| Madison County Letters©
- 14May1849 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) May 14th 1849 Whitewater Dear Aunt we wer relivi from much anxialy when Orren caim home from munroe as we hav not beow from you in so long we fer to heire atoll best we should here that we wer deprivd of you all. As we had written several letters since we had receivd an ansure And we thought you would hav written enny how had you receivd the ltters but I nead not asshour you how much we wer greivd to lurn of him your friends (?) ?? And that you were expected to receive we hoape however it may be otherwise but that wee shall yet see you again in this life which would be very gratifying. I asshour you my helth has been gradually inproveing every year since the first that we hav been in the country & last summer it was better than it ever had been before Ellin has had desideedly the best helth during the pas winter & present spring that she ever enjod before Mother & Omar went last Friday to see Mr. May & found them well The old gentleman is ded David Mack is in Indana Anak Bansom has written to them during the winter & says she concluded we had not receivd hur letter wright soon I must leav room for the rest Lavina Burt to write this from your affectionate neas. Giv my lov to all the friends. Amanda Burt My Dear Aunt. All tho I have nothing to communicate of any great importance I feel as tho I must say something. If nothing more than to enquire about your helth whitch I hope is improved considerable to this time. Sister Amanda has mentioned something about you not expecting to recover whitch may very in long ? and only till our folks that you are vary sick and it was found you mite never enjoy much helth again or that you mite never be again .. better very long at a time. I do hope when I se you again to se you injoying a comfortable degree of helth all tho we never can hope to see you young agin in this world. But we do expect to see you bouth enjoying helth and the viger of youth Where we shall look upon sickness and old age as ?? words without mentioning ?? things that have ben. We are well as well as ever. Mother and I have ben to see Mr. ?? folks as easy?// And desired us to stay up to be very fine people. They had considerable to tell us but not a great deal more than Amda wrote. They say that David M is in Indiana and was the rest of them. Mrs. Aly says that they heard from them after weaks "go and that they over all well. Mr. May is ?. (Impossible to read the remainder. Penmanship bad, spelling bad.) Letter signed by Lavina Burt |