Hello, A while back I posted a couple of queries about Mount Hope Cemetery where my g.g.grandmother was buried. Below is a letter dated 1939 by a niece of James Henry Calvert, my g.g.grandmothers 2nd husband. It mentions some of the Calvert kids, when and where they were born, and clarifies the cemetery question. I thought someone, especially descendents of James Henry Calvert, might be interested. Here is the letter: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- 5215 Wissahickon Ave., Phillidelphia, Pennsylvania, March 25, 1939. Mr. William H. White, Prattville, Alabama. My Dear Mr. White, For a number of years my husband and I have been compiling a record of the Calvert family and in connection with the account of the life of James Henry Calvert. I wrote to to Cousin Nannie Calvert in Plainview, Texas, for some information concerning him. I was quite anxious to learn something about the life of his first wife, Jane White, and cousin nannie suggested that I write you for such details as she could not furnish me. Any assistance you can give me will be gratefully appreciated and will assist us materially in completing the account of his life. For your convenience, I have listed the various matters I desire further information upon, in questionnaire form and any of the questions you can answer, I have provided sufficient space following the quesion so you can insert the answer and thus save yourself a lot of additional writing. I am also enclosing a stamped self-addressed envelope so you can readily return the form to me. And as I said before, we will be so thankful for any help you can give us. The information we particularly wish to obtain concerns your mother, Jane White. We would like to know her father's name, her mother's maiden name; also the date your father and mother were married, and the date of your father's death; also the name of the cemetery in which he was buried? We would also be glad to have any recollections you may have of he lives of your mother and your step-father after they had migrated to Texas, following theri marriage November 20, 1866, iin Spartanburg County, South Carolina. Cousin Nannie has related that they first lived in Upshur County, where James Jasper Calvert was born in 1872; then removed to Cooke County, where Isabella Jane McDowell Calvert was born in 1874 and shortly there after, on April 13, 1874, your mother died and was buried in the graveyard of Mount Hope Church, and of James Henry Calvert's second marriage, augus 15, 1875, to Nellie Hooper, daughter of J. A. Hooper, and the birth of Elizabeth Deview Caovert, and, in the spring of 1890, if the family moving to Plainview. Perhaps I should explain that James Henry Calvert was my uncle, my mother's only brother. I am the daughter of Sarah Deview Calvert Getry; my father was Miles Oscar Gentry. Assuring you of our grateful appreciation of any assistance you can give us and looking forward with iinterst and pleasure to hearing from you, I am, Cordially and sincerely, (Her signature is here), Mary Gentry Knight (Mrs. B. Hoff Knight) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------