| Title: | M. Murphy, U.S.A., to "Dear Friends", Ireland |
|---|---|
| ID | 1927 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Murphy, M/14 |
| Year | 1874 |
| Sender | Murphy, M |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Allegheny, Penn., USA |
| Destination | Saintfield, Co. Down, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Donnan, Hugh |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | friends |
| Source | D2795/5/2/8: Presented by Mrs. Chas. Donnan, Cahard, Co.Down. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, N. Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9501344 |
| Date | 10/06/1874 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 26:01:1995. |
| Word Count | 517 |
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| Transcript | Allegheny June 10th 1874 Dear friends we have very poor news to send you this time our Dear little Samuel is Dead shortly after we got thier [their?] liknes [likeness?] taken the [they?] all took the whopping [whooping?] cough and in about two weeks Hugh and Minnie took the measels and were getting better we thought Samuel was not going to take them but little Dear Samuel had to have them too he took sick on saturday and Died on wednesday evening the 3rd of June he was only five days sick we don [done?] all that we could do for him we had three doctors with him but the [they?] could do nothing for our Dear little boy as soon as the measels set in the whopping [whooping?] cough settled on his lungs and is eye tooth were cutting all being on him at the one time was too much for poor Samuel you may be sure our grief is very great at parting with our Dear all the comfort we have is that we hope he is in heaven where I trust we shall all met [meet?] to part no more Hugh & Miney are getting well again Samuel was thriving very fast and we were very much taken on with him for he could say any thing or do any thing we bid him and was watching for me coming home every evening and sat with me while we had our supper and sung us A little song which cheered us very much in A strange land we feel very much cast down We buried Samuel in A semitry [Cemetery?] about A half mile from where we live it is A nicer burying ground nor ever you saw in Ireland the [they?] call it [hilldate?] it is kept in the best of order it is the likest to the botanic gardens that I have seen we paid six dollars for his grave the people here bury with great stile [style?] we gave 18 dollars for his little coffin it is oak with silver mounting we had four too [two?] horse cariges [carriages?] we ought to have wrote sooner but we [were?] in so much trouble about him that I could not think of beginning to it we are looking every day fore [for?] a letter from Rebina we posted all our likness to you and Rebina A good while ago and we got your last letter about ten days ago but we have never got any word whether you got the liknes [likeness?] or not we sent them to Mr Crawford at the same time and have got one from him and he has got them all right from kirkpatricks daughter that was married to kirk thier [their?] little boy Died of whopping [whooping?] cough A little before Samuel pleas [please?] tell Rebina and the rest I need not send them any word I expect we will have A letter from som [some?] of you before you get this write as usual no more at present we hope thies [these?] few lines will find you all well Your M. Murphy |
