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To Florence & family Sunday april 4th 1939
Dear girl here I come to start a ans to your letter rec’d afew days ago dont no when I will get it finished for I am sick not hardly able to be up but you no how I am I have to be awfuly sic if I give up & go to bed but I have been in bed a lot with this sick spell been sick 2 months & been in bed about half the time I had a bad spell of flu & its left me sick with a weakness in my limbs & I am not liable to get over it all summer I had the flu once while I was in Oklahoma had it early in the spring & I never got over it till cold weather set in it affected my heart that time but this time it hasent my hears seems all right don’t bother me eny
but just weak in my limbs but I get out here & do a little work on my farm but cant stand much work I soon play out & have to quit & lay down I am in a tribl weaken condition but mabe I will get all right in time & since ive been sick I was robed of a lot of stuff 2 Indian women young women come here & just simply robed me I started once to get my gun but I thought whats the use there were 2 of them & me sick & weak they could overpower me & take the gun away from me mabe kill me so you see I couldn’t help myself they took 41 dollors & 85cts in silver & 4 fives & one dollor bill & my bed sheets 3 of them & 2 imbroiredered table spreads & 2 bed spreads & a couch cover & a nice linen lunch cloth
This is Monday morning got a boy here plowing for me going plant some seeds & try to raise a little something if I dident raise something to eat I would go hungry this new generation of humons is all selfish dont think of eny one but their self & they worship the dollor they don’t know theres a god that’s a stronger higher then man oh there is so much wickedness & sin & worldleness I don’t see how this old world stands it with all this tangle up mess but it’s the devils works & his time is limited & I am hoping & praying how soon the great battle of Armageddon will come then there will be a general cleaning up of this wickedness & sin & worldness & every thing made clean & fit for the ritcheous to live in peace & happiness what few there will be left
don’t think I am loosing my mind by riting like this for I no I have got a far seeing eye I can see this great cleaning up & it isent very far distent I will say in about twelve months mabe sooner & all that want to be saved had better turn all their thoughts to god & his son christ jesus now listen dear I don’t belong to no church for all the churches is corupt & the devil is ruleing all the churches with one exception the devil hasent got eny rule over the christian church & it’s the only true church & I am trying to live a christian life I am not worldy or selfish & I am not modern I hate all these modern things & worldly that’s the reason I got off here away from worldly things so I can live as near righte as god intended for me to live
Well enough of that you wouldn’t under me mo how so meny hasent got the understanding that they should have well if I could be with you alittle I could talk better then I can rite & you would understand me better well its rained all day & still raining & its night now & its turned pretty cool I had to build a little fire in my heater I had a nice mess of wild greens for my diner & ive got nice tender green onions & got letice almost big enough to eat & ive got 3 rows of potatoes planted they were my own potatoes I raised the early ohios I always try to get them the keep much better then the cobblers nearly one gets the cobblers they lose most of them they don’t keep they rot & they have to buy potatoes or do with
Well I must quit & get this letter off as I have 2 more letters to rite & it too muddy to undertake to walk to town it’s a long old walk for me as weak & no acount as I am so girlie if I have said eny thing in my letter to hurt your feelings please forgive me for I speak my mind say what I think I do that when I talk to eny one every one here know me for a plain spoken woman so hoping this finds you all well & doing well I am feeling a little better we sure had a rain & its cool so by by with love & best wishes for all from mother cole