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1851-09-20 Page 1
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Sparta Ill. Sept. 20th 1851 Dear Daughter We received your letter of the 1st of Sept on the 15th of the same and were very glad to hear that you were well & doing well. I took sick on the 9th of August. I had a severe attack of the fever but I have got better so that I can go about and do some work Your father is fleshier and enjoys better health than he has for a great while except a spell of something like a sunpain above his brow that has troubled him some but he has not had an attack lattely It has been very dry here There has not been any rain here for a month Merry Clendenen received your letter and sent it to us for the perusal of it Merry's son Charles has got the Ague but we have not heard from him very lately Old Mr. Clendenen himself his wife & Marth are all sick we heard they did not expect the Old Lady to live You spoke of David McDill he has got home he has been home for some weeks. Our Davids little John has the Chills & fever There is a great deal of this complaint in our neighborhood The Cholera is also close to us Joseph Brown's son James died with the cholera this week I hear of no more cases at present Your two Cousins Mary Alexander & Jenny McDill are married Mary married a young man by the name of Franklin Lewis Jenny by the name of Hudson Mr. Pettit & Mrs Knapp died of cholera in Sparta in Aug. The cholera raged down about John Parkses none of
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Sparta Ill. Sept. 20th 1851 Dear Daughter We received your letter of the 1st of Sept on the 15th of the same and were very glad to hear that you were well & doing well. I took sick on the 9th of August. I had a severe attack of the fever but I have got better so that I can go about and do some work Your father is fleshier and enjoys better health than he has for a great while except a spell of something like a sunpain above his brow that has troubled him some but he has not had an attack lattely It has been very dry here There has not been any rain here for a month Merry Clendenen received your letter and sent it to us for the perusal of it Merry's son Charles has got the Ague but we have not heard from him very lately Old Mr. Clendenen himself his wife & Marth are all sick we heard they did not expect the Old Lady to live You spoke of David McDill he has got home he has been home for some weeks. Our Davids little John has the Chills & fever There is a great deal of this complaint in our neighborhood The Cholera is also close to us Joseph Brown's son James died with the cholera this week I hear of no more cases at present Your two Cousins Mary Alexander & Jenny McDill are married Mary married a young man by the name of Franklin Lewis Jenny by the name of Hudson Mr. Pettit & Mrs Knapp died of cholera in Sparta in Aug. The cholera raged down about John Parkses none of
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