LETTERS FROM THE PAST

This blog is to honor those who have come before us. These are family letters that I have had for years and wanted to be able to share them with family. It's an interesting way of knowing how life was in the past.

LETTERS FROM THE PAST

Myron F Taylor with 3 of his buddies in 1952. Over the last 20 years I've been working on our family letters. Letters that have been passed down. Including letters from my parents to my great-grandmother. Every letter was saved by my great grandmother and grandmother. I hope someday to either print them or give them to a museum. I am copying the letters–not being able to photocopy all of them. Each letter is in script. I know today very few can read them. I hope you enjoy them.

Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Jan 1964 - Park Wineland


Sunday
Jan 19-1964

Dear Mrs. Taylor;

I am sorry that I could not answer your letters, and also to Mrs. Winland, sooner.

I am enclosing a copy of a family record that was sent to me by the decedent of Jacob.

I have not been able to connect John 1803 up with any of the other I have on first the emigrant.

However I came across something that might help, and it’s not so far from where you live, altho I do not know exactly the spot.

There was a John Wineland, emegrant that settled in Virginia.

He had a son Peter (the only record I have)
Peter had 8 children
About 1780 three of his sons, John, b. 1769 – Peter, and Christian, went to Morrison’s Cove, PA about 1780.

The emigrant John and his son Peter with the rest of the family’s stayed in Virginia. I don’t know how long, but I am sure they are buried there.

I am enclined to think that he might have landed in the neighborhood of Norfolk. As there were some German settlements in the area south of Richmond toward Norfolk.

If you could find a 1790 census, it might give you something on the way of names.

Thanks,

Park Wineland

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