| Title: | Kathy Hall, Hubbard, Ohio, to Mrs. Margaret White, County Donegal. |
|---|---|
| ID | 1318 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Hall, Kathy/36 |
| Year | 1849 |
| Sender | Hall, Kathy |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | housewife |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Hubbard, Ohio, USA |
| Destination | Co. Donegal, Ireland |
| Recipient | White, Margaret |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | sisters |
| Source | D1781/3/8: Deposited by Messrs. Caldwell and Robinson, Solicitors, 11 Castle Street, Derry. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9310391 |
| Date | 09/11/1849 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Action By Date Document added by C.R., 14:10:1993. |
| Word Count | 1237 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | Emigrant letter from Kathy Hall, Hubbard, Youngstown, Ohio to Mrs. Margaret White, Milford, County Donegal. Hubbard November 9 1849 My Dearest Margaret It is now a long time since I have written to you and all the appology [apology?] I will make is had I thought you were anxious to hear from me I would have answered your letter long ago but as you had mine one long year before you thought worthwhile to answer it. I was beginning to think, as my dear Mother was gone that the affection for me had died with her. It is now about twelve months since I received your last letter it was dated October and as I heard through Mrs Kennedy of Pittsburgh you were anxious to know if John was living [----?] I thought we must let by gones [bygones?] be by gones [bygones?] and begin in the new, brother John is living and well, or at least was a few weeks ago. We had a letter from William Campbell who told us all the news. Catherine his eldest daughter is married a Mr. Beneaux, who owns a sugar plantation and Jane talked of coming to see us William said he and his father intended going to California with the best of the gold jeckers [?], he said his father was healthy and young looking but I hope they will not go. There is a great many gone from this State, I expect it is a wild irreligious plea but I suppose by this time John is quite a [-----?] [-----?] man, I do not like the name there is a great deal of [-----?] linked with it but I still hope better things of our dear brother John Campbell. Mrs Kennedy mentioned Mr. Nevens or some name like that who came from Milford and said you were all well, I never got the tablecloths and towels my broher sent, and I suppose we may give them up as lost to us. If I knew where that Mr. Stewart lived I would write to him perhaps you have heard something of him. Has Mr. White given up all notions of coming to country I still think he would do better hear [here?], but you might not like it every thing [everything?] is so different, but I would not give up my adopted Country even for good old Ireland again, and were you hear [here?] a few years, I know you would say so too. Do you ever see Mary Th' [?] how I would love to see you or her, but I hope she is happy, and I still think you will come here yet, tell me in your next what prospects you have and how you get along, also how Mary is and all our friends #PAGE 2 There is no change in our family we all get along as usual. Our three older girls are young women now, Eliza, Mary and Kate. Mary was in Pittsburgh last winter at school Emily, Irene, Jane and Margaret are growing, and little Willie Campbell is now near five years old, a little black-eyed boy, and very stunning, they are all healthy, Irene is growing old looking and quite grey, and my dark hair is beginning to show a few white hairs, but a great many tell me I look young to have such large girls. My dear Margaret when you write tell me every thing [everything?] of your family and all you know of Mary she never writes to me nor I to her, but I think of her often, do you [torn] of Mr Grisell or family I dont [do not?] know where they are. Now my dear sister if you wasnt [was not?] to hear from me write soon and do not let my letter be so long unanswered, and if things go hard with you, tell Mr White to write to some of his friends in this country, to state to him all the particulars relative to it. Ireland is getting to [too?] poor but perhaps you are comfortable and happy and you could not be anything more here. Our girls join me in best love to you Mr White and little cousins and Now my dear sister if you wasnt [was not?] to hear from me write soon and do not let my letter be so long unanswered, and if things go hard with you, tell Mr White to write to some of his friends in this country, to state to him all the particulars relative to it. Ireland is getting to [too?] poor but perhaps you are comfortable and happy and you could not be anything more here. Our girls join me in best love to you Mr White and little cousins and believe my dear Margaret ever your affectionate sister Cate Hall now write soon my love to Mr. White I have such a bad pen I #PAGE 3 can scarcely write it is one of my own making God bless you etc November 16th Since writing this letter I had one from Mary whom I have not heard from for some years poor dear Mary how glad I was to hear from her, she seems the same affectionate kind sister she ever was to me, I am sorry to think you and she do not correspond, but I fear my once innocent sister Margaret has got too selfish you mentioned once to me if Mary [-------?] on my brother to sign over to him [----?] [-----?] when I look in to it. Do not you think she had a right to part of my father's property as well as you, and you have been benefited by it so long, you know we were all equally dear both to father and mother and now as my poor dear mother is no more I think we should have an equal divide that is Mary John and Kitty and Margaret and your conscience must tell you so. I know I was as much beloved by my mother as you were, and I never got one dollar's worth from her after I was able to do for myself except what she [---?] since I came to [-----?] [--?] for which I was always thankful and only sorry I could not find some return worth her acceptance. But now I intend joining Mary and claim my fourth, you may think this unkind but I now [know?] when you look over my beloved father's will you cant [cannot?] but say it is just and right, this is our [----?] [-----?] in this country to whom we can give a letter of Attorney to collect our part, write to me and tell me your mind on this subject, I can write to John and get him to write home if you wish me. I heard from Pittsburgh the other day and was sorry to hear that Mrs. Robert Kennedy was dead we had a letter from her some time ago also James Cunningham from that part has died of bilious fever. Adieu my dear Margaret and believe me your affectionate sister Kathy Hall Write soon and tell me if John should write to Col. [Colonel?] Caulfield onto whom Tell Mr. White we often think of him in the spring as their [there?] is a hickory tree just at our dining room window and a bird comes there every day calling "bob white" The children often say he calls "bob white" Uncle Robert Write soon. |
