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Q. On March 23, 1937, my grandmother received a letter from Logan County, Ark., welfare, stating that they wanted her to care for her father, Scott Massey. Arkansas has no death records of him, I have no names for his parents and Grandma didn’t know who her mother was, as her father raised her. Did View Website VIP Subscription

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