Misc: Letter to William Beasley from Son of John Lynch Wrinkle
Source: A family tree book compiled and edited by Shawnee Boswell Osborne.
Submitted by : "Len and Carolyn Cade" <calocade@kalama.com>



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BEASLEY LETTER 


A letter to Mr. William K. Beasley from the son of John Lynch Wrinkle:

Dear Mr. Beasley:
     Your letter of October 19, 1971 was a great interest to me.  since I
received it I have looked through a packet of old letters, papers, etc.
given to me by one of my father's sisters before her death.  I can find
little information of real value so I will try to tell you what I remember
hearing about my father's people in the past.  All of my father's family
are now deceased except one of my aunts who lives in New Orleans.  She is
Rose Romaguera. age 83, and is in very poor health.
     My father's family spelled their name Wrinkle but I was told that the
original name was spelled Rinkle and that is was changed in court many year
ago to make the name sound more American.  My father felt that there must
have been some other reason.
     My father, John Lynch Wrinkle was born June 21, 1884 and died April 24,
1955.  He was the son of Abram David Wrinkle and Mary Jane Parrott Wrinkle.
 His family lived in Sabine Parish at one, later moving to deSoto Parish
and to Alexandria.
     My grandfather, Abram David Wrinkle, was called. Abe.  He was the son of
David Wrinkle, whom I have heard was a bell maker, and Sarah Wray who came
to this country from Tyrone County, Ireland as a child.  I believe they
lived in Bossier Parish.  Grandpa was reared by relatives I have been told
as his mother died when he was one year old and his father several year
later.  Grandpa was born August 26, 1840 according to my late Aunt's
records.  I believe she may have been in error as my father said Grandpa
was only 14 years old when he enlisted in the Confederate Army in 1861 and
that he had no choice but to go with his older brother who was at that time
taking care of him.  Also, Grandpa was about 70 when died April 30, 1918. 
Today I went to the cemetery to check the dates on Grandpa's tombstone. 
there is only the date of his death on the stone.  Strange, isn't it?  I
have photostatic copies of Confederate War records which show that Grandpa
enlisted in the Confederate Army in 1861 and served in Col. Terry's
Rangers.  He was wounded in the trenches on May 30, 1863 during the Siege
of Vicksburg.  In 1865 he married Mary Jane Parrott at Many, La.
     
The following are things that I have heard but have no proof of. 
     1.  the first Rinkels in our family in this country were a man who had
been a professor at the University of Heidelberg, Germany and his three sons.
     2.  the three Rinkel (or Wrinkle) sons came through Tennessee where one
settled.
     3.  Two some came to Louisiana and settled.  Later one went to Texas and
was never heard from again.
     4.  My grandfather told him family that after his father's death an
uncle came from Tennessee to get his brother's children but finding they were
being well cared for went back to Tennessee without them.
     5.  My grandfather spoke some if this  Aunt, Rose Beasley.  It is
thought that he named one of his daughters Rosannah after   this aunt.