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Ann Larimer letters to husband John, February-July 1865

02_1864-05-28-Page 02

Alf White is married to Lizzie Harlow, if the old widowers keepes on, they will all get married soon, The Buffys have a boy they are boarding at Huntingtons. Epperlys have a baby. I presume they will call it G. B. Macleland. [Loe] Trippet has quit practicing. I don't know what the discharged soldiers will do, as some of them will kneed doctoring soon, as their wives will, whitch is the same thing. I will have to go to Harden's next week to was the wool. I wish we had ten sheep instead of four. I bought two last fall & there is four of them now. don't you think I would make quite a farmer providing I had a husband to do the work? I told Frathes the other day that I wanted to hire out to make molasses & gather corn & dig potatoes this fall, for if John came home this summer, it would take untill next spring to get used to work. He said that there would be no kneed of John or me to have to work as that negro boy would support us. so you see, he thinks you intend to live without work. Corn lookes well, but the bugs are distroying every thing in the garden. They have eat off all of our cabbage, mellons, cucumbers, squashes and the rabbits are finishing what is left they have eat the peas & beans off. the potatoes are covered with bugs.
Burgon & Hank are getting quite a lot of goods on, from what I hear. Rigges from Afton has the best store in town-1 don't know about Burgon's. I have not been there. - Smith's two boyes are out in the yard playing with Eddie & Clara is teaseing me for some rasons or candy. - "well, ma, give me a piece of cake then." -1 will have to go & wait on her.

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Alf White is married to Lizzie Harlow, if the old widowers keepes on, they will all get married soon, The Buffys have a boy they are boarding at Huntingtons. Epperlys have a baby. I presume they will call it G. B. Macleland. [Loe] Trippet has quit practicing. I don't know what the discharged soldiers will do, as some of them will kneed doctoring soon, as their wives will, whitch is the same thing. I will have to go to Harden's next week to was the wool. I wish we had ten sheep instead of four. I bought two last fall & there is four of them now. don't you think I would make quite a farmer providing I had a husband to do the work? I told Frathes the other day that I wanted to hire out to make molasses & gather corn & dig potatoes this fall, for if John came home this summer, it would take untill next spring to get used to work. He said that there would be no kneed of John or me to have to work as that negro boy would support us. so you see, he thinks you intend to live without work. Corn lookes well, but the bugs are distroying every thing in the garden. They have eat off all of our cabbage, mellons, cucumbers, squashes and the rabbits are finishing what is left they have eat the peas & beans off. the potatoes are covered with bugs. Burgon & Hank are getting quite a lot of goods on, from what I hear. Rigges from Afton has the best store in town-1 don't know about Burgon's. I have not been there. - Smith's two boyes are out in the yard playing with Eddie & Clara is teaseing me for some rasons or candy. - "well, ma, give me a piece of cake then." -1 will have to go & wait on her.