Bloomingdale
Ohio
Oct
10 1906
maybe
you will not
get
free delivery has
changed
Cousin
Samuel and family
Dear
Friends,
not
having heard from
you
for so long I would drop
a
line in hope’s you would
answer we are all well
Mrs.
David Andrews died
over
a week ago I suppose
you
are aware that she
[had]
a cancer cut of her breast
over
a year ago it never
broke
out again It went
through her sistem there was
lumps
come on her like the
ones
that Aunt Isabell had
David
has a nice family
Coro
will git along all right
they
tried to get Kate but
she
didn’t get the word
it
look like winter the
way
it snowing now it been
so
wet people back in their
work had a litter from sister
Martha
a few days ago she
think
she going blind she
said
went out and washed the
supper
dishes come in and took
a
paper up and could not see
a
word and was no better when
she
wrote couldn’t read a word
she
was writing she a great
reader
it will be hard on her
Nathan
has his built again the
barn
had struck with lighting
and
burnt but had a big insurance
that
hept him through now I want
a
long letter tell me about all
the
friend it will do me good
you
know I am getting old
your cousin Nancy Porter
Robert
in Indinole Iowa
my brother wife lives there married again
[Nancy’s
brother, John Robert Andrews died
14
July 1878 and his widow Rebecca Jane Taylor
was
married to Rev. G.W. Patterson by 1880. ]
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