Beaver Dam Aug 2nd 1855
Dear
Mother Brothers and Sisters i
take
this
opportunity to inform you of our healths
we are
all well
at the present time except myself
i have
not been able to work for about a week
with the
piles but i am getting some better
today
than i have been – I received a letter from
mary
Jane dated may the 11th and i rec a letter from
John
last thursday he wrote that you wer all
well on
the fourth of July as that was the last
time he
had seen any of you
we have
had the wetest time here that you
ever
seen in harvest it commenced raining
two
weeks ago today and it rained every day
since
more or less until today it looks like as
if it
would clear off – harvest was verry late
here
this harvest so that about the time that
we got
our wheat in shock the rain came on
so there
it stands yet and is verry much
spoiled
some of the hudders is sprouted four
inches
long –but if it keeps dry today and
tomorrow
that we will get it hauled in
we have
the best wheat and oats crops this year
that i
ever saw any where the corn and
potatoes
looks first rate as yet
the
health of the country is first rate at the
present
time i do not know of any person
sick in
the country at the present time
the
small pox broke out about six miles from here
about
two months ago and there was several
died
with it but they have got it stoped again
the
Jefferies and Tuckers was all well the last time
i heard
from them – I suppose you are looking
for us
in there this fall but that is out of the
question
for us to go in this fall as we will
not have
the [funds] to sp[are] it is pretty
tuff
times with us yet as we have but
a small
opening made yet and then looseing my
team
last fall makes it hard times to hire a
team to
do all my plowing and evry thing
but i
have a young yoke of cattle comeing
on that
will be three years old next spring
and by
that time they will be able to do
a considerable
of work – now Mother i think
that you
could come out this fall and see us
a great
deal better than we can go in to see
you you and one of the boys could take the
cars and
be here in twenty four hours from
the time
you start if you could only just
think
you could come there is nothing to hinder
you from
comeing and if you cannot come yourself
besure
and send some of the rest of them
out for i
cannot wait longer than this fall
to see
some of you it is now four years this
fall
since i saw any relation atall of mine
I want
you to come out and see my wife and
children
as we now got three of them the youngest
of them
a boy now four months old we
call him
William Harvey tell William
that
there will be a dress expected for the name
Now i
want some of you to be sure to come
out this
fall and i want you to besure
and
write as soon as you get this and let
me know
whether any of you is comeing
or not
and write particular how unkle John
and
family is getting along
So
nothing more at present but remains yours
until
death James C Andrews to
Mother
William Mary Jane David
Joseph and Samuel -- I want you to write whether it is
so or
not that unkle John has a cancer on his breast
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