TUCKER:
Letter from
Floyd E. Haupt
"Thanks for
the data on the Tuckers. I decided to xerox all of it and return
evverything to you [Wiley Benjamin Hill, Jr.]. I'm glad to have
one question answered (but not glad for the way it was answered).
I have wondered whether or not there were any deeds for the
Richland County. My daughter, Ruth Ellen, married John L._______. [omitted for privacy sake],on June 19th. They live in Salt Lake City. She just
graduated and has gotten a bug about genealogy. Since I have been
swamped lately, (I'm writing a book on computers), I will let her carry
the ball for awhile in genealogy. I loaned her all the basic
collections.
" Aunt Florence
is visiting us for a few days--she lives in Santa Barbara. (That
is one of my mother's sisters); another of my mother's sisters, Nelly
Brown, died on June 26th down in Tucson. Aunt Florence recently
had part of her right leg amputated and so we have a 'wooden legged'
aunt. I suppose it is our pirate ancestry showing up again.
"Did I tell you
that I had traced the Tucker line back to Elizabeth County, Virginia
and from there to England? A few generations are hazy but there
is no _______[torn off] our line. Alexander Brown's Genesis
of the United States _______[part of torn off
piece] has the Tucker lineage in it."
[Signed] Floyd
E. Haupt
Date in or around the 1970's? This was a part of loose files belonging to Wiley Benjamin Hill, Jr.
A one page letter, envelope missing, and torn on the bottom left corner.
The spirit of exploring and celebrating where we came from is the work of genealogists. My Dad, "Bennie" Hill, was the quintessential family historian. He caught the bug later in life but spent the next 33 years making up for lost time. Thanks to you, Dad, I'm hooked!
