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Tewell Family - Monroe City, Missouri

Tewell Family - Monroe City, Missouri

Posted: 20 Feb 2011 4:53AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Tewell from Monroe Missouri; Mount Vernon Sanitorium; Mary E Hickman; 1940's mystery
I am looking for relatives of Joe Tewell who lived with his mom and dad (Francis and Ruby Tewell) and his 2 sisters, Ruby and Myrtle Lee during the 1940's in Monroe City, Mo. I came across a moldy box in my parents garage that had not been openned since 1950 - it contained hundreds of letters from Joe Tewell to his girlfriend Mary E Hickman who had moved from Mo to Pasadena, Ca to live with family (I think her older sister was married to my father - Lawrence Maxwell Curtis)...by reading letters and looking thru old photos, I have identified photos of Joe and his sisters as children and also photos of Francis and Ruby...I think Francis' legal name may be "Loren francis Tewell) but in all the correspondence I read, he always went by "Francis".
Here is a link to a bunch of scanned photos documenting the box of mysterious items I discovered..most is related to Mary E Hickman, but the hundreds of letters are mostly from Joe Tewell and some from Francis and Ruby to Mary..I think Ruby had TB and was treated at the Sanitorium where she met Mary and that's how they became acquainted...later I would discover, that Joe came down with TB as well...this time capsule is really sentimental and meaningful on so many different levels that I would really like to give family/relatives scans of the photos and momentos or mail back the originals. If this sounds like Tewell relatives you may know, please respond or email me. Kind Regards, Amy Curtis Bastida (below is the link to scanned photos)

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=110356&id=14259375...
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