Robey Family

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William Robey to John Collins Robey, 1857

Note: This letter was written by William Robey to his son John Colllins Robey, his wife, Mariah Waite Robey, and daughter Fidelia Frances "Fannie" Robey, later Mrs. King. All were living in Travis County, Texas. Every effort was made to preserve the original spelling, grammar, and punctuation. R. Campbell, Ed.

January the 20th 1857

Dear John, Maria & Frances__I Seate my Sealf this windy morning to let you no that we have not forgot you and would be mutch better Sattisfyd if you was close by us again, So that we could have your Company again, but it seems as thoug our children is so Situated that they can't be near their parrents in their old age and infirmities. Well we have no other Remedy but to put up with what ever is our lot in this world of uncertainty.___We are giting quite feble and ove corse we need not to look for any thing els but being week and near the grave, according to the corse of nature. I am now advast in my 79th year two months and five days, and your Mother in her 66th year and four days.---we have both ben a Good deal unwell this winter with vary bad Colds and coughs, thoug at present as well as common__Asbury has not got very good helth this wintter thoug is plowing__has hired a black man of Norwood for Six months at 16 per month. Anne was put to bed on the 14th of this instent and has a fine Daughter. We hardly no who it favors yet, though its got vary black hear. I Recon it takes that from the Robey family. We name her after our Cynthia and Anne her Mother__so her name is Cynthia Ann. We have a vary poor kiling of hogs this winter. Our principle kiling hog did not git in the mast what little mast thare was and we got Some of them home poor. Thay could well be and are now trying to fat them but thay thrive vary slow__thay wer quite wild and kept down near Thomas Roe's__all Somer and there a nomber we have not got yet___

I scan your two old wild Barrows a while before the Plumes was Ripe on [Major?] Run late one Evening. I supposed they wer hardly fit to eate as no doubt they had feasted on dead cattle. They wore fat from affer. I have lookt for them this fall but never could find them. Jack Chearmon Said he Seen them a while after the [mast?] was gone lying in their bed, a little above Where Wm Bratton family lived. Thay run in the Brush down in the creek bottom, he didnt tell me of it til perhaps a month after they wold been good pork after giting the mast, I have lookt for them cence, but could not find them, and now they are poore as all other old hogs is so.___I have not Seen Emmy & [Bow?] for Some time though Robert Bratton Seen her not long ago. I think She will not die with Poverty. She was vary fat threw the Sumer___Dicky Blare was a looking for his Steer not long Since to kill but did not find him, the one he got of you, the twin--I got a letter from Asbury Waddell Stating that thay were well But his brother Levi had died last Somar with the tifoid fever and hemerage of bowels and that one of his Sisters and her husband had moved to Missouri, and that another of his Brother-in-laws had gone to the new territorys to attend the land Sales at fort Levensworth___and that he Asbury had to pay a security debt of his nabors over ten thousand Dollars and that he had a job of making 65 miles of Railroad at Six hundred thousand dollars and thought he would make two hundred thousand clear___I sent you Levi's Letters and Waddells by John. Your Mother and myself thinks of trying to come down in the Spring if nothing prevents us__we hope this lines will find you all in good helth and happy.

We subscribe ourselves your affectionate Parrents John Maria & Frances Robey, Wm & Mary Robey.