Dear Uncle and Aunt Emma,

I am your brother Enoch ENLOE’s oldest son James ENLOE. I have 8 children living all at home, none married, 3 sons grown…the oldest 26, next 24, next boy nearly 16 but large. We have a store here, these three boys and my oldest living daughter (Rose 20 years) work in the store and we are making a living nicely. My next 2 girls 17 and 19 years old are grown and gowing to and Institute here. My next two are boys 13 and my baby 9 years old. My oldest daughter married and died leaving a little boy not quite a year old. We are raising him, he is now 5 years old. My wife has been dead over 7 years. I am 55 years old last June 24th-born in 1838.

I have been talking lately with Aunt Jennie PROCTOR, Uncles Benj, Wm, and Abe (I saw them all on the 10th of Sept last, at a reunion of our family at the old Perkins place on the N. Moreau, where father and mother lived so long and died) I find they know but little about the history of the ENLOE family, the older ones. I send you a sketch history and you are the only one that can give me the history. Will you please look this sketch over carefully and write me a true history as far as you of Old Uncle Benj ENLOE (grandfather’s half brother) that raised him and his brother Isaac, and of Isaac’s family history. This Congressman ENLOE of Tenn. is his grandson, his son Benj ENLOE’s second son Benj. ENLOE was a brother of Uncle James Mc ENLOE that married Aunt Polly and went to Texas and died there and also of Joel ENLOE that married an Amos and both died here in Cole Co., MO. And will you please write all about your father, my grandfather James ENLOE’s history, his service in the war of 1812, his moves, his marriage and grandmothers too. And correct this I have wrote so as to make complete as near correct as you can. I am trying to gather together and make a sketch history of the ENLOE’s so as to leave some record of our ancestry. Please do this and oblige me and the ENLOE’s. Aunt and Uncle were well when I saw them Spt 10th…will you give me Aunt Margaret’s address? Aunt Emma do you know if there is any Indian blood in the MURRAY family? Can you tell me who was grandfather Thomas MURRAY’s mother, was her maiden name your grandmother and what was your grandfathers first name, James MURRAY? And what was your great grandmother’s maiden name? Will you see or write Aunt Margaret about this and write me, she must know a good part of the MURRAY history. It is some interest to us if this is true. I learn that away back there was a Clebe DAVIS or DAVISON who married an Indian squaw and a daughter of his married a MURRAY. I want to find out which MURRAY this was and if it is our family, and the Atty thinks it is. Please look this up soon and write me right away if you can. God bless Uncle and Aunt/

James ENLOE

Note: James T. ENLOE (the author) was a son of Enoch ENLOE and Jane Compton MURRY. Hugh and Emily (adressee's) are Hugh S. ENLOE and Emily Moss MURRY. Emily and Jane were sisters and Hugh was an uncle of James'; Hugh being a son of James ENLOE and Nancy Jane SIMPSON.

Submitted by: Kelly Hagen
 

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