Hi-- I'm Susan Louise Brown Mayhew, daughter of Florence Louise Halpenny
Brown.  My sister is Lyla Naomi Brown Theobald.  I think you and she have
met and I've been in contact with Phil Halpenny recently.  I tried to mail
this
to the family C connection on the website but it came back to me so I
thought
I would try your address.
        My aunt was Lila Irene Halpenny Robins.  She married Harry Scott Robins,
formerly Herschl Rabinovitz (name change to dodge anti-Semitism).  They
lived in Chicago
where Uncle Harry had a car dealership for years  He sold Cords (sp?). He
came from a large
Russian Jewish family and his father was a cantor.  He served in WWI and was
wounded in France.
 He was underage when he enlisted for the adventure.  He also worked in a
lumber camp in Canada,
but I don't know where.( The website indicatedsomeone thought Lila went to
New York, but so far
 as I know, they were always in Chicago.) They were both Christian Science
practitioners and
served as readers of Third Church, Christ Scientist in Chicago.  Their
daughter is Lorraine Robins who is single and still living in Chicago.  My
mom died of  ovarian cancer in 1962.  My uncle, James Halpenny, was a
bigamist.  He had a family in Canada that he left and he entered the U.S.
illegally and under the name Jim Smith, married a woman I met only once or
twice. I think his daughter from his Canadian family was named Dolly. I knew
his second wife as aunt Rene and they had a son named Jack who was on the
Michigan State police force when I was growing up.  He married and had a
really sweet wife-- I think her name was Maryann.  They had three little
kids.  Uncle Jim also died of cancer while living with his son and wife.
I lost touch with them years ago.
        I married Loren Mayhew in 1964 and we divorced in 1999.  We have three
children.  The oldest is David Mayhew, adopted at infancy while we served in
the Peace Corps in Serian, Malaysia in 1968.  Daniel was born in 1970 and my
daughter, Sarah, was born in 1973.  The kids were both born in Royal Oak,
Michigan.
Sarah is married to David Schlosser.  They are moving to
California this week where Sarah has taken a job as a new lawyer with a firm
in Irvine.
        I have never supplied any info to a family history site before-- is any of
this useful?  If not, computers make it easy to delete!  Sincerely, Susan
Mayhew