| Title: | [The Weir Family?], Edenclaw to [Annie Weir?] [?] |
|---|---|
| ID | 3195 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Weir Family/49 |
| Year | 1892 |
| Sender | Weir Family |
| Sender Gender | |
| Sender Occupation | farmers |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Edenclaw, Co. Fermanagh, N.Ireland |
| Destination | Michigan, USA |
| Recipient | Weir, Annie |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | unknown |
| Source | Copyright Retained by Mrs Linda Weir, Tirmacspird, Lack, Co. Fermanagh, BT93 OSA |
| Archive | The Ulster American Folk Park |
| Doc. No. | 9906014 |
| Date | 28/02/1892 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 03:06:99. |
| Word Count | 475 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | Edenclaw 28/2/92 Dear Annie It was with Joy we recieved [received?] yours today and were so glad you were well as this leaves us all in good health at present Thank God the weather is nice and fine now and people are beginning to work some but we had an awful storm this last month or two snow and windy weather but it is nearly over I hope, it is peased [passed?] that the [-fodder?] will run scarce but we might have a good spring and that would be a great help it is March now ah how quickly times go round this is the seventh year since you went away oh God what changes thine Almighty Arm brings to each one of us Grandmas folk are all well but she declares she will never come to see us as mother couldnt get going to see her she looks as well now as ever I mind her It has been a fearful winter to many many have passed away leaving orphans lonely homes God as it were having visited our land with I know not what it is not pestilience nor famine nor the word and people are dying in scores as it were our graveyard is full and yet death is not satisfied there are perhaps ten in the one week but it is ceasing a little now God in his mercy stay this Hand Mother says she never saw such a winter in all her life though we have not lost many friends we had ours over long ago it was it seems only yesterday and we awoke to it oh God we had no Father how many better days there has been since but God has led us through ways we knew not of but we shall all meet again where shall be no sorrow and life must be lived The brave live on aye and we must hope for the best too this cannot help you it would only weaken you in your encounter with life for to hear such dispiriting news from Home they say Willie Weir wants Ellen to go to him but she would rather not whatever is the reason I dont know you must not think yourself illused or that we dont care for you but perhaps you will never know how much we care we have not much news to write that you would care for and yet you have lived here as well as us and we are little more than children in knowledge so you must excuse us or if you cannot bear with patience it is different with you you know what life is and we are looking forward to it as something better than it is from your loving mother & sisters & brothers we all send you our love Write soon in hope |
