Dear Steve:

Thanks for this referral. I will check it out. I got the name off a website
so I don't know the correctness of it. I am hoping someone will know her
though!

Thanks again,
Sabra

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> From: Steven James Coker 
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: Sabra and Johnny Sudberry 
> Subject: Garvin, Petty
> Date: Friday, March 06, 1998 10:21 PM
> 
> Sabra,
> 
> I'm out of town right now so this will be a quick note.  Off the top of
my head
> I'm not familiar with the name "Ruby Cash Garvin" which you asked about. 
That
> doesn't mean much though as I've never researched the surnames you
mentioned. 
> Perhaps someone else on the list knows where her papers can be found?
> 
> If you will go to http://www.wp.com/Coker/faq7.html you will find that
the
> papers of "Bessie Lee Garvin" are available at the Caroliniana Library in
> Columbia.  Also, if you will go to http://www.schistory.org and search
the
> online catalog for "Garvin" and for "Petty" using the Genealogy category,
you
> will find several citations.
> 
> Doubt you got the name wrong, but just in case, I do have a cousin named
"Ruby
> Price Gardner" who is a descendent of Sgt. William Hitch Price and
Rebecca
> Coker.  Interesting, if you give "Cash" for "Price" and give the
"Gardner" a
> "vin" its my cousin.  Get it? 
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> Steve Coker
> 
> 
> Sabra and Johnny Sudberry wrote:
> > 
> > Dear Mr. Coker:
> > 
> > I read with interest some of the researchers whose work was housed at
the
> > South Caroliniana library. I wondered if you by chance might know a
Ruby
> > Cash Garvin, late of Gaffney, SC. Her research is cited over and over
on a
> > website concerning the Petty family, from which I descend. I could not
get
> > the man who owned it to respond to my letter of inquiry though. If you
> > could help me I would be so appreciative. I feel that her papers must
be
> > somewhere or they could not be accessed as they were.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Sabra
> 
>