Seneca, Mo Nov 1st 1905
Dear Uncle,
I suppose
you are at
home again and I will
try to
answer your letter
but I cant
begin to tell you how
disappointed
we feel by your not
coming
to see us and we
don’t feel as
though we could give
it up yet.
We had planed and
hoped so
much for it. don’t you find
some way that you
could
come yet? if not let
me suggest
that you get busy and
arrange
your affairs some way
so you
and Lloyd wont have
to just
kill yourselves for –
well for
what! When I think of the way
[page 2]
Pa used to work and
expose
himself to all kinds
of storms
and work when he
ought to have
been in bed and of
how fast he
was breaking down and
now to
see the excellent
health he
enjoys and does not
have to
work only enough to
keep him
in exercise it makes
me so
sorry he did not make
the
change years
ago. And if one
could only hear you
had decided
to take a little more
leisure
during the few years
left you
I would be so
glad. Your children
always seem to think
so much
of you I wish they
would stop
to consider how you
are killing
yourself and then
help you
to find some way to
live a
little easier and
longer.
Of course I know it
means
a whole lot it did to
us but
[page 3]
I am satisfied it has
added
years to Pa’s life
and that is all
I care for. his good health
still continues and
he is getting
fat again he lost 9
lbs this
summer and I think
now
he has more than got
it back
for of late when he
puts on
his coat he says “I
don’t see
what ails this coat
it don’t
[stip] when I put it
on”
but he is just so fat he cant
hardly button it when
he does
get it on. Oh Uncle I do
wish you hadn’t got
that off
about the yellow
fever. did you
really mean that you people
were scared about it
or were
you joking? we hardly think
you meant it.
Well we talked quite a bit
of going to Ohio as
we could
[page 4]
get round trip
tickets from here
to Butler for $22.00
good for
30 days but we felt
sure you
were coming and
before we
found you were not
coming
the time was
past I don’t
know for sure that we
would
have gone but we
would liked
to. I don’t believe I ever told
you Pa and I took a
little
trip up to Baxter Kansas
in Aug to a soldiers
reunion
drove up started from
here about day light got there
at noon and started
home
after dinner next day
and
got home at 6 pm.
some
friends of ours were
there
in camp and we staid
with them we had a
fine
time I tell you and
the
Indiana camp meeting
is
[page 5]
no where for
crowds there were
thousands of people
there and
from all over the
U.S. they
have the reunion
every year
and if there is no
yellow
fever down in New
Orleans
we want you to come
and
go with us next year
if we are all
living and well.
We have had fine weather here
this fall but we had
a frost
two weeks ago that
killed
vines and about that
time
it began to rain and
has been
rainy most of the
time since
but wheat needed it
so I
suppose we cant have
rain
and sunshine at the
same
time and one is as
essential
as the other. it is pretty
cold nights now frosts every
few nights last night
it
[page 6]
froze ice on a tub of
water
as thick as window glass.
but some of the kids
were
barefoot by noon.
farmers
have their fall work
about all
done and hay and corn
is
pouring in corn brings [..] cents per bu.
We had a letter from one of
the old neighbors in
Mich
Sat she said they had
a
snow storm the 10th
of Oct
and it had been quite
wet.
I guess I will close as it is
ten oclock I have
written one
other letter
tonight I am getting
the family complaint
and don’t
write till my letter
pocket gets
full but this time it
is badly
running over and I
must keep
at it now till I get
it emptied
today I received a
couple of large
pictures from Mich
that were
[page 7]
back in John Cools
field
where deep gullies
had washed
out I saw them a year ago but
last spring they
washed so
much worse they are just
grand and the day Mr.
Burleighs barn was
raised
this summer they took
the
pictures and one of
our
friends sent us two
different
views but they are on
such
a large scale I can
scarcely
make out who any of
the
people that are in the
picture are. Now
Uncle we
want you to write us
all
about your trip let us know
how the Ind people are.
we
have wondered a good
deal what
Anna would “be on” it
was so
late she would have
her pickles
all made, her plums
all preserved
[page 8]
the threshing all
done and
let us know what was
the
rush. and how is poor Aunt
Becca how I would like to see
her. does she look much more
frail do you
think. and how
is Uncle Horace
Tucker. Oh
tell us all about
them and
let us know how Lloyd
is
feeling. do you think he still
suffers from the
effects of the
diphtheria I am afraid that
will always hang to him.
Now write soon I
would
have written before
but
waited till you would get home.
give our love to all
from
Dott
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