For Samuel and Sandi: Thanks for your answers. I have looked the letter over and there were no names to refer to. I am sure there is a connection but I don't know what it is. My mother is 93 her brother is 96 this month. Both are children again and only at certain times will they elaborate about family or friends back in Yell County. They left when Alta was 8 and Ed was 12. This is the letter written by my g-grandfather David Alexander Robinson. a 1 Verden ok June 19, 1911 Dear brother and family I rite you a few lines to let you no how I am I am not well I have been sick ever sens I bin out here the water Dont a gree with me it keeps me sik all the time I will haft to leave this plase purty soon (b 2) I Dont no when it will bee we are thinken of goin back to mo as soon I git beter Ike is wanten me to go fi I go I will let you no before I go rite soon and let me no how you all are giten long how all the sick Peple ar who is deade Sens I left Down ther I got letter from home this moring tha Diden say eney thing a bout eney one els but ther selfs ( c 3 ) wel T B this is the Purtes farming county I ever seen but that ant all they is some Disaraigz that I deant like and gess you wood be giss lik me the hot wind bloss so hot that it has cooked the corn till it is as whit in the top as if had ben cut and ........ in the son we had a Rain a saturday Night but I think is most too late yo help the corn very much it Raind and hald and wind bload till I thot I haft to go to the storm has but Dident go a little longer I wood tuck to hole (d 4 ) well Bell I wood be glad you wood send me a glass of buter milk I wood Deather have that than eney thing that I can! thick of now well Bell anser this soon as I mite be gon so I will close Good by. All the balins (lealins) is well as casnely (cannby) D A . I J . Robinson to all te Famely Bell send Ida word how I and Ike have eney more than I was when Roter her i am sill Belle aken ********** This is exactly as the letter was written. David Alexander Robinson, my g-grandfather, wrote the letter and included his brothers name, I.J.(Ike--Isaac J.) along with his D.A. at the end. Ida was his daughter, home was Birta. This letter was sent to his brother Thomas Benton T.B. and wife Belle in Birta, Yell County, AR in 1911 I can't find a picture of the McVey's so I guess my imagination thought so, but perhaps I just have not found it. When next I visit my uncle it may be a good day for him and he will tell me about the McVey's. The only place my family would have known them would have been Birta, Rover and Dardanelle in Yell County or in Murray County, Ok or at Red Oak, in the Choctaw. I will put you in my address book and if ever I find something I will contact you. Good luck. Sorry I could not help. Armenta.....