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F:.(:~.~; e !crrive me, but my nr;:me iE "Rob" .•• flnc 'fI e r. : ,.~' ., 1,.;::; .... ~r: v;ell di~­pHI!'>€: v;i:.b fOf'fIJ?11iies nOlo:, S~TJce i~. \\'ould seeIL yo-...:. 6: : :-!"E- 0: ·t,'~,E ~l!.llIe ~en­€:,l'c::-;.~on ..• 8S : Wp.s bo!"n April t, ·19?::. •.••• ma.}~inE' mE' sl~.o E": .. ·!':t.ee-r, in 1939. Anc : tl-.J.nl: ! [!!9~' 'naVE? possibly [; ~ fy,' rm5vlers to yQ'..:~ '1U(:!"t.:OliE. ••••

1'1:;'1 :;: W~. £ [Jorr. on F. fs.rIIi in tr.E' rlov.~-of-Rutla.n~, Vtis.!I.. At F. leter date,

un¥.'o\\'n :'0 me, my father- moved us, my mother & I to p.Tlother farm in the Town­of-3rooy.lyn, only P.. fe .... ' miles down the rOBe. TQ1.e farq; waB gestined to be­~o!r:e the site of the marriage of one Arvid Ha.rneck & one !I;ild:r~d ",1eD. J:.. cere mony no:. 'I"ell remembered by IDe since I was five at thE" t'J.me. '1 do, J:!.01"­€·' .. e~,v~vidi~r '. rec:all the charivari thBt followed •. Hshotp-uns, notwithstF:nd:".!1f. You )'- er:_lize, o:~ course, this vtc;:s 'before TV, &. members ' of' our rural soci!':t:..­Olen." ;zeo t.o finEi 81 tarnati ve meens of enterteinment. Thi e experience ~i nt; . my fir'st, did defjnitely leave an impression •••• 80 much for incidentals.

~.D. stands for M.a1"beau Davenport. When e young man,thru no fault o~ his own, has to learn how to survive with E: mother ana .three 81 9ters I 0: NO FA.THER, things tend to eet a little one-sidea ••• end, so it ,,'ould seem, Mil­dred, who had trouble pronouncing "Me.rbeau", made it come out "BOBBO" ••• And so the reason for my being named IIRobert". Now then t my middle name. of Willl1am, apparently wa.s the result of a 2nd thought of some sor~, since it wes the name of' my fathers I father ••••• my grandfather, whon;. I never met-. Also, the fact that mJ father rarely. if ever, spoke of bie(& Mildreds'~ tather_ has le6 me to believe that the sub ject was not Jor II tender' eare \I •••• I t nor either of my younger brothers, were ever enlightened in that rp.garc. You might sey he was considered to be B·n "S~o!' the 1st water .••• p.s fa!" R£

his family was concerned. ! do va'uely recall rearlinE a le~ter or two, he Ylro't-6, b:. :::: a.ccioently rF.n across in E. trunt in our f>ttic ir. EvansviJ,le .••• hm" I ... rish I had secrE'ted them, 0: could re-read then, nm,,_ ..• HE 'y~p,S SHhRF !! I think you & i woulc refer to someone like hilI! as a " shrewd-horse-tre.oer l! •• 0

But, w.n.a. tever happened to those let te rs, 1'11 never knovl. • • • ~~ l't •

You Ire rig..'ht, I tho, Georgina was a~we.Y8 ref~ered to as gllMummie- eorsyt!. 3he died at the a~e of seventy of 'Parki nsons I Disease •••• as di.d 1. . at. the ~ge of eighty in 1976. His twin sister, Mari~, died in March tree years Later in 1979. Harriette, the oldest, & my favorite, I have no knoweedge of, ~s to whether or not she is still living. You might say, & possibly elready lave, I do come from a most. stra.nge ~amilr, •••• The one thin~, bQvlever, I ' must nentibn, is the fact that all throufTh my I &<rowin~-up-;yeers I all members of )ur femily, to mv knowledge were Chri stien ScientH!sts •••• a fa.ct th~t has given De much food for thoup:ht for many years •••• For eXFID:;-le; - my ~other died in -958 o~ cancer of the-breast that was left untreated for heaven-only-knows 10\1.' many yea.~E •••• 1 was made aware ~f the fa.ct ~ month before she' died. ly mother, inciltdently, divorced my father in 1952 on f..rounds of aaul try ••• :he moved to Ariz. to be near me at that. time, since of her other two S0118,

me lived in Alaska & the other was in service in Korea.. Meanwhile, M.!). re-18.rried and in 1960, HE also moved to Arizona. How a.bout that? ? 'i •• Do I ound bitter? If so, I apologise. Principally because my move to A~izona n 1951, with my wife and two daughters, was actually perpetrated to ~et .way from M.D. . •• ! (maybe I shouJ,.d consider writing my cum.... book ~..;~ [ncl0 entlyYour menti on of Mildreds I middle nl3.me beinE' Elisa.beth thrO\'ls ID€: •••

[ didn I t k~o,,' that. Since both Harriette & Mariam:. I wrs Hesketh, I guess . i. t wa.s my impression that DOiJ{ MildBeds' was a.lso ••• as is m~t . wifes' as w€'lll ~s my step-mothers' ••• who still lives in Tempe,Az. about 5 ~iles from us.

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~ r. . :; .:" ~:/. f.-d '~o J..lber-";. C~rlson who ... : :!~ originelly e ~uei,:ert 'I':'1e'Y ··:!"Jac· eaaup"h ... e:r t,:;, !"r . . r: :-.. out 1925 or '26 tr.et. dlE::C et "he f'F-'e o~· ~hrfre fr'o:: ?oW 1i ~e~se · no~ .-rr.eoe Jyu 'c;lic, c.S f~r BE :l Yotlo..,... T·nen tbey hf;C e son D8Y~C, '!)cr-r: '22· or' 12~ • • The- . j, n · ";, : ·nes!·d he l~ve~ so!""'e .... !!er'e in the vicini ty of !-iHmn.on::, Indiane. I · ne.ver . ~ne¥ hirr afLer be Fre~ up, which I gjncerelr hope he did as hp c~r'tajnly wes . t:-;c wor16s' most spoiled brF.t •••. MArion, n·j smother, t.oo}: F. free.tin-depth - : ini.el"e~T, in genef'~logy & span: much time & n,oner in reeeerch relative to the Fish f8~ ~ lr tree. She even went to England onCE:: & ~osR1bly ~wice checkin~ cOUr't. bouse archive: .•.•• Bud vlBE 6Dle to tal{e us b?ck 'to the time of the ~~ay­flower. In the early sixties, she & my father as well a~ myself were invited to & Fish-!-'l1ihily-Re-union in Mesa, Abiz. Little djd \~e realize that this "'a.s }r;orlIJan Church affair... Never-the-less, Marion flew out from Milwaukee ' at­l..enOea 88 well as contribU1-ed •.•• her n01,es &- informat.ion that she had F'le:arJed. Lo & behold, their records & hers pret~y much matched •.•• Put when my f~ther · & . I reE:lized this wes a ~~ o!'rnah effort, vie both lost int.epeElt.. Now, then, should &nyone hp~ve the urge, determination, &, patience •••• ·one migbt ~o to SaJf't Leke City & delve into the Tabernacle archives & come up with rne.ny answers I don't -1 have. .

In their 19ter years, Marion & Al moved into B nursing home where ~he die~. I thought, at the time, about obtBi ning custod y 0:' heY' records. Like so 'many of us do, I procraBtin~ted ..• & then received word that Al elsa had died ••.•• My interest waned ••• After all, David wa.s the only heir, & he ha.d troubles of bis own, since his first wife, died ••• & he had at least 1 or 2 kid s ••• a.nd I didn't know where he lived in the first place. I understand he shortly re­married & promptly hac lIIore family.

Getting back .. 0 "Mummie ~eor51e" ..• I celled my fathers' wic'io";, \~"ho re­married & is opce more E widq"lll ... (that's 3 husbands rlm~ ••• e.he's'B yrs older then me. My fether told her some thinl7s he never told me •.••• such as the fact his father p~banaened his family at a.rJ early age. He d i6, bO"otlever, ret,urn in later jtears irl poor health i nthe win t er-time , on::'~~ to be refuse:: en7.ry into

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t,he bouse ...• he WfS f oune the:: nex-:. ml):nn ~. l1~ in ths ·::;?~r. ~:"'o?en 'to depth ..•• MUlIimie-3 . Ii veel s:. Brookville Hd. wi tb HEI.rrie't.'L.e for man'\" yearE: & I remember her as being very considerate, yet sa.d ..• In her fp,il iug years she 1:: vee .ir. our house for time, but her mind was not too good &: she beceme too much of loaa on my mother, who wa.s taking ·care of her. Then, l~arion & .Al aid some re!Ilodeling of their home in ta.u'vTautosa, (Milwau'ttee) & moveo 1r..G. into their nC1>me where s he died. The da.te I believe was ir. the lRte 30's ••• I know she wa.s cremated & re­posed for a time on our fireplace ma.ntJe in Evansville until such time as my father found time to finalize the af!air. This was accomplished by taking a ride in our auto 1.0 Ha.rtford, Wis. with a post-hole digerer in the car •••• since there was no room for anothe·r plot next to William, my oa.d aUF. e bole in a c orrle-r of the plot & simply "pla.ntea" tbe urn •.• simple, eh;

DE, yes, 'to the best of my knowl ~a ge, my father paid for much of the education vou ment.!oned .••• he also put }-OJ.mp.e1f thru an indete:rminG. te time · in a.l2:ricultur~ colleOle ••• he loved the farm ••• but moved to town(Evans. ) in 1928 (3 rter having Ii v~ on 3 .farms. He made the mistake of ma.frying a" oi ty-gal" • My mother wa.s an «rphan but we.s rei sed in MilwauXee. She, too, spent much time & money attempting to learn her tlrootstl ••.

And my siste?l-in-la.w in Evans. is my w~s' sister .••• my oldest brother, Sept. 7, 1928 lives in La.throp, Mo •• & my other br·o. Sept. 15, 1939 lives in Ever~reen, Colo. (they were obviously conceived on Newil Years Eve f while still in e. -mellow mood following E.. party at the Masonic Temple •••• ) (a RARE event.) lYiy step-mother bramght thie. to mv attention . . by tbe way •••

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Mildred sent me a pic.post cara dated June 13, 1929 of the liner Eerlin' on which she seilal to Gern:any. S he also sent F; snap-shot of she & A.rvid v!ish­my mother happy-birthday, dated Sept.' 30. But I' m ~etting Bheed of myself ••• My mother toolc a sm.ap of then: shortly e fter their weddin€ vthen they had lfALKED from Ha5ison to OO!' ::e.rm to express their thanks .• ( approx. 18 rrile 5 e&,ch "t1ey.)

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~en yE ~ r in hipt schocl. ~ At ~h~~ :iID~ ~he ~~ ! ~ l lowe~ ~o ~e ~e not Rare then "Ly,. C' :-Ju;jcr·eo dollf::!"'~ out. o!' :7f!":!.:: TJY. ":leinr:: .J.~t: re~ourcc~:,,:J. ~E;!"~on' ~:!"~at she vIes, she :;:;re-scheculed a lec"Lure "OUT' e"J severr~l u~:~ve?"' ·~ l:\"'~e!'. F-lcross,the U.S . .-Thi~ cover'eo her travelin£ en:·,enner.. I prevr-iled o·n !1E'!" ;ene!"osity to pay e visit to one of my clsRses, wh~ct she rlndly did. (no money, thai .• ) Her topic at the universities .... /af. Eur'opean L~"Lereture. But. I in l\JY c1c:ss 1 recall her riving an interesting t.e.ll~ or. the physicel ·::>eauty o~ '3erruany, the country.

Bbe spent several day 5 e 1, our home in Evr.msville, and much of the time in private conver.sation with my father. Among other thine-s, I recollect her telling him that she kne' she had been followed out of Germany, 6- was, in fact under surveillance while Yieiting our home. This, F:S you may iJDa~ine, caused not F: fev; mj.sgivings ",'here my father was concernec. She .... 'a·6 most 8War'~ of the q .... Bli ty of ed .... caU on in Sermany &.c comp~r'ed to the C. S. ana t.ried very her'O 1,0

pr'evail on my fc t:her to e.llow roe to go to Germany to s~hool. Needless . to say, Da.d was most vehement in his denial... Cl-

·wnen she left she spent some time at Harriettee' in Chevy Chase wbere she succeedec. ir~ selling Janie on the idea of E'oine- to Germany. You alre&.dy imov; t of co-u~se, what followed.

! was dr8fted in 1942 at the age of 21, into the Army. Althou~h! pAssed aptitude tests qualifying for aircraft mechanic in the Army-Air-~orce, I ended up in the wilds of Louisiana in a tank-destroyer battalion ••••• typical, eh.::· -ir'hen the war in the ETO ended, I was in e nOBpi tal somewhere in central ·GerJDany. (with a touch of pneumonia.) Things moved rethe:r- fast R.t the end E<nc ! lost l.rack of my outfit. Bare in mind there are replacement depots ~et jus~ for' l.he IHtes of" me ..• and the war in the racific was still going full-bore ..• ! ha.d no desire, after 37 months, to become a.ttached · to e neVI' & st,rEm~e outfit -I' for another tour in the far east.... .

Thanks to every undp.rstanding IIbird ll colonel who wes able to locate my , unit :in Czechoslovakia. : passec t;r:. rou~h tne li l.tle t o\\T, of Hof, loc?te·c neer· t!'!e bo:r-oer of GePIT.an, & Czechoe. lovp.}~ie. Onl~r ,.,ben :;: ceme bee}: to the ~t!1-ee5in October did I d:scover that Janie & .·what was 1e1'1, o~ her famil:r VI'ere in nof f!1..

the same t i me that I was there ..•• life can play· 8trenge tricks, sometime:; ••• It wes my understandin~ that she hed. turned herself in to the Allied Ho. in Hof. Then, when she got back to the stales she was immed iately c.orraled by the sta.te Depa.rtment in D. C. & under went, wha.t I suppose, amounted to a de-by·j ef­ing. I never did a.ttempt to contact her but did hear from Harriette from time to time, who would relay whatever she considered news-worthy •••

You mention Ja.nie living wi th her mother, or visa versa, ''las this at 6801 Brookville Rd.? Jane has an older sister, Marion, who I understood was at that address •.•• no matter •.• we've written, sent X'mas cards, our eon who lives in Maine, has tried to contact, our daughter in Texas has tried •.• all to no avail. Apparently they live in another world •••• I do seem to recall SO!T:e­thinE about one of Marions' off-spring going into a 4th marriage •..• Harreettes I oldest son Fritz, married "Skeets", a. girl he went to the U. of' vas. with in 1947. My wife, Gerrie, & I double-dated one fun ni~ht that year ••• ShortlJr after, Gerrie & I moved to another town. We were never a.e:ain in touch. No, nc animosity, just not convenient ... we were each starting a new li fe ~. he.d our hanes full indepen~antly, working toward the ~oel both your husband & I have fina.Ily reeched .••• a full life, a happy family of kids all finall:y on their own. And now a chance to do, or NOT to do, wha.tever "'vIe darn well feel like. Harriette also had e. y'o~ne:er son, R..Qhln, who came thru Phoenix once efter he "raE! Erown & we met for the 1st time. He didn't come to see me, though, but his uncle M.D •..• I don't recall his year o~ birth ••• if I ever knew. I do Know tha.t n Sl~eets II had a stroke & in not too e:ood shape •••

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rct corie'':; 0 ;' 1:0 ;: F,' pictur'c!1 mt .rie by [' {.-ood fT'ienil I'nd neirhbor' of our!') •••• HelD r,-. r'etir'ec:1 Cj1. .'.' of Phoenix eT!]'P'iO,\rce & hir: ljre-Mme hobby i~~ phOtO('T' ," r-h.v. lk '!. :. 'y~;, (;: I (lUot,G,.'~ · or !cet t.he xel'ox"!!! SjTr,pl~r t r!\uS' n p:1ctuY'e o~"the plc­tul·c •••• soundn re"!':onr,.ble so I"m lettinr: h1m do it.. Thi9 Dort of thinF c[;ln't bE') hu:rried •.• especj {; J.ly if you w;;nt to mr..intpin f-l p'o~)d neirrhborly relnUonship, ?y. the ",'[ly ••• feel "r ·C'(.> 'JO d:l.!38E,min[lte F:ny info from I/Ie you ,·rioh ••• hmlever, I \·;oulC: (:,·I~J phr. f}l7.e thi 0 be i n~" r.. 2-vlFty 1'1 trcF:t, in thr.: t I \'!Ould appreci e t(~ le 'lrn:l. n r: o f th1 nVH :{OU d1 ~,cover froll! ;·rnp.t-(-)ver Hourc:e. To rei ter'~te t much C'f \ r ~r! t I l~!1():· .' o f' my r:ncf~ :::toY'f>, i.e. 1! I:r P"t'.'1ndJ'ntl:n··, did not co:r!~ 'from my f::thp.r' or my mo:.hr:·: r'. roY' t,;,}:nmple, t.hp. tplp o~ '!ho' r r. t~d rlf>l-:1igp, 'dr- I) t.old me by my f'~thp'J"o' ~~ rv!" ;lj'!'(: "'ho str".:.ed th13 chl)tce hjt c['me f'r·Or.1 none other then Hr. rl .. ip.tt·e •••••

1\; 0, I ~~:1dn't p.ee the Clrtiele ]1': ~:-:e AluTD!'JUB me"ozine ..• & that.'e oecC'wle 1 !:Iren' one ••• r-~,y ec.lucatton bat'p,ly con!'lists or 8 HS dipiome plus ~ix r.:onth!': voc3tio119.1 sebool unc1et' t.he NYJI. (N::r tion?l You":h adrnini,strC'!tion) 'l'be r.rovern:;:ent p!:l16 rr.e . ( 18.40 per mont.h & tXup.~fmteed !T,e ? job. I went to vwr'r: for Gisholt l·~ach. Co • • in 1940 @ RTI unheard of .50 per hour ... (M.D. F.llm08t. flipped) But I .... MI . d:"afte.d in 1942. (then he re:j.lly flipped~) You see, he ,,;ps deferred fro!!: ;.'~~':l since '.' he wes a farmer. A f~.ct that die'! not set '-Tell at ~ll, eRpeciplly ~.,T~lere STI!ull tOlvTI telk \0'.'.': 5 concer'ned. I've l1~ar'd it s~id thflt "l~en I went "in 1Jo Rerv'ic(3 he ;·,'."' [l r.!c::,u r lly ,jealo1J.8 •..• A":. r-~ny l"f:!te, the IT!orl'! ing I ':)o <:. rde:- '.l t,r:f: t rF~n H~I'3 tb:~ f'il's t ~, 2. ;', E: : could ever re·!'r.er:I!)E'l" sse2.nr- !:i~. drd nc.tul'!lly f-::8,5 te f'·r3 •••• P~.;~, do;:' ,:· et. !r:e ~" y· on(! ••• b? .,,r~.-r::. P . food "G ·:'ov~del' •••• ~nd hE' nevep I::busF>e hi!:; fC'!r:ily ••• I .' : C.OYi't ~ve;' r·er:'er.:bor' beinp- 'Ch"'sicll',r ch88tise0 •••• ·~ .. lUt his toDne o~ VO}ce: le-:'t no.; - . ,- ... . Cll...ieSUOn !:::Tt \·/hnt :2(,; l~eDnt i .... hflt.. '~!e R:J,:!C! I.,:.d I r:iij;tht. [;(1(: ', r !'! E'r)m tor .. [). ve i;~ -~ hE' l" i ted .:. b j, t of ::'h ;; t e.b i l1 t.'! siEce r.:y :'o'.;.!" t~. ds ':rere t:"e~ted 'Pretty r:,·uch t he ~. 09[":e wr..y, & I'm more then p l eese(! with t.he "/F'Y they t u rned out. Eo,·rever, there is e dif~·erence ••• I don't remember eve~ heRrin,! "I love your! in our house ell durin~ my f rowlnp-up-years •••• end I Rtill ~Rrvel at ~uddenly leern~n~ t~nt ~~is cO".lld 8.ctu8.lly become 8 VTB.'jT of life •••• But, suffice it to say, we neyep tF.lk on the telephone to any otff our kids but v:hs.t the conversation end 8 ,;,ri th "I luv ye II

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Soooo, comes now t1:e pictures ! - - - - ... It ~ enclosing the neFP-tlves ElIso, since he took F-t lep-nt thr'€e o~ ~F.ch ~t di~­~e !~ent IIf-st.ors" ••• th ll t Kay shou16 you opciae to 1:"ve ;rOY'e mr.·de, · ... ·hoever does the deed will hrve ~ choice FS to Duality in the And reRulto

J ':::: 8frf.:l(.~ ','Ihr:"Po':er info I mi12:ht have would be of' 11 ttl~ int~: r68t to the 18\'1-yel~ ~ei tZ€l" - •• 3i nce I know ebsoL.l tel~T nothir.p' relst.i ve to p.n~,. "una er-r.round" activities thpt the Hnrnecks took part in •.•• As R ffi~tter o~ f~ct, it Beems to ~:; e iTi lflter yel'!~2 \"hen Hrrriette l?lmm visit.ed my ft'thcr,(t UB~, mention 'vTP8 IJl~de th&.t any documentation l~elati'Ve to that p8rticulrr e~'8 be destroyed in i t5' entirety since the sooner thpt 8e .'~ ep1 sode be put 'l:'ehinn us f.. 7'orf.!'ot.ten once & for all, the better for all concerned. (unnuote~

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