Email From Sally  Jennings sjennings1941@sbcglobal.net to Karla Aden
Email Dated 10/10/2006

I ran across better DAR information for William Allen than to go through the Gilbert lady.  His descendant Janice Mitchell Truitt (#712971) goes all the way to Beverly Parks and Eliza Burleson Allen.  This information just for your files.
 
s/m
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Sally Jennings
To: Karla Aden ; Joy Aden
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 2:19 PM
Subject: For a rainy afternoon when Joy doesn't have a thing to do. . .

Karla and Joy,
 
Yesterday I went to the downtown library for a workshop on building family web pages.  It was not great but I got a couple of good ideas.  More on that later.
 
I now have enough information to get Joy started on documenting supplemental lines for DAR.  She descends from four Revolutionary patriots as follows:
 
My ancestor Joseph Humphries
Jacob Mechling and his father Dewalt - used by Aunt Elda, DAR #640652
John Camp and his father Thomas - used by Beverly Criner Pruden, DAR #558768 (ha! - she used her real name)
William Allen - used by someone I don't know named Gilbert, DAR#773378
 
I will order the DAR application papers for these ladies and when they come in, I will copy them for anyone who is interested.  It will take me a few weeks to get them from the DAR library in Washington, D.C.  Then Joy can get cracking and work up all these supplemental lines!  These are the fun ones, when you know where you need to go and all you have to do is dig up the documents.
 
As a footnote, I got this information from a research assistant at the DAR library and I did not encounter any flak when I asked about John and Thomas Camp.  According to Gary's 2001 email, this is the line that caused a lot of women to get kicked out of the DAR when they found that the Camps had been up to some Loyalist activities.  I did not volunteer that to the lady at the library, but in fact she told me that 137 women have joined DAR on John Camp and 208 on his father Thomas.  Apparently the DAR forgave them for any trouble they might have caused.
 
Karla, thanks for the information, which helped me ask intelligent questions when I got this lady on the phone.
 
Later,
s/m
 
 
Sally Jennings
2510 Somerall
San Antonio, Texas  78248-2216
(210) 493-4493
sjennings1941@sbcglobal.net