Re: Isaac Larkin Feagley b. 1867 Indiana
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Re: Isaac Larkin Feagley b. 1867 Indiana
4/17/01
JONELLE, ISAAC LARKIN FEAGLEY WAS ALSO MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JANIE BELLE FEAGLEY ROBINSON WAS MY GRANDMOTHER AND ELINEOR ROBINSON IS MY MOTHER. THAT WOULD MAKE OUR MOTHERS FIRST COUSINS, WE ARE COUSINS ONCE REMOVED.MY MOTHER REMEMBERS HER UNCLE STEVE VERY WELL AND HAS A TERRIFIC MEMORY FOR STORIES SHE HEARD AS A CHILD.WHEN YOUR GRANDFATHER GOT HIT IN THE HEAD WITH A HUGE METAL CABLE IN THE DEAD OF WINTER AND WAS IN THE HOSP. ALMOST DEAD, RUTH HAD JUST GIVEN BIRTH TO A BABY GIRL, BONNIE WAS HER NAME, THE BABY WAS VERY YOUNG(3WKS) AND IT IS BELIEVED THAT STEVE HADN'T EVEN SEEN HER AT THAT POINT, RUTH, THINKING THAT STEVE WOULD DIE WITHOUT SEEING HER, BUNDLED HER UP AND ASKED THE NEIGHBOR, WHO OWNED A CAR TO TAKE HER AND BONNIE TO EVANSVILLE TO THE HOSPITAL, AS MISFORTUNE WOULD HAVE IT, IT WAS DURING A SNOW STORM AND THE RUTH AND THE BABY HAD TO SIT IN THE RUMBLE SEAT ALL THE WAY TO DEACONESS HOSP. STEVE WAS UNCONSCIOUS AND NEVER SAW THE BABY,BUT OF COURSE HE LIVED, THE BABY, BONNIE LEE, DIED A FEW DAYS LATER OF PNEUMONIA. THEY HELD THE FUNERAL AT MY GRANDPARENTS IN EVANSVILLE, AS STEVE WAS STILL IN THE HOSP.. MY GRANDFATHER, JAMES ROBINSON, CAME HOME FROM WORK, NOT KNOWING THE BABY HAD DIED OR WAS SICK AND SAW A BLACK WREATH ON THE DOOR, AND THOUGHT THAT SOMEONE IN HIS FAMILY HAD DIED, AS THAT WAS THE CUSTOM. THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN IN 1926, BONNIE WAS BORN, RIGHT BEFORE YOUR MOTHER.
DO YOU REMEMBER, OR DID YOU EVER KNOW ANNIE
LOCKYEAR?MY MOTHER BELIEVES SHE REMEMBERS ANNIE HAVING A FALSE LEG.DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT HER?ALSO I'D LOVE TO HAVE MORE INFORMATION ON YOUR BRANCH, YOUR MOTHER AND SIBLINGS, THEIR SPOUSES AND CHILDREN.MY MOTHER IS 70 IN JUNE, I'M GUESSING WE ARE ABOUT THE SAME AGE, I'LL BE 46 IN JUNE.PLEASE CONTACT ME.THANKS, CHRISTINE