| Letter to: Etta Simpson Meeks
From: Elizabeth Turner McCord Simpson April 1893 This letter has
been copied and pasted without any corrections to keep it original. |
| Well Etta I will try to tell you so
more about Florence Etta she had a quick time her baby was bornd about 2
o’clock and was over when the old woman came and I was in the dugout
washing and (a) dress it thought ever thing was all right but the after
bearth had not come away and the old woman made an examination and said it
was groad to the womb and as son (soon) as She made the exzmination
Florence began to faint a way and we wold wet her fore and she wold come
to Mr. Right started after the doctor as son as the old woman found out
that the after bearth had goan and he never got there untill about
daylight and Florence had bin ded just a few minnet when he got there but
she had quit fainting and got in a hep of misery and tod us she was dying
I told Florence she hade beter have a doctor at first but she would not
but the doctor said if he had bin there he cold (could) not saved her he
said the blood quit sirklation at the harte Etta we all new there was a
defect about Florence harte and all ways was that cased (caused) her
to have them fainty spells but it is all over now and she is at rest for
ever more Etta when the baby was born she said thank god and ask what it
was and I told her it was a boy and she said she wantet to se it and
her pa told her to waite a little bit and she cold se it and she never
said eny more about seeing it and we never thought anymore about shoing it
to her and she did and never got to se her sweet little boy baby.
Etta it dos not look a bit like the rest of the children it is a long baby
and has a fore shapet just like Florence and we talk of naiming him
Florence ruby Etta I can not find that hair of florences but I will kep
something that looks like her and sende to you as son as I am able and
have the money. Etta I must quit and go and git super and do up the
night work sow god by Etta for this time. This letter is from Florence Simpson’s mother telling her other daughter Etta how Florence died. Florence was my great grandmother. Spelling as was in letter. |
| Submitter-Ann Montalbano Wooten |