September 29, l882
Mr. James A Lee yours
of the 26th is at hand and contents noted your corn will do to gether next
weeks the fence is Bad the stock is trying to Eat it up it takes one hand
all the time to keep them out we must fix a place to put the corn if you
can fetch A load of post it would help as the old post is getting Rotten
and Braking off if you want me to get lumber to fix the job rite immediately
we had to stop work on acount of the chills the Buoys ar all sick with
chills .
Martha had one good chill she is up now the cotten is getting white let
me no what to do I can hire some hands to pick Martha says to tell Jo I
would come and see him But the children is sick I do not no when I can
get off I herd that charye was sick I wold Be glad to hear from him I will
close for this time hoping to hear from
you soon
JJ McDonald
March 23rd, 1883
Dillards Creek Smith
Co
Mr J A Lee dear cosin
I re ceived your kinde
and well come letter. was glad to here from you and no that you waas all
well. This leaves us all well and the connection well as far as I
no. helh is verry good with us except Bad colds that is jeneral with
the people of this country now the sudent changes that we air have ing
now is some thing uncommon for our country The 19th snow, 20 warm
the 21 snow 22 warm. 23 snow. we have had a longdry spell with the
exception of our Snow.
Jim we have a dull prospect for a crop the bad weather has got every
body be hinde the wheat crop look sarryer than I ever saw it
at this time of the
year in my life it doesent look like we will make enny at all. Jim
ever thing is verry high at this time. Stockis very high as you can
see from looking over the the prices I will gave you oxens is worth from
$15 to $100 Milk cows worth $35 to 421/2 nothing in the way of calvs
under $10. mules from $125 150 horses
from from $100 to 150
hogs shotes from 25 lbs up 5 cts per lb. bacon 15 cts per lb
corn 43 cts per bushel Wheat $1.00 per bushel. I have got 80
bushels of wheat at nashville and about 9.50 bushels of corn on the river
ready to ship and I hope it will go up some by thetime I get it in market.
Jim I sent Billey & franses a littlecorn and told them to divide it
with you as it was a fard corn. you can go or send down and get it
and if you don’t want to plant it you can gave it to Cosin Mary, and lat
her plant it.
Jim you Cam tell Franses & Billey that they need not be afraid of my
comeing to Texes as I am going to bild me a house here this Spring, and
I don’t expect to see Texes but onst mor and that will be after Rufus Apple
if he don’t pay that 25dollars he promise to pay when I was there.
There is 5 of us that has paid now for the last
few days 13 dollars
a piece for him and if he dont pay me 25 dollars I am going to come after
him Shore
Jim I want to no whir cosin John McDonalds post office is I have
rote to him and got no answer from him I don’t no whir I rote to
the rite place or not. Jim whir is Stant and all of his boys, whir
doo they all live now, So I must close by saying rite soon and oblige.
excuse bad riten & spelling
Yours
W.E. Elrod
White Bead
May the 15 1886
Dear brother and sister
I seat myself this eaving to wright you a few lines to let you no that
we are all well and hope when this fiew lines comes to hand they will find
you all well and doing well well Jim I will tell you how crops is
here they look fine I will lay by my corn next weke ore the next
oure cotten lookes vere well we have got 20 young calvs and a good many
to come yet and we andwe los 13 head of ours we had that many to dye and
the cattleI got fore my place I had a heap of them to dye the cattle is
nerly fat here the grass is half knee hagh to the cattle nerly every boddy
is ordid out that has got cattle but them has got pasturs rented I rented
one a pasture and
have got my cattlein
it they hant bothered me so fere cattle has gone down to10 dollrs a head
they say they will take a rise and if they doo I will sell of mine and
pay yo off. I sold my mules and bugy
and thought I wold get to pay you both but I had to by corn to
feed the cattle one I bought 7 hunted bushels of corn an feed to
them it was sutch a hard winter we was in luck to not loose no more
than we did I am a going to try sell my filley and if I do I will
be down in six ore 7 weeks an pay you Jim
I wold like fere you and mary to come up an see ous you like up here
we have deer and turkey every week ore toowhen we go a hunting we eve can
here the turkey everymoring a gobbing when we get up well mary Martha
is not a
home she is gone to get a little girl that was give to ous it father and
mother is both dead and it is just a five years old they is
fore of them three little boys and that little girl they boys all had homes
so nothing moore at present only rite soon and often from John McDonald
to J A Lee and M M Lee
Robberson IT
March 1, 1899
Dear Brother & Sister
I seat myself to your
kind and ---?---letter which received afew days ago and I was glad to hear
that you all was well. your letter found us all well, but was sorrow to
hear thatPink and Mr.Davis was dead. all of the connection is wellas
far as I know
there has bin several
deaths up here I amnow at present at Lizzies. Liz has a fine boy born on
the13 they named him Dewey we make our home at Franks and Mags Wilse and
Fanny and Tut moved off and I have never heard from them Had lives on Mr
Winters place he is making a crop this year we heard from the Cheyenne
and Wall
Movre killed Jeff Williams
and another won and wounded Gorden and mad his escape and Gorden is expected
to die we havehad a terrible hardwinter up here and several people froze
todeath, John and I aimed to come down there a christmas and it was so
cold that we could not come I would got to have seen Pink if have got to
come we are coming just as soon as we possible can Jim you are liable to
see Wilse there any day.
Marry Tom Martin and Mollie has got a girl baby she named it Mattie May
they have to sit up with Bethy because she is called Grandma Jim I want
you to write to me where they burried Pink at and whether her children
were all there or not and tell who all of your children is living
and how MarryJames children are getting along and tell them all to write
to me
tell John and Manely to write to me I would like to reada letter from them.
Marry it would be more satisfaction to me to talk with you than to write.
Marry you havent wrote to me in 4 or 5 years.Jim John aint here and dont
know what to write for him but he wants you to write to him he has bin
in better health this year than he has bin for a long time. Liz said
she would write to you all as soon as she gets able
Marry Suse has quit
writing to me it has bin a year sice I heard from her I cant think of any
more to write when I come I will tell you all a bout it so I will
close for this time Write soon and oftenYours True Bro & Sister
John & Martha Mc (McDonald)
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