Re: Mary Snelling m Charles Crume-Nelson Co., KY-1795
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In reply to:
Mary Snelling m Charles Crume-Nelson Co., KY-1795
Joe Ewell 10/20/01
Joe,
I've tried several times to send messages to your email address only to have them bounce. Here's what they said:
Stella Pryor is the one who had found all those Yule variations I
mentioned. She used to live nearby and has been back here and given some
classes in conjunction with Scottish games held here annually. It's been
a while since we corresponded, but I think she'd remember my name.
It was in 1910 in Abilene, Kansas, that Andrew Yule and May Yule, both
born after 1890 in Scotland, were living with my gr-grandmother Agnes
(Wilkie) Sibbald. They were called, in the census, nephew and niece, but
as Agnes was 75 years old, they must have been greats or great-greats,
if the relationship was correct at all.
Stella (ok, it's really Estella, but not to me) found an 1833 Jean
Wilkie/Peter Yule marriage in Longforgan (just west of Dundee) for me
that looked like my Wilkie family, who lived only a few miles farther
west. But it turned out that it was the wrong Jean, and she found no
other marriages between these two families. We still don't know who the
Yule youngsters of 1910 were.
In the late 1980s there were two Yule families living just outside of
Abilene, but I didn't have the good sense to call them at the time to
see if they had descended from Andrew. They were both gone a few years
later when I got serious about trying to find out. I've never looked for
a marriage of May Yule in Kansas; perhaps I should.
Your Ewell/Yule story is convoluted, to say the least, but doesn't it
make a great tale to add to a genealogy.
The $13 includes postage in a plain brown envelope. If you want the book
in a padded envelope, add a dollar for envelope cost and extra postage.
I've had no complaints about damage using the plain envelopes.
Cheers,
Jim McMillen
1300 Park Lane
Arlington, TX 76012
817 461-1599