The fifth generation, born about 1833, is designated (1), (2), (3), etc.
The sixth generation, born about 1867, is designated a. b, c, etc.
The seventh generation, born about 1900, is designated (a), (b), (c), etc.
There are doubtless errors and omissions other than typographical, to which readers will kindly call my attention.
It is my desire to have members from the various branches of the family send me from time to time all items of family interest, marriages, births and deaths, that they may be carefully filed as a basis of information for any future family record.
And may there be fulfilled unto us the prophecy of Jeremiah, who said unto the house of the Rechabites, "Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, Because you have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father and kept all his precepts and done according to all that he hath commanded you, Therefore thus saith the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me forever."
- Petersburg, Virginia,
- October 15, 1914.
