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Phillipsburg, Kansas
Sept 9, 1897

Dear Brother, Sister and your Dear Children:

With a Sad Heart I try to write you a few lines. Death came in our Home and claimed our Sweet little Margie. She was only sick 10 days, first taken with Billious fever and then Dyptheria set in and that seemed to have all most gone when membranous cough set in two days before death came.

Oh, how... it seems to give her up.She seemed our Earthly treasure and oh how she struggled for life. Oh, how sad it seemed to have to bear the sorrow all alone. This is the first time in my life that I felt that we could not bear our burden all alone. Oh for someone to give Symathy (sympathy). We thought of you all but the Dr would not allow the Dear little boddy kept and (?forbid people from) going to funeral. Oh I only pray that so sad a day may never come to any of my friends. Our girl was 8 years old Sabbath morning and we each gave her a dollar to buy what she would like to remmember the day, but poor child only lived until Tuesday evening at 5 o'clock.

With love for you all, I am your Bro and Uncle Sam Taylor

PS I do not know where sister Mary lives. She said she would write us but we have never hear from them.

Editor's Notes:

From Sam Taylor, pioneer of Concordia and Phillipsburg, Kansas, to brother Edwin Maxwell Taylor, pioneer of Concordia, Kansas.

The letter indicates that Ed and Sam had not heard from a sister named Mary. We now know this sister married a man by the name of Snodgrass, and we believe moved to southeastern Kansas.

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