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Updated June 27, 2002
Website owned by Randy and Toni Campbell. Randy is a
4-great-grandson of
William and Mary Collins Robey |
R. Campbell, ed.
Near Merriltown March 19th, 1870
Dear Nephew William:
Yours of the 22nds, last inst. received today. Am glad to know you
remember me occasionly. I have a bad cold now ti's difficult to talk, am
some better of it. My general health tolerable for my age (92). Asberry
and children, 4 in number are well. John brot me your letter is just from
home, all well ?? tolerably so. Your Aunt Mary departed this life the 29th
of October 69 after a long and painful sickness. She was born Jnay 16th
1791. Eliabeth Harrell's health is rather feeble. She has one son living
who is 15 years old. They live twelve miles west in this county near John's
have berried three children. Your great grandfather Fillip Moore once
lived in Washington County Maryland from which migrated to Fayette County, Pencilvania in 1780 and from thence to Ohio. She (his wifes) name was Nelly Evens. Names of sons viz. - Joseph, Phillip, Even John, Danniel, Amos. Daughters viz - Sarah, Elizabeth, Rachel, Nelly, Casumare. Your Great grandfather John Lewis was an Englishman and his wife a Welsh lady. They lived also in Maryland and emigrated to Kentucky probably, Henry county, theirs sons, - Thomas, Nathan, Levi. Daughters names, - your grandmother Jemima, Kesiah, Elizabeth , Sarah, Tabitha, by first wife. Second was Mrs. Ketchum. They had five, the oldest John, the rest I do not remember. Your grandfather Phillip & Uncle John went to look at the country in 1796 & moved their families to the mouth of big Scioto, April 1797. Your Pa was 5 years old at that time & I in my 20th year in which I remain ea a citizen for 37 years. I left Ohio in 34 and Illinois in Aprile 47 My daughter Mary Jane Died Sept. 1st of the same year in her 17th year & Thomas died the following month the 2nd of billious fevor in 27th year of his age. Asberry & Elizabeth narrowly escaped the same complaint. They all live on farms & are tillers of the soil. This county is infested with thieves & robbers more particularly since the late war. nearly all the good horses
are stolen & men are killed for two and halp in some instances. We have
had an open dry winter & the prospects are unfavorable for a good crop
year. fruit already killed. I had a letter from my Levi dated last month
which stated that his Cynthia & W.W's families, were all well except Almira
who had been sorely afflicted with carbuncle on left shoulder near the
spine but was doing well. If you Ma still lives, give her my respects as also all my friends & old acquaintances, and please write again full information of the Fugua family, who of them live & who are dead of them &c, &c, what you are all doing and any other matter that your judgment may dictate to instruct or interest me.
William Moore
Your great grand father Moore died in 1810 in his eighty fourth year. His
wife Ellenor Moore died in 1812. They & Sarah were berried back of the old
barn. Your own grandmother Moore died 1821 about Christmas time, in her sixty third year & grand father Phillip died Sept. 3rd 1823. Your Uncle
John died in 1840.
P.S.
Joseph's family
Phillip's family
This letter from William Robey, Jr. to his nephew, William Moore of
Scioto County, Ohio, is courtesy of Jennifer Urick, a descendant of
William Moore's brother, Enos Bascom Moore. R.C.
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