I'm in the UK, and my father has asked me to try and find some information on a corner of the family who seem to be a bit mysterious.
Does anyone know anything about the Rev Samuel Ainsworth Lumb, a methodist minister who in 1924 lived in Ely, Minnesota and had previously been in Princeton. We have a letter from him written to his father-in-law, Pastor James Wardle of Yorkshire, who was my great great grandfather. The letter refers to "17 years of silence and suffering" when the two had not communicated.
Samuel had five children: Cresswell, born April 1898; Harold born 1901; Elroy born 1903; Mary born 1904 and Alan born 1907.
If anybody knows anything about this family, or has come across the family names of Wardle, Ratcliffe or Dean in their family trees, please get in touch.
Thanks, Joanna Goldie