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Ann Larimer letters to husband John, February-July 1865

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bill or sell a cow, I do not want to break that if possible I can help it. If it does not storm tomorrow Father & I are agoing to drive that cow home as wer are out of milk now. white face the cow that is here gives a pint a day & that is all we get. Saturday was [sic] in town. We have had a great many moovers to stop here ths spring but the last week has been so warm that they have camped. There is quite a large train just drove in to the woods & camped for the night. Corn is selling from 80 to 150 per husk, hay is very scarse. Father sells a little hay when he can't help him self, askes 30 cts. for hay- enough for one span of horses over night, last monday Mother went over to Hanneres in the afternoon. Father took her over & went after her, the first time she has been away from home since the first of the meeting about Christmas and newyears. her health has been very poor this spring & latter part of winter. - tuesday Mr. Goulles was comeing here to help Father & Mrs. Goulles came with him staid all day Thursday. Mrs. John Smith & Marselvia was here visiting. Marse staid untill friday evening. Saturday Mrs. [Morses] was here, she staid but a little while. - There has not been any one here to day so far. -John I wish you could have seen Eddie yesterday. Freeman Smith came down to the fence and wanted Eddie to play with him. I told Eddie not to go away but the first thing I knew they were missing. I thought that they had gone to the creek & went to hunt them but did not find them. I was about scared to death for I thought that they had fell in to the creek. I happened to look up to the stable & I see Father going up to the house with something in his arms & a little ways behind him was a boy along with nothing on but a shirt, you may believe my heart was in my mouth for I thought he was carrying one of the boys dead but it dident take me long to go to the house. Father had found them down to the [river] all striped of wading in the water, he took Eddie's clothes & carried them up. he was mud all over.

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bill or sell a cow, I do not want to break that if possible I can help it. If it does not storm tomorrow Father & I are agoing to drive that cow home as wer are out of milk now. white face the cow that is here gives a pint a day & that is all we get. Saturday was [sic] in town. We have had a great many moovers to stop here ths spring but the last week has been so warm that they have camped. There is quite a large train just drove in to the woods & camped for the night. Corn is selling from 80 to 150 per husk, hay is very scarse. Father sells a little hay when he can't help him self, askes 30 cts. for hay- enough for one span of horses over night, last monday Mother went over to Hanneres in the afternoon. Father took her over & went after her, the first time she has been away from home since the first of the meeting about Christmas and newyears. her health has been very poor this spring & latter part of winter. - tuesday Mr. Goulles was comeing here to help Father & Mrs. Goulles came with him staid all day Thursday. Mrs. John Smith & Marselvia was here visiting. Marse staid untill friday evening. Saturday Mrs. [Morses] was here, she staid but a little while. - There has not been any one here to day so far. -John I wish you could have seen Eddie yesterday. Freeman Smith came down to the fence and wanted Eddie to play with him. I told Eddie not to go away but the first thing I knew they were missing. I thought that they had gone to the creek & went to hunt them but did not find them. I was about scared to death for I thought that they had fell in to the creek. I happened to look up to the stable & I see Father going up to the house with something in his arms & a little ways behind him was a boy along with nothing on but a shirt, you may believe my heart was in my mouth for I thought he was carrying one of the boys dead but it dident take me long to go to the house. Father had found them down to the [river] all striped of wading in the water, he took Eddie's clothes & carried them up. he was mud all over.