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Envelope: | None could be found |
Sender: | Mary Gibbons [See
Mary Gibbons in Guide to
Individuals]
sender identified via similarity in handwriting and seal |
Recipient: | Not certain at this time |
Date Written: | September 27, 1862 |
Location: | Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, Rockingham County |
Surnames mentioned: | Gibbons, Harnsberger, Leech, Maggart, Sellers, White, Yancey |
Locations mentioned: | Harrisonburg, McGaheysville |
"Sept 27th 1862
Dear Sister;
I received your letter last Wednesday. I will answer it Mother wont let
me have any rest until I do. Sarah Ann was here today she said I must write by
Mondays mail. We are all well. Robert took uncle Abel to Harrisonburg to day he
has not gotten back yet he has one field of corn to cut off yet and then he is
done with his corn he has not seeded any it has been too dry I hope we will
have rain soon everything is burning up We have had several little [frosts
??] We made one kettle of apple butter we have but few apple's we will
have very few for winter We just got our dresses out of the loom too day a week
ago there was thirty nine yards and a half we wove it in two weeks and Fannie
went home in the time and she came home and we made apple butter and had
company in the bargain. as [she ??] was so smart
We concluded we would take a chinkopin hunk we went out in Doctor Sellers new
ground we went in the morning and the bushes was very wet we had too strip off
our shoes and stockings when we got home. Miss Betsy Sellers and Miss Lizzie
Maggart spent and evening here this week. I have not been to McGaheysville this
summer we had no way of going Mr Leech expects too have a quarterly meeting
next month Polly and I talk of walking up then and stay several days Father was
over to see old Mr Leap the other day he fell and hurt himself
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