----- Original Message ----- From: Johnny and Peggy Vardeman To: was2nd@charter.net Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 11:21 AM Subject: Fw: my grandfather ----- Original Message ----- From: Johnny and Peggy Vardeman To: vdrh@gotricounty.com Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 11:17 AM Subject: my grandfather Hello, I am Margaret Ellsworth Vardeman, granddaughter of William Henry Ellsworth who was the conductor that you wrote about. The year of his birth and death are correct but his first name is wrong. I was born in 1933 and even though I grew up in Tennessee, I spent almost every summer in Washington as my father was on the tobacco market each summer in NC. I never knew my grandfather to be called anything other than William or Captain. He died the year I was a freshman at Gallatin High School in Tennessee. I married in June of 1956 and have lived in Gainesville, Ga every since. I must have inherited the love of trains from Grandpapa. I love to watch them and ride on them. Even though when we go places we mostly fly but we are planning a train ride through the western states. I am a retired school teacher and my father Henry Kirkwood Ellsworth died in 1981. My mother Louise Tull Ellsworth was born in Kinston, NC and she and my dad married in 1930. I enjoyed reading this article which was sent to me by Bill Sellers who used to live in Washington but now lives in Gainesville. He also lived in Gallatin, TN for a while and now has known 5 generations of the Ellsworth family as we introduced my children and grandchildren to him. Sincerely Margaret (Peggy) Ellsworth Vardeman