June 8, '71 Hi Pat, I got your letter and was glad to get old Ben's letter with it. When I was growing up I used him for a younger brother. His mother took care of my sister and me when we were small. Her and Aunt Ellie were the nearest to a mother I ever had. So you see my two favorite aunts were really no kin to me. I guess you can blame me for not documenting facts on Henry McLaughlin. P. W. Appleton of Camp San Saba was getting all of Grandpa's records together to get him a Confederate Pension when Grandpa died. He offered it to Dad and Uncle John but they left it with him. I read it once when I was about 14 or 15. He also had his discharge from the Confederate Army. Mr. Appleton had did that kind of work for a lot of people and when he died in 1929 or 30 all of them were burned as there was no place to keep them. I could have got ours but at that time I was never in one place more than a month. I do know that Grandpa was seven years old when he come to the U. S. Marley was his mother's maiden name. When I first came to Gillette there was a priest here named Marley. Although I am not Catholic we became friends. He took a trip back to Ireland, said he checked church records and hearsay and one of his great-aunts had married a McLaughlin and came to U. S. He would have got me all the dope on them but I was trying to feed six kids and I never had the money at the right time. I didn't want him to do it at his own expense. Now he is dead. Tell Mick "Billie" when she changed her name she gave up the names of two of the best women on Earth. Lydia Teague, Bell Morgeson, and Ellie McLaughlin were the best people I ever knew. This Emma Lee that Ben wrote about has an older sister in California. Her name is Mary Lou Teague. It is still Teague because she married her cousin, George Teague, the one I was named after. He is Ouida's uncle. About the McLaurine's, I think you can get a lot on them from the Indian Department in Oklahoma. Mr. and Mrs. McLaurine and all their kids were eligible for Indian land in Oklahoma. I remember hearing Mr. McLaurine talk about living on his. You know your Mother is 1/8 Indian. How many of Aunt Ellie's sisters are living? Edna, the baby was about my age. Her mother died when she was a baby and her sister, Stella Pharr raised her as her own. She called Stella Mother. When she was little she was Edna Pharr. She called her other sisters Aunt. And I thought she was the cutest thing around. Stella was a close friend of my mother. She was just like Aunt Ellie only her hair was black and Aunt Ellie's was red, beautiful dark red, not sorrel like mine. I think the reason all those records are so fouled up, a lot of those people couldn't read or write and time didn't mean a thing. Uncle John and Aunt were married. In those days a lot of people from that part of NM went to Midland, Texas. My folks did. My mother's name was Maudie Gertrude Neatherlon. One of my daughters got me a Coat of Arms and a Family Origin. The name goes back to a king of Ireland 980 to 1002. If you don't have one, I'll send you this one and you can copy it. If you wonder why I write even worse sometimes, it's these old catskinner hands. They are not good for handling anything smaller than a 12 crescent. Red