Adruain-- Thanks for your words of approval. Your input four or five years ago was critical to helping me put the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle together. Also helped me connect up Asa Ladd to the Cato family. As I state in the book, his being chosen for execution at Gratiot almost certainly was more than a result of random chance. The war in southeast Missouri was intensely personal, and the descendants of those directly affected by it are quite numerous. That knowledge along with the knowledge many of them are going to be sifting through the material with a fine tooth comb made me especially cautious about providing as many details as possible as well as meticulously citing my sources. Certainly the McGee/Cato story is a compelling one and deserves to be told in more detail. I've got one or two other southeast Missouri projects in the works that I will be integrating the saga of your family into, so as you come up with more information please let me know. The Peterson Papers will probably be a good source of information, but that is going to take a large-scale effort to go through page by page and so far I have just touched the tip of the iceberg there. By the way, my sincere apologies for misspelling your name in the book acknowledgements. I got it right in the body of the book, but my hand went astray when I was typing the acknowledgements. I caught that error around eight weeks ago, but the book was too far along in the printing process to correct. If and when there is a second printing and/or a paperback edition I'll get it right. Thanks, Kirby Ross ----- Original Message ----- From: Cato324@wmconnect.com To: MO-CW-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [MO-CW] Samuel Hildebrand Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 05:37:31 EST > > Kirby > I finally got my book from the Arkansas Press. > Great job!!!! I think I now know why my family went > to Arkansas and why they stayed there, until my > great grandfather ventured back to Butler Co Mo. > Did I ever tell you the story as related to me by > Cletes Ellinghouse, as to how Major William Grimsley > got to Arkansas?? > > Adruain Cato > > > ==== MO-CW Mailing List ==== > NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, > political announcements, current events, items for sale, personal > messages, flames, etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and > will be grounds for removal. Consideration for exceptions, contact > Kathleen Burnett kathleenburnett@earthlink.net > > ============================== > New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your > ancestors at the same time. Share your tree with family and > friends. Learn more: > http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&targetid=5429 -- ___________________________________________________ Play 100s of games for FREE! http://games.mail.com/