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861574.2 Oct 28 1861 Dear cousin Martha I have neglected writing you much longer than I should have done. But i will drop you a few lines to let you know how we are getting along we are all well at present and hope that these few lines will find you in the sane state of happiness. I was up to uncle John Previns a short time since and they were all well but aunt Eliza and she had a sore hand so that she had not done much work for twelve weeks untill that day she nit some but I suppose it is better now. We were to the fair two weeks since but Is did not think much of it and therefore I think I will not go very soon again. Aunt Sarah's folks were all well then Henry and the girls were all going to school then. The weather has been rather cold and wet for afew days and last night we had a little snow for the first this fall and but little frost. There has not been as much excitement here about the war as some other places not a great ways off. There has but few volunteers went from this [Yr?] Noah Garwood has gone and he writes home that he has had a silent interview with the president. I for got to say that Mathew Irwin was going to school in harts town. I think John Mason has gone to war or if he has not gone yet I think it is likely he will go. We have not heard from uncle Roberts and uncle Peters for some time but the last we heard was that John Stocton and Robert Wilson and Elisabeth Myers and John had all gone to the oil regions. I have been trying to learn the boys to nit but they would not get a stocking nit very soon. I supose you have heard ere this that Mrs Peggy Stewart had departed this life she died last June twentieth of lung fever Maria Jane Delany formerly Maria Jane Stewart has a boy nearly four weeks old. But I must quit for it is getting late and I have nothing more to write Father and the boys are in bed snoaring and I will be there soon
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861574.2 Oct 28 1861 Dear cousin Martha I have neglected writing you much longer than I should have done. But i will drop you a few lines to let you know how we are getting along we are all well at present and hope that these few lines will find you in the sane state of happiness. I was up to uncle John Previns a short time since and they were all well but aunt Eliza and she had a sore hand so that she had not done much work for twelve weeks untill that day she nit some but I suppose it is better now. We were to the fair two weeks since but Is did not think much of it and therefore I think I will not go very soon again. Aunt Sarah's folks were all well then Henry and the girls were all going to school then. The weather has been rather cold and wet for afew days and last night we had a little snow for the first this fall and but little frost. There has not been as much excitement here about the war as some other places not a great ways off. There has but few volunteers went from this [Yr?] Noah Garwood has gone and he writes home that he has had a silent interview with the president. I for got to say that Mathew Irwin was going to school in harts town. I think John Mason has gone to war or if he has not gone yet I think it is likely he will go. We have not heard from uncle Roberts and uncle Peters for some time but the last we heard was that John Stocton and Robert Wilson and Elisabeth Myers and John had all gone to the oil regions. I have been trying to learn the boys to nit but they would not get a stocking nit very soon. I supose you have heard ere this that Mrs Peggy Stewart had departed this life she died last June twentieth of lung fever Maria Jane Delany formerly Maria Jane Stewart has a boy nearly four weeks old. But I must quit for it is getting late and I have nothing more to write Father and the boys are in bed snoaring and I will be there soon
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