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 Grandmother very ill; have post office now; heavy rains & Cripple Creek flooding

  • » Date: 1840-06-05
  • » Subject: Grandmother very ill; have post office now; heavy rains & Cripple Creek flooding
  • » Written By: Major James Turk Gleaves Sr
  • » Addressed To: Dr. Samuel Crockett Gleaves
  • » Transcriber: Alice Hix
  • » File # 239

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Buffalo Ford Va
June the 5th, 1840

                                                                        Paid 10

 

                                    Mr. Samuel C. Gleaves
                                    Glade Spring {WashingtonCty
                                                                        Va


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                                    Buffalo Ford
                                                5th of June 1840

Dear Samuel

            I now take up my pen to let you know how we all are, not having anything else of importance to write, & believeing that you are at all times anxious to hear from us. Your old Grandmother is now very sick and has been for some time confined to her bed we have been looking several times for her last  I am satisfied without an alteration for the better she cannot survive many days,  She frequently asks for you & to know when you will be to see us and at times she thinks that is the month of August, knowing that the session will be out at that time,  I should be glad if she could see you but I dislike to ask you to leave college at this time as you might be thrown back in your class,  The rest of us enjoy good health  the little boys ask about you very often

            Cripple Creek was very high last week  it washed off a great deal of fence for us & I believe has injured almost every mile on the Creek  Swept Rosenbaums miller entire


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            We have got a post office established here  Wythe is postmaster  Mr. J. K. Bolton  Mr. Kents storekeeper assistant PM you can now direct your letters to this place.

            I have nothing new for you times are very hard here people oppressed for money

            Wheat crops very promising & rye of no account,  we have had so much rain lately that my corn is very foul

            I want you to write more frequently & let us know how your clothes do, we have some made for you which you can have by the first opportunity

                                                                                    Farewell
                                                                                    J. T. Gleaves
S C Gleaves

             PS Joseph Atkins just now told me that he seen you & that you were well
                                                                                    J. T. G.

Transcriber Notes

The old Grandmother, Elizabeth Turk Gleaves, died July 15, 1840

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