AUDREY HARTSHORN DEAN

Audrey Hartshorn Dean enjoying life at 99 years of age.

For many years, I have corresponded with a lovely, gentle lady. Today, she resides in a nursing facility in Riverside, near Providence, Rhode Island. She is the last of her Hartshorn line and with her passing, a major Hartshorn line will pass with her. Her next birthday on August 16^th will be her 101^st. She is as vibrant and in control of her faculties and destiny as most of those half her age.

I'm sure many of you out there share portions of her lineage. It is:

Audrey¹⁰, Mervin Alanson⁹, John Charles Fremont⁸, Alanson⁷, Colburn⁶, Ebenezer^5,4,3, Joseph², Thomas HARTSHORN¹.

Audrey's line, from Colburn Hartshorn, has distinguished itself in just about every field of endeavor possible. This line settled in Lunenburg and Guildhall, Vermont after 1789 and were renown in every American war since the Revolution. They were politicians, educators, entrepreneurs, lawyers, judges, soldiers and made an everlasting mark on society.

I strongly urge all of our Hartshorn cousins to drop her a line and let her know that she is not alone and that fellow Hartshorn cousins are thinking of her and really care. That's what our Hartshorn family has always typified.

Please write Audrey at:

Audry H. Dean
54 Barker Avenue
Riveside, RI 02885-2025

--Derick S. Hartshorn

Derick S. Hartshorn - ©2008
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