Mildred
Dixon Harrod
Flat Rock,
Indiana
June 11,
1970
Dear Barbara,
Seems like yesterday was too busy to get letters written so will try today. Thanks so much for entertaining me. You were a gracious hostess. Some of my most valued friends are those I have made through genealogy research for them or myself.
There were many Osborns in Indiana in the early 1830's with these marriages in Morgan County: Richard Osborn and Delilah Chammes(?), June 29, 1830 and Matilda Osborn and Jacob Skaggs, March 17, 1835.
I will tell you a little of the GATES family. Jacob Gates and wife, Ann Hester, daughter of John and Ursula Hester, came from Pennsylvania, county unknown, to Covington, Kentucky about 1837 when their son, Daniel, was 11 years of age. He was born in Pennsylvania December 16, 1826. They may have moved to Cincinnati some years later, where Daniel enlisted in the 4th Regiment of Volunteers for the Mexican War. September 21, 1849, Daniel married Nancy Griffin, probably in Cincinnati. They came to Bartholomew County, Indiana and located at Columbus, date unknown. Daniel's second marriage in Bartholomew County to Mrs. Mary Cecilia Aspy Markland on February 7, 1867, was blessed with two daughters, the second being Dolph's mother, Sarah Monta Gates, born December 16, 1872. Some place I have the other children of Jacob Gates. One son settled in Brown County, Indiana and I think one or more children went to Illinois.
Greetings to your husband and sons and Tom's mother.
Sincerely,
Mildred
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