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 The Death of William Gleaves Jr.

  • » Date: 1811-04-22
  • » Subject: The Death of William Gleaves Jr.
  • » Written By: Gleaves, Peggy Finley (Mrs. William Gleaves, Jr.)
  • » Addressed To: William Gleaves Sr
  • » Transcriber: Holly Hook
  • » File # 9

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Hopkinsville Ky
Aprl 26
Virginia Wythe
Cnty

William Gleaves
in hast


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Aprile the 22. 1811
Dear father mother and friends with a Considerable degree of trouble and sorrow I have to inform you that your dear son and my dear husband has departed this life he was taken the tenth of aprile and died the seventeenth he was taken withe a puking and a Cramp in the breast and a pain in his righte side the evening before he died it moved to the left he was somewhat delerious twenty four ours before his last he still new all the neighbours it was the opinion of the Doctors that it was the pluresy in his sickness he was a reading in the bible the fourteenth Chapter of Saint john he toald me it was his desire that I should read it to his Children and his friends he left great Charges about his three children

NB he left all his business unsettled and how to manage I Dont no I want your advice to break up housekeeping with my children it seams hard one hundred dollars toward the land to bee paid it was oed last fall and the Docters to be paid and that is the cheap he oed he had cleared twelve acres after returned from Virginia and had it all redy for planting will (Will, a slave) has behaved very well since he came home but I am rather doutfull of him and Spence Asa says if  they wont do well of course the will have to be hired out and if that be the


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case there will have to be a sail to sell off the perishable stock we are all at this time well thank God hoping theas lines will fine you in the same case Asa and his family air well Easter has got very hevty and looks for a little won in august I want you to write to me what I had beast do It seems fortune has bean hard on my side all the satisfaction that I can see at this time is thinking that I will see you all this fall or some of you at least nothing more but remains your afectionate daughter till Death

Peggy Gleaves

Willliam Gleaves Elisabeth Gleaves

Remember me to Andrew Porter and
his family ,& Mrs Bell

Transcriber Notes

NB:

“Noto Bene” it means New Thought

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