Showing posts with label Conway Brumfield. Show all posts
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Friday, December 11, 2020

Letters To Santa Claus

 

Christmas time is truly a special time for children.  My genealogy research has allowed me to find letters to Santa from two ancestors. Newspapers would receive and print requests to Santa Claus from individual children and schools listing the names of children in the paper’s distribution area.  The newspapers would often agree to forward the letters to the North Pole.

I found a letter to Santa from Conway Brumfield and Lula Bullock. Conway was the great-grandson of Louis and Liddie Brumfield Caston.

Vertical Pedigree for Conway Brumfield 



Conway stated he was a good boy. He requested fireworks, fruit, and a rife. At the time Conway wrote his letter he was 13 years old. He asked Santa not to forget his mother, dad, teacher, and little brother in the McComb Daily Journal on December 21, 1939.


Lula Bullock was the great-granddaughter of Joseph McEwen and Ellen Brumfield





Enterprise-Journal   McComb, Mississippi Fri, Dec 16, 1938 · Page 3


 Lula names her siblings and her teacher. I found it very interesting that the newspaper identified Lula as colored.  I easily identified her family with the letter to Santa Claus. 

----The Tree Gardener