Posted on: VanBuren Co. Ia Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ia/VanBuren/11342 Surname: ------------------------- Letter dated Dec.1,1974, from Verna Lewis of Mesa, AZ to Lowell Dean Drummond, Farmington, Van Buren Co., IA. Dear Drummond (Cousin?) Bless your heart for writing us--even after 9 years. perhaps we're even more delighted than ever to hear from you. I wish I could say that we had found more. But while we never pass up a Drummond name---still we turned the actual Research on the Drummond line over to Eddie's sister because we just couldn't handle it all. But I'm afraid she has not gone further. We're glad you have been looking for Drummond folks--It's interesting isn't it! We still feel we just must be a relative--the fact that you are living in Iowa where our Drummonds moved is a good sign. And tho' we don't feel Alice Rebecca is our Rebecca because her birth would be about 1842 and our Rebecca was born about 1819. Oh good--I just found our Drummond foldeer--it seemed misplaced--& my memory wasn't that good--We have Rebecca's brothers and sisters from an old letter to her daughter Marietta (Hopkins)Fellows--as William Jacob, Olive, Andrew, Catherine, John, Henry, Abraham & ? Mary.--We are wondering if her brother William couldn't be your great grandfather James Henry's father--and Alice Rebecca named for our Rebecca--Ages would be okay & really sounds possible--Have you searched census in West Virginia or do you know any more about them? Wm Willis & Malinda Mason or Josiah D & Mary Kidwell--do you know where Wm Willis died in 1881? This is exciting to have a new hope. We have a note on a Josiah--We will check that---If we can only find them in an 1850 census it will give more. We'll try West Virginia and Iowa again. Meantime just had to thank you so much and ask if you'd share anything more you have & your pedigree. We have found Andrew, Jacob & Henry in 1860 Van Buren Census--& an estate settlement of Abraham mentioning Rebecca. Hopefully, Verna