This is, at this point, the last post in this blog; however, because of the way blogger works, it will be the first you will read, so I have copied some of what I put in my first post, as a kind of bookend.
The letters in this blog are the "round robin" letters that my grandfather, sent to his siblings and mother. Here's the family stuff, oh and here's a link to a family tree prepared by my grandfather that I posted at the beginning.
Horace Alva White (1858-1943) m. Josephine Ogier (1864-1956)
Howard Ogier White
(1893-1986)
m. Dessie Rachel Pope (1895-1979)
Raymond Francis
White (1895-1976)
m.
Fern E. Naugle (1897-1992)
Ivan Alfred White
(1897-1976)
m.
Helen Mitchell (1989-??)
Ila Mildred White
(1900-1995)
m.
Frank Wallace True (1898-??)
Wayne Elwood White (1905-2000)
m.
Laura Amelia Brown (1906-1998)
Here is the way the "round robin" worked. The first person writes a letter to the group and sends it to the 2nd person; the 2nd person writes a letter and puts it in the same envelope with the first and sends both letters to the 3rd person; the 3rd person does the same and so on, until the last person sends it
back to the first, who then removes their original letter and puts in a new, current one. And so it goes, on and on, round and round. I don't know when they started the "round robin", but the first letter in the bunch is dated December 15, 1938. The final letter is dated May 21, 1982.
I invite any and all comments. Additions of letters, photographs, etc. would be most welcome.
