Sharon: Could you fwd the address of Patty Douglass.......I did receive you email.....but failed to act on it as I had intended originally. Thank you very much. Hiram W. Lynch On 1/7/2010 8:28 PM, Sharon Bramhall wrote: > Don't know if you caught my email a month ago about this, but I recently purchased the "Good Hope History" (book) by the late Jean Rapking (from her daughter, Patty Douglass) - hoping to find out more about the locations of the families mentioned in my Great-great grandfather John E. Smith's Civil War pension papers - one of which was a John H. Sommerville (b.ca1851). I thought it might help knowing more about my GGgparents' associates - and where they lived. It's a well-done book, hardbound, indexed, 315 pages, and I was surprised she only charged me $10 + $3 postage!! It's worth much more.. > > If you give me a name, I will be glad to look it up for you - there are skuds of Sommervilles in the index. On page 223, there's a photograph of the J.W. Sommerville house (Victorian style) > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Marilyn and Bill<[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thu, January 7, 2010 4:08:57 PM > Subject: Re: [HCGS] HACKER'S > > Ruby: Thank you for that information. Sarah Hacker& David Smith, Jr > are my ggg grandparents. Their oldest son, Rev. John Smith& wife, Mary > "Polly" (Swisher) Smith are my gg. Their youngest son, Lewis Dexter& > wife Virginia Rebecca (Gardner) Smith are my great grandparents. Their > son, Elmer Edward Smith& wife, Ethel (Kelley) Smith are my > grandparents, all on my mother's side. When my mother did her research > on the Smith's in the '70's, she couldn't make an indisputable > connection between David Smith, Sr.& Capt. John Smith of Augusta Co., > Va. I guess that sometime after my mother's research, they have been > able to make that firm connection. How about the Sommerville family (my > ggg grandmother) of Good Hope? Certainly need anecdotal stories about > that wonderful family both before they arrived in America from Ireland& > as they laid down their roots in Good Hope. Hiram W. Lynch > Ashtabula, Ohio > > On 1/7/2010 9:21 AM, Ruby Casto wrote: > >> Hiram, >> My late husband also had descendants from John Hacker. His daughter Sarah Hacker married David Smith and Bob descended down through the Smith line from Lewis County, WV. >> >> Ruby Casto >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >