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Punxsutawney Jefferson Co
Aprl the 16 1866
Miss Geat Der sistter
I Seat my Self this Butiful Sabbeth
Morning to ancer your Welcom letter
that Came to hand on the first day
of Aprel and was Pleas to here from
you Both. I Just State that we ar
all wel but Mollie is Still grunting
A Round. have Nutthing of Enny
importance to Rite to you at Present.
I have delaid Riting or Ancering
you Letter hoping you will be Kind
A Nuff to Parden Me. We ar doing
verry wel at Present time. I am
going to Commence bissness in
the Plase where we move to this
Spring. Hoping that Mollie will
Get wel a gane and you get
here you and h hur will have
A Jollie time
Moll thinks that As She hase
bin Sick So long that she can
Com aff after you As I can be
making Somthing While She is
gon after you. Sow if She gets
Wel you May Expect to See her
in Verginna with her littel
yankkee daughter.
Wel I Expected you to have bin
here be fore now but you now the
Reasenes whigh I did not come.
I thought from your last letter that
you was Som what in Clind to
be impacint. I have felt un
plesent a bout it. I hop you wil
not decline the [Rider?] of coming.
Mollie Ses that you Must Hold on
to your yankee Preasher till She
Comes to Verginnie. Wel yet I
think that is a [?] Spirrit to
Manufest for all Mallis and hatred
Should be Exturminated from our
harts
I feel that the Cheaf
Magistrat of this [a?] N Stats
Wil Work for the intrest of His Peepel
his Corse has bin Regard as a
prudent Corse. Yet if I am in
Yankeedom I dont approve of ther
Corse in Evry thing they do in
State a farse. I am a demacrat and
Proud of the Name. and ther is plenty
of them here. and in Corse of time
the Repubcun Partee will be a Shame
of ther Sl Seles the Name of the
Partee. Thay will be lik the
Nownuthing in time past will
be glad to Secret them selevs
and in obcurity for Ever.
Wel I get a long fine with the peepel
out here for all the difrence of opinion
I love to live her fine fine I think
You wold lik it to if you
was here ther is a grat Meny
of our quntent wold be pleas
to See you.
Nothing More for the Present
give my love to all my
frends and reserve a porsion
of it for your Self
ancer this soon as you
get it Sow I may may
Here from you all
Your Bruther in love
J. W. Thomas
PunxSutawney Jefferson Co Pa
August 19 1866
My Dear Sister
I ocupy My Self this Morning to Rite to
you for the last time in till you ancer this
Letter. I cant not inder Stand Whigh it
is that our Corrospondance is Stopt for
a While you Have not ancer My last
Letter that I Ritten to you and you
Must assine Good Reasens for it Sister
or no apoligee will ancer in your case
unless your ded then that is the only thing
that Can Save you in this case but it
is sumthing Strange that you Have not
ancer our letter if you Have Reseve them
an Evin if you did not you mite of
Ritten to us Enny Way for the cumfurt
of Hearing from you all, and Mack
Has not Ritten Ether and if neather
one of you cant Rase Money Enuf
I send you som for to Pay Postage
[Jenta?] I Have Ran to Postoffice till
I Have gotten tiurd of as[k]ing for
letter from you. our Postmaster told me
the last male day that you Had forcaken
us for he held all your letters from
Evry body Els he Ses that is the
best Hand Riting that comes to
this office. of the feemale Espesally
Well Geat I Have nuthing of Enny
importance to Rite to you at Present time
the Helth of our family is good but
Mollie Helth is Verry bad. She is
coming back in a bout Six
Weeks Just as soon as she can
get Redy for to com back for this
Conttry dos not a gree with Her.
She seames to be leaving Her life
By inches in the last few monts.
I Shal do all I can to Render Comfort
and Hapiness While I Have Her[.] Geat
You now I Have bin good to your
Sister. While She Has bin my
companion.
I going to Stay till Spring Till I
Settel up [strikethrough] my bisness then I aming
back to ther if nuthing Happenes
for if I live I Have Somthing a Hed
then I am Going Settel My Self
for life Som whare for I am geting
tiurd this Moving a bout so mush
though I had mony Here. this time
of the year is the time to make mony
Here[.] Sow I want to stay till Spring
and locked up my bisness till then
and make all i can till that time
for bound to Settel in old Vergina
if life lasts. though I do not Regret
Coming Here a taal nor she dont Ether
but that [Relase?] thay call P Chears
Her [fan?]ted Spirit up but yet I
Must Say that name sonds [?]eat to
Me though if the Peepel Has not
Shoune me that tribbut of Respect
that thay Shoud in time Rust
I often think of the Fact ther is a
ther is a Plase where [Serits?]
blend Wher frends Hole V
Hold fella ship with frends
though Sonder far By fath thery
ment a Round ona Common
murcy Seat, I Have a Hop
of meeting you all a gane
Sister Geat fase to fase it seems
Hard to be Separated from you
all and Mollie Heth is So bad
that I think She Had better
Go back A mong Her frends
and as Soon as I get my
bisness Settel up I com to
Nuthing is mor comfitable
then to be comfitable and
Happy. My bushes is gring fine
the Girl is So Hansom and yet
you may now I love Her
Now Geat ancer this letter
Soon as you get this do not
de lay it befor She Starts Home
nuthing more
[right margin]
Your afficate Bruther J W Thomas
Co Pa
Punxsatawny Jefferson
Oct the 7 1866
My Dear Sister
i Sister I Seat my Self to Rite
to you a gane I Should Like to now
What is the Reason that you dont
Rite to us Enny more. it is Somthing
strang indeede. Whe Have bin
Wating Pasionly for a ancer from you
to now if you ar Coming or Not.
Mollie Had Concluded to Com but
thought that She cold not make the
[Jount?] with Her Chailddren I thoug
ht it a Rong Move for Her to start
By Her Self to Vergina. So She
Has Concluded to Stay till Spring
and we all go to gether but
We Want you to Com if you
Have Concluded or desided what
to do in this case. the mony is
Redy for you E Enny
time you Want to Com out Here
if We are Coming that is no
Reason that you do not Com
out to See us and the Country.
We got a letter from Jane not long
Senes. Mollie is ancering that today
and I thought that I cold Rite to
You once more for the last time
and in form you that we live in
Regret. Now Geat I want you to
ancer this letter and till us what you
are a going to do if you ar coming
Say So if you are going to Stay say
so. Sow we will be Satisfide in
this Matter. We Have com to the
Conclusion that Your mad at us
or Somthing is in the wind that we[re?]
not of I Resevd a Paper from
Som of you I thought it strang that
ther was no letter with it I Suppose that
Mack Sent this letter Paper to me
as I Sent Him one of Mine.
Wel Geat We are all Well at Present
time but My Self I Have a bad Cold
our Children ar Helthee and Mollie
Health is geting better then it was
the last time I Ritten to you. Perhaps
the Reason you did not Rite you was
Wating for Mollie to com. if you
Have that as your Excuse you ar
Excusihed. We Shal stay till Spring
then we are going to leave Here to Hunt
a Home in our Suthren Sole. We want
you to com out if you can as Have
told you the Mony is Redy for you
if Mack sent this Paper tell Him to
Send me that. and if you com i
Express the Mony With yours.
and if you do not com I Send
it in the Se Same Way to Him.
Now Geat ancer this letter Rite
off sow if you ar going to com
you may com before cold
Wether comes.
Nuthing More at Present
but Remane your
Frend un till deth
J W Thomas
Dear Geet as Mr. Thomas
has to you I thought I would
rite a few lines to you wee
have writen so often and you
wont right to and why is
it are you mad at us or
have you not time. I think
you would have more time
to right than me for my
little babys are so much truble
well are all well at presant
but petty he is complaining
to day o geet you ought to
see my too sweat little pets
Edy and Willie is going to
school and Chirstan has pants on
to day and you ought to see him
give my love to all MM Thomas
you must come soon / right soon / as you get [along margin] this [at top of page]
March the 24
Cass Countie Ga Near
Kingston 3 1/2 miles
Dear Sister
it is with the gratest plesure that I write to you
this plesant Sabeth morning to let you no
that I am well and in fine Spirits and truly
hop that when thies few lines comes to hand
tha will finde you and Jane. Henry, Ginny is
in the best of helth. Well Sister I supose
you think that it is a long time be fore I write
but wee did not get here untill laste Sunday
night and I tell you that we had a hard time
a geting here wee had to [la?] over So often on the
accounte of the high water and the bridges being wash
a way and the Slides in the roads. Geet you talk of
going to Maries by your Self but if you meat with
the diffaculties that I did you will not get there
but if you take my advise you will not Starte a lone
but if Thomas donte come after you this Summer and
if I donte like this plase I will go with come to Va
this April and go with you out there and if I like
this plase I will com after you and Bring you out here
I think this plase will be the plase for me for it is
Sertanly the holliest parte of the World I Saw
to Dr Harris and he ses it is the helthiest part
of the Cuntry that he ever lived in. I went to worke
laste tusday morning wee are working in the woods
at a Steam Sawmill and there is lots of virgin
here and wee are Bording with a olde man that
lived near Palls Mill by the name of
Smith. it is not lonsom here altho there is
not much of a [Siler?] here but it is more
lively in town wee will get the house framed
this week and the [?] will moove nearer
town and wee will worke there three or four
months well Sister I will stop when you
write to mollie giv my love to them all
my love to you all rite soon and tell
me all the nuse and tell mee Where Dan
Bowers is and whether he has took up with
his wife
nothing more pleas excuse this
bad writing for I am out of practis
your brother
Hilie E. Hatfield
to Geat
Kingston
Cass Countie
Ga
1867 August the 16
Kingston Cass Countey
Ga
Dear Sister I seate my Self
this beautiful Sabeth morning to let you no that
I am now a little beter this morning Since I
rote you the laste leter I hav ben Sick and hav
bin worse of[f] then the firste time but think
I am impruvin a gain[.] I wente to Church last Sunday
with Maj Archer and the girls and had a Chill at the
Church and Stoped at Cass Mill and rested a while and
then we came home and a thursday had nother I
think I hav get them Stoped at the presant if I can
keepe them Stoped tho I Sertainly hav a Splendid
plase to and hav the best of attention I think I will
Soon be abel to worke[.] it goes harde with me
to do nothing but we will take every thing
Chearful and Not complain Sister I hope you
Will getalong beter then you hav bin geting a longe I will
do all I can for you but I am far from you and
donte no what will befall me but I hope I will
hav god helth and if I do I will try and com
to (Va) the fall 1868 [box around "1868"] I like this plase so well
but hav bin Sick but A persin is liable to get Sick
eny where[.] Geate I wish you and Mollie and thomas
was out here and then I woulde be So hapey but I
hope we will meete Some time be fore longe[.] tell
Mollie that I woulde like to See Her famley s[o]much
tell Eddie to be a good boy and I will come to see him
Geet the Widow has gon to abaptising and lefte
me at home[.] there is grate revivle a goin on at a
plase in the Sevingteenth called Masadonie I am
not able to go to day but I hope I will be
well in a Shorte time to go with her
Well Sister I will Stop for I am so weak that
I haf to Stop so often
Geat the Widow Ses She was going to
rite a Shorte peas to you and you muste be Shore and
ancer it Sister I donte no whether to ende this
to Newtown or to Bh [encircled] but I gess you will get it
So I will Stop my love to you
all [rite] Soon and tell me all
the news
Yours truley
[Hilie] E. Hatfield
pleas excuse the bad
riting