Notes:
Letter from Elizabeth Portwood Arnold of Carroll
County, Georgia to her daughter and son-in-law, Elizabeth
Arnold O'Mary & Thomas Christmas O'Mary
of Winston County, Alabama.
Letter:
Georgia Carroll Co.
August the 3, 1871
Dear Son and Daughter,
i seat myself to rite you a few lines to let you no that i am as well as common
and i hope those few lines may come safe to hand and find you all well. i have
nothing new to rite. i want to see you all mity but time is hard hear. We had a
long dry spell but we have rain aplenty now and crops has come out and looks
verry well. The connection is all well. _____ and babe was down hear 2 week ago
and Doch and Catharine is hear now. They ar all well and doing well. i want to
see you all mity bad and i want you all to come and see me when you can. tell
John Tom and his wife i want to see them and want them to come and see me. tell
Susy and Georgia
an i want to see them myty bad. there is a good deal of sickness around hear
and som deth. linna is in bad helth and has bin mity low down but is better of now
tho never well. Susan Wilder baby is ded and she is verry low. it is ______.
Susan babe has another girl 3 month old. It is name Susan. (Aliph?) wheat crops
was mity good. i made 20 bushel and John made 20. Elizabeth i will send you the
____ that i have got about your pap and you keep it but let your children read
it. rite to me soon. so i will close. i remain your mother until deth. leya
foster sais she will send her phortograph before long.
Elizabeth Arnold
to Thomas & Elizabeth
Omary