Sunday, May 5, 2013



  • Hi Steve, Please tell me, that i have found you again? I think about you often. Becky
  • August 27, 2011
  • Steve Dawson
    Becky I put up a photo of the Highway Rollena
  • Becky Price
    thanks , i just found it
    looking at lot of other photos now.. i should be in bed, church comes early lol
  • Steve Dawson
    Ok just wanted to let you know and there is some discussion under the photo
  • Becky Price
    thanks
    maybe i will see some pictures of some i know
  • Steve Dawson
    Ok I hope so
  • Becky Price
    talk to you tomorrow rest well
  • November 21, 2011
  • Becky Price
    hi .. here is my addy.. bkp5557@yahoo.com or bk3626@columbus.rr.com.... i really need to get this to work, as i found more pictures today... i found one of you, standing on a marion power shovel.. and one of our house on parkview.. and a couple more..
  • 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.
  • November 21, 2011
  • Becky Price
    my memory may not be as good as yours since i'm older lol
    i will ask one of my kids thur, to help me send to you, if i can't figure it out.
  • Steve Dawson
    OK I sent to your yahoo a sketch
  • December 15, 2011
  • Steve Dawson
    Becky can you send to me your address and phone, a friend from Marion has collected an archive of my stuff and when I die he wants to send it out to special people, you can put it in an e mail if you like.
  • Becky Price
    ok,Steve, i will send you an e-mail.. i hope we can speak and see each
  • February 22, 2012
  • Becky Price
    Hi, Steve I do hope your feeling better after being to the dentist. haven't seen you online.. have missed you!
  • January 5
  • 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
  • Steve Dawson
    Her mother is still alive in Marion.
    Their name was snyder
  • Becky Price
    that is so awesome! i only remember i think their name was hartshorn or something like that
    i 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
  • Becky Price
    everybody is younger than me i think lol
    i would love to talk with her
    thank you honey so much for sharing this with me..
  • Steve Dawson
    I think that she lives near Marion and visits her mother every day or two
  • Becky Price
    her name is snyder now?
  • Becky Price
    sorry had to reboot
  • Steve Dawson
    No No it is different I will look to see
  • Becky Price
    okay thank you
  • Steve Dawson
    I think that her name is Tangeman
  • Becky Price
    okay, thank you
  • Steve Dawson
    Her husband's name is Norris Tangerman
  • Becky Price
    okay i will check it out, thank you
    it would be awesome to talk to someone who new them, and also Rev. Hollenson
  • Steve Dawson
    They may live in the near Marion area like Cardington, Moral or Delaware I will need to check also
  • Becky Price
    ok
    i have a directory with those areas in it
  • February 21
  • 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
  • Steve Dawson
    Billy J Murray is the blond guy and Burton Riley is the tall one
  • Becky Price
    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
  • Becky Price
    ok that is where i know it from.. my granddaughter is married to a policeman
    he is a leutent with the marmet drup force
    steve 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.
  • Steve Dawson
    No problem Becky we all have things that plague us
  • Becky Price
    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.
  • Becky Price
    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 offered
    to take me
    No Dawsons, and Rutherfords, Binu, or others would take me
    Cooks finally took me out of compassion they were not even friends with the family I am forever grateful to them and their family.
  • Becky Price
    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.
  • Becky Price
    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.
  • Becky Price
    wasn't *
    take*
  • Becky Price
    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
  • Becky Price
    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
    Sorry I was eating, 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.
  • Becky Price
    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
  • Steve Dawson
    Have you seen the photo of James Ralph from High school , He looks exactly like me.
  • Becky Price
    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
  • Steve Dawson
    That is fairly convincing
    The photo I mean
  • Becky Price
    but i also have pic of dad and i think you look like him as young man.. i think i sent you a copy
    i 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.
  • Becky Price
    and then you would have maybe knew forsure
    i 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
  • Becky Price
    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
  • Steve Dawson
    Sorry I don't
    Do you remember Helen Binau?
  • Becky Price
    their last name was Wise
    yes i remember her
    and aunt Geneva.. the millers and the rutherfords
  • Steve Dawson
    She had a brother Bob or Robert
    Wise rings a bell
  • Becky Price
    bob Binau from upper sandusky?
  • Becky Price
    that is where grandmas people were from
  • Steve Dawson
    He and my mom spent some time together
  • Becky Price
    as cousins or just friends?
  • Steve Dawson
    yes but they ran with my mom also
    Cousins and friends
  • Becky Price
    could they not do DNA on you and me? and find out that way?
  • Steve Dawson
    Also I have three pictures of the Cliftons who were close to my mom
  • Becky Price
    yes i think you sent me some of them
  • Steve Dawson
    Diane is friends with you on facebook
  • Becky Price
    online
    yes
    but, i only know her through you
  • Steve Dawson
    Diane is very active in Ancestry searches
  • Becky Price
    and growing up in marion
  • Steve Dawson
    but she suddenly quit helping me and I don't know why?
  • Becky Price
    really? thats odd
  • Steve Dawson
    I think DNA would likely prove it one way or another
    I think that that is expensive though
  • Becky Price
    dear GOd in heaven i wish for you sake we could get it done
  • Steve Dawson
    Cheryl Rutherford has been a little help with the dawson connection and Rutherford
  • Becky Price
    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 what
    is she Geoges daughter?
  • Becky Price
    maybe she would remember me trying to get custody of you
    that 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.
  • Becky Price
    i understand
    what about blood types?
  • Steve Dawson
    I I believe that you tried to take me but no Judge in the would would ever permit that
  • Becky Price
    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
  • Becky Price
    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 Columbus
    i'm O+
  • Steve Dawson
    Do you know what Lew's type was?
  • Becky Price
    yes
    i'm almost postive it was a+ but, will ask one of the girls for sure
    do you know your moms and James?
    won't dads army papers have it on them?
  • Steve Dawson
    I will check but I doubt If I have that information...
  • Becky Price
    is it not on his dd214?
  • Steve Dawson
    It would be on his dog tags
  • Becky Price
    i dont have them
    i think Fred has them
  • Steve Dawson
    ok you can chek with him
  • Becky Price
    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
  • Becky Price
    well, that probably doesn't make much difference on mom, as we know she gave birth to you
    do you know James?
  • Steve Dawson
    well even if Lew was say a positive it would not mean that he was my fayther
  • Steve Dawson
    so that is why I need mom's blood type
  • Becky Price
    and his is?
  • Becky Price
    how could we get that?
  • Steve Dawson
    I don't know
  • Becky Price
    get moms?
  • Becky Price
    sorry my pc needs rebooted i think
    yes
  • Steve Dawson
    Diane Clifton may know
  • Steve Dawson
    Diane Clifton may know how to get the blood types of Gladys or enen lews or James
  • Steve Dawson
    so can you chat with her on facebook message
  • Becky Price
    STeve i so want to help you et clousure for this
    yes i can ask her
  • Steve Dawson
    Yes I would like to get to the bottom of this mystry , we will see what will happen
  • Steve Dawson
    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 any
    yes, i understand for you it is.. and for me just to know that what i have always felt is true.
  • Steve Dawson
    Ok thanks for a great chat take care!
  • Becky Price
    i Love you Steve
    ta care
  • Steve Dawson
    You too Becky and take care too
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