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This letter was written by Thorn Smith on December 27, 1951 Letter is about searching for ancestors - also about their (Thorn's mostly) family. Dear Cousins, You can be sure that we were pleased to have your letter about your children and the good luck you have had with every bit of news concerning you. We have not been beyond East Lansing for many years which explains why we have not seen you since you were in our house when we lived in Detroit. Horace was the source of all our information. To be sure we must be getting kind of old, being 80 1/2 and 75 but in very good health. Of our progeny Millard comes first at the age of 51 tomorrow and he has four girls. The oldest graduated at State last summer and was married in the fall. The next one is a junior at State while the other two are in Royal Oak schools. Millard is manager of the Royal Oak division of the AAA and has some 25 employees. We think he is doing very well. Thorn, Jr comes next and he is married and there are no children. He teaches in the St. Louis , MO High Schools. Next comes Katherine who was in Hawaii during the War as a librarian for the War Dept. She married while there to an Illinois man and since 1947 has been living with us. Her name is Mrs. Auston Thompson and she is with the Detroit Libraries. He is with some Army office in Detroit. There are no children. Next there is Rossman who has 5 children. He lives in Pleasant Ridge which is near Royal Oak. His oldest boy has been attending Reed College in Portland, Oregon but this year he is working for the Army Dept or General Electric or both, at the Hanford plant in Washington (the state of). Next year he will have to go back to school as a condition of his employment. He is a very bright kid but I am not quite sure that he will e another Einstein. He can be. His oldest daughter is a sophomore at Colorado Agricultural College and is taking Floriculture. The other 3 kids are small as yet. Now comes Dorothy our youngest. She married an attorney who graduated from State and then graduated from Ann Arbor. He is one of the 13 lawyers employed by the AAA in Detroit and they live in Huntington Woods which is near Royal Oak. There are 2 small kids. Adding 'em up you will see that we have 5 children and 1 grands and when they all come over there is a houseful and a lot of noise. I forgot to say that our son Rossman has the old business that I had, only it seems to have run away from it's relative smallness of my day. He moved the business from Detroit to Royal Oak into his own building. We do not know where Frances Lungerhausen is and were surprised to learn that Alice (Lungerhausen) Wolff was living in Santa Clara, California. We have tried to keep track of your children and knew that one of them lived in Portland but we get the Lakin's all mixed up. Then we have to go back to the Smith-Thorn genealogy to get ironed out again. It is surprising to see how the different Thorns have mixed things up. So much so that I practically quit the whole business but I reckon I have about all there is to learn and you can rest assured that I demand more than heresay. For the past three years we have wintered in Orlando, Florida but while it is quite easy to get down there it is something else to get back again so this year we are going to stay at home and enjoy the snow, what there is of it. If you have a garden and I think you do you must not overlook the Midget Watermelon. The cooners will pass it up as a young melon but it is sure to ripen, if never much larger than a Grape Fruit and when you eat one you are completely sold. If the borers get your squash try the Butternut for a Hubbard substitute. You see I cannot get away from the gardening business. In our cellar I have a lot of Geraniums under artificial lights and they are doing well. I have to keep my hand in. I have nothing on Charlie except that he seems to be married and lives in Toledo. We would like to see all of you but we are so well advanced in age that it is very doubtful if we ever venture from the 'no place like home'. You have many years i which to enjoy the accomplishments of your children and it will be many years before you have to sit behind the kitchen stove. We were so pleased to have your good letter. Sincerely yours,
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