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Dear Verbie
As Zena is writting the news I'll see if i can write a little
genealogy or framily tree. you're paternal and my paternal are the same.
There is a great number of our relatives that i have never seen but
perhaps have heard them talked about more than you have. Grandma was a
Copeland and Great Grandmother Copeland was a Basket. Grandma had three
sisters and 1 brother. Emaline who died young, Aunt Caroline McClain,
Aunt Adline Adams. She visited her brother in Indiana on her way to
Texas. Never saw or heard from him any more.
The Harveys, Meads,
Higgins, McClains and i don't know who else came by wagon train from Ill
to Texas. Great Grandfather Copeland was Dutch. He married two sisters.
After Grandmother Copeland died he married her widowed sister, who had
a daughter Eliszabeth. She was Grandma's cousin, a McClain. She had
three sons, I think were John, Wesley and Logue. They are our second
cousins one degree removed; second and first cousins to Adline and Uncle
Will (McClain). None of us ever saw them except Zena and she was very
small. Years ago when Walter was traveling in Texas he met and talked
to Logue a few minutes, but thought that he was just and old acquaintence
of our parents.
Our half uncle John Harvey married grandmas first
husbands sister. Their children are our half cousins. Then he married
Iva, your Fathers first cousin. Their children are our half and second
cousins witch equals first cousins.
Grandpa's mother was an Adams. He
got his Cherokee blood from Hilderbrand name. His Grandmother was a
full blood, his mother half, he one quarter, yourfather one-eighth, and
you are one-sixteenth. The Cherokees don't belong to the red or the
indian race. They are caucasions. The only civilized tribe in America
when the colinist came. He had a brother Pleas, died before my birth.
A half brother and sister, Jake and Jane.
He had a cousin "Uncle Tom
Harvey" lived at Heart, Oklahoma when we were there. Had a big store
there and a chain of stores also had lots of cattle. I remember one of
his herds came by our place. "Uncle Jake Adams" was Grandpas cousin.
I don't know if first or second. Also his brother in-law after he
married Great Aunt Adline. His first children are some kind of cousins
to us and his Aunt Adline's children are your father's first cousins,
ourcousins one degree removed. Ourhalf Aunt Martha Higgens is Sister to
Uncle John.
Aunt Adline Adams had two daughters by first husband. Bell
and Ida Scott. I guess you know Aunt Martha and Uncle John are step
brother and sister to Uncle Will and Aunt Adile McClain. Grandpa and
Grandma were widowed each had two children by former marriage. My
penmanship might have been better with ink and not by artificial light
but i just don't use ink unles nesasary. Zena might tell some more.
I'll quit. Love to all.
Loda
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