Dear Rod & Jimmy,
Nothing new here either. Thank you for asking. I was starting to feel a little irrelevant on my own blog. I don’t pretend to be an expert either. Just a place where we can all share our ideas collectively.
I have found several new books that I’m trying to verify the facts on. I found many mistakes in one that I had great hopes for. I knew it was wrong because I had seen App’s “Willing Will” naming his older sons and what he wanted them to do for him while he and Delilah were still living and to help care for the younger ones. No daughters listed. Pity. I thought it was a wonderful idea and amazing for that time period. Something I may replicate in my life. So I knew then that the information collected by this distant cousins husband wasn’t complete. But he could only go on what his wife knew and an interview with Dr Meek Adkins, that seemed fairly limited to a decade.
I wish I could help more, I’m still looking on my end, hoping to find some new leads. I do hope that you both do the same. I’m surprised that I haven’t been able to find more information in old newspapers. I was scouring over them like mad, just nothing I didn’t already know. I was rehashing it all with my older sister two weeks ago and told her I wish other people could add to peoples books to fill in the blank. Just not possible at this point. Maybe someday.
Until then, I do hope you’ll continue to share with each other and me.
I hope that you all had a blessed holiday.
As Always,
Sheila Jean Adkins Metcalf