Name/Title
AU Harris, Paul Joseph Jr. - 1989-12-28 letter to Barbara (Gooding) HarrisEntry/Object ID
1991.2.9Context
Paul J. Harris, Jr.
3923 Seeley Avenue
Downers Grove, IL 60515
(708) 810-0967
December 28, 1989
Barbara Harris
54 Lorene Avenue
Athens, OH 45701
Dear Barbara,
As always, it was a pleasure talking to you the other day. Before I forget it, please make a note of the fact that my telephone area code changed on November 11 from 312 to 708. Chicago was just growing so fast that they had to give a separate area code to the suburbs!
Please find the following enclosed:
"Notes on the Early Life of Jordan Thomas Harris and James Arthur Harris," by Joseph H. Harris, 1932, 3 pgs.
A two generation pedigree chart for Martha Jane Dille.
Family Group Charts for the following:
Jordan Harris & Ida Lambert
David Dille & Elizabeth Meyers
Lewis Dille & Olive Linscott
Amos Linscott & ? ?
Amos Linscott & Jane Squires
Individual Data Sheets for the following:
Martha Jane Dille
Lewis Dille
0live Linscott
Descendancy Chart for Jordan Thomas Harris
Since you have recently been in the "branches" or "roots" of the family around Jordan Harris and Ida Lambert, I thought you might like to have a current copy of my family group and descendancy charts for them. As I told you on the phone, I have talked to Martha (Rau) Mercer (#953) and she is excited to help gather information. She gave me the address and phone number for her nephew, Carl Rau (#1404), who lives about fifteen miles away from me. I haven't called him yet (in my spare time) but am looking forward to doing so. He can give me the names of his wife and four children and possibly more detailed information on his parents. In the short time I have been doing this I have located four cousins
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in the Chicago area. By summer I should be able to hold a large reunion with nobody having to stay overnight!
I realize that Olive Linscott is not on your husbands family line, but would appreciate any help you might render in breaking past Olive Linscott cnu my line. I have that her father was Amos Linscott, but do not know her mother's name. It may be important to note that Amos had a second marriage to Jane Squires that produced eight more children. I have sent both of those family group charts to help make a key fit somewhere, not to confuse the issue. I hope the latter does not happen.
This ought to be enough to keep you busy for a while (as if you need it)! I will definitely get your way this spring, but I think we can accomplish a lot between now and then. Looking forward to getting together and meeting your family - our family.
Sincerely,
P.S. If you have an opportunity sometime to photocopy the Penn Township section of the Morgan County History Book, I would be happy to pay for it. I believe it would be very useful to me, but am in no big hurry for it. Thanks!
