The letter referred to is still in your editor's possession. It is dated 31 Oct. 1960, and was penned by Mrs. James Allan. The wording of the letter in so far as this question is concerned is as follows:
Dear Sir:
Since last writing to you my husband was down to Kellogg to a burial at Our Silent City cemetery. He met the Pres. of the Kellogg Cemetery Assn. the man you had written to, and we think we have some more information for you. He knew this Wallace Hollingsworth real well and he told my husband that Frederick Hollingsworth & possibly Ann Elizabeth (Castner - 1st wife of Jacob - Editor) were buried in the Bethel Cemetery southeast of Kellogg. This is what this Wallace told him, but when we were down there we found no stone, of courst it could of been broken over & carried off the cemetery, you never know. ...This fellow he met has a plot of the cemetery in Kellogg and can tell you where about everybody is buried. He told about receiving your letter and not replying.
Note: Your editor was not given "this man's" name! We think it may have been the late Meck Reed, whose widow still lives in Kellogg, and who was the cemetery (Kellogg) record keeper for years. Wallace left Kellogg about 1903 and moved to Newton, but remained there until 1908 when he came to San Diego, California, dying there in 1912. A number of folks in Newton remember Wallace - although he was your editor's grand-father's uncle! He was only three years older than his nephew!
This precious 18-year-old letter may, indeed, be the messenger of truth. A second, yes, a third search of Bethel Cemetery in Richland Township, have failed to locate a stone for Frederick, and, if he was carried to his burial there in February, 1869, it was a decade before the cemetery was platted, so that no map or plat book would reflect these facts, as far as we can tell. The stone itself - like Ishmael - would, hopefully, be left only, alone, to tell us.
More of this in our September issue.
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