Springfield Tour

[L Verge]

Your photos, Rob, are the next best thing to my being in Springfield and New Salem. However, I almost fell off my chair when I saw the tombstone for Ann Rutledge and saw that her middle name was "Mayes." That was my maiden name, except that the U.S. Army had dropped the "e" from the name when all of my uncles - save one - and my father joined the service. I suspect that it might have been Miss Rutledge's mother's maiden name??? Anyone have any genealogy on her that could answer that question and where the family originated? So far as I can tell, my family started in southern Virginia or northern North Carolina.