EE Court
The Alden, 2618 13th St. NW.
Washington DC
June 7, 1910
Mr. Alva Breaker Court
Dear Sir,
I saw your name and looked it up in the Naval Register, the similarity of our names, unusual names in this country, induces me to inquire, wether [sic] we come from the same Tribe.
The original Chief of my tribe, and grand medicine man of same must have been born somewhat around 1650. He had the honor to be my great grandfather, Alexander Court and was "burgomeister" in Lindlar, near Cologne, Prussia. His papoose, my grandfather, Alexander Court II probably born 1699 succeeded him in honor as Chief and medicine man and "burgomeister" in same place and house. Alexander II had about 12 sons and 3 daughters. One of those sons was my Chief, born 1797. His tribe settled in Cologne on the Rhein. I was settled there too in 1844 without being consulted, but run off the reservation after the disturbance with the Frenchman and settled in the southern states, Arkansas, Texas, etc etc until in about 1876 some cowgirl roped me when we put up our wigwam in Washington DC right in the swamps on the Potomac. Have large tribe of my own at the present and a next genealogy of the same name Court has been started very ???.
If you should plead guilty to relationship with original Alexander Court 1650. I would be very much pleased to hear from you. Until lately I was under the impression that I (EE Court) and a cousin of mine (EE Court) in Milwaukee were the only representations of that tribe in this country.
Yours truly,
E. E. Court
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San Francisco, 6 January 1954
I do not recollect, and no record shows, that I ever answered or did anything with this letter. I should have forwarded it to my Grandmother Court, who would undoubtedly have had it answered. Perhaps I was awaiting some information about the Court family—which I did not have when I rec'd this letter.
—AB Court
San Francisco, 3 July 1960
I made three typed copies of this letter and sent them to (1) Louise and Adele Waggaman in Houston, (2) Vara Court Ward, for forwarding to Margaret Ward in Florida for use in her genealogy efforts, and (3) John M. Court, Williamsburg Va for information.
—ABC
Washington, 9 July 2007
Emil Edward Court seems to have been a first cousin once removed of AB Court and a first cousin of Frederick Mohl Court (see chart). His grave in Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington DC found and photographed on 8 July 2007, near dusk, with the help of a doe and two fawn. As to the world being about the size of a pea, Emil Edward's wife Julia Schlemmerhorn was born in Cape May, New Jersey twenty years before the Chalfonte was built, and the AB Courts lived in Washington in the latter 1920s (in upper Northwest, barely four miles from the EE Courts in Mount Pleasant).
—HGC
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