Dear Childern
I take this opertunity to wright you a fiew lines to lett you no that

I am alive and well

Mary Elizabeth (GANOUNG) WOOD lives until 1901.

and I hope you ar the same   I havent had eny letter from you since the one you wrote of July 1   I have wrote you one since

the flood

The Johnstown Flood occurred on May 31, 1889.

but havent reseived eny from you   Why donte you wright   I will send you to dresses for

Tessie

Tessie Viola (STAGE) DARCY.

   I should have made them before but my machine shuttle has been broke   I had to go to Mrs MANs to make it   You can sew in the sleeves   Thay may be to long and to small around the neck   I will send them by maile   It will be the cheapest   I hav ben to

Kates

Sarah Katherine "Kate" (WOOD) Reynolds, Helen's sister.

and stayed a week   I went Saturday after the fourth and stayed till the next Saterday   She was sick like she was when thay lived whare Clint dose   I got a letter from Packer fore evidenc   I have got them and sent on   I donte no what way will send for next   I hope thay will send me a

pension

Mary's husband, my great-great-grandfather was Samuel T. WOOD.

• He died at the Soldier's Hospital in Elmira NY in 1866, my great-grandmother never knew her father.
• According to family lore ("family lore" equals first-hand stories from my mom and grandmother) the c.o.d. was after-effects of Civil War wounds.
• My gg-grandmother was on a quest to get a pension.   She never did.
• Samuel mustered in in Elmira in Feb. 25, 1865. He mustered out in Elmira in May 3, 1865.
• Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox on April 9, 1865. Is 1.5 mos. of service worth much pension?

  dont you  

Em TAYLOR and Ed

Emma (TAYLOR) RUNDEL and Ed RUNDEL. (also seen: RUNDELL, RUNDLE)

was maried last week   Helen I donte no what to wright tonight   Thair is so mutch nois and racket around the house   I donte no as you will like the way I have made Tessies dress   I had to make it all by gess    I think it will be pretty larg for her   Gramma would like to see her with it on   I have got my gray dress made last week.   Helen I wish you would wright oftener   I wante you to lett me no if you gett the dresses all right   Wright soon   from your mother

I will make a white bonet and send her in a week or bo by mail   Helen I wonte send the dresses today   I will sende them some time this week.