Mildred
Dixon Harrod
Flat Rock,
Indiana
August 24,
1976
Dear Barbara,
Another year is passing rapidly and still I never have had the honor of your presence in my home. As I get older the friends I have made in genealogy seem very precious to me. Just last week a woman from Kansas stopped here. I had helped her with two families in this neighborhood and had even sent her a Bible that had belonged to an ancestor. Dolph and I visited in her home when on that long trip in the fall of 1968.
The three sheets enclosed are from the Bible of John Osburn, our ancestor. For many long years I had hoped to locate this Bible, with no luck. A few months ago I began corresponding with Ann Nichols of Greentown, Indiana, a descendant of John Osburn on the LETT side. She, her mother and aunt came one day in June. We had a lovely time. I also took them back to John and some help on the Lett family. Well - just about a week ago this Ann sent me a big envelope with pages from the Bible. I had told her that the info I had was supposed to have come from that Bible, and I always felt that it was in that part of Indiana, since several of John Osburn's girls went there. She said she found the Bible on her mother's back porch in the midst of a bunch of old encyclopedias her mother was about to toss out. Will wonders never cease.
This summer I have done a lot of work in the garden, weed pulling and cutting and then some freezing and canning. Dolph does the grass cutting. The grandchildren have been here. I also had company overnight from Arizona in June. Helped them on the Dixon line and took them to Jennings County for a day to show where the Dixons settled and some old houses.
We have a museum at Hope and I am on the Board of Directors. I have given them several articles, loaned them others, and have more to give. I want to make a display of Spanish-American articles from the Philippines where Dad served almost three years, also one of the old Hope Normal School which he attended before 1898.
Since my brother, Lewis, died unexpectedly last October I have dwelt on old age more than ever. He was 64. My older brother, Ernest Paul, just 60 in April is in the Indiana Masonic Home at Franklin. He had been in an Indianapolis hospital from the middle of last August until June 7.
Dolph has been talking of a family gathering for relatives in this area and many from Illinois around the 10th of September in celebration of his 75th birthday. He has written to Illinois to ask how many can come.
Will ring off and hope to hear from you.
Love,
Mildred
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