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Note: Letter from Jesse Chase Prouty to Mabel Singleton in 1982
"on dad's side I remember Aunt Ann. She came to visit us when I was in school - she was a very small person and a collector of butterflies. She and dad had words about something and weren't speaking to one another - just passed notes. We all got a laugh over it. Mom (Minnie Slavens Chase) tried to keep things on an even keel so she took Aunt Ann with us to pick strawberries at mom's cousins who we called Uncle Burtle. He was a sheriff there for many years.
To get back to Aunt Ann - she took her net along and soon was running across the rows of berries helter skelter with her net after a butterfly. We had to leave the berries and take her back home. She was a dear, however. Had snow white hair - naturally curly - very short.
I can faintly remember having Uncle Dan (dad's brother) come to visit. I remember dad telling us once he had a brother in Iowa who had two sons working on the railroad, one an engineer, the other a fireman on the same train (Nebraska I think.)
Mom used to explain dad's full name. He was named Elmer Llewellyn at birth but Uncle John was at war and wrote if the baby was a boy name him Archie Ellsworth - so he got four names.
Mom had a twin sister, Winnie, who died of burns when they were young."
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