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a young maid in his family's household. When she left he followed her to New York where she had emigrated. Her name was Margaret Malloy. These two were the parents of Isabella Parker, the first wife of HARRY LEE RAWLINS. ISABELLA was a. performer. In Cleveland she contacted pneumonia and died while performing on-stage. It is not certain if HARRY LEE was also a performer. (In Mary's version it was HARRY who died.) They had one son', HARRY PARKER RAWLINS. When Isabella died he went to live with relatives in Long Island, possibly his mother's relatives. He married Vesta Marshall and they had one son, HARRY LEE RAWLINS II. It is his daughter who is MARY RAWLINS Miller. When HARRY PARKER RAWLINS joined the service, he contacted tuberculosis and had to leave it. He then could not find a job. During his tour he was sent to Colorado so he decided to stay there. Then he and Vesta were divorced. He then went to Canada and joined the service there and was sent to France where he was killed in 1918 at the age of 25. He had one son born in 1917.

Back to HARRY LEE RAWLINS Sr. After Isabella died and HARRY PARKER RAWLINS went to live with relatives, H.L. married Susan Pauline Duden. Both Mary and Carol were correct in stating that HARRY LEE RAWLINS was an actor, too. He died during the performance of "Girl of the Golden West" in Chicago in 1907. The only child of Susan's and HL was a daughter CAROLINE RAWLINS, b. Aug. 31, 1906 in New York City. A further correction on HARRY LEE was that he came to this country with his parents and siblings WILLIAM, GRACE, KATE and NELLIE. They are found in the New York City Census of 1880. According to the 1900 census the family emigrated in 1865 from England when HARRY was two years old. Carol Ritsert Kennedy descends from HARRY LEE's and Caroline Duden's daughter CAROLINE.

Your Editor thinks this is a wonderful story although it takes some doing to fathom out the connections of each "HARRY". I hope that Carol and Mary can get together somehow. What a lot they'll have to talk about!

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Carol Ritsert Kennedy, 1153 Washington Mountain Rd., Washington, MA 01223 Mary RAWLINS Miller, 1130 21st Lane, Pueblo, CO 81006

From George C. Rawlings, 202 Stonegate Terrace (?), Belton, TX 76513

e-mail - Cbucko@aol.com (address verified 09/21/2004)

Mr. RAWLINGS wrote to ask us if we had information on a GEORGE B. RAWLINGS Sr. & Jr., who first lived in Brunswick Co., VA, then moved to Tennessee. Later generations moved to Illinois and to Texas. Details to follow. The present GEORGE would like to be in contact with other descendants. Here is his story:

GEORGE B. Sr. was born March 6, 1817. The 1850 census for Brunswick Co., VA shows him to be aged 33. There is no official record for his marriage to Nancy Howell, however the Wilkes Family Records indicate a marriage to her. There is record of a marriage between him and Caroline R. Harding in North Carolina July 17, 1839. There is no indication of which mother bore his children, ROSE E., RICHARD and GEORGE B. Jr.

GEORGE Sr. sold the farm in Brunswick (per deed) and moved to LaGrange, Tenn.

in 1851. He died there and was buried, May 9, 1857. Mr. RAWLINGS could not locate his grave but said there were many RAWLINGS buried there. He intends

to go back and do more research in the area. CAROLINE R., ROSE E. and GEORGE B. Jr.

Residence: Dallas Co., TX