Letter #4 from Sarah "Sally" Willis Stirman 1858
August 4 (1858)
Dear Sarah. Your kind letter came to hand the day of the
Election. I was
pleased to hear you were well and doing well. We have had tight
______ in
our country this year______________to each other if one has two
meals to
divide with his neighbor. We never suffered for bread. The boys
went to
Shreveport and got_________ at five and _______flower is at the
present very
plentiful and corn crops are but middling. We had a_______
of very
dry_______. We should learn to be____ I have put off
writing longer then I
intended. I have stayed with Mason's wife since the middle of
March on the
twenty sixth of that month she gave birth to a daughter. She has
been good
part of the ___ since we hardly expected her to live. She now
appears like
recovering we have had some other sickness among us but all are
well at this
time we have a great Dr among us our Brother Kew____ he seldom
ever______
his patience more than one fever after he goes He is turning the
country
upside down as _____matters____preaches for us when his practice
will allow
of it he and Edwin is talking of visiting Lamar this fall if
circumstances
will admit them Edwin is riding preaching and Baptising almost
every meting
meting before last here he immersed five the last meting seven we
expect to
meet again____-day before the last____lords day in this
month I hope that
there will be more at that will bee added to the church tell Mary
Sixton
Wolf wife and oldest daughter are of the number. Also tell her
Sarah and
Emmerine were at ___Masons ______ they were all well they thought
their
children were taking the hooping Cough they are all complaining
and
wondering why you don't write__________ Clark and ____Mother
talked of going
to see you this first September He is fearful they won't go
oweing to their
cotton crops if they____ I expect to go with them. Tell
Mary_________letters and received no answer I am tired and
_______ so I
will stop. Give my best regards to Mr Skidmore and Mat and Pop
and all the
children I hope I my see them some time farwell for a while Your
Mother
Sarah Stirman
Transcribed as best as possible from a photocopy.
Spelling and punctuation
have not been changed.
Angela
Jewell
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