This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XeB.2ACE/834.1123.1.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: You are correct -- there is one connection to the Setzers with another Parrott; I meant there is none to my direct line. Unfortunately, I think the desire to establish certain bloodlines may have outrun sound research in the "Setzer myth." TJ Parrott by all accounts was a prolific letter-writer and diarist throughout his life, although most of those papers now are gone, and had a strong connection to family and was always curious about other people's histories and families -- for obvious reasons, once we realized he was illegitimate. You can see in that 1946 letter to my aunt Ruth that he hedges a bit around the information on his father, despite being able to reel off information about his grandparents and their siblings. Later, in 1948, he's more candid with his own son in admitting that Speck is really his father. No doubt TJ probably did know the circumstances around his mother's death, but to my knowledge he never set those down in writing anywhere.