Item 27

                                                                                       Tulsa, Oklahoma
                                                                                       March 26th, 1939
Mrs. Ruth Wait Tuttle,
Burnside, Kentucky.

Dear Mrs. Tuttle:

  C.R. Gilmore, a native son of Pulaski County, and a resident of Tulsa, and long time friend of mine, spent three hours with me yesterday comparing noted [notes].  He is a Beattie and related to your Beattie family.  He called my attention to the fact that the letter I directed to you on March 12th was sent to Somerset, when it should have been mailed to Burnside.  I hope it reached you.

  JOHM [John] BEATTIE of VIRGINIA, ancestor of your line appears certainly to have married a Miss Ellen or Eleanor GILMORE.  I think the Beatties and the Gilmores lived neighbors in what is now Rockbridge County, Va.  William Beattie, son of John, married a Miss ALLISON.  Their son John was one of your ancestors.  I told you in my letter of the 12th that the man for whom I was named, S.R. Selecman, married a Miss Allison, and that she was related to the Logans and Gilmores.  My direct line of descent does not include any of these names, but does include Edmiston or Edmondson, which is one of your lines.  I have not as yet been able to determine how my great great great grandfather THOMAS EDMISTON was related to Colonel William Edmiston but I feel sure __ relationship was fairly close.   In other words I suspect that my great grandmother , who was Miss Ann Edmiston, married her first cousin, when she first married ANDREW EDMISTON, a brother of Colonel Wm.  Some time I hope to stumble on the relationship of my Edmistons with the family from which you are descended.

  Do you know the names of any real old citizens of Pulaski County, who are of the Carson, or Dysart or Logan family, to which I could write and secure records of those families.

       Yours sincerely,

       Redmond Selecman Cole

[a piece of paper had been place over this letter, hiding part of the signature.   The handwritten note read: If  this Beaty line can be established we can add several charming ladies to our chapter.  We hope thro a California Beaty to find the parents of Jonathan and Polly.  Can you place them?  The heading on the note paper included the name Mrs. Preston Johnston, The Lexington Chapter, DAR]