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PEAVEY CHILDREN Letter from Mother December the 28, 1848
To my Dear Children all as One it is a long time since i herd from aney of you i have ben sick about all the fall and ant much better God is good in sparing me to this time do come and see me if you can i often thinke that I shant se aney of you aney more at all in this life O that i could but if not that we may all meat in a world whare pain and sickness cant come Susan and her children is all well she has got a boy Born October the 4 Charles workes to Timothy Mears George C workes to Garlandes yet he is good to me and his Father i no that God will ever bless him Hiram and Mehitabel is well little George is a great teamster he keapes his bridel and whip your Aunt Mary Rollins broak her arme in june and she cant do aney thing Mehetabel is dead she died March the 18 Melissa was maried to Moses Rand son the 19 of November and died the 26 of june his name was Emery Rand your Aunt lives in Dover my pore sister Nancy was sick the last I herd from her and I am afraid she is not living your unkel Auntoney Peavy is dead he died last Apriel and Steaven Watson he died in Apriel i herd from Mother Watson in October she and all the rest was well then i want too let you no that i was not to blame becaus you had to pay for the children board i wish I could have them as long again you thought that i wanted to spung it out of you but it was not so Hiram is double minded it was he Mehetabel was not to blame Susan felt ugley About it and Colby sed he never shud for get it in him Colby has got about one Hundred Dollars by him but Charles and Hiram don�t know it and he dont want them to he has got ever since last March work a coming to him he got a barrel of flour in August it ant all gone he is going to git a nother and that will last till Spring we kiled a nice pig it waid over to hundred I have sold over one hundred weait of butter and got about 25 by me Paul do come and fetch all the children stay one weak with me this winter Catherine tease him till he does come and fetch you and all the children My Dear children you thought it hard when Dear Henry George was taken from you but he is at rest Lymon Leighton has berred four children in one fortnet Nancy was confined a Sunday morning friday Sarah and Henereta both died about one our apart A week from that she berred too more it was the throat distemper it was in October there is none sick now so don�t be afraid to come do write as sune as you git this and not fail I remember my love to you all Oh that I could talk face to face Paul R Peavy do come and se your pore grammother and Carolne and Susan i remember my love to you all as one  i Remaine your Mother well wisherThomas Paul Peavy -Catherine Peavy -Paul R Peavy -Caroline Peavy -Susan Peavy The certaine dayes in a year good and bad In January are Eight Day that is to say the 1, 2, 4 the 5 the 10 the 15 the 17 the 19in Febuary are three that is the 8 the 10 and 19in March are that is the 15 the 16 the 21in Apri1 are two the 15 and the 21in May are three day the 5 the 7 and the 20 in June are two the 4 and the 17in July are two the 15 and the 20in August are two the 20 and the 25in September are two the 6 and the 7in October are one the 8in November are two the 5 and the 19in December are three the 6 and the 7 the 11 |