Letters, Rockbridge County, VA-- Dorman ********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ********************************************************************** Submitted by: Barbara ScottWyche [robertw@worldnet.att.net] 2026 Windmill Dr. Richmond, Texas 77469-1262 Clerk's Office, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia. Staunton, Va., February 3, 1888. Dear Boli You don't deserve a letter from me, for I never hear from any of you now. But I write to say that I have mailed to you today a copy of the Staunton [Vind]icator of Dec. 30, ult., containing a sketch of the Cunningham family from which we are descended on the maternal side. I wrote it rather hurridly and there are some gaps in it. For instance Dr. Asher Waterman did not marry a daughter of John Cunningham, but his grand-daughter Sarah Lockhart and it was a grand-daughter, Mary C. Burns, who was married to Henry J. Gambill (or Gamble) I found out last Tuesday too from Margaret Eldridge, whom I met at Davis S Bell's, that I had omitted one daughter, [Miss] McCroy. It is well enough to rescue the memory of these good people from entire oblivian--particularly in Augusta here, where there is more family pride, suppressed and unsuppressed, than I have ever known elsewhere, & a good deal of "stuck-uppishness" over it. I saw Hannah at Cousin Lizzie's funeral & she said she had written to you or "Mug" about Lizzie's death. I prepared a brief obituary notice which appeared in the Val. Virginian by [au]gust, & Jno. Howard tells me he sent you a copy. My wife & myself are both unusually well this winter. I had a [unk] spell a year ago, which laid me up all winter nearly. We paid Lilly Hurshaw [Henshaw ?] a visit of a month in October last, & I had half a mind to run down to Fort Worth to the Mexican Veteran Annual Reunion--but concluded that would try me too severly then. Write to me or make Jimmy do it & let me know how you are all getting on. What is Lina, married name & where is her Post-office? Give my best love to Mug. Faithfully your brother Jas. B. Dorman Capt. Wm B Dorman If the newspaper (Sn. Va.) does not come to house, let me know & I will send another copy. [Transcriber's Note: Boli and Mug are nicknames for William Boliver Dorman and his wife, Margaret Catherine McCue. I used brackets to enclose letters or words that I have guessed. "Jno. Howard" most likely is John Howard McCue but that is definitely a guess on my part. He is, however, the brother of Mug. I have *The McCues of the Old Dominion* written in 1912 and can put together most of the McCue references but I have been completely stymied on my Dorman line except for the wonderful article you published on line whereby I discovered Cornelius Dorman, FATHER of Gen. Charles P. Dorman. I am also extremely thankful for all the help I have received from the good people at the VMI Archives for the information on my gr-gr-grandfather and his sons.]