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Piedmont
august the 26 1880
My ever Dear Sister
I received yours and ed
letter a few minets ago and hast
to reply but I am to nervis to
right this morning for I am So
mad to think that ed new our
condition when he left home
and I thought he went to try
to help u and he has never sent
me a sent yet. Now geet, I want
you to tel eddie that I say he
has to come home or go to work
and you tel the man that he
works for not to pay his wages
to him. If he dos I will make
him pay it over to me for I
am not going to put up with
him any longer. Het and chart
[p. 2]
has to give all they make to us
and het is a man. Tel ed if
he could just ^see het and how
he works and he has to come home
and I can get him something
to do here now. I am not fooling
about it. I am so sorrow to hear
you are sick and wish I was
cloce to you so I could help
you but wee are in such a
poore condition at this time that
I cant come. Mr. thomas is better
now but was very sick all
last weak. Is going some where
next weak to make something.
I could not tel you how I
have had it in the last three
years but my health is right
good only I am weak this sum
mer but I have so much truble
[p. 3]
that it keeps me weak. For ed
cases me a great deel of truble
and will never right to me any
more but he is his one man but
ed is not and I want him
to come right home and I find
Something for him to do. Their
is plenty of here that he can
get to do. If he has any money
coming to him pleas tel mr
fry to pleas see that he gets
it and send him home. If
he don’t come I will walk
down their and see about
him for I am allmost crasy
now and cant wait til
I here from you again. I
will thank you to right to
me about him Geet if I could
get you one of the girls I would
send one of them to help you.
I will come if I can but if
mr. thomas gose I cant come. I
[p. 4]
move up their to live if I
could get their but if I
would part with what wee
have I am afraid I could not
get any more. Perhaps mr. thomas
will get in to something soon
that he can do better. If he dos
I am coming to see you this fall.
I hope you will get better soon.
Take as good care of your self as you
can. I will have to close for the
presant. All join me in love to you
all. Right very soon. As ever your
devoted sister. Right soon.
Molley M. Thomas
Dear son I received your letter
and was glad to hear from you
but sorrow that you had no
money to send me. If you new
how bad I needed money last
weak you would work and try
and send us something. Now I want
you to get your money if you
[letter incomplete]
[p. 5]
April the 21
1884
Veweretion
Dear Jiney i recken you tho
raugt that i had forgoten you
i hve not. It has bin so long sence
i rote to you. I am ashame of my
selfe but you must excuse me this
time and i will do better in the
futer. I am in tolerbel helth at
this time. Susan is not well
at this time She has not bin well
this winter. I hope when you get
this it may finde you and famely
in good helth and Doing well. It
has bin the werst spring for wet
and cold i ever seen and thare has
bin a grate del of sicknes and a grate
many deaths in ouer naberhood. It
is some helther now. Jiney i have
not bin to bridgwater for a yeare.
I am going down i a few weake. Tha
are all wel at this time. Times are
hard here. At thise time every thing
is scarce and high corne is from
seventy to 80 cents per bushel and very
scarse. Wheat i plenty at one dollar
per bushel. Jiney i think if
nothing hapens i will come to
see you this fall if i am spared
but i cannot tell what may
hapen. I wold be the gladest to see
you al but gods will be Done.
I am trusting in him. He nowse
best if i live til the twenty secken
day of june. I will be seventy eight
yeares old. Let us try to get to
heven whare parting will be no more
for ever more. Jiney you and mr
frye come to see me and bring
the childre wih you. Me and susan
want to see you and talk with
you and mr. Frye. Jiney rite as soon
as you get this and let me no how
you ^ all are now. Don’t make it so long.
I want to heare from you. Rite
to me if you no whare mary is.
Sende me her address. Susan joines
me in love to you and [strikethrough illegible]
[p. 6]
wishing you all the good luck.
Excuse my bad righting my hand
trembles so i cant scarcley rite
no more at this time but remane
yore loving father
A. F. Hatfield
to
Jiney Frye
[p. 7]
Mckeesport Pa
Oct the 30 1884
Dear Sister
After a long delay
I have at last taken my Seat
to ancer your kind and welcome
letter that I received So long
ago and thought I would
ancer it right away but mr
thomas Sent for me to move and
I had So much to do. Then I
could not and I thought I would
right as Soon as I got moved.
So after I got her I was taken
Sick and could not have. I
am better and I will right
and let you know whear
I am. I in mckeesport living
in a brick house with five
[p. 8]
large rooms in it and have
ever thing very nice. Mr. thomas
was here a year before I came
and ^had ever thing nice for us
when wee got here. I hated
to leave P. very much but
mr. thomas could not get along
their and here he has plenty
to do and is getting along fine
and I must tel you that I
have it good for the girls dose
all the work. I don’t do nothing
but Sew. I have quilted three
quilts since I have bin here
This is a large city and a
very pretty place but the people
are So Strange to us yet I have
had severle calls. Have not
bin out much yet I see So
much and hear So much that
I dont care for going out. Their
is so much going on here no
[p. 9]
one can get lonesom. I wish
you could come to see me.
I gess it wont be so lively after
the election. The democrats have
a big turn out here to night.
Well I must tel you the tube
tube works i right in front
of our house and they work
too thousand hands in it.
Ed and charley work their.
Ed bords at home. Is quite a
differant boy to what he
uste to be. Hurston and his
wife was at home. Stade six
weaks. Is working about five
miles from here and is bording
yet is going to housekeeping
soon. Well you wanted to know
when you should meet me.
I cant come this winter but
if I live til spring I am coming
[p. 10]
[? ] [?]
[?]
and then I can stay as long
as I want to and then I am
going up to see pappy if he
is living yet. Do you ever
hear from him. Right to me
as soon as you get this and
let me know if he is living
yet. I am going to have my pictur
taken soon and send you
one by the next time I right.
My famley are all most grone
up and I have but very few
gray hairs in my head. I have
taken too trips on the steam
boat since I have bin here. They
are landing here all the thime.
Wee live 14 miles from pitsburg.
We pay 18 dollars a month rent.
Ever thing is right cheap but rent.
[p. 11]
Va
Bridgewater Rockingham Co
Ap 29th 188[6?]
Dear sister & Brother
I take pleasure
in writing to you after so long a delay.
I feel asshame of not writing sooner.
We often talk of writing when I first
got home but something would come
in the way up to this time I though
of writing Last sunday when company
came in so to day I thought I [missing]
try and let you hear frome our
We ar well. A usel have some colds.
When I Reach home I suffered
very much with a misery in my
head for severl weeks. I think I
must of taking cold. I hope when
this reaches you it will find you
all well. I seen coot Fry. She was
[p. 12]
glad to hear from you and all
the folks that new you, sister.
Bet sed she was going to write
to you. I havent hered from sister
Jane since I have bin home. I hered
that mrs. scott had bin very sick.
I wanted to go down to see them
but I reckon I wont get down
as I am very bisey to get redy
to go back to columbus. I think
[missing]ing back abut the 8th or 10th
of May so it will keep me buisey
to get redy. My folks ar not going
withe me as we cant sell our
property. They think it better to
stay and take care of the property
as renters never take care of
property as you would your self.
Old aunt salley williamson dyed
[p. 13]
Mr. P. M. D. Hatfield
Bridgewater Va
since I have bin home with
olde age. Ther is some cases of
measels in town. Other ways the
health is very good. The most
we have to contend with is hard
times. I have never seen sutch times
in bridgewater in my life in
the way of money maters. We have
plenty of ever think to live on
but know money hardly to get
it with. I want to go when I can
get money for my work. I dont
think I can stop off to see you all
as I will get a ticket [missing]
cant stop off. I would like
very much to stop to see you.
I want you to write to me as soon
as you get this so I can hear
from you before I start west. We
wrote to sister Mary and have
hered from her. They was all
well. I also wrote to brother
[p. 14]
Mr. P.M. D. Hatfield
hirriam and hered from him
and famley. They was all well
exsept his wife. She is still
in bad health. I think from what
he writs they are doing very well.
When you write let me hear how
you like your new home and
how you ar geting a long with
yor spring work. I guess you
ar redy to plant corn by this
time. I have my garden redy to plant.
Have all of my potatoes planted and
peas up. Wheat is looking well with
[missing] thing is looking nice considering
a cold spring up to the last fiew
days. I will give you hirriams address
Ligon Bartow county Ga
I wrote and give him yor address after I
got home. Give the children my best
wishes and to be good boys and girls
Love from all to all
Yors ever – P.M. D. Hatfield
[illegible note written across pages 13 and 14]
[p. 15]
[upside down]
you direct yor letter to
columbus Ohio
no 39 Rich street
in car of Mrs. M.I. Place
Columbus Ohio
July 1st 1888
Dear Sister & Brother
I take
pleasure this butiful Sunday
nigh in writing to you after
so long delay. I have bin thinking
of writing every since I have bin
out her – but something would
come in the way so this eving
I though I would let you hear
from me once more. This leaves
me well and harty. I hered
from home. Last week they
ware all well. No news exsept
Willey Lindsey died last monday
the twenty 25th fifth. The second son
of Jacob Lindsey. And they have
a good seasen as I guess you have.
[p. 16]
I left home on Thursday the
24th of May and would have
liked to stop off and sean
you all, but as I dident get
started as soon as I counted
on and the ticket I got I
couldent stop off. I come out
on nine dollars and seventy
five cents. The reasent I dident
get started sooner was on the
count of so much rain I couldent
get threw with my work I
had to do at home. When I
got to Harpers Fery I took the
rong train one ging by the
way of Parkersburg. I stop[ed?]
off at cumberland for the
nex train and that one
was going to columbus but
was ging by the way of pitts=
burg. The conducter sed I could
[p. 17]
go on that train as
well as wait for the nex train
as I would get to columbus
as soon as to waid for the
nex train, so I went over the
same road I came home
threw MCKeesport saw Mary
house but couldent see any
of them and dident see
any one I new at the depot
so I went on with out leaving
any word as I couldent stop
off. If I had it would have
cost me six dollars and
fifty cents more. I could hardly
think of pasing by and not
stoping to see them when I
was in site of there house
but we cant do as wee would
Like to do at all times so when
I reach columbus I wrote to
Mary and told her that I past
[p. 18]
by and couldent stop to see
her. When I wrote to you I
dont know wheather I wrote
Herriams Last address or
not. if you haven’t hered from
him yet since I was to see
you, you direct yor Letter
to Ligon, Bartow county, ga
We got a letter from him a short
time be fore I Left home and
I hve fergoten wheather I give
you his Last address or not.
Now I want you and brother
Fry to write to me as soon
as you can and Let me know
how you ar get a long. Tell
the childring I would like
to se them all. I wrote to Mary to go
to see Mat & Ida to go by and take you
a long this summer. love to all
from yor Brother P.M. D. Hatfield
[p. 19]
McKeesport Pa
Dec the 1889
Dear Sister and famley
This is Sunday night and I am
so lonly and I will try and
right to you. Wee received your
kind letter and was so glad
to hear from you but so
sorrow to hear from you was
all sick. Hope you are all
well again. Well I can tel
you wee are not all well.
Blanche and anna was
both sick and the docter
tending them last week
but are both better now.
Blanch has not bin out
yet. Anna was up home
to day but is not well
[p. 20]
and I am affraid She never
will be. She takes it so
hard about her pa. Wee
could hardly keep her A
live the morning he died.
Oh geet it is so hard to
think he cant come in
any more. This will be A
sad christmas to us. Wee
was going to send the
chirldren all something but
have to much truble but
will send them something
some of these day. Tel them
I hope they will have
A nice time but wee
have so much truble I
dont know what to do.
Geet I wish I had not
kiss all the chirldren for me
[p. 21]
gone away this summer
and stade so long from
him. He was so proud when
I got home. I was not home
A month when he died.
They had A letter from
angie while I was gone
She said john had lost
their daughter lillie. I guess
you have herd it before
this. I had a letter from
mack and one from bet.
They are all well but
will has come home and
his hand is so bad that
bet dont know if she
can go to see you or not.
She said annie had A
letter from cora and jane
is better. Henry is over
their with them I hope
he will get well and come
[p. 22]
see us. Oh if I could only
see you and have a talk
with you I could feel better.
I did not have much time
to talk to my dear old
man after I got home as
he was taken sick so soon.
Anna rote to me when I
was in Piedmont that pa
was looking so bad but
I thought she just wanted
me to come home and then
he rote to me while I was
at hets to hury home so
I went home as soon as I
could and I saw he was
failing as soon as I saw
him but did not think
he would go so soon but
oh he is gone and I cant
get over it. Well I will
close for this time as it is
geting late. Wee have three
[Written vertically at top of pages 19 and 20]
borders and
will have
to do the best
wee can.
Charley will
stay with
me. He is A
good boy. Wee
will not
move til
Spring. I
dont know
where
wee will
move to.
Rent is
so hy here.
I would
come up
the vally
if charley
had any
thing to
do but
I will
have to
stay here
a while
and then
mavy
I will
come.
All join
me in
love as
ever your
loving
Sister
Mary M
Thomas
right soon
[p. 23]
Bridgewater Pa
Nov 17th. 1890.
Dear Sister
I will try to right
to answer your kind and welcom
letter whitch I received sume
time ago and was so glad to
hear from you againe. Your letter
found me well but Annie is not
well. She was real sick to day
an both of the boys are at home
with me know. Willie hand is
sume better but not well yet.
We thought that it wold hafto
come of but I think that we
can saive it yet for him. Brother
is well know and Geet I have
bucherd but I can not tell you
when I will get to come to see
you for both of the boys bing
[p. 24]
at home now will keep me from
coming this winter Brother he
pays me twelve dollers a mount
forde but he talk of leaving after
Christmas and Willie takes of
taking a telegraph office in
Staunton. He is lurning to be
and Operator becous he has only
one hand and if bouth of the
boys do leave me you may look
Annie and I but I expect
that you will wish that I
had not come for I entend
to give you a long stay. Get
all the work you can and I
will help you if Coot comes
allong she is only going to stay
a cuple of day ore so and she
said to tell you that she ante
puled her breath yet and
Geet thear is no news to write.
Thear has bin no death but
Old Uncle Bob Haring and
[p. 25]
Old Aunt Mary Bunday colord
Bridgewater has bin verry helthy
for the last to years and I am
glad to hear that the girls are
well now and that you are
well. You must take good care
of your self. Mack is at Roanoke
City now. We have not heard
from Jaine for sume time
and I have sow so mutch for
other peple that I have not
dun my sowing yet. I got Annie’s
winter close last week. Tell Sudie
annie sends her a peice of her
wosterd dres and a pies of
her calaco to and tell Harry
that he must taik good care
of his pup and be sure
and not let it bit her when
she comes. Well I must close
for this time write sunr.
We all send our love to all
Ever your loving Sister Bettie
[p. 26]
PS pleas excuse this writing as
I cannot find a good pen.
B
Annie dont get scaired at this
little peces but we have
not cut our casmer dresses
yet. When I come I will
bring you sume peces big
enuf to put in a crilt.
your little neice
Olive