Forebears and Bears

I received wonderful mail from a cousin sometime past that enclosed photos and momentos in his possession which had belonged to our grandmother.  All great items I am thankful to have.  One of the items was an envelope on which was written: "Do Not Throw Away, Some of my ancestors as told to me by my mother."  Wow.  In the absence of a family bible, this is worth gold.  The notes, some handwritten and some typed, confirmed much of my research and I was glad to know I was headed in the right direction.  I only wish her information had extended even further back in the ancestral tree as these notes ended where my own research had ended - with Sophia King my great great great great grandmother.  This Midwest branch of the family tree looks like this: My grandmother's notes offered this (I can only surmise that these notes were left by my grandmother Wilma to probably one of her sons given the relationships described by the writer, i.e., "my great grandmot...