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Ann Larimer letters to husband John, February-July 1865

02_1865-02-17-Page 02

was pleasant untill about 9 o'clock when the wind raised & the clouds was very black, but it did not commence raining untill this morning, has rained pretty steady to day. the bottom between here & the mill is covered with water & the creek is raising fast. Tthe ice is not gone out of the creeks yet. it is raining very slowly this eavening. we did not have any rain like this last spring, we look foreward to a better season than last season was. indeed, if crops are not better this summer, I dont know what will become of the people here. It will be hard times, flour is 6 & 7 per hund., corn is 100 per bush, those that have it to sell are well enough off, but those that have it to buy, it is pretty hard on them. - Cattle are very high, if I have a chance I will sell that cow at Hardens, that if I can get 10 dol. for her. what say you to it? Harden sold a two years old steer last week for 53 dol. He was a number one steer. I had a letter from Mrs. Glogaboum & Mrs. Sellon last week. She is at Nashville to work. Miss H. & Alma are keeping house in Burlington. Emma & Cecelia are going to musick school. They both send their love to Mrs John Larimer. I don't remember whether I wrote you that Noah L. was marry or not, he married Aliace Maple, Jo's sister-in-law. Shaw is married to a girl on west creek, Sam Moor's girl. Shaw is going across the plains this summer. That is the report. I have not seen Ankeny about that reciept yet, thought I had better wait untill I heard from you again. Thomas Laramer in not expected to live. Darling has been tending him untill he got so bad that there was but little hope for him. Trippet is doctoring him now. I called Trippet in to see Eddie to day. he has not been well in two dayes at one time this winter. I have not had a night's rest with him for two months.

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was pleasant untill about 9 o'clock when the wind raised & the clouds was very black, but it did not commence raining untill this morning, has rained pretty steady to day. the bottom between here & the mill is covered with water & the creek is raising fast. Tthe ice is not gone out of the creeks yet. it is raining very slowly this eavening. we did not have any rain like this last spring, we look foreward to a better season than last season was. indeed, if crops are not better this summer, I dont know what will become of the people here. It will be hard times, flour is 6 & 7 per hund., corn is 100 per bush, those that have it to sell are well enough off, but those that have it to buy, it is pretty hard on them. - Cattle are very high, if I have a chance I will sell that cow at Hardens, that if I can get 10 dol. for her. what say you to it? Harden sold a two years old steer last week for 53 dol. He was a number one steer. I had a letter from Mrs. Glogaboum & Mrs. Sellon last week. She is at Nashville to work. Miss H. & Alma are keeping house in Burlington. Emma & Cecelia are going to musick school. They both send their love to Mrs John Larimer. I don't remember whether I wrote you that Noah L. was marry or not, he married Aliace Maple, Jo's sister-in-law. Shaw is married to a girl on west creek, Sam Moor's girl. Shaw is going across the plains this summer. That is the report. I have not seen Ankeny about that reciept yet, thought I had better wait untill I heard from you again. Thomas Laramer in not expected to live. Darling has been tending him untill he got so bad that there was but little hope for him. Trippet is doctoring him now. I called Trippet in to see Eddie to day. he has not been well in two dayes at one time this winter. I have not had a night's rest with him for two months.