chimney down before + came there and he sane ue a gallon stone jar filled with Indian arrow heads were found {built in it and he had thrown tham idy¥ the old cistern when it was filled in. I could not aay anything but I was 3 crying in side. To put the arrow heads there David must have considered them special , “Pig e Le teteae Jo [Ntwhere’ x Heed) Che Bin oh. J tn Aeeulerg, Pec page |} creamer to Swann : ' . is caiinaital memorial stone has weathered the many years. Do Do you know of of some me one who may have once taken a blaek ‘and white picture of this stone? Blank and white are better than colered saint ak would expect to ~have them in a book, publisied, not even news papers will print color pictures, you know. Perhaps Miss Fay Lovelace took a . picture of Thomas Lévelace grave stone and of Holmans too, for tne bod she is com piling. If you Bave her address please send it to,me. I wo&ld like! Nancy Holman and Archie Lovelace descendents in the book along with the rest of the family, and I would want a snk hw acaubr: willie Holman had written me the records she had of Archie Lovelace had come from the Bible of his nother, and that a iss Fay Lovelace had it. Since it was William Lovelace who took his mother to Texas with his family I judge Miss Fay Lovelace to be his deswndent, if not, please set ne straight. Did _ Miss iny. Tavelace ang Wil lie Haaman cofie to N. C. inert tious she Weld alee asking questions and you ask me to send but_a few at a time. Please for give me. Take you time, even to read this letter. I an not a typest as’Ge, but I think it is easier on the eyes than oo ek: tethiee, You write a beautiful letter and. I look forward to the next one. Take you time to answer. in the mean time I will let you know if and what I hear\from J. R. Lovelace of la Jolla, that id not for from San Diego, Ca. and I once lived there. My Late hue. anit: wan. gaara istant to the genaral Agent Of Railway Express Agency at San Diegg,Ca. during the W.W.11, going there from Colorado in the war effort after our only son, Seed age had given his life to our country. I like San Diego climate much, but to many people and the same in the los Angles area, from where we come to Madera in 19))9. We lbked it so well here we desides to stop mowing and my husband said with hO service his future was behind him, he had beguim , parttime when yet in high sthool d this was not of the 40 years of continouous service. : | - “ Madera id a melting pot commmnity of 1), 000, and has growing pains, we are three miles from town on 0 acres and industory id moving in on us, fast. The county has & wineries and a 5th beind built. The grape industory, grapes to eat, raisins and wine, makes our neighbor county, south, Fresno, the richest county in ihe ‘United States, The city of Fresno is 25 miles from Madera. &% Pigs @ . be ee Mo i I have one small, not the smallest, Indian Arrowhaed from the David Igvealce -Farn and ticheerish, it. I also have a piece of Archies grinding wheel. Tn 1918 when my parents moved oa family to Pueble, Colorado a few of Javids febcrttie were given to other members of the family and the rest went at the public sale. Even when David was old he liked the fox chase and kept hounds for it. This hound 8 ory is one of my favobite. " My mother went out the kitchen door to the back yard and ‘one of the hounds that had escaped from the pen came arround the corner of the house, _ was standing on his muzzle ans dripping from his mouth and he was fighting it. Mo’ er ran back in cide eallihe mad iilcg, David tock his Qrusty whe. five the ruek ob thh wndldilne o6t with a look on his face a8 if he had been ask to do away with his favorite ridding mare white Daisy. When he returned he was laughing to hard to tell the family why. The hound was not mad but had samples the fresh home made soap set out to coole My mother once said a hound dog would eat anything that had not eaten him first. I cas renesber the crackin corn meal paddies mother used to make for then, and I liked to feen thei to the doge. J even sampled the paddies myself-- not bad. I do not know if Davids spring is open yet, the last tine I grank fron it was 6 ft. and walled | with native flat rock, and about 3 ft. above ground, ee ea sheet of 1958. I judge it is few the flow was strang, had been dug Bbout rock. A floor of stone was in trent of it too and a backless bench by the tree, On a hot summer day it ms sheavehty place to play in the shade of the tree and the run off of the spring. There were strict rules to be respected +00. I would like to drink from Thomas Lovelace spring, but never hope be so lucky. The millstone is intresting, I did not kmow about. it before you wrote of it, or that ‘Thomas father gave him a mili, I love you fer telling me these things-— Lovelace blood kin or tote you are my kind of people. Thanks for ite care you gave to that sacred p lewis cemetery whert ; my ancesters sleep. People will soon be decorating graves of love ones,on the new day Called memorial day-- do I like it, I am not sure I do. i aso thank the younger hand that now care for Lewis cemetery, wish I gould visit there and to see how well Thomas | ee TF Dear Mr. & Ms. Swamn: \ | | Home and community had to come first for awhile and I am way behihd answer- ing your letters, in fact 3 of them. I appreci®te ever line of the. too. Mrs. Swann, I have no idda of leaving you»out of the correspondance, it, is that =.T. had done the writing so for. “his writing I have s of closer family intrest than ancestors. ity sister “eatrice Foster visited eee and family. she is very much imressed with this christain home, you have ever reason to be’ most proud of your children and grandchildren, and | am sure you are just that. Wildred showed Veatrice pictures of your Golden Wedding, talked of the trips home ever 3 years to be with you, andthat in 1975 North “arolina will celebrate 200 years This will be a great day | am sure— mich celebration. Thanks for the little pic- ture of you two sweethearts. I like it. | | There is so mich information in the last 3 letters it will take some time for me to go over it fully. I am glad you gay there is no hurn in my returning it. I appreciate ever bit of thts Lriforhatiater' IT wrsn to kdiow if this is a current add ress~- irs. ,jiliiam Fortin, 113 3. A. (Q@ramgeville, Idaho? Looks like she is a ‘escendent of one of Archies younger children, and I would like| to contact her. Thanks for telling me about Archies gold. I would like to have that mch gold | today, any gold piece is a treasure now and we are not allowed own mich of it. ,” it was nice “rehie,had tihs hoard to build a new home in the new settlement, in Mos. It truely costs to build a new home there times. Bill gave our children 25 acres of ground to build by us, and the young people had to pay inheritance tax on it to the state of Cae Since my husband does not wish to move to town it will be nice to . have ‘the young folks near,to look in on us, if we have the need, You ask if I know & the party who came to Missouri with Archie Lovelace? I have them some wherd in my records, but will wait to see what is published on them when a new history book comes out this year on the early set tlers. of Missouri. I understand Archies family arc to be in this book. I have ordered a covy of the book. I hope it will give some information, perhaps memories of Aunt Molly Potter, on the route Lovelace party - traveled from N.C. to Missouri. At present I have no idea.sWould it be tia-Lovelace~ ville, Ky.? Aubt Mott}yPotter said her mother told of how the slaves were lockedin chains at night to ‘keep them from ing away, while they were on the trip from N. _ 6. to Moe. I do not know that Archie and Nancy owned a slave-- it is family triditioy a. house man and woman woman was given to them as a wedding present and they were so before they made the move to Moe. Archie made 2 trips before setteling in Pettis Co. Mo, in 1838. First with out his family, the Holmans and Thomas s came’on the second v.1De ~ I wrote to Wiss Pay Lovelace, it is to soon 66 expect an answer. I am anxious to know about Capt. Ninian “teel and hid ancesters,.as 5 of Archie Lovelace grand- children are also grandchildren of a Ninian Steel, by their daughter Bophia married to David Louwace, my grand fathers first wife. Lucy and Ninian Steel are buried in Providence churchyard cemetery --~ Is there more than one Ninian Steel? I did not know my grandfathers first family, except the youngest, ElizabethLovelace Norris, BR She come home grandfather Davids last illness, from some where in Oklohoma. She was about age 16 n my mother, only child of second marriage, was born, 1880; Elizabeth was the vounellih child of David and Sophia Steel rn — I beleive I should stop here and geb some. of the papers mailed back to you that I think would help me to have more information on. You are 4 darling to do all of this for me. ” : f Love .to you two/ Ps. ce cagh, Hah Lata 5 j /Wpenae pac Kucky fuctre og * C12 4718, Mrs W . T. Cremgan 12283 Road 25 Madera, Cae 98637 Dear Mr, & Mrs. Swann '" My kinsman": Your Good letter had been received and I am moat HAPPY with your promt reply, Willingness to share data you have on our families of N. Carolina, and at age 92 you are an inspiration to me that at age 70 I may hope to have years to perhaps 90 if I am so lucky, to enjoy this family past and present. Modesto, home of your dau- gnter is about 75 miles north of Madera, but my sister lives but 15 miles away. bre Veatrice Foster, 13518 “pine Blvd., waterford, Ca. 95386. This is a busy time for both sister and myself, but one of these days, I hope not to for off I can visit my Sister and at this time see your daughter too. Perhaps my sister can od before then so tell your daughter about us and that we will telephone before coming to see her, - THANK YOU very much for sharing the information of our people. I am as full of questions as Methodist measure-. heaped up and running over, but I will try to keep - them dovm to your request. Yor afe a darling to share, and the way I like geneology Il m®sure yowr works as one of love and Great. Please at no = over tax yourself. The one question for this tim " do you know if a nenorial/stat stands for my 2 times great grandfather Thomas Lovelace’ I have the name of the cemetery. I would be very happy to have a copy of the will of James Holeman. I have names of the children but not dates of birth and deaths. jhen you find a day it would: be a pleasure to fo over the file of family recards make some notes to send me , I willingly pay sou: I like to tisit on paper with folks to fer away for me to call and I af doing just that now. This is a habit 1 cultivated eight years I was widowed ang Lived aloné, this way I was never very lonely. You come visit me when you feel like it. You may find this intering , about Archie Lovelace. About l years ago my sister and I motered to our birth place, Pettis County, Mo., onty a few miles from,| where Nancy‘ iiolman) and Archic Lovelace settled, and the family grew up. Since I begain tO remember as a child, one of the sweetest memories was my first day at the . Lovelace, a large one room building, shining white in side and out. Archies children, grand and oo JOT tliat wl aids be ¥ | ae ioe. ee page 2 Creamer to Swam é 1 : creat grandchildren, and all of the youth of that community went to sch » after my parents moved us to “plorado in 1919 and country schools Were conso with city schools, Sedalid, them the mich loved old I6@velace building was tak t it is written in the history of Pettis County, Mo.. A new book is comming \ soon, of some 100. pages of early settlers of this county, I find it hadgd te read ity- I all ready know Lovelace school will be mentioned im tue book, i On the way home from this “trip to the home land sister and |. went to Liberty, near Kansis City, and visited at the Baptist College, there we were privalarced to hole in out hands the first mimite book of Providence, the Mother Baptist Churen of in 1640 ae County. ‘The Church was started/by a smal! grounc, and Archie was one of) the & ful workers and generous’ Supporters eThe book had been sent to the anniversary of the church and the book was in fair condition. were well vres rved, some of it was in. the hand,of Archie as clerk of his son Qhomas Lovelace. In the early years of the church onr year Archic was in charre and for this service he received <0... yearly and payed wice a year. Uh me What preaciing costs today Archie was a kind man and to this day jis wel remenbercd by many of that community where he and others of the party from |! I would like to know mat the family op Kev william Cook, Namey ix bh vei was mother of all of Archied children tho he married three times, out lived them and untill the age of 92. Nancy might have lived as long but) a run away h threw er from the buggy and she was killed. She and Archie were on the wav material for the wedding -gorm of their youngest daughter Nancy Cook Lovelace was there last child. It is said he was a doctor A i rexas was wolthy in land amid cabRle,and was a partner in a’casinod lic was fr. JO when Archies will was probated, but other than this I have nothin# on his not realy seagched Texas records for him. ] wonder if he was in that logation in / > de 7 AN “w where a. : | ‘exas /whers his. fatwers mother went with hervuyoungers child william Lovelace - Ty There are other stories I can ‘cll you of the family if you are intrested. Any ev Ve e way this is enougi for this tithe. I look forward to heraing again from jou. aja i 3 ae : /) x. o | May the GOOg LORD keep on laking you. Lovin {tps 4th D$ Jeane devs Chrwmeks. bona habe Righ ix Gaed Appia, cure pninth What, Qed are ee} tld Wher. Ah OChicted. Gerd Ceqee ling kee devi.Hd Cate y Pe a en ae gecl MMe th s adele GAL L racol ee ia BY eat tL oF do a eto Le oe ge litt / “LA wth. er At p24 -. Aes Ai AUL cordly, . oe oh he e. Wo tees seeded A tine Ah. fer tw JiteVty | ie. ath dl. ail 4 dai Bn heed ACL be tn ha Chic (om ’ erat Cte WoC a Verelhncuks. wwe 17E5° oe fee gon 7 ee | fart t (746 > ~ Rola | (oes . A> (TES Var -/ Ue fp Cte — Ji eas ELOY pete a ALL. Vercsed Yoleree x , a Jura Peowtus rc fee &U.-ef ey co fir fe | prs On 4/12/1821 Charlés married ili, 12/27/1798. Charles and Rebecca moved to about 1846 and reared their family north of Bonham, Tex. This couple is buried north of Bonham, ie died §/14/1877 died 12/10/1853. The third wife was Lowlsa Agnes Sims Lair, « widow vith several children, E F ed Riram ii Prather (two of her ther and Lempak Prather); (2) Elem who married Elizabeth 7 (One ehild ; who married Jeona on 12/29/1882; (4) Dyson sho on who married Nancy on 2/8/1827 (willis R, Corona, New Mexe on 8/29/1955 wréte me that Thowas Archibald had a son named John L, the father of William Randolph Lovelace, senior doctor of the Lovelace Clinie in eee a. See ths aha tak ad nena Telnet of SEIIREEROMEGRIE: Fagar Wlein Lovele- ’ years of Aluquerques Edger 4 was the father of Willi oa junier member of the clinie.); (6) Elisabeth married Morton Beggarly 12/29/1831} William Lovelace married Sarah ann Holmen (for some very strange reason William wes not listed Children of Charles Lovelace and Rebecca Ann Morrow Lovelace: (1)Milly Maria b 12/5/ te Hall, DLJ, Lived in bonham, Tex frr a short tim. vaue in the Brown Cemetery wes that of this couple teby-—-Fa; La Milly Marie & lierve Lorton had 3 ehildren~ Allen, Bert, Alice, After Milly's R ye-married and hed the one daughterm, Minnie; (2) Allen M Jovelace b 10/25/ * by tds parents in Brown Gometery 3 of Bonham, Texas. (Children of M & Oona cena are who married Lise MoMillen. Doug's children were Will, ben, Ailey, could not remember, In 1925 Liza MoMillen th the children of Allen ™ Lovelace- 3/190 buried in Brown Cemetery; twice married 1st~ lou Holt had son, in Gommenche, Tex and was killed in a car accident, Charlie had 3 Gaughters ty his 2nd marriage whe now live in Oklahoma.(ther Children of Allen Lovelace are: Bttie who married LR. Granger & lived in Gomanchs, Texy Realie who married fd Lee and Angie Bert, 41, Hern & Prank who lived in Desdemonia~ in 1525 in Desdemonia, Tex). (3)Children of Charles Low lace & Ace Morrey Lovelace Gon't~ William Pink Lovelace b 4/23/18 wz Mary Runnels, according to sunt’ ; of Corena says Mary Stallard as she was a sister of his mother & pertially a ee Wm Pimk moved to Calif ip the early 1860's, Aut Elle said no children for ace Gkiaren of this eouple~ Mary who married a lr. Grown & moved to California, Ai Alma (nale), Joe, Mex. ana Pronk, Sack, R who lived at Corona, N. Mex,., Lillie who died in Hamilton, Texag, hiext eon of Charles was Andrew Jackson "Dack" b 8/30/1833 m Susan Lair, dau of Louisa Agnes Sims Lair whe was the rd wife of Gharles. 11 of this couple's children are dead and buried in or near Sonhem, Tex, Ida lived to be the oldest mamber of her family. She had married Claude futh, ‘here are wo heirs for this family. The next son of Gharles & Rebecca Ann Lovelace is Lewis b 8/6/23 4895. Bis lst marriage vas to the sister of Susan Lair, namely, angie Lair, There wes éne child, Belle who = Tom MeColister @ lived im Dalles, Temas. Children of the MeColisters arelien, who ved in Big Spring, Tex, Clara vho m Glen King (Children of the King’s Mildred, Nacmia, Ruth, MeGolister, Prenk, Harold); 2. Jom (2 children- Illene & J.C); 3. Ira who m a widow with 3 dau & 0002 Lives in Dallas, Tex at this date, 6/2/68. Next son of Charkes & Reeca A, Lovelace~ Martin & Lovelace b 10/18/1897 m his first cousin, Mary 8 Lovelace, dau of Wim & Sallie Holman Lovee jase, (Ghiléren: Mat, Pink, Linnie, Al (uy father-F 4 1M, Blick, Ear] and a number of children “bo died young. Next of Charles & Rebecca= Thomas A Lovelace b §/26/1839. We always spoke this man of “thele dike to eontest some of his femily. I unéerstand that re i i B 4 Texas. I also know nothing of the son, Douglas Lovelace b 8/1/1647. Love Louise Agnes Sims Lair: Ella E b 5/3/1859 (2 ehileren for without iasue and Lila, never married) nad Lewis Levelace b 12/30/1861, I also copied these notes from this BILLE:* Thomas F Prather, son wife wee born Mey 7, 1820. lLempsh Prather dew of liirem and Anne ise “Lewis Randolph Lovelace, som of Elam & Llizabeth Lovelace was E i : : F F " ; : j 968 This informatio typed by Fay Allen Lovelace, BOx 514, Jonham, Tex | ott dws of infort.tion sent to me oy 'Te T. term, .t 2, vox 447, sta eeViile, > a ‘Ss letter pcstuarced 5-]i-66) | Opies nede May 16, 1968 by Fay A Lovelace, .orten, “x wrerle ency .OWisce settieg near edailea, o li MW, sArciie GO¥se eti.] «<nown as loveleve ocho] iF). They are turies ~ SCrlavea iene for @ sci in Cecelteiry at burch, smis Chiasagien «res (1) avid b lkey to ure Why \<) TLonals lil, kt ie ee@e -ertin 1237 in bo D 1 14, 45 dimes AsE Ria BTS dd aeieth & lg =wee is OF Bam, (6) slfrea ‘issouwri b 1639 to Orevon d near ortland, (7jlLuc) & 1é47 6 - 0 Vala, (7) hamcy & 1650. Fandiy of Janes ov lace in youmg Sen - reares 7 ohilaren = oldest atr, scale D1ED & x Me. ~@ tortier, 113 5 "A", urenzeville, idaLo Arn} iva,55 \Gj Or chia lax Lo. rox tier ®ivll - cu. c5ont se ars eiograptiical sketch of Avcuuk Lui iAck§ Ferner” = 9 Glitton, Hol "ae ci ti fon s@ttis -o « vowling Ureen ‘ownendp ane @ novie citisen - une of tre Cherter sere rae of .>e0viuence Septiet Perch = tm wes a jealous vorser in tne cause < one of tne leadiny sewers in iis orene Asetion & . ong tie eheerful givera to ouilid the heusO@e i 1. «o mative of isresei) MOeg se Cet Dorm J-<E-1PO6 = educates ture © grew to manhood. © was Swiried in l&<c7 to ‘ancy ol: an. bag “as @ native of +.°. This union wes clecaca wits 10 enilaren - 91} of ¢bou are @ Greail vo their parents. ineir nemes are iuvid, Thomes, jam, lisaeti, Jaes, sliorth, Lucy, OVie, isi tem, * hernie, Bow cead. wonle Low lace cum to tile re Lis Lo avout 183] | anu tren Lu nee Lome | to * varosine « moved to rettia Jo., Mo in le locating siwre :« has imuovea @ Sine fain of xt Ae @ ig numberea acong tue succes ful pioneers of + ettis De is «~iie was (d.a0G@ CY @ Gorse rune Ming eway in 1667, in l&E le wa'riec rs. ha “ah sheeler who aied in dite dScOUsR FF. LOV lat bas fac such troutle strife in :iiis world, be is a stout « rusged man © @ much Lonored & estocmed citisen." fra. -e.ia voiloway, «709 4th ote, Kansas ity, io. is a gram s6u-t. or-grens aawmiiter, = . , ms ad ém. Miss Day Lovelace P.O. Box 514 Bonham; Texas 75418 7-22-68 Dear Mr, Swann: Thanks so very much for your letter of 2-20-68. You answered my information just as 1 wished. I thought maybe bhe supplying of blanks would be so much less ‘writing. I have just ordered a bunch of blank Family Record Sheets like Mr. Hibbard wrote me that he uses so when I start filling these in I may beyelling for help. Mr. Hibbard, Mrs. Heard and Mrs. Muschel have been so wonderful in sending me information. On the Holman side, Mr. Roy R Holman, Rt 5, Box 107, Sedalia, Mo has heen marvelous. I do wish thereyecould be some way that I could really show all of eked appreciation. | I am ordering Miss Lazenby's "Catawba Frontier" from the Genealogical book Co., 521-23 St Paul's Place, Balti- more, Md. I still have not found a publisher for "Captain Ninian Steel and His Descendants" but I will keep looking. I really want to buy the book if it is still in print. On the graveyard records, 1 just thought maybe you might have some kind of record already prepared on who of our families are buried where. Some of the DAR women of this county have made a sort cf survey of the old monuments in the cmeeteries of Fannin Co as a project in their DAR work. Do you have any good book to suggest that I might buy onour family? Thanks, again for the material I received to-day. Best regards to you and Mrs. Swann. . = Sincerely, Yds a eee al. a Miss Day Lovelace P. O. Box 514 Bonham, JFexas 75418 8-5-68 Dear Mr. Swann: I have outlined some material that I have had|fo time. I'm sure that you already have this but I thougt I would send you a copys I'm so proud of the informati Mrs. Heard, Miss Oe and Mrs.Muschel have sent to me. ee Mrs Foy F holman, Mrs. D.ii. Baker, and others have nt such marvelous information. 1 shall write Miss SrOWMm as 1 would like to help her in her search if this is possible by correspondence, I'm just not physically able to — es haven "t even been in my brothers! home in Dallas Since my heart upset about one year 220. 1 m beginning to get a little response from ace (my paternal great gerfather) clan. In addi rat 2 have already sent to you, Mrs. Heard the Allen Lovelaceb 8/20/1783 family and the Amos Lovelace emfteries in sent me a copy of the letter of Mrs. especially happy to get this as it seems most di information on these people. van you tel] me what ‘pase of Mr. Newmen, the |genealogist You spoke of a Prather record, I would ay prectay oO very much having all of the news on this family possib] le as ; has been so difficult to get information from that angle of the Char . - . ly t Loveiace tamily. | beliew that his si ster married |kiram rra- ther, ; Sincerely, \ fj? Miss Say wl ovelace P. oO. Box 514 (2 . 7 , > Bonham, ‘7, vas J 51S —_— 233 NEBRASKA AVENUE oe WASHINGTON, 0.C. Now. 23, 1942. Dear Mr. Swann: Another session with the completely unpunc- tuated lo tter makes i isary to write| again to correct previous misreadings or oversigh gt William povenace did go tc Texas. There is notsise to icate that he not remain there. I quote (spelling and punctuation mine!): "I was de- lighted in all my travel, excent in the State: of Ar- kansas, and there is the poorest dand I ever saw and the queerest people. We landed in Texas the 13th! of Lecember and Uneélé William Lovelace landed the 7th of this month (that would be Jan. 7, 1855. The letter is dated probably _~ Jem. 20 but looks like 2d, aid postmarked at Bonham Jan. 23), all safe and well, ‘a all well at this time, |and it cost us 4447 and Uncle william $200, which makes "$647. n The census of 1860 would tell how many of these »eople were in Faron County at that time, no doubt. The census has been moved to a suburban place called Suitland, in karyland, and I am not likely to be there soon. Ses bch gia Wien cae - ges Nig: yy ite | aS vo Dy ai Letter frog Fe 3. Lovelace Lazenby, Oa Forest, %. ¢, They were 46S oGusins, thei, ree Ih the will of glen Lovelacey at tatesville, Js * probably F. 8, Othe» IhAldren ment Randolph, Riche Elvira, who mPrried 1620, i ca her } % “evTeyard, moar Pifth Cresk, Children mentioned Erasms een, Archibel4, Sarah Oevag, Thomas, who wont : Tiem (ment fone. in let. ter as “Mele W thed "yes¢ fiddle,” sna, who married M onmnag Prather, DP Paptise and Fleahor hee~ Catherine, Janghter His wil} is at Statesville, ron Mentione: in Johnston, Bleanor, who ther, an? Linney Summers, Pannin County, Texas, February the 2d, 1855, Sear Cousins things for it‘ib the pretties: lend. f6r it deoke like @ bank of stable to 1llars oer fore, Thi “hres 08 teh'do: her? on the Gcsount of the per “wshel and flour 5 to 6 UD cow le Wilt sais Il well wt this og : Ls ; T have looke i ‘9s et very Jittle as yes Ly very miny of my neigh hors ie rot tut Iowil) mention the teeth Of MMeAustin, | Re 4ie? 48 the Ind lan Territory “Sout 129 mdles- ‘fron Honham ond theremeMi tic Adokors + 4 we him, They sey 5 wes col Get! To? on bis lunge. They ste Oia tavern #19h hin en3 eteved unegl he Mieds le sbid be WS @illing te 4 <t Heupe icdty 8421 be wug Willing fe <9 Umele 1. come by nate ke MESON SMotey. Pecvably tng, chee Cor Pre ainap. ‘ at 6 = a eh ; - — : Tre eee Ca " ‘ise - ad ** * # 4 ‘ s : he gs a —- fe fo re > wii aecip alain Sarbsbilaiond 4 , es Bede ~ plese) Weal Ze 5 . te fF 2 ne : ores ee on > a hee Mr ae ices i % < Me: Sk ae * a sa * ; Ss i * * pe avue,reeabl® pisse’ te live ins. thirds of the ugme, and i e dinner with you and But dear cousins + want you Daniels 4 want yo %o tell »o 1 os gethin along shere they nave erossed Lt mst bring my letter to a close na writings and 1 went yo and ell ali know that 1 am 4 had stati remain your Mare De Oe Latemy> Oak Forest: Iredell Countys Peb<« 25> 1858. ) , néer of David and saenel veost. Helm Temily appears an the 1860 census of aat= Farnin county es follows: williem Lovelace aged 46 Arn ° i le v* Sarah 4s ae” gi Se “dl “ ai Va [ y} 18 ee ‘ f 16 14 12 C 10 . +6 / of 6 2 all born 45 MN. Ce excop® feniel. YFar™ valued at 43,000 and per sonal property at $5,000. "Cousin Te Be stimeons” referred to in the was Living 1 william Leveleae's “om as a carpe® in 1850, and he e oldest daughters rachel, though in th fs only ° see a ae hd uaok be Be Be, Thomas * - - vanse County, Wi"Gitiiay a Prenat (She. was sine soe y s ™rrice « 27, 1810, and ea eure & to th vedell County * * y oon after. In the Bo C n : ounty census © ¥& Te Bs Sims on , es seo | hie Kole ere eae >= *-— = 4 James \ Sti .s ferrie O--e8 «= « « “y (Cece Berther\ 3 \ \ 9 mos, \ A . “@ } ‘ $ f se wotagee 2339 NEBRASKA AVENUE -. WASHINGTON, 0b. c. , ; Nov, 23, 1942, Dear Mr. Swann: Another session with the completely unpunc- tuated ter makes ¥: Lo write again to correct previous misreacings or oversights; William Povelace did go to Texas, There is nothing to cate that he not remain there, T 1 punctuation mine!): "T was de- » except in the State of Ap the poorest land T ever saw and the queerest people. We landed in Texas the 13th of December and UNCle WillTati Lovelace landed the 7th o? this month (that would be Jan. 7, 1855, The letter is dated probably Jam. 20 but looks like 2d, and postmarked at Bonham Jan, 23), all safe and well, or all well at this time, and it Cost us $447 and Uncle William $200, which makes $647." The census of 4860 would tell how tnese people were in } C adoubt, Sincerely, ) a WV [ary ad (apiucls f PPson, the Prather zt . tine the rural] Carried © you. ] had Shared your mect ting in the ne 23 Bee Paper we Can date, J do not Fecal] Such a Story unless ; ~ + on. Lb Was he agricultura) Section of urkey farm Fresno e@ had an artical on e It ig likely this the Lovelacets were Shinr MY late husabard "aS Agent, ba., 16 Miles Same distany fr om »Arasms. bro ther of T™! Thomas Lovelace, My €n of Chowchilla, Ca. ang they May Jr, fair. }, H at Chowehi 1)» in law ‘ovelace chitg, 9 Ca, LOr Sw €randson ¢ aS on the broth, OS te ta us TS of my Archie. Klem a famijy name? Yes I have a tel} me more, | as Not: Iknoy that 4melia ' Amelia “YPSon does Not appear in the wil Was of this family VNarles Lovelace ~ and address, Please, these page 2 Creamer - Swann May 197) and we think of them as being mostly cerrect. Do you know who has the Ross Bible, ;< perhaps in the hands of Anna Thomas Ross,d/o Sally Holman Thomas? Were the Ross 's in Missouri? I have a faint memory from childhood of the name,‘ but do not know why. Il have just received the names of the following people, but have not worked with them. Have you? Mr. Floyd Gaither, 1005 Chesley St., Street,(St. not given I Judge to be Ky.) descendent of Millie Elenor Lovelace(d/oCharles) married Gapt. Jeremiah Gaither, aot dae: Nicholas Gaither. | Mrs Luther H. Kelly Jr. 16 El Paso Dr. Huma, La. descd. of Erasmis Lovelace, his son Amos, his daughter Mpelia married Franklin Gaither. Mrs Wilfred Bowles R.¥.D. #1 Bowen, Il]. descds. from John Lovelace s/o Issac. My friend Mrs Ruby Woolf, Madera, and I think the Mrs Rely ate her people, tho she does not have contact with them, Ruby was my @riend some tine before t knew she is a Igvelacée by birth. She is a lovely small woman, age 82, her. eye sight not good for reading, so 1 will writst to the KelliB's for her, and me too. Ruby. descds from the only, and youngey,brother of Amos Lovelace— William Zrasms b. 26 March 1818, married Panthea Allison 15 Dac. 160. He died 5 Dec. 188) Guntown Lee, Miss.. I am geeatly disappointed- My letter to J. R. Lovelace, LaJolla has been returned. Moved, not forwardahle. I hope this line shows up some where else. In 3 years from 971 you may have a later address for J.R.L.. or he may have been identified in an earlier letter. I woald just like to knows I have no trace of Robert and Thomas .Love- lace half brotéhers of my mother. They could have had children Pnearly as old as my mother,ituth fovelace Embreé, b 1680, Pettis County, Missouri. \ Enough for thie time Tak care of you, I think you are wonderful Sincerely y Z A tenifhinnig @ pts -<< €4, cet Yenkls Welle Zfafi. . Lekegheerk - fp 9-778 : 4 aaa 42-Q . J LF t yi Giabteastio-< L paws fe 1393 = 47 haba th Pra a ae Oph, ISFI wy Waelbbe cA (hot g ae < Pf 2 tok oe LIZY } oneal ba : f2 a i “<< 42 a4 t—Ler t of / : r) / re ee : / f ; 4 Cfh, oo Jf 7 < ff Bt he 2k Meacps Sayou! 141 YUNOA : —_ Leff. ($a - a. f fm Bie a. 1 Fag *: bh ys deoeei He. — : | Meare ow | Luef, “ i [b+ c re . / Pr 2- Ht. ei a, +4 ‘ ) =f < < p GY , /. / ferret d44~ 7+€ 44.4 : ww ~ P oe 10 GAdeks ee. §/972- hy Fe Toy j —. = pia a IG IS Pia At bh ahen aa JINIAZdIG Siq © 2 ty! Se Dies in Ash Reville Mrs. W. Perry (Floy Mae) such an unexpected comeback that ouch, wife of the general sec- she was able to leave the hospital tary of a Baptist State Con- and appear with her husband at a tion of N, C., diedin Asheville number of Baptist meetings, by. 22 at = age of 57. On his return from Japan ini Her cheerful outlook as she November, Evangelist. Billy ght a malignancy during the Graham suddenly appeared at the t two years was said to be an hospital in Asheville. piration to her friends and Dr. Crouch, who spent most low Baptists, Several months of the Convention traveling back 9 she amazed her doctors with and forth from Convention Hall to the hospital reported that Mrs, Crouch said that when Graham prayed with her she felt “lifted up into the presence of the Lord,” Airs, Crouch, who was widely known for her work with young people, served on the faculty at Ridgétrest Baptist Assembly and at assemblies in many other states, The family requested that a memorial library shelf be established at Southeastern Bap- tist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest, in lieu of flowers, The memorial fund is being collected at the State Convention Office in Raleigh, 301 Hillsboro Street. The former Floy Mae Havnaer of Hickory, Mrs.Crouch was married to Dr. Crouch in 1926. They attended South- western Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth together. The funeral service was in the First Baptist Church of Asheville where Dr. Crouch was pastor for about 20 years before coming to the State Convention position, Conducting the funeral ser- vice was Dr. Cecil Sherman, pas- tor of the Asheville First Church; Dr. T, L, Cashwell Jr., pastor of the Hayes Barton Baptist Church in Raleigh where Mrs. Crouch was a member; and Robert Bruhn, administrative assistant to Dr, Crouch, In addition to her husba7d, Mrs, Crouch is survived by three sons, the Rev. W. Henry Crouch of Winston-Salem, Dr. Robert P, Crouch and DanC, Crouch both of Asheville; one daughter, Mrs, Allen Patterson of Asheville; seven brothers, C. H, Havnaer of Roanoke, Va., C. E, Havnaer and L, E, Havnaer, both of Hickory, Ray J. Havnaer and Paul E. Havnaer of Columbus, Ga,, Perry G, Havnaer Jr. of Springfield, Va., and Ralph Havnaer of Charlotte; three sisters, Mrs. A, L. Bowman of Springfield, Va., Mrs. L, C, IrvinofWinston- Salem and Mrs. Helen H, Rhodes of Raleigh; 14 grandchildren. AUSTIN Crovcn Etecutive Secretary Mrs. L.. K. Steele and Mre She was member of New Salem Uni ted Mi Church funeral! Services wil] be The family will receive friends at the J Funeral] STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL RESOURCES Microfilmed by | DIVISION OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY Archives and Records Section | Raleigh, North Carolina © IREDELL COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY STATESVILLE, N.C. THOMAS EATON -SWANN PAPERS ALPHABETICAL GROUP: 2 ~ YEARS 2 “eee J, RED. RATIO: 7 "/ DATE FILHED : % tA_ oe . - | 5 a5 | ". 3 : — + i + t / C / iT 7 / a [ve t L 6 } i . A ; ; f 7 “> P tfinek Cuatk bores f9 Ae dg br iy al eae < ae port : Ai “4, Et rk “J a pet ¢ aa Le Gx q Ae n dic ates L me: (eh « z : s 4e-poee | IS fae OF( Ce cok ie 2 Aeark. Ay 25° fog Wear Cer i Vn Za es Z make be x PP ale. we 4 Jnnfrig ct 15 fF Pp). Na ; 2 pe oo 4 ee ~-t Ce | Fee ite. 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A het SB ng, \ Lot oe ‘ 5 Ot : i LOOfi ns b- eran I C Cm free 9 — ns eS ae at} rf. se £t7 oo. tg ts aie ét—s<4~wW J "4 > Zz a a me E : o oar oe &é C “ } ie Ma eA a v 6 g. 2 f a. So O~ frwe-t-1 + )ile« “y Le Cnc —s B , ) , . oc a re . of Hecgt| bok, Le LE. H_ ST 4-74 4 7 ¢ a Ler. b 0. 7. yg ae eT p t - ad re pr 4 Cof at eF | ae agee AN Nw gs ae Arke71 701 18 April 1972 | 4 Me. Bert C. Davidson 132 3. Blair : Virden, 111.-62690 -----------~-~(Javidson-Sharpe Marriage) Mr, Edward i'd. Moore, Jr, Box 112, University, ee Davidson, b 1790(Rowan Co 7) Davidson-Swann) : Be Te be Jwann : Route 1, Box 147. Silas Sharpe m sara Vavidson) Statesville, Ne Ge@28677eeee----( Davidson-swann Marriage) (Silas Davidson Sharpe , b 1809) Jane Davidson m John Sharpe) Dear Lavidson Searchers, In checking through my file in search of something else; I find these pers that I am sure that you will all be interested in. what you asked or is not in these papers, but I feel that the families mentioned herein are probably connected, and each may help the others. some I have onl recently come and some I have had for some time. when you wrote, either did not find them, or did not get the connection at the time. i am interested in this line in trying to help a Mr. a Davidson, and & hes. white in Texas with their lines. I would be very interested in anything that you oe find, in connection with this. I believe the Texas fo are of the Duck River Clan; and that goes back to the old John Davidson the lst that m the widow Morrison, and was the uncle to Gen. ume Lee Davidson, Ol Ne Ue Kev. war fam, “3 : if 1 strike a nerve anywhere, please let me in on it. , sinterely yours Richard T, Davidson fogbt. Gae, Mee fir ae rs She; Z w AF an 4 Hed jon KO OL Ae Cn Z [2 ek = OG C7 ALL J -€x4 A fh U. odie "Et OGY a Bree Kneswer Box 112 University, Mississippi 38677 June $8, 1970 Mr. T, E. Swann ctatesville, North Carolina Dear Mr. Swann: I appreciate your sending me the material on deaths of Mecklenburg County, N.C, Kobin- sons John and Ezekiel in 1826, As I wrote earlier, our discovery of the Robisons is So new that I'm just now getting started on research, and I am grateful for your help, oe vomewhere -amiI don't recall when either- I have seen a reference to "The Rising Sun" group but, never dreaming of a possible comection, I didn't pay. too much attention, The possibility that Thomas Swann was a member of this group is certainly worth inves- tigating. Someone Wwas been accepted into the DAR on the basis of Thomas Swann's Rev- olutionary War service and I assume this is "my" Thomas since his wife|is listed as Catharina « I now have proof she was a McConnaughey, but perhaps this fact was not known at the time of the DAR's approval of the papers, My aunt has asked for & copy of these papers since she is a member. | also, and we're hoping there may be ad- iitional information on Thomas, York County, Pa, is adjacent. to Baltimore, Hartford and Carroll Counties, Md, so perhaps the "Rising Sun" affiliation may prove to be cor- rect, I'm sorry that I don't have any data on children and descendants of Isaac Swannts bro- thers and sisters yet. But if I ever find such information, you can be sure I'll pass alone the information to you, I, too, had heard about a Thoms Swann connection with the University of Mississippi but have not found any reference to him in the official history of-the iniversity, I am acquainted with the University Historian and will ask him if there are any records which mention Thomas owamn,. Thanks again for the material, Sincerely, ae Pp a , P. Moore, Jr, Se Have you ever corresponded with Mrs. Grace Boats; Hox les Levan, Utah 81639 regardine Davidsons? She is a wonderful, generous per- Son and does have \Davidson ances- tors, d lf? ¢ wl Sa XI Ce c esTn_v j ~ a yoy if [i fra las a —c, SS VCR Cat ot Nill Petters >Re Ces _L<ct- 2 Ws <_& ie oF al i <. he ( < ee - re a [= >> E ; & / > “7 ~~ x _ EE s a — a : > ; a u Lule ~~ et 7 ee ee ¥ tte. eS SO Z s — in et 1—-4-- c £ 4 L \ Lig 4 “<x j Sek eA. 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