Milford Center, Ohio
March 17, 1925
Dear Grandaughter:
Your letter rec’d, I was very glad to hear from you, glad you are all well- It found all of us with
the grip and feeling pretty mean.
I started to answer Sunday but had to give it up as I soon found I was not only cross-eyed, but
dumb as a nut, then I tried again yesterday but spoiled the first sheet I started and quit, but this
morn I feel different tho I did not sleep three hours last night.
Was glad to hear you were doing so well in your studies, You and Marvin both, as for your
coming next vacation why not, all of you, we would be glad to see you coming. No use to talk of
your Aunt Dora and Uncle Walt coming west this season as he has so much to do, he is farming
near 700 A. Your Dad will remember the Moulton farm south across the bridge with the big
pastures both siedes of the road he has that for this year, has 100 head of cattle on it now, mostly
broke up, they are plowing on the home place at present.
Tell Evelyn I will answer her letter soon, tell her I said for her to sure come see me this summer.
You spoke about your ancestry I can’t give you much information as far as dates are concerned.
All information I have I got from my Aunt’s talk and being young at the time, I paid not attention
to dates. But this I know my Father’s people the Reanys’ settled in Eastern Ohio and Western
Penna. When Pittsburg was only a fort and trading Post. I have heard my Father’s sister tell
about the wolves running their flocks of sheep in the house when she and a neighbor woman were
there alone. One man had gone to the mill and my Uncle had gone on his circuit to preach.
But I can’t say when they come over, they were from North of Dublin. My Mother’s people
settled in South Carolina, when Florida belonged to Spain. Great Great Grandad on her side
fought the Seminole Indians and helped drive them back to Spanish territory. So you see by all of
that, that not only I but my father and mother were also born Americans and I am glad to say that
no member of all the families we have been connected with has ever been disloyal to America and
Old Glory, Long may she wave.
My Mother was a Robinson, her Mother was a Reynolds and it was from a sister of her
Mother’s I got most of the family history. My Father and Mother at that time had passed on/
Grandfather Robinson had moved his family into East Tenn..in the thirties, there my Mother was
born.
There were three sets of children in his family, Mother belonged to the middle set, somewhere in
the early forties, the family crossed Kentucky into southern Ohiom settling 90 miles east of
Cincinnati. The oldest son in the family staid in Tenn., he was the only slave holder of the lot,
Grandfather did not believe in it, which was one reason of his moving to Ohio.
Yes, there has been a number of the different members of the family in the wars tho no
spectaculer cases.
Your Grandmother on your Father’s side was of an old Irish family of early settlers, her
Grandmother was at Fort Pitt at the time of the Indian Massacre, she was 10 years old at the
time, but she could still remember what she saw that day when she died, she lived to be 115 yrs.
Old.
I never saw her, she had been dead two years when I got acquaintted with the family. Your
Grandmother’s oldest brother was in the Union Army three years, came home wounded but
always refused a pension, said he had gone out to fight for his country, not for their money. I
heard him tell about them being so near starved at one time when with Sherman in Georgia that
they killed a mule and ate it. It was all they had for suupper after walking all day.
Well, I will bring this to a close, there is a lot I have not thought of, but if you were looking for a
prince or two, you will be disappointed and I will be glad of it for we don’t need them in our
“biss”.
Say hello to everybody
Write again, Granddad
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