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Subject: Re: [KS-CEMETERIES] Thanks and I am attaching a copy of a few things
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:20:32 -0000
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Author: Orlena39
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Thank you for sharing your grandmother's pen pal correspondence. Was her surname Nunemaker? I'm not finding her in the 1910 or 1920 Sumner Co. or Sedgwick Co. KS HeritageQuest Census. I'm also not finding Merle Bauer.
I suggest the first thing you do is read and sort everything you have. There is a possibility some of your/our questions might be answered. Make note of any thing that might be of help. Apparently they both knew Merle Bauer and there might be other small facts like that. Small tidbits may or may not finally lead you to other information.
I note the Our Gold Star Roll list covers from Dec. 28, 1917 to Feb. 3, 1920.
What's on the back of it? Is there any indication of what/where it's from? There might be something in the rest of your items that indicates where/who it came from. Do you also have the envelopes? I assume they would have come in an envelope and not have the return address on the letters themselves. Check for any clues the envelopes might have and keep them together, not necessarily inside the envelope. You don't want to fold and unfold the paper any more than necessary.
It may have been published in a local Mulvane/Wichita paper or not. He may have been from another place and someone sent it to her.
Until you know what you have and what questions are answered, it seems to me we might all be looking for information you already have. If you already have the answers, you/we can work with them to find other information.
The letter is from July 1, 1918, that's almost 2 years from the 1920 date on the clipping. It's a bit over a year from the July 7, 1919 death date.
That leaves a bit of room for other discoveries in the rest of your stuff.
I hope I don't sound insensitive, but understand this is all over and in the past, it can't be changed. Crying over it may help or hurt you. If crying gives you emotional release and helps you to relax and feel better, then it's fine. If on the other hand, you are left feeling sad and depressed, then it's not. It's absolutely all right to feel sadness, but for them, and the times. Don't carry it into your life now. They wouldn't want that, I'm sure.
Remember, even if he'd lived, they may have never met in civilian life. Wars made pen pal friends who actually never met and they all moved on in their lives with their memories good and bad. That's life and living!
Thanks again for sharing your grandmother's penpal correspondence.
Orlena
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freddi1000, I'm sending you a private email later. It'll be from Orlena. I typed that and my entire post disappeared. This is the second edition!
Orlena
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