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source: Book Two - page 02.jpg
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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
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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-
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sisted largely of first generation family history. BOOK 2 throws more light on
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the second generation. Sidney promises a BOOK 3 and that may begin to do justice
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to the third generation. We suggest that Sidney get the help of Louis Shinn
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who has a chapter in this book (Chapter 16 - The Last 25 Years on the Doumecq
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Plains. Louis has the gift of seeing, recalling and telling. One sentence in
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his chapter gives a great tribute to the Doumecqers--so far as he knows no one
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on the Doumecq Plains went on relief during the depression. That in a nutshell
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shows the sturdy character of the residents of the Doumecq Plains.
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We promised in BOOK 1 that in BOOK 2 we would give the story of the trip of
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John E. Cochran and wife to Tennessee, Cuba and the Panama Canal. You will see
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by the Table of Contents that the first four chapters have been given to those
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trips. Those chapters are worth reading and re-reading. Mr. Cochran has eyes
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to see and a pen to tell. We think the people in Tennessee will read with
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great pleasure the comments he makes on conditions today.
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Some who get this book will consider the group picture the best thing in the
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book. It took a lot of preliminary photographing to reduce some pictures, enlarge
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others and bring out the tin types. We wish that instead of 44 faces we could
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have given 88. Do not blame Ethel Cochran-Shinn for the selection. She furnished
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enough pictures but we had to take only part of them. We think there are great
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possibilities in reproducing old pictures. We wish we had a Pickard group. Some
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Pickard descendant may wish to make a collection.
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We are much impressed with the future possibilities of getting a complete geneol-
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ogy of the Pickard family. Mr. Cochran has a fine chapter on the Pickards but
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to date we have not had the pleasure of finding all of the family dates. We had
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intended to give more family data in this book but it takes time to get the
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correct dates. Often times it requires trips to cemeteries to get dates on the
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tombstones. Winter is no time to collect dates on tombstones.
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