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Title: Greeves, Mary to O'Brien (n. Kelley), Prudence, 1853
ID6189
CollectionThe Transatlantic Letters of an Irish Quaker Family_1818-1877 [B. Jackson]
Filequaker/190
Year1853
SenderGreeves, Mary
Sender Genderfemale
Sender Occupationhousewife
Sender ReligionQuaker
OriginPhiladelphia, Penn., USA
DestinationCollins, Lake Erie, NY, USA
RecipientO'Brien (n. Kelley), Prudence
Recipient Genderfemale
Relationshipcousins once removed
Source
Archive
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Date
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Logunknown
Word Count128
Genreabstract of letter, family news
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TranscriptPhila 10th 4 mo 1853

I hope Cousin Ann & Joseph are better. It is not likely the mother can get over such a shock as the one she has met with in the death of three sons, all young men. ... Cousin Ann's cousin, James [B.] Sinton & wife, now
residing in this city, buryed their last daughter about 5 weeks ago, in all 4. The three last were married and all left children ... Martha [nee Bettle] looks the woman of sorrow. Pheby Sinton that was .... has splintered her ankle .. .she had adopted her brother John's daughter Pheby ... John is a much improved man; he has buryed his good
wife... Esther Morton Smith ... her husband D.B. Smith ... thy little Margaretta ...