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Charles Mann's Letter




3917 Arcadia Street
Philadelphia 24, Pennsylvania 19124
30 Jan 1964

Dear Mrs. Johnson

In answer to your letter of November 16, 1963...reading your letter, will answer what I can of your questions as they are asked.

The name is Longabaugh. Where the Indian-maid information came from, I have to rely on what my mother told me, and her half-sister, Grace.

Grace has been dead six years; my mother, 39 years. Since I am the oldest of the family (73) I have no one to go to, to ask questions. My mother, Alice, told me her mother, Annie, was part Indian. I know her as a child (about 10 years old), and remembered her as a tall woman (with) very long black hair, black eyes, high cheekbones, dark complexion. This Indian girl met a man named Ingram. The tribe wanted her to marry him and live with her people. I always understood it was in Montana. Whether they married there I do not know; but, they were supposed to travel east, stayed a while in Ohio, and were supposed to have settled in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania.

My Aunt Grace, Alice's sister, showed this Indian strain very much. When I knew Grandmother Longabaugh it was in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, where I was born.

Annie (Harvey) Longabaugh lived in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania as a child and used to tell her daughter Alice (my mother) about the fighting around the town during the Civil War.

When Henry Langabaugh came home from the Civil War he worked on the Pennsylvania Rail Road as an engineer, running between Columbia, Pennsylvania and Cumberland, Maryland. He died several years after the war of Tuberculosis contracted during the war. Two daughters, Laura and Alice, were placed in an orphanage located at Mount Joy, Pennsylvania, near Harrisburg, and were there for some years.

My mother used to take me by the trolley from Harrisburg to see relatives by the name of Sours, living in Middletown, Pennsylvania near Harrisburg. Since I was only aroung 9 or 10 years old at the time I don't recall the association. I DO remember clearly going there.

To get information about my father's side of the family (William D. Mann) I will have to pay a visit to Coatesville, Pennsylvania to see Clyde Mann, my father's youngest half-brother, who is one year younger than I. I haven't seen him in many years and hope he is still around.

Have been waiting for better weather for this trip, as we have had plenty of snow and the roads have been bad. You could let me know where to get some of this information in the libraries, that is, the title of books, etc.

I never suspected that what information I gave Jean Blakey's sister Grace would lead to this. Let me know if I can help more to satisfy the desire these youngsters have to know themselves better. It could lead to many things. This could have been done long ago if I had known.

Sincerely,
Charles E. Mann

P.S. As soon as I get more information will send it.







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