In the Company of Others (41 page)

Remembering:

Matthew and Charity Wilson, my paternal ancestors, who in 1745 emigrated from County Tyrone to Philadelphia, later settling North Carolina’s Catawba Valley

Bessie Bocock Carter (1929-2008), an unforgettable model of wit and gentility, whose maternal line issued from Ballyshannon, County Donegal

Jerry Burns (1941-2010), friend and former editor of
The Blowing Rocket,
who published
At Home in Mitford
serially before its publication in book form