A Letter from Jean Ellis!

Hi, my name is Jean Ellis and I too have multiple Prather ancestors -- Erasmus and John Garrett Prather .  I communicated with your sister Mary via email and got a reply from her.  She mentioned that you and another sister had written a historical novel .  I would love to know where I can find it.  My aunt started our family genealogical research and I have picked up where she left off.  Sadly she never had access to the internet- I can only imagine what she might have accomplished.  

I have not yet built a family tree - I have reams and reams of paper and have to get focused on organizing it and putting it into a tree.  I have benefitted greatly from much that is online and the hard work of many other researchers so I have dowloaded several gedcom files with the various key parts of my family history. 

I grew up in New Richmond but now live in Marietta, Ga near Atlanta.  I was able to visit the graveyard at Wood Hill where John Garrett Prather and many of this extended family members are buried.  The Clermont Genealogical society found the graves, cleaned up the stones and posted pictues online.  What a huge job but such a fantastic resource for those of us who are doing their research from afar. 

Thoughts on the New Book!

Sally, 

Last night, the Evergreen Book Club had its meeting. We chose our books for the upcoming year. One of the books chosen was Physick Book of Deliverance Dane. It strikes me that it is similar to our idea for our next book. I still feel ours will be unique but I thought you and I should probably read this book to be sure that it is different.

Let me know what you think. 

Love you, 

Peggy

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Peggy, 

I don't think it even touches our book. We are not dealing with the Salem witch trials —but the true back story. Alice Lake died in 1651. The witch trials were not until the 1690's. Alice's tale is a sad one: post partum depression, zealots, and the interpretations of these events. We are talking about pre-marital sex and how each generation harbors its own story and the outcome of each one. These are our women, our mothers, and how we truly rock the cradle...with determination, with purpose and with strength.

Don't forget. This is our gift to our children and their children and so on. If we get rich and famous then so be it. This is our legacy and our immortality.

Sally

A Granddaughter's Wedding

Peggy,

I thought you might like a little story. I had the occasion to go to our sister Patty's granddaughter's wedding. Theresa Meder Cannis came up to me and said she loved our book, Orphan's Gift. 

"One question!" she said with exuberance. "Is there a coin?" I had to say “no” but wouldn't that be fun if there was one?

She told me that she can't wait for the next book and thanked us for writing it.

Hope that makes your day feel good.

Sally