November the 6th 1851
Respected aunt I now sit down according to promise
to let you know how we got home - we got to berlin the night we left
your house - found uncle James friend living
in the town - he has
got a very fine woman for a wife - we got home on Thursday about
11 o’clock -
we found the friends all well except uncle John - he had
been struck with something like the palsy
about two weeks before
we got home
he thinks he is some better but has never walked any yet
only by shoving a chair before him - he can go to bed - my health is
very
good [stewards ?] has been poorly with a
bad cold and sore throat
but has got better - Uncle John received a
letter from aunt mary
[…..] during our absence - she states that they are all well and
doing well - she says been to wisconsin she
has spending a few months
with her daughter - they are well she says mary has six children - two sons
and four daughters - Jane has two sons and a
daughter and James
has a son which makes her five grand sons and
five grand daughters
- she says mary robisons oldest girl came home
with her to stay all winter
- James and his wife is still living in the
house with them but expects
to go to themselves in the spring - uncle dave
is still in cadiz them
and maria has gone into partnership and is
keeping boarders you
[…..] what a wide swath ant Betsey will cut
- they have got a web of
carpet a
[……] and a web(?) of muslin a
place they expect to furnish
some nine or ten beds with clothes- you know that will take considerable
of them - they have rented a house at one hundred and 25 dollars per
year
- ant betsy was down here several days
laying in provisions
such as molasses and preserves - she spread
[r]ound at a terrible rate when
she came down and afronted aunt peggy very much so that
I
think she wont bother them soon again but I
suppose they will get
so independent that they will not look at the
likes of us after awhile
Second
page
Samuel
[hanaber ?] folks are all well he has
bought a place in
Coshocton county and will move in the spring I
suppose - John
is to be married next Thursday to miss munter
- eliza jane is
to be one of the attendants -father kerrs
family is well his own health
is much better than it was when we left home -
william Campbell
is better
he is able to walk about some - i
have not seen him yet
- mrs akins is beter she can walk with crutches mrs hagan and
family are well her daughter mary Johnson buried one of her
children Sabbath day - the disease was hooping
cough and worms
- there is another of them sick but is
better, they are using
what they call the galvanized battery with
uncle John
now – it is calculated to strengthen the
nerves and remove the dead
feeling he has in his limbs – he thinks he has
more feeling in his
legs since they began to use it - ant peggy gets very lonesome at
night when he was first taken – some of paps
people staid with
her all the time since we got home she don’t get so lonesome
– it may be he will get better and you may get
to see him
again in this
world but if things be ordered other ways we ought
all to try and live so that when we are called
from this world
that we will be prepared meet in a better
where parting will
be no more - I
must come to a close – my husband
has hands husking corn this afternoon and I
must
go to getting supper - answer this letter soon for we want to
hear from you
Nothing
more at present but remain your most affectionate niece
Eleanor
Carrick
Lavina Anders [Andrews]
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