Wow, this made my day. What timing, just before your trip back to the family home. I just spoke with my father-in-law who is 81 years young and we will be visiting him sometime this week to look for family pictures which i will scan to share with you all. As I mentioned, Katherine Hyams Herring's daughter was Gertrude Hazel Herring. She was a "Chorus Girl" who sang, danced and played the piano. She met her husband, Raymond Francis Crutsinger (who sang Opera)
while they were Vaudeville performers on the road. My father-in-law also mentioned that she was married once before to another man,"that really must have messed up, she told him to get of her house and never come back, and she never heard from him again" He remembers she lived in a house on 25th Street in Norfolk, VA. Very interesting to me is the my husbands family are all very musically inclined and share the love of plants and gardening. Looking forward to hearing from you, if you would email me at
LaDona63@yahoo.com, your email, I'll send futrue correspondence that way. I really appreciate any and all that you can share. Take care and have a safe trip!