Dear Cousins:-

How very much interested Herbert would be in a plan of this kind to keep all of the Cousins in touch with one another. His heart was ever back at the old home and he would have visited you all long ago had not his home and work seemed to demand his present attention. He had fully determined to make the long‑desired trip "back East" this summer and we were all planning with him toward that end, but you all know that he has made the longer trip to the heavenly home.

He was always a promoter of every enterprise that pointed toward progress. He deeded the piece of land on which our schoolhouse was built in 1888. He was clerk of the school district from the time of its organization until the time when he left for California in 1907. He served as Town Clerk for twelve years. He never did anything spectacular but he was respected and loved by his neighbors. They depended on him for he was able to serve them. He was one of those leaders that are so much needed in rural communities. He has left his children no wealth of land or goods but a richer inheritance in a name unstained by act of meanness. The memory of his ability to make friends and keep them, his courage, his readiness to do more than his share, comes to them with a sweetness which is of untold value.

The children are all grown. Two are married,‑ Carrie [later Carrie HUGHEY Peterson Taylor St. Clair], Mrs. Wm. L. Taylor, lives in Deerwood, Minnesota. Her husband comes from a good old American family with similar traditions to ours. There are two children in their family. Irma [later PETERSON/TAYLOR Anderson], aged fourteen, just finished the eighth grade with the highest honors of the class. William, aged ten, is a real live American boy, just finished the fifth grade. Carrie will be forty years old in September.
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Judson Edgar Hughey, better known as "Edd" lives on a ranch near Roy, Montana. Edd has a vision similar to his father’s and he and his wife, Anna , are energetic builders in this new country. They have two little children, Elizabeth [later Kromm] aged six, and Donald [later a victim of a tragic, random murder], aged four. Edd was thirty‑seven last April.