| Title: | A. Jackson, Southfield, to [Annie Weir?] [?] |
|---|---|
| ID | 1538 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Jackson, Anne/85 |
| Year | 1892 |
| Sender | Jackson, Anne |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | Presbyterian Or Baptist |
| Origin | Southfield, Michigan, USA |
| Destination | Pontiac, Michigan, USA |
| Recipient | Weir, Anne |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | friends |
| Source | Copyright Retained by Mrs Linda Weir, Tirmacspird, Lack, Co Fermanagh, BT93 OSA |
| Archive | The Ulster American Folk Park |
| Doc. No. | 9909197 |
| Date | 10/10/1892 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 10:09:99. |
| Word Count | 432 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | My dear Annie I scarcely know what to say to you first of all I will thank you for your kind and loving Letter. I felt so thankful that you had reached your home Safly [safely?] but doubtless you remembered the promise of him who said fear not for I am with thee. but you did not say you were not coming back and I have all the time been looking for you one day when your Uncle Robert was here he said he thought it was the Cholera Scare that was keeping you back but I am begining [beginning?] to think that it is your resolution that is giving way disregarding the admonition of friends but I do not blame you for such dererminations [determinations?] generally prove futile at one time of life or another you will very likely before [this?] have heard that Caleb is married to a young Lady of Farmington her name was Myra Green she is a very pleasant Girl and is 23 years old. I have seen Mrs Miller several times lately and she told me that you were not comming [coming?] back she said on of the Girls at the Asylum told her so. Millie Shane died about the first of September under very painfull [painful?] circumstances but I cant repeat them here Mr Simpson and Calvin Cady are at work on that barn they were building when you were here I hope they will get through this week Edla park was married last week to a dr. somebody you will remember that I told you she had gone to Grace Hospital to Nurse in order to become a first class Nurse herself well she got her diploma and went to a Situation at Ann Arbor as head nurse and I Suppose it was there that she met the Gentleman she has married they have gone to live in denver Mr Luther Stanly [Stanley?] is in a dying condition and I am very much afraid without any hope in the future riches dont avail there at all - oh annie keep in the love of Christ and then whatever changes you may have to pass through he will be with you (lo I am with you always) I wish I could send you some Asylum news but very likely you hear that from those that are there Jenny and Edith and Iva Mrs Bell and Mrs Crawford all desire to be remembered to you Mr Jackson myself and Caleb all Send our love hoping to hear from you at your covenience Your friend A Jackson |
