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Subject: Re: Pratt burial in Coffeyville, Montgomery Co.?
Date: 18 Mar 2006 15:30:24 -0700


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Priscilla,

I have gone back and looked at your original query dated 14 Oct 2005, as well as all the responses to it. I see that no one responded with any helpful information to that query. Orlena is the only one who tried to help by including links for information she had found pertaining to the Pratt family. That should get and “E” for effort, if nothing else.

I, as well as most everyone, understand the lack of extra time. Unfortunately, I also work full time, 5 to 6 days a week and 8 to 12 hours a day. I drive 35 minutes each way to work. I have 2 grandsons, ages 9 and 7, who I have most weekends. I have an aged mother (86 next week) who lives 12 miles from me and I see to her needs. I have a terminally ill (alcohol related cirrhosis of the liver) husband. I see to all the upkeep of a 102 acre farm, and on and on, but I still find time to do what I enjoy.

I transcribe, or canvas, if you wish, cemeteries here in Cherokee County, Kansas. Some of my cemetery listings can be seen at:

http://www.rootsweb.com/~kscemete/kscem.htm

I also maintain a database of my mother’s obituary collection (over 35,000 and growing). She had over 11,000 when I decided to put them on my computer.

I answer a lot of queries. People contact me privately about cemeteries. I have sent obituaries and pictures to many states, including Canada.

I enjoy collecting the information and sharing. I make errors. I am the first to admit it. But it is extremely difficult to proofread your own work and, unfortunately, I don’t have anyone who can do that for me other than the people on the internet. Errors found by myself, or others, are corrected and I go to the next thing. I am grateful for all the help I can get. I certainly don’t turn on them and criticize them for trying to be of help, whether it be spelling, incorrect date, or whatever. I want my work to be correct.

This caption, I feel, is the blunt of you rage:

‘like this one, the way I read it, I’m pretty sure wasn’t the way you meant it. : -)

Capt John Sylvester Pratt

Capt. Pratt served during the Civil War in the 15th & 147th IL Inf.
“He was the son of John Aldrich Pratt & Lydia Maria (Webster) & my great granduncle.”
Photographs I add for Rosehill were sent to me by a gal who lives near the cemetery.’

I believe this must have come from FAG. To you, who knows all the information behind it, sees nothing incorrect about it. When I read it, I read it as: Capt. John Sylvester Pratt is the son of two (2) Fathers and one Mother. Probably a lot of people have smiled and thought: “Oh, well, the person posting this got ahead of herself somewhere.” Most would not give a care whether your post looked or sounded proper. At least Orlena did care enough to try to help you look a little better. I’ll bet she will not attempt to help you again.

In all of your looking at Orlena’s responses to the poster’s requests, did you also take the time to look at the poster’s responses back to Orlena? I don’t think you took the time. You are in such a rage (it shows in every word of your response) that you just looked for mistakes and negativity. Take a couple of minutes and read some of the responses back to Orlena. In many cases, I’m sure, some of the information has not helped the poster but they are grateful for her attempt to try to be of help and very politely thanked her for her help.

By the way, Orlena is my older sister. She is very caring, generous and big hearted. She is a wonderful person whom you should have the privilege of knowing. She does have a college degree as well as many years of knowledge you can only dream about having. We three, Orlena, our mother and myself work on many of these posts as a team. We whole-heartedly are dedicated to trying to be of help to others trying to find information about their ancestors.

Below are three e-address for myself. If you would like to contact me, they are all valid addresses, as are Orlena’s. Or you could publicly apologize to, just as you have publicly humiliated, my sister. You are the one who has to “live” with yourself.





I will leave you with these words: “Be thoughtful of the words you say, keep them soft and sweet. You never know from day to day which ones you will have to eat.”

Peggy Kreiger



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