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+BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION:-
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+These few paragraphs of introduction may help you read BOOK 2 which covers a
+wider range than did BOOK 1 (Pioneer Days).
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+BOOK 1 had 54 pages; 14 chapters. BOOK 2 has 70 pages; 18 chapters. BOOK 1 con-
+sisted largely of first generation family history. BOOK 2 throws more light on
+the second generation. Sidney promises a BOOK 3 and that may begin to do justice
+to the third generation. We suggest that Sidney get the help of Louis Shinn
+who has a chapter in this book (Chapter 16 - The Last 25 Years on the Doumeeq
+Plains. Louis has the gift of seeing, recalling and telling. One sentence in
+his chapter gives a great tribute to the Doumeeqers--so far as he knows no one
+on the Doumeeq Plains went on relief during the depression. That in a nutshell
+shows the sturdy character of the residents of the Doumeeq Plains.
+
+We promised in BOOK 1 that in BOOK 2 we would give the story of the trip of
+John E. Cochran and wife to Tennessee, Cuba and the Panama Canal. You will see
+by the Table of Contents that the first four chapters have been given to those
+trips. Those chapters are worth reading and re-reading. Mr. Cochran has eyes
+to see and a pen to tell. We think the people in Tennessee will read with
+great pleasure the comments he makes on conditions today.
+
+Some who get this book will consider the group picture the best thing in the
+book. It took a lot of preliminary photographing to reduce some pictures, enlarge
+others and bring out the tin types. We wish that instead of 44 faces we could
+have given 88. Do not blame Ethel Cochran-Shinn for the selection. She furnished
+enough pictures but we had to take only part of them. We think there are great
+possibilities in reproducing old pictures. We wish we had a Pickard group. Some
+Pickard descendant may wish to make a collection.
+
+We are much impressed with the future possibilities of getting a complete genealog-
+ogy of the Pickard family. Mr. Cochran has a fine chapter on the Pickards but
+to date we have not had the pleasure of finding all of the family dates. We had
+intended to give more family data in this book but it takes time to get the
+correct dates. Often times it requires trips to cemeteries to get dates on the
+tombstones. Winter is no time to collect dates on tombstones.
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