Item 11

                                                                                          Logan, Utah
                                                                                          Sept. 13-38
Mr. Redmond S. Cole
Box 92
Tulsa, Oklahoma

Dear Mr. Cole-
 Your letter of Sept. 4” reached me and I read it with a great deal of interest.  I am very happy to send you all the information I have or have ever been able to get concerning the Beattie family.  I think there is no doubt but that I belong to the Beatties you refer to.  I gave my card to Gates Beattie once (sic) time when my husband and I were traveling through Missouri.  I also sent him the same list of Beatties I am sending you, asking him if he was interested to please let us know which branch of the family he belonged to, but he did not reply.

 The genealogical list I am sending you came to us through the following sources:  In 1917 a Mr. W. E. Beattie and his wife from Greenville, S. C. came to Salt Lake City, contacted my brother and established unquestionable relationship through names in the family, principally Josiah & Fountain.  This latter name seems to run all through the family and I had a brother who was named Edward Fountain.  Mr. W. E. Beattie obtained this list in about 1900 from Mrs. Amanda Ernest of Virginia, a descendant of Elizabeth Beattie who married Wm Byars and it originally came from Mrs. Martha Beattie of Glade Spring, Va. who married Madison Beattie.

 I am also enclosing a sketch compiled by the Media Research Bureau of Washington D. C.  Do not know that it will be much help to you but it is rather interesting to look over.

 You will notice that in filling out your questionnaire I have spelled my name Beatie.  The branch of the family who came west seemed to have dropped one “t” and we have never been able to account for it.  Personally I think think [sic] it came fixed that way because people did not know how to spell it correctly.  It should be Beattie.

 I trust that what I am sending you will be of some help to you.  I am very much interested in the genealogy of this family and if you have any additional data on it I would be so glad to have it.

Sincerely
Mrs. B. G. Thatcher
93 E. 1” So. St.
Logan City
Utah
Florence Beatie Thatcher