1908 02 28 E.L. Carrick to Samuel Andrews

E.L. CARRICK & SONS PROP’S.

Pleasant Hill Stock Farm

Percheron Horses and Short Horn Cattle

                                                        Cadiz, Ohio, Feb 28 1908

Cousin Samuel,

                            Yours of recent date

 read.  We were very glad to hear from you once

 more  was glad to hear that your wife is better

hope whe will get well. we are all well but

  we have begun to realize that we are getting

 old  Mary E. spent three months in Kansas last

 fall with Martha’s folks  they were all well

 the last letter we had from them

 Eliza Jane is staying this winter with her youngest

 daughter who is married and lives in Cadiz

 Eliza Jane is in rather poor health.

Kate Hagen lives on the farm now the same

 place she was living when you visited her when

 you were here last.  There is two men

 in the cattle business by the name of Carpenter and

 Ross.  I think they live about 4 or 5 miles from

 Mansfield rather think in your direction  do

 you know them or can you tell me where

 they are located  I think they are going to

 have a sale in May  Well I believe this is all for

 this time.  Hope to hear from you soon.  Respt  E L Carrick

  Cadiz Rout # 1

1907 01 17 Harvey Andrews to Samuel Andrews

Claypool, Ind.   Jan 17 1907

Dear Uncle and Family

your letter received was

glad to here from you

once more was glad to

here you was all well

but was sorry to here

of Walters death. but

I suppose it was a grate

releaf after all to the poor

sufferer. also to those poor

girls. we are all well

but my poor Mother. she

is very little better iff any

her face is not draud quite

so bad but her color is very

bad and she is very weak

and trembly can hardly

feed herself and it has

affected her mind some

and worrys so mutch

about everything I hardly

know what to do sometimes

She has a great deal of misery

in her head and has to take

easing tablets or I don’t know

what the Poor thing would

do the Doctor says she is

liable to have another stroke

any time so we don’t know

what the results will be.

Mother Warren is failing

’pretty fast to but is still

keeping house. She is with

us from Saturday evening

till Monday morning every

week She is realy not fit to

keep house at all and the time

is not far distant when she

will bee with us to so you

see we are tied pretty close

to home. Will. Oda &

Baby are well we think Baby

is just right.

Milt Bechtelheimer was

here this week to see Mother

and us. their folks are

all well. I talked to

James McFarland this evening

they are all well except poor

Eva she is no better and

no hopes of her getting any

better she is bedfast most

of the time. I saw Mr. John

Jonston sometime ago and

he said you and Aunt Manda

talked of comeing during

the holidays to pay us a visit

I was so in hopes you would

come I can talk better than I

can write. I received the paper

with Poor Walter’s death. I

also got a letter from Retta

now Uncle please write and

till iff the girls has anything

left and what they intend

to do also iff Frank

came for for the Funeral.

will close for this time

hoping to here from you soon

            I am yours as ever

            Harvey Andrews

            Claypool, Ind.

PS Bruce Whittenberger

had a sale of horses yesterday

there was a span of norman mares

5 years old red roans both in foal

you would of bought iff you would of

bin here.

1906 10 10 Nancy Porter to Samuel Andrews

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. ]

1914 07 01 James Andrews to Samuel Andrews

Creswell O  RD 1

         July 1 1914

Dear Cousin Samuel

I find that considerable

 time has elapsed

 since I received your

 last letter and

 feel that I owe

 you an apology

 and will promise

 to be more prompt

 in the future  we

 are all well and

 in the midst of

 harvest  hay not

 a full crop  wheat

 good

 oats and corn are

short  have had

 some very warm

days and heavy

 rains a steady

 rain to day which

 has stopt harvest

Cousin Nathan Porter

was buried three

 weeks ago you

 remember he lived

 near New Athens

 Harrison Co he died

 from a hurt he

received  he was in

 his barn trying to

 make a young calf

drink out of the

 bucket  the calf

 jumped up on an

 elevtion he tryed

 to pull it down

 the calf made a

 lounge and jumped

 against him and

 threw him down

 and lit with all

 four of its feet

 on his bowles

he did not think

 he was much hurt

 at the time and

 the next day worked

 his corn but the

 next day the Pains

 struck him and he

 was hurried to the

 Wheeling hospital

 his bowls were

 bursted and there

could be nouthing

 done  he was hurt

on Monday eve and

 died Sabbath morn

  he leaves a Wife and

 two grown sons

 the sons were away

 in business for them

 selves  the rest

 of the friend are

 all ok  no

 my boy did not

get the trip to

 Washington last fall

 he raised 90 bu on

 his acre but a boy

 in the southern part

 of the county raised

 100 bu and got the trip

I will close for this

 time trusting to hear

 from you at your earliest

 convenience 

Jas Andrews

                                                                                    

1903 08 29 Kate Andrews Hagen to Samuel Andrews

To: Mr. Samuel Andrews   RR#1  Lucas, Ohi

From: Kate Hagen  3227 Glenwood Ave., Toledo, Ohio

August 29, 1903

Dear Cousin Samuel,

Your letter received a few days ago and it seems that I am

doomed to disappointment every time of your reunion.  My

daughter Annie Vernier expects to have an heir most any day and

she is unwilling to have me go.  I am awfully sorry for I had

fully intended to go as I wanted to see you all.  I cannot say

for Nancy Porter but you need not look for Maggie as she has very

poor health.  I was called to see her the first of last February.

The letter stated to come at once or I wouldn’t see her living.

I started the next morning and found her in very bad shape  her

feet and limbs badly swollen. A very severe cough and short of

breath.  I stayed with her till the first of April  she sleeps

propped up in bed almost strait –she had a severe attack of grip

time mother died and never fully recovered from it.  The

farm is to be sold next month and every thing settled up.  I think

James will buy it.  We have bought the property that we live in

and an adjoining lot  have a fine garden –a cow (?) and 50 young

chickens –have our farm leased for coal –have nothing but rain

here for the last three days.  Write and tell us about your reunion

and how D.K. is prospering –with kindest regards to all I

remain your cousin K.M.H.  3227 Glenwood Ave., Toledo, Ohio

[scans of letter are not readable]

1905 11 01 Martha Andrews to Samuel Andrews

Seneca, Mo Nov 1^st 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 10^th 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                                                                                         

1898 06 27 Joseph Andrew family to Samuel Andrews

Muscotah, Kansas                                June 27, 1898

Dear Uncle and Family

  As Father is verry busy and cant find time to write he wishes me to

answer your kind letter which was rec long enough ago to diserve an

apology for his negligence.  He is now going over his corn the second time

it has been so verry wet here that the farmers are verry much behind with

there work!  We had a verry nice rain here yesterday but we had begin to

need it for having so verry much rain and then comeing off dry it soon

bakes the ground.  Father wants to come to the reunion but I don’t

know wheather he will get to or not his crop being a part failure I don’t

know wheather he can or not I would love to have him go.  Ma is not well

I had to come home this summer and help her out  I had a real nice place

to work but wages are poor here for girls who hafta work.  boys get

pretty fair wages  Joe gets $18 per month and David gets $16 but they

hafta work terriable hard.  Dave don’t like farming one bit and the 19 of

this month was his birthday he was 22  How time flys  How sad to think

of Uncle dieing and to think of Aunt being blind.  I am so sorry Pa did

not get to go back while he lived  Well fate seems all against him  I

wish it was so I could help him more but I have got my hands full to

help myself  Well I am going to send you one of those pictures  will

also send one of Bro Joes alone  He had them taken a long time ago and

told Pa to send one to you  These pictures are not verry good of Ma

Nor of Mollie but they are verry good of the rest but the picture of Joe

alone looks just like him.  Mollie sits between Ma and Pa  Joe stands

back of Ma and I Wilma stand between the boys  David back of his Father

I think they are splendid of Pa.  Well I must write to Dot  let us know

wheather you get this or not  Love from all to the family  Good by from

Joe Andrews and Family

[Samuel Andrews was living in Newville, Ohio]