| Title: | Edith [?], Birmingham to Anna Weir, Pontiac, Michigan |
|---|---|
| ID | 976 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Edith/81 |
| Year | 1891 |
| Sender | Edith |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | Sunday School teacher |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Birmingham, Michigan, USA |
| Destination | Pontiac, Michigan, USA |
| Recipient | Weir, Anne |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | friends |
| Source | Copyright Retained by Mrs Linda Weir, Tirmacspird, Lack, Co. Fermanagh, BT93 OSA |
| Archive | Ulster American Folk Park |
| Doc. No. | 9906006 |
| Date | 01/11/1891 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 03:06:99. |
| Word Count | 485 |
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| Transcript | Miss Anna Wier, Pontiac, Mich. [Michigan?] My Dear Friend ! [?] [----?] Sunday evening have been to church three times today. We have started a young People's meeting in our church and it is real well attended we have over fifteen members - I don't know just how many, but there are some twenty five or thirty attend and they all seem to take an interest we have had some splendid meetings. Our subject for to night was "Steadfastness" Mrs Bell was to have led but was sick so Caleb to [took?] it. He is our president, May [Celdrid?] our vice-president, Eva Crawford secretary and Herman Hendrickson treasurer I wish you was (sic) here to help us. Mr Wood, the new principal in our school was the one who proposed it and he is a great worker and a great help We were talking at the dinner table about coming up to see you ; he wants to go through the building now if I send you word before hand will it be so that we can see you How do you get along any way ? Mrs Jackson often speaks of you and I think of you real often but I have been so very busy this summer and fall I have neither writen [written?] to any one nor been to see any one but am not so busy now and am going to commence and try to be more sociable now, Jennie has been as busy as I have ; she gives lessons every night but Thursday and takes one Sat. [Saturday?] beside all the rest she has to do there have been so many deaths here lately the young as well as the old It stands us all in hand to be ready. For we know not the day nor the hour when we shall be called. When are you coming down to see us all again ? It does not seem possible that it is as late in the year the time has gone so fast here it is November and winter will soon be here. I always dread the winter because I am always catching cold. When the electric rail road gets through here I shall come up ever [every?] week to see you. Mr Truman comes to B-ham [Birmingham?] next Tuesday to move Mrs T'S remains to [B-ham?] cemetary [cemetery?]. I don't know whether [Mina?] is coming or not. Did you see them when they were down before ? Has your sister come back yet or do you hear from her. I don't know as you can read half of this but please answer what you can read and I will do better in the future Edith If I can get one of the programmes of our meetings before I send this I will send it to you so you can ask what we are doing or trying to do yours with love Edith. |
