John Joseph Quinn, a Native of County Galway and a WWI Veteran

John Joseph Quinn - WWI Veteran [1]

This week, in honor of Veteran's Day, I have written posts about five veterans; my parents and three veterans from Ringgold, Louisiana. This last post of the week is about WWI veteran John Joseph Quinn, my husband's great-uncle, who immigrated from County Galway in 1914. 

John Joseph Quinn, the son of William Quinn and Bridget Brannelly, was born on June 14, 1890, in the townland of Caherawoneen, County Galway.[2] In 1914, he immigrated to the United States arriving first in Boston on October 8th.[3] From there he went to Louisville, Kentucky where he had family and spent some time working in a cemetery. He later worked in Iowa and Connecticut before enlisting in the U. S. Army on May 27, 1918, in New York City.[4] 

On June 18, 1918, John became a naturalized citizen at Camp Wadsworth in South Carolina.[5] And, by June 30th of that same year, John was serving as a wagoner with the 153rd Depot Brigade in France.[6]

John's enlistment record stated that he was single and of excellent character. His vocation was that of a chauffeur. 

John was described as having gray eyes, black hair, and a dark completion. He was 27 years old and 5 feet and 8 1/2 inches tall.[7]

His daughter, Helen, said that her father loved the Army and was always interested in talking to veterans. After the war, John lived in New York City where he married, raised a family, and worked as a chauffeur and taxicab driver. He died in 1966 and is buried in Calvery Cemetery in Queens.[8]

To learn about John Quinn's family visit my post The Family of William Quinn and Bridget Brannelly.

Visit this week's posts honoring veterans. 

• Friday's Photo: Whit Criswell Bryan, A Veteran of Three Wars and a Pearl Harbor Survivor

• My Mother, A Navy Veteran

• From the Files of Marguerite Cook Clark: Thomas Jefferson Martin III - Resident of Ringgold and WWII Veteran

• From the Files of Marguerite Cook Clark: Dr. Vance W. Fletcher, Ringgold Physician and WWI Veteran

• From the Files of Marguerite Cook Clark: Theodore G. Smith, WWII Air Force Veteran and Native of Ringgold, Louisiana

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    1. John Joseph Quinn, photograph, ca. 1918; digital image, from the privately held photo collection of H. Quinn, 2021.

    2. Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, "Civil Records," database with images, IrishGenealogy.ie (https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1890/02426/1903660.pdf : accessed 11 October 2021); digital image, Joseph Patrick Quinn birth, 14 June 1890; citing Group Registration ID 9932937; filed 25 June 1890 by McNally, registrar, in the District of Kinvara in the Union of Gort in the County of Galway, unidentified register and folio, "First Page," stamped no.1903660 and 281, entry no. 223. Note that his name was recorded as Joseph Patrick Quinn, family only knew him as John Joseph Quinn. 

    3. "New York, Southern District, U.S District Court Naturalization Records, 1824-1946," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9HF-WD45?cc=2060123&wc=M5PK-T3K%3A351741801 : 12 November 2021), Petitions for naturalization and petition evidence 1929 no 161194-161450 > image 866 of 1011; citing NARA microfilm publication M1972, Southern District of New York Petitions for Naturalization, 1897-1944. Records of District Courts of the United States, 1685 - 2009, RG 21. National Archives at New York.

    4. Telephone conversations between H. Quinn (NY) and D. B. Quinn (VA), between 18 September 2020 and 29 December 2020. Transcript held in 2021 by D.B. Quinn (VA).  Also, John Joseph Quinn, Enlistment Record, service no.3183230, (enlisted 1918); photocopy supplied by H. Quinn from personal family papers, 2020.

    5. "New York, Southern District, U.S District Court Naturalization Records, 1824-1946," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9HF-WD45?cc=2060123&wc=M5PK-T3K%3A351741801 : 12 November 2021), Petitions for naturalization and petition evidence 1929 no 161194-161450 > image 866 of 1011; citing NARA microfilm publication M1972, Southern District of New York Petitions for Naturalization, 1897-1944. Records of District Courts of the United States, 1685 - 2009, RG 21. National Archives at New York.

    6. John Joseph Quinn, Honorable Discharge from the United States Army, service no.3183230, (discharged 1919); photocopy supplied H. Quinn from personal family papers, 2020.

    7. John Joseph Quinn, Enlistment Record, service no.3183230, (enlisted 1918); photocopy supplied by H. Quinn from personal family papers, 2020.

    8. Telephone conversations between H. Quinn (NY) and D. B. Quinn (VA), between 18 September 2020 and 29 December 2020. Transcript held in 2021 by D.B. Quinn (VA). 

Friday's Photo: Whit Criswell Bryan, A Veteran of Three Wars and a Pearl Harbor Survivor

Whit Criswell Bryan 1920-2001
This photograph was taken on his last day in the Navy.[1] 

My Mother, A Navy Veteran

Mom joined the Navy in September 1952. She attended boot camp in Bainbridge, Maryland from September to November. Following boot camp, she was stationed in San Diego where she attended the U.S. Navy School for Hospital Corpsmen at Balboa Naval Hospital. As Mom had the top grade for women in her class, she was given the first choice from the available duty stations. She wanted New Orleans but that was not a choice so chose Corpus Christi as it was close to New Orleans. 

By January 1954 she was working in a family clinic on a naval base in New Orleans where she met my father.  Mom and Dad married and I came along. Mom did not remain in the Navy as women who became pregnant were discharged from military service in the 1950s. However, she did serve as a Navy wife until my father's retirement in 1969. 

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Interview with E. M. Bryan (VA), by D. B. Quinn, 8 October 2021. Transcript held in 2021 by D.B. Quinn (VA). 

Photo from Boot Camp, photograph, ca. 1952; scanned image, from the privately held photo collection of D. B. Quinn, VA, 2021.

From the Files of Marguerite Cook Clark: Thomas Jefferson Martin III - Resident of Ringgold and WWII Veteran

Thomas Jefferson Martin III's obituary is another of the approximately 175 newspaper clippings saved by Marguerite Cook Clark, her mother, and her daughters.[1] The photograph is from an interesting collection of photos sent to me by Mary V. Martin Smith, niece of Thomas Jefferson Martin III.[2]

Thomas Jefferson Martin III is a descendant of Reddick Bryan and Elizabeth Regan, making him my third cousin. His parents were Thomas Jefferson Martin Jr. and Willie Bessie Murph Woodard.[3] 

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    1. "Martin [obituary]," newspaper clipping, n.d., unidentified newspaper, from the privately-held collection of Marguerite Cook Clark (1913-1989), Waynesville, North Carolina, 2021. Clippings were accessed and scanned at the home of Marguerite Cook Clark's daughter in Alpine, Texas on April 28, 2014, September 14, 2014, and November 9 to 11, 2016.

    2. Thomas Jefferson Martin III, photograph, ca. 1940; scanned image, from the privately held photo collection of Mary V. Martin Smith, Alaska, 2004.

    3. Laura Decker, "Laura Ann Martin Decker," public tree, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/114525353/family/familyview?cfpid=350132377968&dtid=100 : accessed 9 November 2021). 

From the Files of Marguerite Cook Clark: Dr. Vance W. Fletcher, Ringgold Physician and WWI Veteran

This obituary is another of the approximately 175 newspaper clippings saved by Marguerite Cook Clark, her mother, and her daughters.[1] 

Vance Wells Fletcher, the son of Edward Badger Fletcher and Roxanna McKeown, was born and grew up in Florida.[2] During WWII, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and served in France.[3] After the war, he attended Tulane University of Louisiana School of Medicine. [4]

By 1930, he and his wife, Ruth Williams, were living in Ringgold.[5]  Ruth, the daughter of B. Frank and Mamie Williams, died in 1938. In 1941, Vance married widow, Audra Macey Martin Ray, daughter of James Bryan Martin and Anna Cook.[6]

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    1. "Services Today for Well Known Doctor [obituary]," newspaper clipping, n.d., unidentified newspaper, from the privately-held collection of Marguerite Cook Clark (1913-1989), Waynesville, North Carolina, 2021. Clippings were accessed and scanned at the home of Marguerite Cook Clark's daughter in Alpine, Texas on April 28, 2014, September 14, 2014, and November 9 to 11, 2016.

    2. Themis64, "Hunt Family Tree," public tree, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/31144515/family/familyview? : accessed 9 November 2021). 

    3.  U.S., Army Transport Service Arriving and Departing Passenger Lists, 1910-1939; digital images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61174/images/44508_3421606189_0018-00257?treeid=&personid=&hintid=&queryId=19d320f4f8b8947c84a3e11a81171095&usePUB=true&_phsrc=DWY21313&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&pId=572002: accessed 9 November 2021); citing National Archives Microfilm Record Group Number: 92; Roll or Box Number: 3l. 

    4. "United States Deceased Physician File (AMA), 1864-1968," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99QP-V94H-X?cc=2061540&wc=M6YC-RNL%3A353055201 : 9 November 2021), Fitzhugh, James S-Foerster, Ernst Ferdinand > image 1715 of 2994; American Medical Association, Chicago.

    5. 1930 U.S. Census, Bienville Parish, Louisiana, population schedule, supervisor's district no. 2, enumeration district 0012,  p.1B, dwelling 18, family 19, Vance W. Fletcher household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com: accessed 9 November 2021); citing NARA microfilm T626, roll 785.

    6. Themis64, "Hunt Family Tree," public tree, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/31144515/family/familyview? : accessed 9 November 2021). 

From the Files of Marguerite Cook Clark: Theodore G. Smith, WWII Air Force Veteran and Native of Ringgold, Louisiana

This obituary is one of approximately 175 newspaper clippings saved by Marguerite Cook Clark, her mother, and her daughters. [1] According to the Find a Grave website, the parents of Theodore Green Smith were Uriah Green Smith and Verna Estelle Rockett Smith. He is buried in section 25, site 758 in Arlington National Cemetery. [2] A picture of his headstone can be seen at the Arlington National Cemetery's app, ANC Explorer. Click here to view it on the web app.[3]  

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    1. "Theodore G. Smith [obituary]," newspaper clipping, n.d., unidentified newspaper, from the privately-held collection of Marguerite Cook Clark (1913-1989), Waynesville, North Carolina, 2021. Obituaries were accessed and scanned at the home of Marguerite Cook Clark's daughter in Alpine, Texas on April 28, 2014, September 14, 2014, and November 9 to 11, 2016.

    2. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49318630/theodore-green-smith : accessed 08 November 2021), memorial page for Theodore Green “Theo” Smith (5 Dec 1917–30 Sep 1964), Find a Grave Memorial ID 49318630, citing Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia. Maintained by John C. Anderson (contributor 47208015).

    3. Arlington National Cemetery, ANC Explorer , database and images (https://ancexplorer.army.mil/publicwmv/#/arlington-national/ : accessed 08 November 2021), headstone image page for Theodore G. Smith (5 Dec 1917–30 Sep 1964).

Friday's Photo: Connections to my Giddens and Bryan Families - Joseph W. McMichael and Willie Marie Bryan

Joseph Walker McMichael and Willie Marie Bryan, ca. 1940 [1]

Yesterday, I posted the obituary of Joseph Walker McMichael.[2] I wanted to add a photo, but checked my digital files and did not find one. It wasn't until after I posted the obituary that I thought to look in my paper files. Julia McMichael Brittain (1942-2018) sent me copies of the above photo and much more in 1999.[3] 

This chart shows the relationship between Willie Marie

and my family. Julia, Willie Marie's grandaughter, was 

my third cousin-once-removed on my father's Bryan

side of the family. [5]

I knew how Willie Marie was connected to my Bryan family; however, until this morning, I had completely forgotten that Joseph Walker McMichael was connected to my Giddens family. 

Julia was my first source of information for both my Giddens and Bryan families when I began my research. She answered my genealogical query on the old Genforum in 1998 after my mother asked me to try to find something on my "new Internet" about her Giddens family. [4] Julia responded and sent me a large envelope containing an indexed descendants report of my Giddens family. 

From the Files of Marguerite Cook Clark: Joseph W. McMichael

Clipping from the files of
Marguerite Cook Clark [1]

Joseph Walker McMichael, son of John McMichael and Laura Cornelia Evans was born on 12 October 1882. He was married to Willie Marie Bryan, daughter of Tillman Capers Bryan II and Mary Elizabeth McDowell. [2]

Joseph McMichael died on 16 November 1955 and his wife on 31 March 1979. They are buried in the Greenwood Cemetery in Shreveport. [3]

Photos of Willie Marie Bryan McMichael and some of her family can be seen in the following posts:

• Mildred Rebecca Manning Prothro Bryan AND a Question About My Last Post (seen as Marie)
• From the Files of Marguerite Cook Clark: A Bryan Family Photo

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    1. "Joseph W. McMichael [obituary]," newspaper clipping, n.d., unidentified newspaper, from the privately-held collection of Marguerite Cook Clark (1913-1989), Waynesville, North Carolina, 2021. Obituaries were accessed and scanned at the home of Marguerite Cook Clark's daughter in Alpine, Texas on April 28, 2014, September 14, 2014, and November 9 to 11, 2016.

    2. Julia Brittain,  "Ahnentafel Chart for Reddick Bryan," 1793 - 1991; supplied by J. Brittain, Cypress, Texas, 1999.

    3. Ibid.

Friday's Photo: Marshall and Allen Woodard of Bienville Parish, Louisiana

Marshall and Allen Woodard [1]

Joseph Allen Woodard was the oldest of six brothers, born in 1883  to Joseph E. Woodard and Emma V. Morgan. [2] John Marshall was born next followed by 

Whitcomb Burr, Alfred Ernest, James Neal, and Don Corles. [3]

Mary McMullen, a descendant of John Marshall, wrote that the two young men, Allen and Marshall, married sisters. Allen married Willie Bessie Murph and Marshall married Carrie Lou Murph, daughters of Ed Murph and Alice Wimberly Murph. [4]

These photos were from the Marguerite Cook Clark collection and found in an album and labeled by Marguerite's mother, Maggie Martin Cook. Maggie's identification of so many photos has been spot on. It helps that she knew so many of those seen in the photos. 

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Sources 

    1. Marshall and Allen Woodard photographs, n.d.; digital images, from the privately held photo collection of Marguerite Cook Clark (1913-1989), Waynesville, North Carolina, 2021. Photos were accessed and scanned at the home of Marguerite Cook Clark's daughter in Alpine, Texas on April 28, 2014, September 14, 2014, and November 9 to 11, 2016

    2.  Mary P. McMullan, "Ark-La-Tex Genealogical Association Shreveport, LA," FACEBOOK (https://www.facebook.com/groups/ALTGA : posted 12 September 2021), posted in album September Birthdays.

    3. Mary McMullen, "Pate-McMullen Family Tree," public tree, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/273921/family/familyview?cfpid=-2101500118&dtid=100  : accessed 21 October 2021).

    4. Mary P. McMullan, "Ark-La-Tex Genealogical Association Shreveport, LA," FACEBOOK (https://www.facebook.com/groups/ALTGA : posted 12 September 2021), posted in album September Birthdays.

 

Another Letter from Sallie Bryan Hammett of Bienville Parish, Louisiana to Lizzie Ragan in Terrell County, Georgia - 28 April 1915

Clifford Cook Shelby, sister to Marguerite Cook Clark
Eleanor Mae Hammett Driscoll, youngest daughter of Sallie Bryan Hammett[1]

This is the second of two letters, written by Sallie Bryan Hammett to Lizzie Ragan. Lizzie was looking for genealogical information. At the time Sallie wrote this letter, she was living in Ringgold, Bienville Parish, Louisiana.[2] The first letter can be seen by clicking on this link. 

This letter was not transcribed exactly. Some punctuation and spacing were added to make it easier to read. 

_________________________

April the 28, 1915

Dear cousin Lizzie

Ada E. Hammett [3]

I will try and answer your dear letter which was received several days ago

I should have written sooner but I have been kept so busy I have not had time to write. Ada is down at her Aunt Ida’s [illegible word] this week and everything is mine to do. I washed today and am awful tired

We have been having some rainy weather this week

We were needing rain too but it has cleared off now and looks so pretty

We have a nice garden and I was afraid the fruit was all killed but I see we have plenty of peaches

I am so glad we have for we didn’t have any last year

I will can a plenty if nothing happens to prevent us

Everyone is getting ready for our school commencement. We have a fine school here at this place. Have three teachers. Our little Eleanor Mae will be in the exercises. She is just seven years old but we think she is awful smart for her age. She loves to go to school. We are might proud of her. She will be in several pieces. Wish you could be here. The school closes the 12 of May.

Cousin Lizzie I don’t have Uncle Terrells address but Ada writes to one of his Grand Daughters so she wrote for Uncle Terrells address and as soon as we hear from her we will write you and tell you what it is. He was at Austin Texas at the old soldiers home the last time we heard of him but I don’t know if he is still there or not. Trixie will tell Ada where he is. She told Trixie why she wanted to know his address and I know she will let us hear from her right away and we will write you right away. 

Oh know I do wish we could see each other. I sure would like to see cousin Joes sons we all thought so much of cousin Joe when he was out here. 

I sure did like Uncle John Regan. He was such a good man. Papa loved him as much as he did his own brothers and Uncle Span too your papa. I have heard my papa speak of him so much. 

I waited on Dear Uncle John when he died he had Brights Desease and was sick a long time and suffered so much. I can remember just as well as if it had been a few days ago my dear Papa and mama I do get so anxious to see them sometime in the sweet bye and bye. Never to part any more. Wont that be a grand time when we all meet to part no more. Oh cousin Lizzie if we never meet in this world I believe we will know each other in heaven. We know our parents are gone there and we will all meet there. We can’t afford to not meet them there. Pray for me and mine that we may hold out faithful to the end. 

Well will close with a heart full of love thinking of you.

Write soon to your loving cousin

Sallie Hammett

P. S. I do love to get your letters. 

_________________________

People mentioned in this letter are named below. Click on the links to see more photos and more information about these family members.

Cousin Lizzie was Elizabeth Leurany Ragan and the daughter of Julius Leurany Speight and Dr. Span Regan (later changed to Ragan). Span Regan was the half-brother of Sallie's father, Tillman C. Bryan. [4]

Allie Belle Trott Frye with her
cousin James "Jim" Smylie Hammett [7]

Sallie Manning Bryan Hammett was the daughter of Tilman C. Bryan and Mildred Manning Prothro.  She married Wesley Tilman Hammett, her first cousin, and son of Robert E. Hammett and Dorothy "Dollie" Bryan Hammett. Sallie and Wesley had children Irene, Ada, James Smylie, and Eleanor Mae.[5]

Aunt Ida may have been Sallie's sister who was married to John Henry Sheffield.[6] 

Uncle Terrell was Terrell Bryan, my great-grandfather, who left Louisiana and was in Texas by 1877.  Terrell was a son of Reddick Bryan and Elizabeth S. Bryan, brother to Sallie's father, Tillman, and brother to Wesley's mother, Dorothy. He was half-brother to Lizzie's father, Span.[8]

Terrell Bryan and his wife, Harriet Albritton [9]

Sallie wrote that she last knew of Terrell being in "Austin Texas at the old soldiers home." A copy of a letter Terrell wrote from the Texas Confederate Home can be seen by clicking on this link. At the time of Sallie's letter, Terrell was living in Stephenville, Texas.[10]

Trixie Hammett [13]

Trixie Hammett was the daughter of Alice Amanda Bryan and John Regan Hammett. Alice Amanda was the daughter of Terrell Bryan and John was the brother of Sallie's husband, Wesley Tilman Hammett.[11] Trixie must have sent Terrell's address as I have a copy of a letter Terrell wrote to Lizzie that same year.[12]

Cousin Joe was Joseph Thomas Ragan, son of Span and brother to Lizzie. You can see a photo of him and learn more at Randy's Cousin Web Page.[14] 

Uncle John was John Regan, the son of Elizabeth Regan and her first husband, Joseph Regan, and brother to Span.  John and Span were very young when their mother was widowed and married Reddick Bryan. [15]

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Diana

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Sources 

    1. Clifford Cook Shelby and Eleanor Mae Hammett Driscoll, n.d.; digital images, from the privately held photo collection of Marguerite Cook Clark (1913-1989), Waynesville, North Carolina, 2021. Photos were accessed and scanned at the home of Marguerite Cook Clark's daughter in Alpine, Texas on April 28, 2014, September 14, 2014, and November 9 to 11, 2016.

    2.  Letter from Sallie Hammett, (Bienville Parish, Louisiana) to Lizzie Ragan (Bronwood, GA), 28 April 1915; digital copy held in 2021 by D. Quinn (Virginia Beach, VA). Current location of the original letter is unknown. 

    3. "Ada E. Hammett [obituary]," newspaper clipping, 1974, unidentified newspaper, from the privately-held collection of Marguerite Cook Clark (1913-1989), Waynesville, North Carolina, 2021. Obituaries were accessed and scanned at the home of Marguerite Cook Clark's daughter in Alpine, Texas on April 28, 2014, September 14, 2014, and November 9 to 11, 2016.

    4. Letter from E. Ragan Pruitt, (Georgia) to Cousin Diana (Diana B. Quinn), 14 April 2003; This letter containing Regan/Ragan family information is held by D. Quinn (Virginia Beach, VA) in 2021.

    5. Julia Brittain, "Ahnentafel Chart for Reddick Bryan," 1793 - 1991; supplied by J. Brittain, Cypress, Texas, 1999.

    6. Ibid.

    7. Allie Belle Trott Frye and James Smylie Hammett, photograph, n.d.; scanned image, from the privately held photo collection of the Frye Family, San Francisco, 2019.

    8. Terrell Bryan Family Bible Records, 1836 - 1927, The Illustrated Polyglot Household Bible (Philadelphia: G. Zeigler, McCurdy, & Co., 1870), "Family Record," privately held by Diana Bryan Quinn, Virginia Beach, VA, 2021. Also, Diana Quinn, "Ahnentafel Chart for Reddick Bryan and Elizabeth Regan," 1793 - 1991; created by D. Quinn, Virginia Beach, VA, 2004.

    9. Terrell Bryan and Harriet Albritton, photograph, n.d.; scanned image, from the privately held photo collection of J. McAlister, TX, 2001.

    10. Diana Bryan Quinn "Friday's Photo: Terrell Bryan's Twilight Years," blog entry, 28 July 2017, Moments in Time: A Genealogy Blog (https://momentsintimeagenealogyblog.blogspot.com/2016/07/letter-to-lizzie-ragan-from-bryant.html : accessed 9 October 2021).

    11. Ellington, "Hammett/James Family," public tree, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/account/profile/03132af8-0000-0000-0000-000000000000?compareToTestId=68D2EDDB-2A54-4305-9626-096A711BCFA6 : accessed 21 October 2021). 

    12. Letter from Bryan, Terrell  (Stephenville, Erath County, TX) to Miss Lizzie Ragan (Terrell County, GA), 17 October 1915; copy held and sent to Diana B. Quinn in 2003 by E. Ragan Pruitt. 

    13. Trixie Hammett, photograph, n.d.; scanned image, original from the privately held photo collection of R. Warner, TX, 2001

    14. Letter from E. Ragan Pruitt, (Georgia) to Cousin Diana (Diana B. Quinn), 14 April 2003; This letter containing Regan/Ragan family information is held by D. Quinn (Virginia Beach, VA) in 2021. 

    15. Ibid.