Harriman, Tennessee,
                                      May 18, 1921.

My dear Miss Kingsbury:- I think I have already answered
your questions in your letter of the 13th in my letter
which crossed enroute, but let me say again that you need
not bother about getting any thing further of Rev. Thos.
Reese of S.C.  I feel sure my friend Mrs. Durell descends
from his brother Solomon Trusten Reese and his wife Harriet
Jack, through their son John Jack Reese who married Mollie
(Mary) Mackey, however I have not yet found proof of this
fact.  I think I told you Mrs. Durell is descended from
Hugh Porter of Orange Co. N. C., as well as Colonial
Ancestors in Mass., but we were anxious to get her Reese
line straight before filing any papers in the C.D.’s.
As you know, if the Reeese line is straightened out, she
will have a number of ancestors with eligible services in
the Polk family too.  I have been trying to get records
from the Jack family to prove that Harriet Jsck Reese was
the grandmother of James Reese who married Elizabeth Brown,
but have not yet succeeded.

My sister's application or nomination slip has not yet left
Nashville, as the Tenn. Society have not had a meeting
since her paper left Knoxville.  Their Annual Meeting is to
take place some time this month, at which time I suppose
her application will be acted upon.  It was weeks before it
left Knoxville, which has caused most of the delay, but I
am hoping it will reach you in time for your June meeting,
then I don’t suppose it will get around to you before you
re-open for the next season.

Thank you so much for all you have done for me.  I want
some time to come to Wilmington to see you about my work as
I think I can arrange to make it more profitable to both of
us, but that probably is in the future.  You have always
been most kind to me and I appreciate it more than I can
tell you.  Let me know if I can be of any service to you
at any time.

Always your friend,

CKH/K
PS/  What about papers in the N.C.Society where ancestors
served in VA.?  I have been told it is extremely difficult
to get papers through that State on account of so much red
tape & etc.  With ancestors who served in Va., must one be
admitted through that State?  Tell me about this when you
write again.


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