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Eno Family Papers, 1839-1889
1864-08-22 Page 2
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on us. he says he has written to you again and again and got no answer untill he gave up discouraged he was thrown from a buggy and injured very severely and was sick in the hospilte three months and but just regained his health. he wished me to go to the Ladies relief society and get the mementoes Carrie left. Rogers got a buggy and we went out and got them. I assure you I never witnessed such grief I sincerely hope I may never again to see a strong self reliant man so completely broken in spirit was a sad sight. When he opened a little box with her handkerchiefs just as she placed them and watch (a trinket) and in one corner a lock of her hair it seemed as if for a few moments his heart must break. I found myself repeating this passage. Surley a little child will leade him and [illegible] if the remembrance
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on us. he says he has written to you again and again and got no answer untill he gave up discouraged he was thrown from a buggy and injured very severely and was sick in the hospilte three months and but just regained his health. he wished me to go to the Ladies relief society and get the mementoes Carrie left. Rogers got a buggy and we went out and got them. I assure you I never witnessed such grief I sincerely hope I may never again to see a strong self reliant man so completely broken in spirit was a sad sight. When he opened a little box with her handkerchiefs just as she placed them and watch (a trinket) and in one corner a lock of her hair it seemed as if for a few moments his heart must break. I found myself repeating this passage. Surley a little child will leade him and [illegible] if the remembrance
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