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August 1852 Randolph Cty St Illinois Dear Brother I embrace the present opportunity of writing you a few lines after great great delays. I received yours of the 19th June We are all well at present and have been all summer except I was sick through wheat harvest your mother is here now and going to stay a week your folks were all well day before yesterday David's scolding like smoke because he's not getting no letters from you Long ago Emily wrote you were scolding. David wrote to you in June at which time I had a letter wrote but thought his would answer then and and he told me to scold for him i seen Emily's letter she though she would come home when her quarter was out but certainly there is as purty boys in Iowa as Illinois and it can't be manny thats the trouble her folks were all well two days ago harison staid with me to the first of august but town boys on a farm are clean out of their proper element but he is a good disposed boy old Squire Martin died this week of conjestive chills the cholera has been bad in grand cote prarie Jame Coulter went to st louis came home took the cholera got well but four of his sons died with it & J P Mcdill died at coulrens with it and buried without a coffin as was several of the rest the neighbourhood became so alarmed they would render no assistance
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August 1852 Randolph Cty St Illinois Dear Brother I embrace the present opportunity of writing you a few lines after great great delays. I received yours of the 19th June We are all well at present and have been all summer except I was sick through wheat harvest your mother is here now and going to stay a week your folks were all well day before yesterday David's scolding like smoke because he's not getting no letters from you Long ago Emily wrote you were scolding. David wrote to you in June at which time I had a letter wrote but thought his would answer then and and he told me to scold for him i seen Emily's letter she though she would come home when her quarter was out but certainly there is as purty boys in Iowa as Illinois and it can't be manny thats the trouble her folks were all well two days ago harison staid with me to the first of august but town boys on a farm are clean out of their proper element but he is a good disposed boy old Squire Martin died this week of conjestive chills the cholera has been bad in grand cote prarie Jame Coulter went to st louis came home took the cholera got well but four of his sons died with it & J P Mcdill died at coulrens with it and buried without a coffin as was several of the rest the neighbourhood became so alarmed they would render no assistance
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