Stamp: Ruegland 24 AUG. 4-5 Nm 22
Dr C. W. Gleaves
The First National Bank
Wytheville
Virginia
U.S.A.
(page 4) together - but her time was too
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(page 1) Schloss Rügland _____ dear Dr Charlie, I wanted to write
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(top of page 1) feel sure that |
(page 2) the first thing I now do is |
(page 3) other as if we had been old friends
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Isabel de los Dolores Bock y Macias was born in 1866 in Havana, Cuba to Isabel de Macias and Gustav Bock. Unfortunately her mother died in child birth. Later Gustav Bock married Lydia Keene. Lydia’s younger sister, Laura, married Dr. Charles Wythe Gleaves.
In 1894, Isabel married Baron von Crailsheim in Munich, Germany.
In 1922, Belisa Gleaves, the youngest daughter of Laura Keene and Dr. Charles Wythe Gleaves made a tour of Europe where she met Isabel. The Gleaves family took the name Isabel and rearranged it to make the name Belisa.
At the time of their meeting, Isabel was 56 years old and Belisa was 29 years old.
Belisa was also called ‘Ber’ and ‘Coxy’ by her family.
Schloss Rügland bei Ansbach means Castle Rügland - in Ansbach
The transcriber of this letter is a descendant of Lydia Keene and Gustav Bock.