| Madison County Letters©
- 27May1846 Copyright 2000 Fredi Perry In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data and images may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or for other presentation without express permission by the contributor(s) Ridge Prairie, Madison Co., Illinois, May 27, 1846 Dear Niece, I write these lines by your brother Norman who arrived here yesterday from the saw mills on the Wisconsin. I wrote you on the 4th and 28th of April, but have seen no letter from you this year. Mr. Washington Parki.nson, near Highland, was assinated on the 15th. Some person unknown shot him through his window. The ball penetrated 2 inches in the center of his forehead, yet he lived 12 hours afterwards. He had so many enemies that people do not know which of them to suspect. One of the suspected persons has volunteered to go and fight the Mexicans. His name is Brown. Parkison's daughter sat between him and the window, reading a newspaper, for some time. At length she moved her position and her father was immediately shot. He has 2 brothers in your territory, and was generally considered not so bad as they. J(?) D. Vineyard's wife is dead. He courted and engaged her by letter - "unsight, unseen", -- as the pedlars say - last year. I am sorry to hear that Martin George has broken his arm. Please write to your Pa at Collinsville, Madison Co. Illinois. He gets but few letters, and the sight of one from you will be good for his eyes. We expect some peaches next September. Truly yours, George Churchill. |