This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bender Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VgB.2ACI/32 Message Board Post: I am in posession of a copy of a letter, dated Washington, DC, Friday, 19 August 1938, written by Isham W. Perkins, detailing his road trip with "John and Eddie" from Washington to Hermosa, South Dakota earlier the same month where they stayed with either John or Eddie's family, "the Bender's" at their small ranch near Grace Cooledge Creek. There is mention of other family members, including a brother associated with a mine in Lead, SD. I have had no luck figuring out who these people were. I *suspect* John or Eddie was a son of Jacob and Mary Bender, who died in the 1940's, and are buried in a public cemetary that overlooks Hermosa. Would like to correspond with anyone familar with this family.