| Title: | Anne J. Walters, Pittsburg to her brother, William, [Ireland?]. |
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| ID | 3173 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Walters, Anne J/23 |
| Year | 1845 |
| Sender | Walters, Anne J. |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Pittsburg, Penn., USA |
| Destination | Ireland |
| Recipient | William |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | siblings |
| Source | T 1664/1/4: Copied by Permission of J. G. T. Anderson, Lurgan, Co. Armagh. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 8903137 |
| Date | 24/11/1845 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by JM 22:10:1993. |
| Word Count | 845 |
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| Transcript | Pitsburg [Pittsburg?] November 24th 1845 My Dear Brother your letter of 12th of June has come to hand some weeks past but oh William alas alas our Father, my Dear Dear Father is no more Dear William it was melancholy for you all to watch him from day to day suffering but oh William the pang that shot through my heart; in one moment my loss was made known to me as soon as I caught the first glance at the letter I screamed out My Father My Father, and yet I have expected he would not be long in this world as you mentioned in your letters of his bad health & particularly your letter of the 5 of May which told us of Wm [William?] [Wallersy?] decease you said father & Mother was going to the [?] and I said to W.J. if the [they?] go Father wont get home alive - that comforts me to think he died in his own House, with his children & relatives about him, and poor mother poor lonely Mother, poor poor widowed Mother Dear William I need not say to you to be kind to poor mother & tell Joseph & Ellean to be kind to her & not to give her any dry short [?] answer you all know better it to lose one Parent let double affection be bestowed on the remaining Parent, & Dear Brother & Sister Live in peace between yourselves and consult each other & take each others advice & Particularly Dear Brother Joseph be you wise & take Williams advice you will find him in the end the dearest & wisest friend you have now on Earth. Dear William you say you think Father remembered Me I hope he remembered us all with a last earthly blessing but I dont think he has remembered me in the way you mean, he has given me & I had more than I think went to a good use but no [matter?] it is not worth a thinking of My Dear Brother if we all live to see the time when [?] I [?] Fathers last earthly wishes is made known I should like to get a coppy [copy?] or at least so mouch [much?] as will tell me how poor Mother is provided for - last april we moved of [off?] Mr Holmes Farm, we moved to a pretty little House between the farm & Pitsburg [Pittsburg?] we are about one mile and a half out of Pitsburg [Pittsburg?] on the 10th of April there was a fire in Pitsburg [Pittsburg?] which #PAGE 2 consumed a vast mount of property I went in a few days after but I could not judge whether it or New York fire was the largest as the streets was so hot & smokey I could not go through them our noble & generous friend Mr Holmes lost heavily he was at New Orleans all winter as usual & Marey went to him in Spring & they both went from there to the Isleland [Island?] of cubba [Cuba?] & just returned the next morning after the fire he had made the largest purcheses [purchases?] last winter he ever did & alas all had arived [arrived?] but one boat his own & several adjoining stores was fild [filled?] with his goods & all was consumed but thanks to the [disposer?] of all events their Magnificent dwelling House was saved as it lay behind the wind from where the fire comenced [commenced?] - the wind blew a herrican [hurricane?] that men nor [engines?] could have no [effect?] in stopping the progress of the flames - Mr Holmes store is [rebuilt?] & the [?] doing buiseness [business?] as extensive as before It [?] is going to New [Orleans?] in a week or two Jane & Marey was here last week to see me - Dear William this was the hardes [hardest?] letter to [co-?] I ever wrote I have had it written [?] [for?] some weeks past but did not post it as W J talken [talking?] of going down the river to [?] I will not detain this letter any longer I had a letter from brother George last August the [they?] were well then Brother John was working at the Carpenter business in Cincinitti [Cincinnati?] Dear William we are all well thank God for it my health I cant say much about [some?] times well some times ill give my love to Mother Joseph & Ellean to James & [?] & Anne Hill the first letter you write me after the first of June next direct it to myself pitsburg [Pittsburg?] where it will lie to I call for it Dear William I wrote to you a few days after the fire in Pitsburg [Pittsburg?] I sent it with a Mr McNally of Maghrafelt [Magherafelt?] it ought to have reached you by the time poor Father was sick oh William My Dear Father oh May God be a Father to us Fatherless children - Farewell my Dear Brother I am sill [still?] your affectionate sister Anne J Walters |
