Wow! I've seen this letter written to my great-great-grandmother before. It would be wonderful to put this (plus a typed transcription) on the www.familysearch.org website. To whom should we seek permission? Does anyone have artifacts belonging to Mary Ann Darrow Richardson? Photos or actual artifacts? Photos of these should also be posted on FamilySearch. Thanks for sharing.
This letter was not written to Mary Darrow Richardson - she died in 1872. This letter was written by Frederick Walter to his sister Mary Cox Whiting on June 1, 1879 just one day prior to being critically injured in a logging accident of which he never regained consciousness and died a few short days later. In the letter he inquires of Mary about "the boys". Mary had 7 sons with her husband Edwin Whiting. As young men, Charles Edmund and Sullivan Calvin Richardson traveled with the Whitings to Arizona from Springville, sometime after their parents died. It is possible that FW Cox could have been inquiring about them (his Richardson sons) in his letter to his sister.
Wow! I've seen this letter written to my great-great-grandmother before. It would be wonderful to put this (plus a typed transcription) on the www.familysearch.org website. To whom should we seek permission? Does anyone have artifacts belonging to Mary Ann Darrow Richardson? Photos or actual artifacts? Photos of these should also be posted on FamilySearch. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteThis letter was not written to Mary Darrow Richardson - she died in 1872. This letter was written by Frederick Walter to his sister Mary Cox Whiting on June 1, 1879 just one day prior to being critically injured in a logging accident of which he never regained consciousness and died a few short days later. In the letter he inquires of Mary about "the boys". Mary had 7 sons with her husband Edwin Whiting. As young men, Charles Edmund and Sullivan Calvin Richardson traveled with the Whitings to Arizona from Springville, sometime after their parents died. It is possible that FW Cox could have been inquiring about them (his Richardson sons) in his letter to his sister.
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