Volume 9 , Issue 6

James Hiram Mondy, WWI Soldier

"A quick estimate is that the young James Hiram Mondy was a first cousin twice removed. His mother was a McCary. He and my Grandfather Clarence McCary were first cousins. I doubt that grandpa ever heard of him. I am not a Mondy descendant. Much of my information was recorded by the late Evelyn B. Stout of Cherokee, OK, another McCary descendant. I stopped and visited her once when we were on our way to Vallecito. My late mother never heard of her either. Sometimes the families split and spread like an explosion. Imagine that kid being from Alva, growing up in Canada and lies buried in France and he died about the time he achieved manhood. We genealogists try to glue the pieces back together.

I'm not sure what all problems my great-great granduncle Carl Barnett had, other than lung troubles. I do remember his sister Daisy Barnett Talkington speaking of it. They were my Grandma Hazel Martin McCary's aunt and uncle.

I still enjoy your weekly endeavors in the Zine. Keep up the good work." -- Charlie
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