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GEORGE HARRISON SANFORD KING
1301 PRINCE EDWARD STREET
FREDERICKSBURG, VIRGINIA
1 - 24 - 52
Dear Miss Noland,
I have your letter of recent date and glad to hear from
you. I was sorry to learn however that your sister was confined to the
hospital at Christmas time and I hope now well on the way to recovery.
I hope you ladies may come east this spring when Virginia is so beauti-
ful, and so many of the private gardens are open.
I wonder if President Truman could not get Mr. Churchill
to have some of his historians and genealogists see if they cannot find
something of the ancestry of Captain Alexander Doniphan (circa 1653-1717)
in Great Britian? Perhaps but a letter from Mr. Churchill directed to
the proper party in that quarter would bring about some results. I
suggest Captain Doniphan because he is the only ancestor we have any
definite information on before he came to these shores and it seems to
me this is quite a definite clue. I am placing the information known
concerning him on a separate sheet and you can do as you think best.
Like you I had a Christmas note from Mr. Miller. He seems
certain the Truman family originated in Virginia on the James, but has
not gotten to the salient records as yet. Unfortunately these are located
at a considerable distance from me, or I would be in a better position to
assist in the matter.
With every good wish for '52,
Cordially yours,
Miss Mary Ethel Noland,
Independence, Missouri.
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