http://www3.mistral.co.uk/helmstone/nisbett/nesot2.htm NESBITOLOGY Newsletters 6-9 Otis B. Nesbit Nesbitt/Nisbet Society, United Kingdom Publication No. 10 Cambridge 1995 NESBITOLOGY Family Letter No. 6. Jan. 1938. Published personally by Otis B. Nesbit. M.D., 444 Jackson Street, Gary, Indiana, USA. WILLIAM R. NESBIT Attorney at Law Sullivan, Indiana, Jan. 11, 1937 My Dear Doctor, I acknowledge your "Nesbitology" and have read same with much interest and I thank you for it. I acknowledge that I have not taken as much interest in the family history as I should have done, but when my attention is called to it I take some pride in the fact that I am one of them. I have just emerged from a ten weeks stay in the hospital where I underwent a major operation and am so glad to be out again, and with a good chance of a full recovery. Have been at my office since the first day of the year. I shall always remember with pleasure my meeting with the Nesbit family at Cynthiana a couple of years ago and hope that I will again have an opportunity to meet with them. I am sure you have spent much time and effort in gathering up the materials for the matter that you have so generously distributed. I hope you have not forgotten my daughter Mildred, who is at present in Los Angeles, Cal., and my grandson, J.R. Billman, who is now a freshman in Miami, Ohio, University. (They have forgotten me and do not keep me informed of their addresses. O.B.N.). With kindest regards to you and yours, I am very truly yours, W.R. Nesbit. ----------------------------------------------------------------- http://www3.mistral.co.uk/helmstone/nisbett/nesot1.htm NESBITOLOGY Newsletters 1-5 Otis B. Nesbit Nesbitt/Nisbet Society, United Kingdom Publication No. 10 Cambridge 1995 NESBITOLOGY Family Letter No. 1. by O.B. Nesbit. 444 Jackson Street, Gary, Indiana. USA January 1, 1935. ... Alice and I attended the Nisbet Family Reunion at Cynthiana, Indiana last fall. About 150 were there. W.R. Nisbet, an attorney at Sullivan, Indiana, his wife and his married daughter, Mrs. Billman of Cincinatti, Ohio with her son J.R., a dandy fine boy, attended. I had a card from him at Christmas in response to having received a booklet containing D. Nesbit's poem, "Always Christmas". He has been searching city directories for Nisbets. He noticed a story in the newspaper where someone of the clan was to be executed for murder, and was distressed by it. A few have gone wrong from time to time, but the criminal records do not contain many in my search for family data. Its membership is made up of good sturdy stock, and to stimulate the young generations to guard that its good name is upheld, is one of the objects of my work. .... (same www page) Family Letter No. 2. July 1, 1935. 42 W. Palm Lane, Phoenix, Arizona. May 13, 1935. Dear Dr. Nesbit: Your information concerning the Nesbit family interested me very much and I should like to have the picture. I am the daughter of Ira A. Nesbit a son of William O. Nesbit and his wife Elizabeth Morgan Nesbit. Elizabeth Morgan was the daughter of .......... Morgan and Lucretia Crawford Morgan. Thomas Nesbit seems to have been a foster son, born in December 1804. One story is that his parents were killed by Indians and whether his name was Nesbit, or Nesbit was the name of the Presbyterian minister who reared him nobody seems to know. There is also a story of a sister but nothing is known of her. William O, Nesbit was born in Kentucky or possibly Tennessee December 26, 1825 and they seem to have come to Sullivan Co., Indiana a few years later, probably before 1830. So little is known beyond my grandfather Thomas and it was always such a closed book that some of us thought there must have been a reason, it may have been just carelessness. I am trying to learn something of the Morgans and may learn something. They were very ardent believers in the Christian Church and since that Church was started by Walter Scott in Kentucky, I am trying to find some trace of them in that way, but it is a long slow process from here. If all of this story or part of it can be fitted into anything you have, I shall be most glad about it. Had I known of you last summer when I drove from Chicago to Southern Indiana, I should have tried to see you. Mrs. E.E. Ellinwood, R.F.D. 6, Phoenix and A.L. Nesbit, 1022 N. Tenth St., Phoenix, Arizona might be interested. Mrs. Louie Gage Dennit, grand daughter of Simeon Hiatt Nesbit may be also, but I do not have her address now. I shall try to show her your letter. I hope to go to England and Scotland next summer. If I do I shall probably want more information from you. I am so in hopes that you can tie my branch of the family in some where. Cordially yours Glenn A. Nesbit (Teacher, Public Schools) ... (same WWW page) NESBITOLOGY Family Letter No. 4 444 Jackson Street, by O.B. Nesbit. Gary, Indiana USA. December 1936. ... Miss Glenn Nesbit, M.A. Stanford '33 a teacher, lives 42 W. Palm Lane, Phoenix, Arizona, had to give up a trip abroad last year on account of her mother's illness. She belongs to the Sullivan, Indiana family. Her Sunday School class, Business Girls' class, First Church of Christ (Christian) sponsors the Casitas Del Sol (Spanish for little House of the Sun) for tuberculous women and girls at $35.00 per month. Cash is always acceptable.