Dear Childern
I will wright you a fiew lines to lett you no that I am well and am glad to hear that you all ar I reseived your welcome letter last night Was glad to hear from you I stayed in Yorke State three weeks Came home New years day This week sewed 4 days for Mrs Decker on Poverty Hill

Mate thinks that she will come out hear some time in March I am going to gett rooms down stairs if I can Mate got the letter that you wrote her Thay sent mine to Mitchels Creek and Ede sente it to Havana so I havent it yet You dident say enything about the clippers Mr Reece has got the kinds that Birte wanted now Thay come just a day or to before I came home so I thought we hadent better send them untill I wrote you for I dident no whether you would wante them or not I you do lett me know right away Thay will make them at to dolars if you wante them You donte say enything about Freed Is he dead His poor mother is dead She was dead yesterday when I came home I gess the lice killed her It is awful lonesome without her I met Lutie the other day She said that she had a letter from you the day before I wente up on the hill to _____ Cogsmiers Did I tell you that Edy was maried She said that she would give a goodeal to see you She took your address and said that she would wright to you Lutie is well O dear I wish I could see you I could tell you a goodeal more than I can wright Thay ar having a grate revivals of meatings hear Thair has been lotts of folks got religion All the drunkards in town Mell Strait John Bixley Fent Allen Bill Willson Wellt Smith Bill Lorenc Gill Welch Thair hainte no youse for me to right eny more names for it would take to or three sheats of paper. Kate Smith and Dan Wood to O dear how I wish I could see you all but I donte no as I ever shal it is real sickley hear now Thay are having a diseas that thay call the grippe or influenzy If it wasent for Mate I would come out thair Freem and Cary was hear today He is coming after me tomorow to stay over Sunday with them Mrs Dike is thair now I cante wright enymore now so goodby

I am afraid that Will is dead or we should hear from him and I should think that we would if he was enyway unless someone has murdered him I am afraid thay have
Love to you all Kiss Tess forty times for me. Donte neglect to write about the clippers I will send you a pice off Edy Cogswell weding dress and a little pice of mine that Mate gave me and a pice of my polnais I havent got them made yet I cante think of Edy husbands name The silk was the front and the back blew cashimer.