Hello Catherine;
I am your 2nd cousin, a Great-Grandson of Walter O and Bertha E Davis Hoffman through Francis Glenn Hoffman. Another shared, but more distant, relative asked about obtaining a copy of TLFTGT. She is linked to us through the Davis/Gum/Carter families and I have pointed her to this thread for your contact information.
I also wanted to share a little of my fond experiences with your Grandmother Muriel.
As a boy growing up in central Illinois, we would always attend the two August family reunions, Davis in Miller Park, Bloomington, McLean County and Samuels in Weldon Springs State Park near Clinton, De Witt County.
Your Grandmother Muriel would always report to the gathered family members at those reunions, her genealogical finds, uncovered during her travels to courthouses and libraries of the Ohio Valley and mid-Atlantic coastal states.
Being a schoolteacher, as I seem to recall, this endeavor (perhaps more appropriately passion?) consumed her summer time away from school.
I suspect I was one of the more attentive in the audience, noticed and appreciated by Aunt Muriel, as she often would extend an invitation for me to sit with her and review her notes, photocopies, and newspaper clippings, following her presentation to the group.
Aunt Muriel gave me three gifts.
The first is a 1923 "Peace" silver dollar, given to me at the Samuels reunion in the early 1960's as best I now can recall.
The second was a copy of "TLFTGT", unsolicited and very generous, as I merely reported to her my marriage to add to her family notes.
The third gift was a very profound interest in genealogical research. I deeply appreciate and cherish all three, but perhaps the third most of all, as I add to her base for the next generation or two.
Mark R Johnson
ChestnutEC@gmail.com