Russ, It was a pleasant surprise to find another Shannon letter out there. I hope everyone shares these. I have six or seven. Some of these I got from Lewis King when I visited him years ago at Poplar Hill. He said ther were several more at one time, but someone took them and no one knows what happened to them. I think I got some from Louise Dedman(George Shannon's descendant) and some from Tommie Taylor.Thanks for the copy of the John Shannon letter. Do you have more? In 1994, I had surgery on my back . I was laid up for two months & told myself,"Okay there's no excuse now". So I transcribed all my Shannon letters. I had 300 pages. These were almost all letters from Joseph's son Granville, my Gr-Gr Grandfather. If I can EVER get these email addresses down I will really be glad! I keep losing messages through my own darn ignorance. Mike