Item 9

                                                                                                  Tulsa, Oklahoma,
                                                                                                  Sept. 4, 1938.

Mrs. B.G. Thatcher,
Logan Utah.

Dear Mrs. Thatcher   Re Beattie Family

 I am not of the Beattie Family, but I was born in the Breckenridge Beattie home east of Savannah/Mo. in 1881.  He was an Uncle of my father, his wife being Sarah Cole.  I am anxious to discover something concerning other members of this Beattie family.  The father and mother of Breckenridge Beattie were DAVID BEATTIE and NANCT [Nancy] CLARK.  They came to Missouri from Virginia and died and were buried in Andrew County, Missouri.

 Yesterday I saw Gates Beattie who runs a filling station on the Andrew-Buchanan County line North of St. Joseph Missouri and he showed me a card which you or some member of your family left with him in recent months.  From what he said I assume that you are some how related to the Andrew County Beattie Family.

 I wish you would be good enough to fill out for me the enclosed questionnaire, which will tell me what I seek to know about the Beattie Family.  In case you are in a position to give me data indicating when and where your family originated, I would be happy to have you give me this data also.

Yours sincerely,

Redmond Selecman Cole,
Box 92. Tulsa, Oklahoma.

BEATTIE FAMILY