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 Jessey 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 Las 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 send 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 has a hors and would come after me if it come eny kinde off going but I cante stant 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 what 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 peper can tell you more news than I can wright I donted 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.