Hi Bill, I apologize for spelling your last name wrong in a previous posting. Just got a few letters wrong. Same thing happens to my last name of Wainwright. I hope that I can remember Grummons instead of Grimmes. Thanks for the Tioga Co. newspaper postings. My mother was raised in "The Valley". Pat Wainwright of Chemung Co

Dear Pat. I understand completely. The Grummon family has been around for centuries. Since most of them were illiterate farmers, it usually became left to the imagination of the census taker to spell it. for them. Even today, when we tell them our name it seems to come out sounding like alphabet soup, to them. I now go by the intent - not the spelling. Could you be related to Capt. Simeon Wainwright of Haverhill, MA, who was killed, and his home burned by Indians in 1708? Bill Grummons ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rodney A Wainwright" <rodopat@juno.com> To: <NY-OLD-NEWS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 3:57 PM Subject: Re: [NY-OLD-NEWS] Tioga Co., NY, January 30, 1886 #5 > Hi Bill, > I apologize for spelling your last name wrong in a previous posting. > Just got a few letters wrong. > Same thing happens to my last name of Wainwright. > I hope that I can remember Grummons instead of Grimmes. > Thanks for the Tioga Co. newspaper postings. My mother was > raised in "The Valley". > Pat Wainwright of Chemung Co > > > ==== NY-OLD-NEWS Mailing List ==== > New York Newspapers > http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com/NY/ > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >