Hi Family,

At the recent Rolan Reunion which was held 9/4/22, we started a fund raiser to generate enough money to purchase a new headstone for our 2nd, maybe your 3rd or 4 great-grandmother, Catharine "Kittie" (Lee) Wallen, Ferguson, Hart, Butterfield. Yes, great, great grandmother Kittie was married 4 times and widowed 3. Kittie's maiden name was Lee and she was the daughter of Eleanor and James Lee. Kittie was first married to our great, great... grandfather F.O. Wallen and they had great-grandmother Ellen Catharine Wallen.  Ellen Wallen married our great...grandfather Andrew Jackson "A.J." Rolan.  Ellen and A.J. lived on the hill above the previous-Rolan Reunion Campground. So great, great...grandmother Kittie Wallen, Ferguson, Hart, Butterfield is our great, great...grandmother.

This all started because David Brune and I were at the Salty Cem. and I showed him where his great-great grandmother Kittie is buried. David's comment was, "We can do better than that!" and I thought... we certainly can! So hence, the reason for the fund raiser!

David has checked on the cost of purchasing a new headstone from Rockdale Memorial and it will cost us anywhere from $140-up. David has agreed to purchase the stone for us and have it placed, when we have collected the funds we need.

If, you would like to join us in raising funds to purchase great great...grandmother Kittie a new headstone, you may mail me a check to Joyce Wyatt, PO Box 1071, Brenham, Texas 77834. Or pay by Zelle at joycew0222@gmail.com, be sure to indicate what the Zelle donation is for, please!.

Attached is a pic of the homemade-concrete headstone that marks her grave at Salty Cem.. (The pic of her stone is abt. 10 yrs old and it is looking very weathered, now!)