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From: "Elizabeth Smiddy" <>
Subject: [VADICKEN] Roland Pressley
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 12:30:20 -0400


I need to know the circumstances of the death in 1920, of burns, of Roland Pressley who would have been about 14 years old at the time. He was living in the household of my Great Grandparents, Henry and Maggie Bunch. He was the best friend of my Grandfather, Carson Bunch. I have a beautiful old tin picture of them together, each boy in an oval but on one piece of handpainted metal (tin?). I know that cost a lot of money back then to have made, so he must have meant a lot to my family and my Grandfather, Carson. I am sure that someone knows what happened, and I really want to know, good or bad. He and my Grandfather could have been playing with matches, which is just speculation on my part, but I need to know the truth of this matter, please. At the time of the incident, they probably lived in Clintwood, but later moved to Darwin, where Henry and Maggie Bunch lived until they died in the 1960's. They also had a son, Robert Bunch, born with one short leg, and married Maxie Stanley. Roland Pressley's father was Jeff Pressley, and I would also like to know why Roland was living with my family in 1920. If anyone needs to email me privately about this matter, because you don't want to post it to the list, I would be very happy for you to do that.

Libby Bunch Smiddy

I hear their whispers...ethereal, soft and still.
Daughter, if you do not remember us, who will?

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