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     Dear Relatives: 
    November 2001 
    1301 Maple Street 
    Sidney, Iowa, 51652. 
    
    Dear Relatives: 
    In the year 1995 a group of American Corrie relatives gathered for a reunion in the community once known as 
Corrieville on the border of Lawrence and Wabash Counties in Eastern Illinois. In our hands was the newly 
published predecessor to this book, a record that I published of our branch of the Corrie family that goes back to 
William Corrie of Clunie in Scotland. 
    
    The day the reunion was over, three Corrie kin, David Kissel, Dalles Krum, and I, sat and looked at that 
book and wondered just how we were going to work in the new material that had been shared during the reunion. Our 
hope was that someone in the family would come along to take that material, plus any new family lines that might 
surface, plus corrections to be made, and eventually publish a revised version of Our Corrie Family Records. Tim 
Corrie, wise in the ways of computers, and intensely interested in his family history, arose out of all those 
names and numbers to take over the task. 
    
    Harlan Corrie sent more information on the Hightowers, Bob Renfro filled in more on the Scripps plus 
providing some wonderful photographs, John King sent a wide variety of material on John Milligan's and Margaret 
Corrie's family, and Kent Tool made a connection all of us had missed of our William Corrie's eldest son's first 
born, William, who came to America in the 1850s and eventually moved to Iowa. Much of this wonderful material Tim 
has added to this volume As you begin to read, you'll see that William Corrie of Clunie had two sons, (1) John, 
and (2) Alexander. The American Corries are descendants of John, and the reading of their lives is fascinating, 
but read the other related people too. The numbering is simple but it looks confusing with so many in one book. 
Take one line and go along with the numbers and they will soon fall into place. 
    
    You'll find among our forebears educators, doctors. historians, heroes, writers, merchants, scientists, and 
more preachers than you ever imagined on one family tree. You'll find foot soldiers and gold seekers and people 
who lost their minds in the struggles. You'll grieve with the families that buried their mothers too young and 
with the parents who stood at the graves of too many of their children. You'll wonder how the early members of the 
clan could leave the ease of fine homes in Scotland like South Park and High Banks for wilderness life in log 
cabins. 
    
    Thanks to James D. Corrie in England for his over fifty years of careful research, we have the earliest 
records that can be authenticated for our Corrie family lines. (Yes. there are still other lines that so far have 
not connected with ours.) Now the descendants of William, John and Robert have shared their records, pictures, 
and memories with us and we've added this material to James. I trust that after this book is in your hands, you 
will find more information about your own and other relatives. 
    
    No matter how careful a person is, mistakes do creep in. Please send Tim any corrections or additions you 
might have. With your help it is possible that he will plan yet another sequel as more information surfaces. I 
hope people will never get tired of telling stories of the past, or that others, especially the younger 
generations, will never tire of listening. After all, this is our story, we are all in it. If this book stirs your 
interest in learning more, and adds to your appreciation of the family from which you came, it will have served a 
valuable purpose. This is our heritage, these are our people. We may not know the future, but we can know our 
past. Aye, 

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