Individual Details
Mary B "Mollie" Watkins
(3 Mar 1839 - 11 Jul 1907)
April the 18 1865
Dear Nephew
I received your letter and was very glad to get one from you although I was not looking for one from you I knew their was such a person for I have had three letters from your sister Cecilia. I had just got one from her you say you was here in the City not long ago I would have liked to have seen you very much and I want you to come and see us if you live to get back and I hope it wont be very long before you can all come home again for I don't think this war can last much longer . I am looking for your Uncle and sister out here soon she wrote that she was coming this Spring I wish she would for I should like to see you all and don't you forget to come for I want to see wether you are good looking or not as you say you are not for I am a good judge of beauty
Willie if you see Brother Willie ? give them our love and tell them to write home I have not had a letter from Bills since in Nov and I am afraid their has something happened to him if you saw him be sure and let me know in your next letter for I feel very uneasy about him and Cyrus would not let me know if anything had happened to him I don't think and I would rather know it than to be kept in suspense now don't fail to let me know about him you will have to excuse Frank for not writing for he is kept so close at work excuse all mistakes and bad writing
now good by till I hear from you
your Aunt
Mollie Rambo
Excerpt from letter written in 1922 by Thomas H. Blakemore to his cousin Maud:
... Aunt Mollie (Mary) married Frank Rambo, of French extraction and bore him Ida, Will, and Effie. I suspect you know as much if not more about them than I do.
Dear Nephew
I received your letter and was very glad to get one from you although I was not looking for one from you I knew their was such a person for I have had three letters from your sister Cecilia. I had just got one from her you say you was here in the City not long ago I would have liked to have seen you very much and I want you to come and see us if you live to get back and I hope it wont be very long before you can all come home again for I don't think this war can last much longer . I am looking for your Uncle and sister out here soon she wrote that she was coming this Spring I wish she would for I should like to see you all and don't you forget to come for I want to see wether you are good looking or not as you say you are not for I am a good judge of beauty
Willie if you see Brother Willie ? give them our love and tell them to write home I have not had a letter from Bills since in Nov and I am afraid their has something happened to him if you saw him be sure and let me know in your next letter for I feel very uneasy about him and Cyrus would not let me know if anything had happened to him I don't think and I would rather know it than to be kept in suspense now don't fail to let me know about him you will have to excuse Frank for not writing for he is kept so close at work excuse all mistakes and bad writing
now good by till I hear from you
your Aunt
Mollie Rambo
Excerpt from letter written in 1922 by Thomas H. Blakemore to his cousin Maud:
... Aunt Mollie (Mary) married Frank Rambo, of French extraction and bore him Ida, Will, and Effie. I suspect you know as much if not more about them than I do.
Events
| Birth | 3 Mar 1839 | Kentucky, United States |  | ||
| Marriage | 27 Jun 1861 | Hamilton, Ohio, United States - Francis "Frank" Rambo Jr. |  | | |
| Death | 11 Jul 1907 | | |||
| Burial | South Hill Cemetery, Vandalia, Fayette, Illinois, United States | |
Families
| Spouse | Francis "Frank" Rambo Jr. (1838 - 1872) |
| Child | William "Bill" Rambo ( - 1931) |
| Child | Ida Rambo (1862 - 1956) |
| Child | Effie M Rambo (1871 - 1937) |
| Father | Matthew Watkins (1795 - 1868) |
| Mother | Lucinda Bodwell (1809 - 1881) |
| Sibling | Rhoda Ann Watkins (1826 - 1917) |
| Sibling | Sarah Jane Watkins (1828 - 1850) |
| Sibling | John Watkins (1830 - ) |
| Sibling | Eliza E "Lyde" Watkins (1833 - ) |
| Sibling | James "Jimmy" Watkins (1835 - 1855) |
| Sibling | Martha T Watkins (1842 - 1869) |
| Sibling | William Wallace Watkins (1843 - 1926) |
| Sibling | Cyrus E. Watkins (1846 - 1894) |
Notes
Marriage
The original records were lost in the burning of the court house March 29th 1884. Mollie B Watkins petitioned the court for a new marriage record using a copy of the church record of said marriage. Date used in the petition was 27 June 1860. [year earlier]Endnotes
1. , "South Hill Cemetery," database, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 3 November 2011), .
2. "Ohio, County Marriage Records, 1774-1993," database, Ancestry.com (: accessed 16 July 2020), Francis Rambo & Mollie B Watkins; citing Marriage Records. Ohio Marriages. Various Ohio County Courthouses..
3. , "South Hill Cemetery," database, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 3 November 2011), .
4. , "South Hill Cemetery," database, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 3 November 2011), .