This Ancestral Tree Got a Real Shakeup
In your article written by Richard Hoffer, “Whitey’s Boys” (Oct. 12), you shook my ancestral tree by locating New Athens in Missouri instead of Illinois. My forefathers settled there in 1817 and my parents, 91 and 93, still live there.
ALICE FERCH
Santa Ana
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