WELL IT'S NOT THE LOTTERY....

To my brothers and sister:

Yesterday Cooley's son, Jim, emailed me via Facebook (we're "friends on there and have been talking). He said a woman named Betty Coots Scott had contacted him. Apparently, our great grandfather, Henry (H's dad) sold some property in KY a long time ago but never sold the mineral rights. An oil company is now wanting to contact each living descendant of Henry's about this. Betty does a lot of genealogy and has just about everyone's information but ours.

So I called her today and spoke with her about it. I've talked with her before regarding the genealogy stuff, she's on the up & up (her dad and our dad were cousins). She wants me to send her all of our names, addresses and phone #'s. I agreed to do this as long as you are okay with it.

I mentioned to Jim that we (meaning he) should maybe check into this a little more and he agreed. Betty told me the name of the oil company is Equity and they are a real company, I checked on line. Betty has the name & phone number of the guy from Equity and I'm hoping Jim will call and see if he can get any additional information.

So, to recap: Our great-grandfather, Henry, sold some property back in the day but did not sell the mineral rights. An oil company now has some interest in these mineral rights and wants to contact all of us. I do not know how much, if anything, these rights are worth. I suspect not much, but really have no clue. I know Betty is legit but I do not know about this guy or Equity's interest in it. Hopefully, Jim will be able to find this out.

I am going to email Betty all of our addresses and phone numbers. Pete, Doug and I are okay with this. I will email Betty this information Wednesday night so if for some reason, you don't want me to include your address and phone number, you need to let me know by Wednesday (Pete said by the close of business - 5pm - ).

Also, Betty has a lot of genealogy information she's going to send me - pictures, names and dates and stuff! So, that's cool! And Jim was kind enough to send me a picture of our three remaining Coots aunts, taken last month. Here is Ruby, Jim, Mabel and Bonnie. They are in their eighties now.





***if you want to know more, comment me, email me or call me. i tried to keep this as brief as possible****