LYNN ROLLINS, mentioned on P.14, has submitted a family tree which begins with an "unknown ROLLINS". We all have one of those, don't we? Neither this "unknown" or his wife have any information about birthplaces, where died, where and when married, etc. However, their children number 6 and possibly 7. They are JOHN, b. ca 1838, place unknown, wife named Net _____; their children were EFFIE, MYRTLE and IVY. No further information.

The second child was JASON, b. ca 1840, no further information known.

The third child was WILLIAM WALTER, b. Sept.11, 1842, Warren Co., IN. Md. Rachel Wilson Feb. 23, 1866, in Missouri. He died in Dent Co., MO, in 1877; she died in Green Co., MO in 1935. Their children were SAMUEL, FLORENCE, WILLIAM WALTER Jr. and CHARLES A. More about them later.

Their fourth child was ROBERT ROLLINS, b. ca. 1844, wife was Liza, no further info. The unknowns' fifth child was JORDAN, b. ca 1846, wife named Liza (?), had at least one child, VOLLY (male or female?), no further information. Their sixth child was ANN, b. ca 1848., no further information known.

LYNN descends from WILLIAM WALTER ROLLINS through a son HARRY AUGUSTUS who married Bessie Marie Haughawout. They and their children were born in Missouri, although some left to live in other states, LYNN among them, who moved with his wife to Oregon, where he still lives. LYNN (Edgar Lynn) md. Marcelle Stephanie Charlet of Scranton, PA on Aug. 14, 1946 in New York City. She passed away in 1997 in Yamhill Co., Oregon, city of Newberg, where LYNN lives today.

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Back in 1993 we received a telephone call from a Mrs. MARY RAWLINS Miller. She was concerned because someone in her family was ill and might pass away shortly. She wanted to fill out the missing pieces in her family puzzle. In the data she had concerned her paternal grandfather and her father. She was in some distress since she felt her ancestry was mysterious indeed. Her grandfather, HARRY LEE RAWLINS, :had. a. son HARRY PARKER RAWLINS who was her father. HARRY LEE had only 1 child who died in World War One in France...and HARRY PARKER RAWLINS, that son, had one child, this woman MARY RAWLINS Miller. Somewhere in her lifetime she learned, since her father was killed when she was a baby that her grandfather had divorced his first wife, Isabelle Parker, and married again but she had no information on that wife and any children they might have had. Her mother told her there was another child of that second marriage, also a girl. The only other thing she knew was that HARRY LEE had come from Warwickshire County in England, and his father's name may have been WILLIAM. Unfortunately I couldn't help her although we did a query letter but she received no answers.

In April of this year we received communication from a Carol Ritsert Kennedy, who descends from HARRY LEE RAWLINS and his second wife. We put the two women in touch with one another and it has turned out very well. They communicate on the Internet. One is in Massachusetts, the other in Colorado.

Carol has amassed much more information on the family, tracing them to England, etc. In some instances the information they have doesn't jibe, but we all know how that goes. Family history often is slightly askew and it is only when you trace thru census, county records, etc., does the truth appear. Mary's information was all family history, Carol's was family history strengthened by records research. The story now is:

We go back several generations. A young man, James Parker, fell in love with (con’t on next page)

Residence: Dallas Co., TX