In a message dated 7/2/01 1:13:17 AM Eastern Daylight Time, mrhill@eastlink.net writes: > While I am writing this, let me mention that Jesse Summerlin and his wife > Peggy Williams had 15 children, including my grandfather Jesse Giles > Summerlin. Several of them (5 or 6) were deaf-mutes, obviously hereditary. > In your research, have you come across notations for any other Summerlin or > Hines family members that they were deaf-mutes? > > Hi Becky, thank you for your reply, i have not really looked at many census for the Summerlin's but on some of the census to the right of the page it mat have if they were deaf, blind, etc. Good luck Christine Grimes Thacker