Dear Childern
I recieved your welcom letter last night  Was glad to hear from you and to hear that you was all well  It did not finde me very well but better than I have bin  I have had the grip and grab to  I gess A weeke ago last Saturday I wente to Ant Jesseys Smiths  She had the grip and I stayed untill a weeke ago tonight  I came home sick  soaked my feete and wente to bed  Felt better in the morning  Friday night Mrs Jake come and stayed all night and I gott up in the morning in the cold and gott her breakfast  Had my hands in cold water and before noon I had a chill  Emma Rundle came over at noon or I donte no what I should have don  Send for the doctor  He came Saterday Sunday and Monday  He said that I wanted someone that could wate on me not someon that I had to wate upon  I wente down stairs today for the first time since a weeke tomorrow  Edd Swan has brought me wood and water and Bessey Strait has stayed with me nights  Sunday night Emm and Ed stayed with me untill nine oclock and the rest of the knight thair was a Seely girl stayed with me  Mrs Strait has ben real good to me and all the rest of the folks  Mrs Knolton was hear day before yesterday and stayed all day with me and baked me some bread  Last night Kate Orson and Helen was up  Kate said she dident no that I was sick untill the day before  She brought me a can off blackberys and fride cakes and ginger snaps  You needent wory about me  I have enought to eat but it is so lonesome hear alone  Mrs Thetgay was hear Monday  She said that Luty was sick  I havent hurd from her since  It is real sickley hear now  This disease comes like a cold but it hangs on so long and it leeves on with a cough  I donte cough as hard as i do sometimes  I hope that you wonte have the grip out thair  I gott both off your letters  the one that wente to Yorke state and the one that had Mrs Frosts letter in  I am afraid that Will is dead  Someone has killed maybe  O dear I wish we could hear from him  I hainte hurd from Kates folks since I was thair  I sent Edy a letter last night and one to Herbs folks today  I had a leter from Fanney to weeks ago  The old lady was sick and Homer came home sick that night from school  Herb was away to woorke  She said that Herb had a hors and would come after me if it come eny kinde off going but I cante stande it thair in the smoke  I am glad to hear that Birts mother is better  Thair is lotts of folks getting pensions now but I donte hear from mine yet  You wanted to no whate buter and eggs was  Butter is 20cts  Eggs 15  Potatoes 60 cts  I havent hurd from Mate but once since I was thair  She had had the grip  I cante think of mutch to wright to night but O how I wish that I could see you all  I wante to see Tessy so bad that I donte no whate to do  She wonte seeme like a baby when I see her again  You donte say whether you have weaned her or not  If I live till spring i shall come  pension of not if it takes all the mony I have gott  I cante write eny more now  The paper can tell you more news than I can wright  I donte no as you can read this  Helen I wante you to wright often as you can  Goodby for this time  Love to yo all from your Mother.

This pice is an apron that Em Rundle gave me  It is woorked a quarter of a yard deep in stars and checks  She made her mother one to.