| Title: | Andrew Greenlees, Oklahama City, USA, to His Brother. |
|---|---|
| ID | 1242 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Greenlees, Andrew/13 |
| Year | 1907 |
| Sender | Greenlees, Andrew |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | farmer |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA |
| Destination | Magheramore, Co. Wicklow, Ireland |
| Recipient | Greenlees, John |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | brothers |
| Source | T 2046/27: Copied by Permission of Aiken McClelland Esq., 3 Beechhill Park Avenue, Belfast. |
| Archive | Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9006209 |
| Date | 19/10/1907 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | 27:06:1990 GMcE#CREATE created 23:10:1991 PKS inpu |
| Word Count | 631 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | To: Brother From: Oklahoma City October 19/[19?]07 1522 W[est?]. 24 St[reet?], Okla[homa?] My dear Brother Yours of the ninth at hand we were much pleased to hear from you and that you and our friends are reasonably well this leaves us about as usual we are safely over our Jubilee indeed we feel grateful that God in his goodness spared us to enjoy that day and all the pleasure it brought us our circle of acquaintance is somewhat large and scattered letters of regret and congratulations began to pour in on friday and on [S?]aturday letters from friends in the following states from the Pacific coast Oregon Washington [M?]ontana this side the rockies [Rocky Mountains?] Colorado Nebraska Illionis [Illinois?] Michigan Texas and last but not least Kansas. but none from Irel[and?] [ak?] yes there was a long cry out of the past from Ireland Cousin Robert enclosed with his letter four from Father written to his Father long ago some in 1826 some in [18?]31 [18?]32 in which he send wo[rd?] to Uncle William Rea not to conse[nt?] to his sisters selling a certain property in [Larne?] as it was wille[d?] to him and his heirs in absolute after her decase [decease?] he complains that neither Rea nor Moore had written for seven years notwithstanding he had written frequently in th[at?] time a later date he tells of h[is?] family Robert was 18 and was a great help to him and [Janet?] was a comfort to her mother then he passes to the youngest William would soon be old enough to go to school[& &?] I suppose when he wrote those letters he little thought that my children and grand children would listen to them read [O?]ur Jubilee John read them all aloud which consumed some time but [p?]leasantly and profitably [B?]efore sitting to dinner the children [h?]ung a beautiful Ladies gold watch [ro?]und Mothers neck also a very fine [g?]old locket and chain on mine rather on my watch I cary [carry?] one now [s?]ince I cant work I was lonesome [an?]d got one for company besides our own family we had Rev[eren?]d Sutterfield and wife Dr Grayson and wife Dr Rath[burns?] and wife Mr and Mrs Fry well we had a pleasant day and evening after the company had gone all but our family gathering I asked the children to sing some of my favourite hym[n?]s my wife sing[s?] as clear and strong as she used to Lucy presided at the piano I asked them to close by singing that beautiful parting hymn begin[ning?] God be with you till we meet again [& &?] Then John read a selections from scripture that grand old Psalm that never grows old. Oh thou my Soul bless the Lord and all that is within me bless his holy name. After reading the Psalm Charles lead [led?] us in prayer and for the first time in 23 years as a family we bowed at a throne of grace to gether [together?] thus ended a very pleasant and long to be remembered day the last time we were all to gether [together?] Charles had just got home from Yale though John and May were married they had not moved far away and we had a family gathering then but the[y?] soon scattered and it is hard after a family scatters to get all together again I hope you wont think me silly in writin[g?] these things I feel so who[lly?] unworthy of all these rich bless[ings?] God in his goodness has bestow[ed?] upon us I think I may justly feel proud of my child[ren?] and grand children; there will be little danger of getting the letter to[o?] heavy now since the new postal law permitting an ounce instead of 1/2 o[unce?] Kind love to Miss Stew[?] your self and all friends Your loving Brothe[r?] A Greenlees |
