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February 28, 2010 at 3:52 pm
Vic McEachron
While doing some geneology research on my family I came across your book Plank Road Summer I just wondered where you got the idea for the name Katie McEachron.
Thanks, Vic McEachron
Tonganoxie, Ks.
February 28, 2010 at 4:56 pm
Vic McEachron
while doing some geneology research on my family I came across your book Plank Road Summer. I just wondered where you got the idea for the name of the character Katie McEachron.
Thanks, Victor McEachron
Tonganoxie, Ks.
February 28, 2010 at 6:59 pm
Hilda Demuth-Lutze
Victor, we used the historically accurate names “McEachron” and “Mather” as a tribute to the two families who lived on the adjoining homesteads featured in the story. Charles K. McEachron and his bride moved to Wisconsin Territory from New York State in 1845. There’s plenty of information on the McEachron family in “The Grassroots History of Racine County.”