Short Creek Ohio March
12th [18]77
Respected
friends I take up my pen to
communicate
to you the mournful inteligans of
the
death of Aunt Peggy she died on the
last
day of February a little past seven oclock
in
the morning after an illness of some five days
she
had been complaining for some days of a
bad
cold had a bad cough and couldn’t get
much
up was up & down for several days on
Monday
morning we sent for the DR he gave
her
some medicine but it had no effect that
night
she had a stroke of paralisis she
spoke
but once or twis after she had the
stroke
the Doctor seen her on Tuesday morning
he
said her system was entirely parralised
perfectly
unconscious & died apparently easy if
she
had lived till the 20th of May she
would have been 74 years of age but her
time
was come & may we all strive to live so that
when
our time comes we may be reddy to
depart
and be with Christ which is far better
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Well
Samuel I have not heard from
you
by letter since the last of December
75
& since that time I have wrote you one
if
not more I do hope that when you get
this
you will answer it as soon as convenient
the
friends are all well your friend Cate
Hagen
is well has 3 children 2 boys & one girl
the
youngest running round old Samuel Kerr
is
still living has better health this winter
than
he has had for some years but I must
close write soon yours VC J W Carrick
PS
Pleas let me no where
Wm
is & what he is doing.
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