Dear Prawls,
Please excuse the photocopy and the bad typing. I have equally bad handwriting. I need to contact so many people and this is the quickest way to do it.
First week in August, my daughter, her family, my son's oldest daughter and I spent a week in the north eastern part of Kansas. We went to Goff and walked on the Frank Prawl farm (now owned by the son of Carl and Ruth Swart). We toured various cemetaries (Ford, Oak Hill, Fairview, and on other that I can't recall the name). We were in Goff, Severence, Seneca, Oneida, Hiawatha, Topeka and Kansas City, Mo. (Worlds and Oceans of Fun). We went to the Kansas State Historical Society (We really needed to spend more time there). We bought the Goff History Book. It was an Interesting and busy week.
I suppose it always is this way, the more things you find out the more questions you have and we have many.
We took pictures of tombstones and came up with a real puzzle. In Ford cemetary (which has been cleared of over growth) we found the prawl marker and Frank and Charlottes's markers. Then we found a marker for Myrtle T. Prawl; right beside the others. Then accidently found the, I assume, right one for Myrtle Christina Prawl...Why two Markers? There has to be some interesting family history there.
We found that the Sunnyknoll school is no more and the books were with a lady in Seneca. So being starved for information as we are we went to Seneca. She let us copy the sheets from the attendence and grade books; year I think was around 1911.
We must have been quite a sight chasing here and there. We put 2,000 miles on Brinda and Keith's van.
We stopped late in the afternoon in Hiawatha. We stopped at George and Laveta's house and got to talk with her for a little while. We were sorry to miss George. We also stopped at Phil's house but found no one home. Again we were sorry to miss talking with him.
We are interested in anything we can find out. We have a lot of information since Donald and I started the letters. We have received letters from various places but are unsure of relationship, if any, of some of them.
I would like to thank the people who have written us with information. It has come in so fast that it;s taken me quite awhile to get it organised in the notebook. When I started the geneology I had a small notebook and was working on my father's side, then on my mother's side and then it mushroomed into all sides. I now have 6 notebooks (much thicker than the one I started) and still working.
We would appreciate any copies of pictures that you would care to send. I am enclosing some information and if this duplicates some that I have sent just toss it out.
Thanks again and let's stay in touch.
June Prawl
316 West 7th Street
Grand Island, Ne. 68801
Phone No. 308-384-7221
P.S. While we were in the Kansas State Historical Society, Brenda got into some immigration books and discovered there are names of Prawls that came to America before Jonathan Joseph.
Thomas Prawl 1765
John Prawl 1746
W. C. Prawl 1852
As I said before, we have many questions. Since my oldest daughter (Phylis) just had twins I would really like to know what happened to the twins born to Jonathan and Christina. Also what happened to the other children. I shall continue to do as much as I can on research. Maybe if I were wealthy I would just pay soneone to do this. Again goodbye and take care.
June Prawl
