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VI. My Brother Peter after he for a few years wanted to go west so did brother William, so they came west one spring and liked the country so much, that Father came out and bought some land out here in Iowa and that is the way we are here instead of Penn. Father's health was pretty fair most of the time save the ague time. he loved to cut wood for the kitchen stove ahead so he had the (pail) picket fence always full of summer wood. He taken cold when he took brother Nathan to Marshalltown when he went to the army, in coming the weather was very cold & chilly, it caused some rheumatism & general break down which he could not rally from entirely, told us children to be good to Mother, told me I can wish you no better wish than the future may hold for you a daughter and be as good to you as you have been to me. Of all my loved ones I think my Father understood and was in accord and sympathy
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VI. My Brother Peter after he for a few years wanted to go west so did brother William, so they came west one spring and liked the country so much, that Father came out and bought some land out here in Iowa and that is the way we are here instead of Penn. Father's health was pretty fair most of the time save the ague time. he loved to cut wood for the kitchen stove ahead so he had the (pail) picket fence always full of summer wood. He taken cold when he took brother Nathan to Marshalltown when he went to the army, in coming the weather was very cold & chilly, it caused some rheumatism & general break down which he could not rally from entirely, told us children to be good to Mother, told me I can wish you no better wish than the future may hold for you a daughter and be as good to you as you have been to me. Of all my loved ones I think my Father understood and was in accord and sympathy
Iowa Women’s Lives: Letters and Diaries
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