TO: LINDA MOSS MINES ALL: MY FATHER, STEPHEN DORMAN MINES, WAS BORN 1904, ESTILL SPRINGS, TN AND HAD A BROTHER, ROBERT WILLIAM MINES (MY UNCLE BOB) THAT I KNEW WELL INTO ADULTHOOD. MY FATHER MOVED TO MICHIGAN (IN THE 1930'S?) AND DURING (OR AT THE END OF) WW II HIS BROTHER BOB AND HIS CHILDREN MOVED TO MICHIGAN (MUSKEGON) ALSO.

MY FATHER, UNLIKE HIS FATHER FELIX, HAD ONLY ONE FAMILY/WIFE AND ONLY FIVE CHILDREN; LIKE HIS FATHER HENAMED THE BOYS ROBERT WILLIAM, MICHAEL ALOYISIOUS (MY BROTHERS), AND STEPHEN DORMAN (MYSELF).

THE INFORMATION OF YOURS, (MINES HISTORY IN TN), FOUND SERENDIPITIOUSLY ON THE NET, IS THE VERY FIRST HISTORY OF MY GRANDFATHER KNOWN TO THOSE OF US EXTANT (WE KNEW ONLY HIS NAME, FELIX, AND THAT HE'D PURPORTEDLY IMMIGRATED FROM IRELAND AND WAS A COOPER BY TRADE.

i'VE CONTACTED SEVERAL FAMILY MEMBERS WITH THIS INFOR OF YOURS AND WE ARE ALL ROCKING AND REELING FROM THIS REVELATION, THIS WINDOW AS IT WERE INTO OUR HERITAGE.

THOUGHT YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW.

STEPHEN DORMAN MINES
8400 MAMMOTH AVENUE
PANAORAMA CITY, CA

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