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From: Walter Welch, October 2001
Hi Jeanette, Just found this info on your "Rootsweb" page--Fletty Edwin was a brother to my grandmother--Sarah Margaret Mae Hedrick (married Green Washington Newton)--just wondered how they relate to you?? I have been checking out the "Coaly Orchard" pages as well, some of your folks come from the area near my old "Stomping Ground"!! I grew up about 20 miles So. East of Canadian, TX--attended Hi-School at Canadian, after I married a girl from Booker, lived in Perryton for a few years--came to Calif in '53--been here ever since!!
Also, I have been in contact by e-mail with a daughter of Fletty Charle (Ona Lee)--enclosed info below. Very nice lady, lives in Borger, just retired from teaching school, I believe.
I found a link from your page telling about the tornado in '47 (Glazier, Higgins, etc.)--I was in the evening service of the First Baptist church in Canadian when that all took place, a bunch of us kids drove up to check it out, but the Sheriff turned us back!!
Well, I have rambled enough, just wanted to touch bases with you---Walter. (Hope this makes sense!!)(see Walter's Genealogy I added Posted on OUR World Connect site! jpc)

From: Walter Welch, 2nd Message
Dear Jeanette,
How nice to hear from you so soon, and I enjoyed your long e-mail message!!! You have done an excellent job on your web-site, COALY ORCHARD. I love that scripture verse at the top!! I haven't checked out everything contained there, but I "Book Marked" it so I can return! Also loved the photo's--I saw a pretty young girl standing between her parents at Shamrock in 1951!!!
I figured you might know Ona Lee--you mentioned "Billy George Hodges--he & I went to Hi-school together, graduated the same year--I considered him one of my best friends--he was a "city boy", I was a "country hick" but that didn't seem to bother him!!! (It is a small world!!!)
Sorry about the lay-off from the copper mine, will that work a hard-ship on you guys--will your husband have to find another job??? I spotted Bagdad on the map--I had a Gr-uncle (Walter Crook Welch, b. 1858) who was a Company Doctor for a minning Co. in the Clarksdale area--that is the other side of Prescott from you guys, never have been able to find out much about him!!!
I would be happy for you to post any of my information that I have--not sure if you really want it--gets kinda' far removed from your lineage---a Brown married a Hedrick--another Hedrick married a Newton--a Newton married a Welch--see what I mean??? But let me know & I can print what ever you want from my Family Tree Maker & mail it & you can use what you want.
I love your "Texas" page--about the Panhandle--all the Buffalo's that were killed around Canadian--when I was a kid, we lived on a Farm/Ranch as I said before--20 miles So. East of Canadian, on the bank of the Washita river--we attended a country school until we were ready for Hi-School (walked 3 miles in the snow--up-hill both ways-Ha!!) Not really, but we did walk home lots of afternoons! And the pasture we walked through was "pock-marked" with many Buffalo Wallows--I guess many of them would use the same spot, until there was a deep depression!!! The house we lived in was on the site where the Stage Coach (from old Mobeetie, TX to Dodge City Kansas) went through our back yard in years gone by--they changed horses at this site, and there was a saloon there--we were always digging up old green beer bottles, & little brown whiskey jugs!! I found many old cartridges, empty as well as loaded--rifle & hand gun ammo!!! You could look up on the hill north of our house & see the old trail that the coach wheels would cut in the pasture--when the ruts would get too deep, they would move over & cut a trail right beside the old one!!!
Well, I hope I am not boring you with all this, I get started with day's gone by at times---Later, Walter
Never, will this be boring! I love it! Thanks Walter for your comments! jpc

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