- Hi Steve, Please tell me, that i have found you again? I think about you often. Becky
- August 27, 2011
thanks , i just found itlooking at lot of other photos now.. i should be in bed, church comes early lol
thanksmaybe i will see some pictures of some i know- Steve Dawson
Wow that is very exciting I hope that we can see some soon. I did a sketch of the interior of 790 Merkle with color it is very rough but I wanted to send it to without facebook before I make a larger detailed picture, this is all from memory. - Novembe
- Steve Dawson
Becky here is a letter from a girl who lived across the street on Merkle Ave I thought that you would like to see what she says/ - Steve Dawson
Dear Steve,
This past Tuesday (New Years Day 2013) I showed mother the picture, you posted on facebook, of you and your grandmother at the Lutheran Church. ...she just beamed. She indeed remembers her. And also, shared with the family a sweet story of her. A story none of had heard until this past week.
So, I will share this memory with you. My brother Bill was very sick one afternoon. His temperature was rising quickly and mother didn't know what to do to help him. As
a result he went into convulsions which frightened my mother terribly..she ran to your grandmothers house with her baby in her arms. Knocked on her door and your grandmother without hesitation helped this frightened young mother She calmed my mothers fears and of course helped my brother. Your grandmother taught her how to gently & safely lower his temperature a
skill my mother used many times as we were growing up. She also said she remembers her being a very sweet, warm and friendly lady. Is this how you remember her? She also said she can still see your grandfather with his straw hat working in his garden.
Also, I always thought Rev. Hollinsen (sp) was wonderful. He was truly a servant of God.!!
Blessings,
Janis
that is so awesome! i only remember i think their name was hartshorn or something like thati think they lived across the street from grandma n grandpa- Steve Dawson
Hi Hartshorn lived directly across but Snyders directly accross from Jacobs. Her name was Jani and he was Billie they were both younger than us
everybody is younger than me i think loli would love to talk with herthank you honey so much for sharing this with me..- Steve Dawson
For the life of me I cannot fathom why I was sent to Richmond Indiana as a boy? I was 15 years old with family and friends in Marion having lived all my life in Marion. So I was sent away all alone, no support. I don't get it. Was I a delinquent ? I was pondering this some time ago, but I have no answers. Do you have any thoughts. - Steve Dawson
Some time ago I sent you an e mail asking the locations where we lived if one was west center at David Street, another was where the tracks went right behind the house that was on west center also west of David St. I was always scared of the trains. - Today
i think i remember a Bill murphy but not riles- Steve Dawson
Billy Murray was a captain in Marion police...Bud Riley went to school with me also in the Marines
ok that is where i know it from.. my granddaughter is married to a policemanhe is a leutent with the marmet drup forcesteve i just seen where you had e-mailed me, sorry i haven't gotten back to you, was a very bad winter for me. i had eye surgery in dec and just had other eye done, waiting for eye to heal so i can be fitted for new glasses. i still having problems seeing.
but will try and fill you in. first you was not a bad child.. i don't know if you recall judge Ruzzo.. he was a friend of our family , and when i found out they were talking about sending you to the childrens home in Ind. I went to judge Ruzzo and begged him to let you come live with me. he said i was to young to try and deal with you because of what you had been through. but, not because you was bad or in trouble.
grandma had broken her hip, and had to go to nursing home, and grandpa wasn't in the best of health.. i talked to George Rutherford about you, and he is who suggested maybe i could get custody of you.I'm so sorry for what you went through as a child, no child should have to endure that kind of way of life. I don't remember how long you uby told me they were trying to get custody of you.how long you were in Ind. becuase next thing i knew Harold and Ruby were trying to get custody of you.and they did call me and tell me when they did.- Steve Dawson
I was put away for one year in Indiana, which ended with Harold and Ruby Cook.As far as I know no one from the family ever offeredto take meNo Dawsons, and Rutherfords, Binu, or others would take meCooks finally took me out of compassion they were not even friends with the family I am forever grateful to them and their family.
Steve, you only lived on merkle where you were born, yhen you and mom moved in with dad, dian and me, we lived on columbia street, (west) you were about 4 or 5 months old then, and that would have been the first time i seen you, and that is where we lived when i started school sept 1945, from there we moved over on bennet street clear down at the end. that is where railroad tracks ran behind our house.. from there we moved on to parkview, as mom and dad bought the house there.. and that is where mom passed away. then grandma and grandpa took you from us, because dad never did get your nam changed to Gleason.. and would not let let you live with dad. i went to live with my natural mother for one year, then came back whan dad married wanda.. but, i did get to see you, as i would go visit grandma and grandpa.
i had known Harold and Ruby for years from church, and grandma and grandpa knew them also.. but, George Rutherford is who called me, and it seems like Donald miller called me as well about taking you. Steve i was even 21 yet and judge Ruzzo told me no. he didn't think i could handle a young teenage boy, please believe me i tried to get you, you and i both sit in grandma and grandpas living room and cried because i couldn't tke you.
I do have to say though, i'm sure you had amuch better life, by what Cooks were able to give you. something I couldn't have given, with college and all.. I always thanked them for giving so freely to you. you grew up to be such a special person..and with lots of love given to you.- Steve Dawson
You are correct there as we know that all things work together for good for those who love God are called according to His purpose
true
Steve you know how i feel about you, i'm getting up in years i will be 73 my birthday in dec. but, deep in my heart i know you and i our brother and sister. I have looked at pictures of dad at differt ages and pictures of you at about same age. you look alike. i think i know you dont believe that, but, in my heart i do, and in the one pic of mom and dad was taken in jan 1944 dad is in uniform and it is snow on ground in background, but for some reason after dad passed on, that pic came up missing.- Steve Dawson
Mom and James Ralph were married in Sept 1943 by Rev Hollenson. at the parsonage. I was born then in Oct 1944. Which means that I was conceived around Jan 1944. In my Baby Book which was kept by my mother, My name is Stephen C. Ralph in her own handwriting.My mother did not divorce James Ralph , he divorced her on grounds of cruelty that was final in March of 1945. ??? that is surely a mystery.The question that I have is if I was really Lew's then why would he send me to live with my grandparents where my name was changed to Dawson from Ralph. Eventually he even quit coming to see me. These thing don't really add up.
yes, i understand that. by them being married you would have been given his name, not sure when they divorced, but i do remember her moving in with you, into our house on columbia street just about spring time, was sometime before i started schoool, and i started school in sept of 1945
i'm so sorry Steve i can't answer that. i was sent to my real mothers immediatly after moms funeral.and as for dad, i can't answer why. other than he married wanda who was only 21 6 weeks after moms death,,jes i have that pic of him from year book from harding
but i also have pic of dad and i think you look like him as young man.. i think i sent you a copyi know honey, i only wish dad had of been man enough to tell at least me the exact truth, if he knew it before he passed away- Steve Dawson
THe biggest thing in favor of your hypothesis is that James divorced Gladys after reading the divorce papers it appears that he was pretty mad.
and then you would have maybe knew forsurei understand- Steve Dawson
I wish there were some letters or some third parties that know the real story so I could get some closure here
i have an aunt who is still alive who was married to dads brother and they were all very close i willi try and call her and see if she can help.. maybe you remember them, Uncle Warren and Aunt Helen, they had Judy and Danny
their last name was Wiseyes i remember herand aunt Geneva.. the millers and the rutherfords
bob Binau from upper sandusky?
that is where grandma"s people were from
as cousins or just friends?
could they not do DNA on you and me? and find out that way?- Steve Dawson
I think DNA would likely prove it one way or anotherI think that that is expensive though
dear GOd in heaven i wish for you sake we could get it done
as i said i feel it in m y heart you are my brother Steve, that will never change for me. not sure maybe deep inside of me i have some memory of something that makes it so or whatis she Geoges daughter?
maybe she would remember me trying to get custody of youthat is if she is old enough- Steve Dawson
Well Becky it is always possible that Lew could be my father but until I see some evidence I will continue to go with what I see on paper , but I am always open to new evidence that will change my mind.
i understandwhat about blood types?
i dont want to change your mind, i just want you to know the truth, as if it was me i would also- Steve Dawson
Well blood types can only prove a negative meaning that there are certain types that cannot be produced from the combination of certain other types. I am A Positive
no he wouldn 't. but, it wasn't fair.. i think that is one reasone God led me to do foster care for marion county childrens services for 30 yrs and i still do respite for them and also buckeye ranch out of Columbusi'm O+
yesi'm almost postive it was a+ but, will ask one of the girls for suredo you know your moms and James?won't dads army papers have it on them?
is it not on his dd214?
i dont have themi think Fred has them
could i i find out through the VA here maybe if Fred dont have them?i will try- Steve Dawson
I will check on Mom but I don't have much hope because I don't have her birth cert as she was adopted
well, that probably doesn't make much difference on mom, as we know she gave birth to youdo you know James?
Yes I would like to get to the bottom of this mystry , we will see what will happen
it has been so nice chatting with you.. i will call Aunt Helen also and see if she can help us anyyes, i understand for you it is.. and for me just to know that what i have always felt is true.
Like you said knowing the truth is what is importand- Becky Price
it has been so nice chatting with you.. i will call Aunt Helen also and see if she can help us anyyes, i understand for you it is.. and for me just to know that what i have always felt is true. - S
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