{"id":255,"date":"2025-05-10T02:22:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T02:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/?p=255"},"modified":"2025-05-10T02:22:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T02:22:02","slug":"letter-from-j-sturges-to-mrs-beddow-1940","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/2025\/05\/10\/letter-from-j-sturges-to-mrs-beddow-1940\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter from J. Sturges to Mrs. Beddow, 1940"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>December 29, 1940<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear Mrs. Beddow,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some twenty years ago grandmother Sturges drove all of us grandchildren out to Indiana to see her relatives. I have a vivid memory of faces, but am a bit vague about names and spellings. Hence I hope you will pardon my mispellings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The point is that we are trying to print a genealogical chart and wonder if you could help supply any information about the Williams and Farmer families. Grandmothers father was a Dr. Elkanah Williams and his wfies name was Farmer. Grandmother is so old now that she has trouble remembering such things and hence I am writing to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you so much.<br>Sincerely<br>J. Braddock Sturges<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11 Whitelawn Ave.<br>Milton, Boston, Mass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Originally posted 28 OCT 2000)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 29, 1940 Dear Mrs. Beddow, Some twenty years ago grandmother Sturges drove all of us grandchildren out to Indiana to see her relatives. I have a vivid memory of faces, but am a bit vague about names and spellings. Hence I hope you will pardon my mispellings. The point is that we are trying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}