Letter to Sister-in-Law Is 2 Generations Late

DORAVILLE, Ga. — The letter began: “I guess you think I’m quite a little while in writing.” That’s putting it mildly. The letter arrived two generations late.

Postmarked Jan. 27, 1919, and intended for Mary Turnbow, the letter was delivered 76 years later to the home of Turnbow’s granddaughter, Kathy Kilgore.

The letter originally was sent to Turnbow in Hazel, Ky., by her sister-in-law in Bowling Green, Ky. But it disappeared along the way and didn’t reappear until recently in Louisville, Ky. It was then forwarded to Hazel Postmaster Donald Crawford, who located Kilgore.