Harriman, Tennessee,
                                  May 12, 1921.

My dear Miss Kingsbury:- Thank you so much for your letter
of the 9th which has just been received.

I received the data of the Jack family, also the data on
the following men whose services are eligible to the N.C.
C.D.’s; Gen. Thos. Polk, David Reese, Hugh Porter, James
Mackey, William Brown and Samuel Martin, for which I thank
you.  May I keep the Jack data for a while longer?  I don’t
suppose you want the notes on the men returned, do you?

I am so glad to tell you that the reference for Hugh Porter
is what I was looking for for my friend Mrs. Durell.  She
is a descendant through James Reese and Elizabeth Brown
(who was a grand daughter of Hugh and Violet Mackey Porter
of Orange Co. N.C.) of Hugh Porter.  It is this James Reese
who I am trying to connect with David Reese of Mecklenburg
Co., N.C., but I have not succeeded.  I have a copy of the
Reese Book (which I will loan you any time you want it)
which gives the complete line of descendants of Rev. Thomas
Reese and his wife Jane Harris, but James Reese is not of
that line.  Do not trouble about getting any thing more on
Rev. Thos. Reese, now.  One son, Soloman T. Reese (son of
David & Susan Polk Reese) married Harriet Jack, according
to the Reese book, and emigrated to Tenn.  Their children
were, John Jack Reese, George Reese and two daughters, but
the book says “no further records of this branch of the
family.”  I am certain that John Jack Reese married Mollie
(“Pretty Mary”) Mackey, younger sister of Violet Mackey
Porter who was a grandmother of Elizabeth (Brown) Reese
wife of James Reese, and I have not found any records to
prove any of it. I shall keep trying and hope to find the
records, yet.  Mrs. Durell is eligible to the C. Dames
through the Mass. Society as well as the N.C. Society
through Hugh Porter, but we want to get the Reese line
straight before any papers are filed, so if you can help me
any further I will be so glad.

A friend in Atlanta, Miss Sally Eugenia Brown, sister of
Ex-Gov. Joe Brown is also eligible to the N.C. C. Dames
on this Porter line, as well as my William Hill Sr., line.
She is descended from Wm. Hill Sr., through the Halberts
of S. C. I may help her with her C.D. papers when she is
ready to file them.

I am not surprised that my sisters papers have not yet been
received as the Tenn. Society will not have another meeting
till some time this month, the first since sisters papers
were sent away from Knoxville.  They were delayed there for
weeks and weeks.  They certainly are slow, but I appreciate
the fact that things if this kind take a lot of time. I do
hope these papers will get to  you in time for your June
meeting, but I cant tell.

(C. K. Hill
CKH/K)


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