Dear Pappa  Your loving letter reached us wessday   this is friday so you see I did not sit down right strait and write   I wanted to and I hope you will not complain   I will try to be more prompt about wrighting this time than before.   Our new Teacher has come, and he is the best teacher that I ever was.   He is hansom sort chuby   he has the nack of explaning the lessons and he allways wares a smile on his face   he rools the school without a cross word.

Brother C. G. Maser is with us   he visited the school two days and expressed his self vary pleased with the school. He will stay here till monday I go to school evry day   I mean to learn if I can   I read every day as much as I can. Grandma is going to wright to you and I will let her tell you how her children do    I try to do by her the best I kow how.   The Conference folks broght the word that in Juarez Roy Cluff and two babys were burned the same day and two more babys lay at the point of death   Victoria Pratt last one of her little boys   Millie Jans died in Dueblan. I think you aught to live with Brother Willams as Ma and Miss Willams wes chumbs when they were girls and then sister Harris has here little girl for company and the others have -----? chldren.   well it is getting late and I want to go to meeting for Brother Maser is going to lecture to night so I will close.

I will try to write a few lines the children are all well except Sullie   he had a hard fit yesterday morning  & two last night   He looks very bad   I am making him as comfortable as I can   I keep him as clean  & nice as I can   I have made him two long outing shirts   he is very proud of them when he is at himself   he has been miserable the most of the time   Since you left Ray was sick a few days throwing up but he is alright now  & just as sweet as he can be  & Sullie calls me Ma.

Georgie is here to night   her babe is quite sick & we don’t know what is the matter with it.

We cant get anything from the mill [indistinct, Jesse?] say you drawed 40 dollars more than was coming to you & that you have drawed all of your flour and you may get four pounds of feathers if you can handly   dont inconvenience yourself atall.

Now I hope you wont any longer than a month   it is too hard on me   it is too much of a responsibility for my weak brain   I guess I have scribbled enough my pencil is so short & I can hardly hold to it   I could not find the pen   I will close for this time hoping to hear from you soon & a little longer letter next time   Mat did not get home until Saturday She has been very miserable Since She got home   good Night & god bless you is the prayer of your loving

As Joseph is going up I would pen you a few lines   we are able to be around but Fan is very misserable and my ankle is very weak   I get around on it a little but I have to be very careful.

Well Saddie how are you   I hope you are better   I think of you every day and wish I could and every time Fan churns we wish we could hand some butter and butter milk   it is so good   My chickens all died and the old hen went off and left them and they chilled and died  that is all that Matts girles left of your towel   the Scisors are Hazels   Eddie left them at my house when he went to School   well I believe this is all   Oh Baily Lake burried a little boy to day   The Dr or no one knew what was the matter with it.

Well good bye   God bless you all is the prayer of Mother

How my heart aches for you   I wish I cold come to you but I cant   I have no way to get there I would have come up there last Friday with Bro Whipple but it was so cold and he be until in the night geting there and I have had cold on my lungs all winter not but if I should take more   I dont know how it would be   I am so afraid of Pneumonia and it is so windy that I try to keep close but if I had a chance I would come up  but my dear little girl dont fret   let the little one rest in peace God knows best   he gave her to you and now he has taken her back for a wise purpose   Bro Jones when he met Bro Allred he said to him She is a guiding Star to us   he took his wifes death so nicely   Bro Allred took it harder than any of them   it just seemed like he could not Stand it.   My dear we all have our Share of Sorrow   I prayed earnestly for your little darling after I heard She was Sick but when Father calls we must obey   be reconciled  it wont be long until we will meet all our loved ones on the other side and what a glorious meeting it will be   I know as you can read this I feel so bad I can hardly write any way   God bless and comfort you my dear little girl  your mother will pray for you and may Fathers peaceful comforting influence be with all the is the humble prayer of your Sorrowing Mother.

This is washday but I am going to write any way Jerome went up yesterday and got partly married.    (??)   the Bishop would not marry them without a divorce I will be glad when it is done with the boy has been nearly crazy but he is all right now   I will get some dividan   I dont know how much but get enough So I can   I am coming out there to stay a while with you if you will let me   I am so hungry to see you I can hardly stand it and I want to see those little children   I am geting pretty well wore out   I cant do much any more   I am thankfull I am as well as I am and can do a little   when I get to be a burden then I want to go on the other side   Fan hasent come home from Juarez yet   I hope She is having a good time   we have not heard how they getting up there.   Sister Durfee is still in bed   its over four monthes Since She took Sick   She is liable to be in bed four monthes longer   She was in bed a year or nearly So before   Sister Moffat does improve very fast   I am afraid She will never get well   she has five children home   the one girl is about 15  nbsp;the rest are small   how is your health now I hope you are all right   don’t get discouraged   be patient   you will come out all right   your little ones will be healed and you will take lots of comfort with them   bless their little hearts    how I want to see them.   I can think of nothing more   So good by till I see   God bless you all and the Dr allso that be inspired what to do

I am so happy to night to hear how your children are improving   Jerome is so pleased too, I have not been very well for a few days but am feeling some better   have done my washing to day and am feeling a little tired   was sure glad Jerome got hom to night   I am sure glad your getting along so well and the Lord will continue to bless you and young Fannie had quite a sick spell   came very near having pneumonia   She wnet up to Juarez and hasent come back yet   She may be staying for Allies tea party.

I thank you very much for the paper and envelopes   I have any amount of paper but no envelopes and stamps    I have been wild to write to you but could not   I sent you a letter by Fenley and told him to tell I could not write untill I got some money and I thought by the way you wrote you had not got my letter   I dont know whether I am going to et any divedan or not  havent heard any thing about it if I get any   So I can I am coming out there to see you  I will be glad when I am free  I have been tied righ here so long and now I have so trashy  I cant walk so I get as far as Hettie   I am just starved to see her and she is misserable and if she wasent she couldent take time to come down here   She was down to Agies   Thus beat (?) to a rag be yesterday.

Minie Adams stays with Nephis children and is doing   She has sobered down   She is not like the same girl   well I have managed to fill this little sheet   So good by   Mama

How are you all   I am so very anxious to hear from you   I have written three letters but it Seems like you don’t get them.   Well you have one of the happiest Brothers in the world   we went up yesterday and they got married but Oh my we had the darnedst time from begining to finish that any body ever had.   but I wont try to tell you until I come out there and that wont be long   it wont be over two weeks if it is that   I am just wild to come and see you and the children   Jeromes wife is a sweet little thing   Just as clean and neat as a pin and pleasant as can be   they worship each other   if she could only Speek English She would be alright but she will learn Soon I think but we dont any more of the family   when I come out there I will tell you all about it   Hettie is poorly with her stoma-acke again   Aunt Eliza is going to Utah soon to Stay with her Father and Auntie as long as the live if they dont live to long    it is very hard on her   She has to be shut up in the house all the time and it is So confining   She is So used to being in the open air all the time at home   She is on the all the time from morning until night...[whole sentence missing]...her Father is off to work all day and her Aunt is no company atall.   Will is up and around again   I Suppose you heard Chris Jergensen is dead

Well daughter I cant think of anything more will  hoping to hear from you Soon   we all Join in love to you all   my hand is Shaking so I cant

goodby and God bless you     Mother

It is with pleasure that I seat my self to pen you a few lines to let you know that I am still in the land of the living and doing very well   Sister and Clay leave in the morning for Cannada and I will visit among the children until just before the Temple opens  I will go back to Manti and see what I can do working in the temple.   I do hope I will be able to stand it for it is a grand work   there is such a lovely spirit there.   I fell all over the door yard night before last and have been on the bed the most of the day to day but I am feeling better   will be alright soon   it shook me up pretty badly  I went out of the door and my foot caught on a rug and I fell sprawling but I will be alright in the morning   I pieced a quilt since I came and got two dollars for it   I hope I can get some more to do   if I can help my self a little I will feel better   Kate came to day   she is going to stay here while Hettie is gone   she has a sweet little child a little girl   the children are all so glad to see me.   they are all so nice and are so good to their mother   one sent her $23 and another 13 and another 10 and Clay keeps her in honey   they certainly are good children   well I thought I would get a letter to day but no letter   I am writing letters all the time and get very few   there 8 or 9 due me write now but I dont know when they will come but I hope my dear ones havent all gone back on me   I love them all and want to hear from them   I wish Verona and Lula would write when I write you all   I cant separate letters to each one   I cant afford stamps when I am not making anything    Jerome is in Nevada   he wrote me such a pittyfull letter   he is so discouraged   he traveled so far to get to work and got a job at $2 dollars a day   he has a good outfit and is so anxious to on his feet and have something to keep his children

well I will close with much love from us all to all of you   good bye and God bless you all

lovingly   Mother and grand mother

It is some time since I received your letter but I have been quite buisy piecing baba quilts and quilting quilts for Miel to take on his mission    we have quilted one and have another on the frames and partly quilted    your name quilted on it and Matties Fans and Hetties   we are quilting names in all the plain blocks

have you heard Libbies baba got drowned   it is two weeks last Sunday   isent it strang two sisters having accidents so near to gether and such sad ones too   I sure feel sorry for them   sister Lilliy Young was buried last Monday and Walker on Sunday and Bro Riggs working on the bridge at Teasson (?) and fell and mashed his shoulder and hurt him so they think he will hardly recover   I it is terrible Walker was murderd   Mexicans beat him to death with hoe handles    got $15 fifteen dollars

Well we was at Martins and Elnas wedding yesterday evening   had a nice time   Louis and Lizzie furnished and cooked the supper so they would not have to dance in the pig trough   they got a lovely lot of presents    a wash tub a bed spread a clock   three nice pictures and dishes   did you say piles of them   well I cant think anything

yes Heber James is dead and Orpha was not expected to live   the other day Sarah has gone up there    how are you and the children geting a long   I am so anxious about the children   Will said last night he wished you would come home   he dont believe that the doctor will do them any good

good bye and God bless you

lovingly, mamma we all join with love to you all

Your namesake yesterday morning just in time for breakfast and she is a little beauty to the fatest little thing you ever saw   Hettie is just fine   never did better in her life   Bro Tenney is nearly out of his head   I dont know whether we will have to send to insane assilam or not   you never saw as pleased a family in your life Fan said there is enough cow punchers and not enough dish washers and he thought it was all right for girl to come

good by   love to all

lovingly     Ma

How are this morning   I hope you are well and happy as this leaves us we are happy because our George is with and he is happy because he is with us   he has been here two weeks next Monday    he is sorry he did not know that you folks were down there   he laid over in Juarez on Sunday   he is a fine looking young man   large and has such a sweet face   he is quite and bashful like your Pa    I have never been so glad but once in my life before and that was when Pa came that time   he had been gone so long and was just as pleased as I was we huged and kissed each other a plenty.   I was up to Hetties the other and stayed all day   She is geting a long fine and the baba is growing nicely   She has got up bettie time than she did before   I the treatment the doctor gave her helped her out very much   She worked like a turk all the time up to the very last   She looks better than she has for years   Fan renched her back about a week ago and has been laid up with that but I was down there yester eve and she is better   her side or wrist doesent hurt her anymore   she can work like a turk all the time   washes irons and cooks and everything els   I dont what   she dont do.

Well the boys are talking of coming down there to get work   if they we may come with them   I dont know yet what we will do or go a fishing   well I am about run out of any news   the diptheria has broke out in town   Seven casses and School has closed   I don<’t know what next will come but hope we will be able to stand what ever comes the Lord knows best.   I want to see you and the children so bad I am almost sick and hope I will see some time before I die

Well give our love to our dear Fenley and the dear girles and accept a goodly portion your own dear selves

Children  how are you all this morning  I hope you are as well as this leaves us.   your very welcom letter came the day before yesterday but I was trying to finish Ednas quilt and could not afford to stop    She thinks its the prettiest thing she ever saw   the blocks are pink and tan joined with pale blue and it is qulted nice    She thought I couldent quilt but she has changed her mind and every one that came in while I was quilting thought it very nice.   I guess I will get to make one for a laddy in [?] Nacco or double irish chain    I have the blocks for another quilt for Edna    I want to finish that and por Mattie    She is heart sick    She did get the rapings of her finger    everthing is gone out of her house but her cupboard and a few little trinkets    her pretty quilt and all the blocks that I pieced    she wants to come to Hyrum but he dont want her too    I think he aught to take her and Inna [?] and take care of them    he gets fifty dollars a month and with their help he cold get along    poor soul  I feel sorry for her    She is so homesick She can hardly stand it    I dont think She enjoyes living there     I think She feels like I do    She would like a little gospel micksed in once in a while     it gets very mounotonous when you dont hear a prayer only what you utter yourself and have to go off by yourself to hear that.  Edna wants me to stay until Christmass but I dont know whether I can or not    She is so good to me I hate to go and leave her for she will be alone all day when I am gone or the most of the time    Wilford and Willie are down in Mexico after cattle.    now have you heard about Edith leaving Charly     I got a letter from Hettie    she went to see them a found them Separated    She said She didint love him and never did    he talked her into marrying him    Hettie says She heard that She was running around with girles and boys that have a bad repirtation goes to parties with them and they go out of the dances and drink and smoke  I am heart sick over it I was not surprised    I knew when I was there if she did not change they wouldent stay togather long  She is in the rong.    I cant hear how Lorin and Florence are making it whether they have made up or not.  Jessie is married again and I hope Willie never gets another wife     he is not worthy of a wife.   Fay says he is not going to get married until he know he loves the one he marrys and then stay with her    I told him that was a very wise conclusion    I think it is something dredful the way Wills children are doing    I am Satisfied he knows it and grieves over it     I was feeling bad one day and he said Ma dont weep for weep for the ones that are left and I feel that is just the way we don’t need to weep for them    they are all right but Oh dear the way their children is a sight

Roy is so lazy he cant hold a job any time    I don’t know how these younger ones are going to come out    I hope they will make a better record than the older ones have.   Well I must stop this subject or I will get the blues.

I was so glad to that your children doing  you aught to be a thankfull mother and was glad to  that little picture they  it was cut   I am so glad he is   hope he wont have another back set  I want the children so bad  how is Cora and baba and her mother  did Cora get my vail  I left at that rooming house   I left it hanging on the door knob

has many of the left or are they waiting to see if we can go back    I want to go back so bad but I hope it wont be old Mexico when we go back    did Mary get little [?] Bleavei back again    I heard that his folks got him the second time

did the Mexicans get the furnature out of your hous and the pictures    they dident take Wills   they throwed it on the floor and broke the galls    how far do you life from Saddie    I wrote her but have not had an answer    how are they little Mable     how is she    I wish the Lord would release her little soul    I am alone to day    Edna for an out with one of her friends    She is such a nice woman and is so good to Edna    the boys are here but they are out all the time so I am alone.

your very welcome came to hand yesterday and I certainly was glad to hear from you all once more and that were as well as you are we are tolerable well Fannie has a gathering in one of her ears it been very painfull but broke last night and it better now she washing to day She has had two cases [? or cures?] Since we came out got along fine with one was Carline McDonald the other was Lettie Lunt We had another wedding last Saturday Night Inez and Alden Stephens it rained as hard as it could pour down and they went home at 12 oclock Orvill took them home in his Auto he married them it was his first coupple Inez certainly looked nice She had the prettiest dress I ever saw they were a nice looking coupple but rattlest talk about it they were the worst I ever Saw. Well we had to leave home again when we got here Henry Bowman came with wagon and team and took us down to his place and kept us two weeks until our boys got out and came to move us we are living in highland Park but we are going to move this week to another place there is a lounge on each side of us and want to get away. Douglas got thrown out of the wagon and got foot run over and hurt his ankle very bad he had to go on crutches about 3 weeks but has gone to work he and Martell are up to Bro Bowmans place and Fenley and family are there Oskes  [?] Bluth took Lucy & is going to lake when a train goes.

How are you all this rainy morning   all wll I hope as leaves us it has been quit stormy weather for some time cloudy and showery just enough to keep it muddy and nasty but we like it that way don’t you?

Well I went up to Spring Citty during Conference and had a visit with the folks up there but Oh how sad    nearly all the old friends are dead and gone   I could keep from crying   there was not a place that looked natural    only Uncle Abes ten acre   it looked just as it did when we lived there   Bro Lambets house has fallen down and Fathers house   Aunt Nans Brougles Will Blains and I dont know how many more houses are gone    some places they have built new houses   they are bulding new houses   they are bulding a big white Brick where aunt Nans hous Stood   nearly all I met was children of those that lived there when we as there    I Said to one of the Roan Broughs sons those that were children when we left are Fathers and Mothers now   he said I wasent here the   Neither was he   his Father was not married when we left there   now he is the Father of two children   he married one of Fans girls   I staid two day and a night with her    She is a nice woman   I was Royelly by evry body   I staid a day and night with Fan    I staid the most of the time Henrys  it was so stormy I couldent gete out much  I went to Mauds a few minutes in the evening I got got   She went to conference and She had not got back when I came home   Simon took me in his car and brought back   he is in the Temple   he works in the temple all the time   he is very nice to me when he met in the temple he grabed me in his arms and kissed me before all the folks and hw has been very good to me all the time and  he is a good man and is well respected by every body   I went to see Patrece [?] Munson  She has three nice girles had one son and he went on a missiion to New Zealand and died there   She is very comfortable and very pleased to See   wanted me to stay to Supper but it was geting late and I could not stop longer and met Naena Larson and her husband  I was lost of course and blunded in to place   She ask if I was a stranger in the place   I told her I was but had lived there a long while ago   She asked my name and I said Sister Adam  She said Mary Adams   I said yes and who are you  She Said Naeme Larson and I had to go in and have a talk with them    his was the only face that looked natural that I meet   Henry wife is as sweet as she can be   gets along with the girles so nice and they are very nice to ker   Speak so nicely of her   She has two little boys one is three years old and the baba is six months old   is a very nice and cute baba   Henry get along with his famly very nicely   one of Fans girles married John Baxters Son   he is qute a nice look boy  they havent been married very long.  I cant think of anythink of any more to tell you.  Now I want you to find just how much money has been paid by you folks there in Thatcher   Hettie and Millicent and all of you have been so crazy   I have not kept an account of it and cant remmeber how I never knew noy much Hettie gave me   She put some in my purse and I did see how much it was   how much was the dress She gave me   the Stockings was one dollar and sixty cts and my kimmona that Millicent made   I want to know how to pay my tithing   they have got my place rented for five dollars a month gold and I want to turn it on my tithing   this is a long letter and I will have to close with much love to you all   Aunt Tib and Uncle Frank Sends their kind regards to you all   as ever Your loving Mother.

how are you all   I hope you are all well and happy  we are all well and happy  we are able to eat all we want and can do a little work knitting mostly   I have knit 3 pair of sock and a half since I came here over a week ago   the lot we are knitting the feet halve to be 13 inches long and the legs 14 inches long   how is that for socks eh?   Well how do you get along with the little ones  how is Doras ears and how do they feel about leaving Juanita and how was she when you left her   and how are all the folks   is there Still as much sickness as ever   from what Ireen wrote there is there is lots of sickness down in Mexico   did Ray get his quilt and does it suit him   if so tell him to write me a short letter   the wind is blowing and it shakes the tent and it is hard to write and my hand shakes so I cant write so you will have to guess what I have written   I staid with Allie and Lem nearly tow monthes   Allie is not very strong   I hated to leave her   they live on a ranch 22 miles from Hatchita and no neighbors near them but I could not stay there any longer   Lem and Allie were as good to me as they could be but no prayes and such a spirit all the time I could not stand it   I am very strong and quite shaky but I hope I will get better but it is hard to tell at my age   has Edmon got any money yet   I am needing some and I want him to please pay Hettie what I owe her   she can tell him how much it is   I think I have waited long enoug and I want my money   I need little notions sometimes and I dont want to call on Fan for money when she has a hard time to get along any way   she had her tonsels taken    it cost her 30 dollars and Douglas had an opperation for appeticitus and Vern one for rupture and has cost them a big pile of money and Vern is not able to work yet   The Dr said he must not do any work for 3 weeks or a month   it was the worst case he ever had and he had had hundreds of cases   how is Jess    I heard he went home sick   give my love to all my dear friends down there and tell them I love them    if you knew how this table is dancing you wouldent wonder at this poor writing   will close for this time with love and best wishes to you all and God bless you all and write soon and all news   if you can get Samans Soup get a dollars worth and send it to me and oblige your old mother

     we all join with love to you all

How are you all    I hope you are not all boiled with the heat like we are but guess you are worse   I am worse than a boiled owl every mornin until noon then I begin to revive a little.   how did you spend the 4^th   we had a birthday dinner for virn and the men all Spent the night   a little 3 year old girl of Clair Smiths Earnest found after daylight this it was her birth yesterday   they live about 4 miles from here and She was 4 miles from her home Earnest got on her track and tracked her   rep Joseph Morinsen said he did some tracking   he said that the Uncle Will of him   She dident seem a bit scared  wasent crying   Earnest ask her where she was going   She said to find her sister.   Well Sadie the socks you stold are found   Lou didn’t bring them that night you were here   it was my stocking and I didn’t know she brought them but we shore did search for the socks   I expect Mrs Beavers thinks I have stolen them   it has been such a long time since I got the yarn.   I am so shakey I cant write decent   Oh I am about done for every thing   I am not worth the salt that goes in my mush   I about give out just this little I have written   Fan has one teaching today and Nila is helping Mary wash so I and Enzely are alone but vind [?] the vind [?] will keep us company    Vern and his girl will bo down there next week to be married   Fan may come with them if they can arrang it so  well there is nothing more and I am give out so good bye and God bless you all   we all send much love and best wishes  write all of you    this letter is for you all   it is too hard work for me to write so many letters

lovingly Mother and grand Mother

how are you all this Sabbath morning   I hope you are all well and happy   I am feeling Some better as the weather is a little cooler but we are all feeling a little sad as Vern has gone to serve his country and Pratt and Paul and Oren Adams Ugeine T.   that makes five grand sons for me gone to Serve their country and I expect Douglas will go as soon as he is opperated on for his rupture and then we are left alone and lonely   we will be but we are not the only one that is left alone and one poor boy is a prisner in germany and they have cut his ears nose off and split his tongue   he sent his watch to his sweet heart and she thought she would wear but it wouldent run and took it to a jewler and he and found a piece of silk paper in with this written on it and said she would never see him again he never would come back and we dont know what will happen to our boys but we can plead with Father for their protechion and if they are humble and faithful we have faith they will be preserved to return to us   but there are so many sad things we dont know what to expect.   they are all gone to Sunday School and I am alone and I feel alone I mis Vern So much he was lively and cheerfull   his wife parted with him bravely but cryed all the way from town his mother the same   She never let him see her shed a tear but she cryed all the home to and I expect   She will have many crying spells before he returns but she is thankfull he isent a slacker   he wanted to go and went cheerfull they are good boys both of them   I got a letter yesterd from Jerome   he said he was feeling some better but he is so sick of the people where he is but that is the only place he can get work and he has to keep his babas and them taken care off.

Mary Pratt and Inez Stephens are both are look for the stork this fall   Inez poor lost both of her babies little boys   She has come to stay a year with her mother   well I think I had better quit the more I write the worse it gets and I will close with love and best wishes to all

I will try to write a few lines to let you know that we are all alive but not all well    Fan Inez and Ensley are down with the flu but they are geting better  I dont feel very well this afternoon but I think I will be better tomorrow   I am not with the sick ones   I am staying with Lou and Orsen at present  they would not let me stay there   Inez got a baba girl as well as the flu    they are geting along all right   there is not much flu here   a few cases but they are all about well    only our folks and they will be in a few days if they are carefull   Mamia Mortinson is staying with them    her family all have had it and got well    I dont hear anything from Jerome   I have written twice and no answer and I am very uneasy because he is so good to write and they are dieing off with flu   I heard 12 in a day   if you know anything about him write and let me know   well it is late and geting cold and I am tired   So good by and God bless you all

your letter came last night and I laid awake half the night thinking about it   If I could come I would be glad but I have to waite until Orsen can come   we were Just ready to start about a week ago but Fan and Sister Payne talked out of it on acount of the Blews but I think he will come Soon but for I cant come before Edith gets there   I appoint you her Lula legal and lawfull guardian and I am coming Just as Soon as I can    My hand is so shaks so I cant wrigh decent   I am not very well and I forget what I want to write before I get it written   Fan has had quite a Sick Spell two weekes ago   I thought her time had come but She is about alright   I will close with love to all   Inez had a harty over you thinking She was mad   good bye and God bless   we all Send love to you all

lovingly Mother

Your short letter came to hand and found me as well as you could expect to find a poor old worn out woman   I was glad to hear from you if it was brief   what did Hettie go to ft grant for   is she going to join the army    our sick folks are all up and around   Fan and Inez are both at Mary Pratts to day   Mary is kind of poorly    she is not strong at all   nursing a baba is hard on her and now she has two   its doubly hard on her but she has a good kind husband that will help her all he can   he let one of the babes fall the other day and burht his head on the floor   they are shure big babas for twins 8 lbs apiece   Inez only 7   Fan will be in her new hous this week. and I will sure be glad   will go and live with and get away from these little noisey crying babas   ruth talks a blue streak from morning till night and she fairly deafens me and the crys by the hour and I feel like I cant stand it much longer   how is the flue down there by this time   I hope it is dieing out by now    I want to come down there but I am so affraid of the flue I dare not come while it is there   Well Lou is geting ready to take our picture and I will have to get ready   I have told all there is to tell So I will close with love to all    Oh did Edith come for Lou [?] tell me all about it   good bye and God bless you all

      as ever your loving

Mother

I got word this morning that Edmond is going to move north   are you going and how far north is he going   it breaks my heart to think of you going any farther from me.   I want to come down there but I cant get a chance to get there   I dont see why he cant be satisfied where he is    I just feel tirible   I want see you so bad   you and Hettie both.   Oh I cant stand it at all I am sick all over   I don’t know how to live if you go off   dont go you dont need to go     Fan sayes come up here   it is a good place and good people live here   I feel like it will kill me if you go off.    Fan said to tell you she loves you the same old way and I love more than I can tell   I cant write any more so good bye and God bless you and love all but Edmond if he takes you off I don’t love him any more

      lovingly   Mother

Your letter came to hand yesterday  found all well   hope this will find you as well as this leaves us  wish you a merry xmas and a happy New year   don’t send any garments as she has got some    I cant write much this morning as the mail man will be here and Fan wants this to go this morning    so good bye and God bless you   love to all from us all

      lovingly

Mother

How are you all   I hope you are all well as this leaves us   I am so anxious to hear from down there  I have written so many letters down there and only one answer   I dident think you was so glad to get rid of me that you did not want to hear from me    My head is in such a whirl I cant write and I want to write   I want to hear from you and how you got along with Juanita and the children   I want see you all so bad I can hardly stand and I want to get away from here   I never saw such children in my life but they dont say anything   when you write if you do Allie and Lem are good to me but the children   Old Nick himself couldent come up with them    I feel sometimes like I would go crayzy and you will   I have all ready gone crazy long ago and I believe I have   I know that Mittie is the meanest child I ever saw   the saucest most disobedient hatful little stink I ever saw and I have seen lots of children   I have finished four little quilts since I came here    one Herald one for Bessies baba one for Allie and one for Ray   did he get and how does he lik it   does it suit   I will make another   Georgia gave me 3 dollars and furnished to goods for making Bessies and Herald give 2  for making and Allie gave me cloth enough to make another for making hers and they are going to take me to Virden in the car as soon as he gets his car in runing order   he has sent for new fixtures and they will be here soon    All and all the children will go so I think we will have a merry trip and I will be glad when the trip is over and I can be settled down where it will be a little quite and see if I can get my right mind again   I think this is all I can think of to day and I think you will be glad of it by the time you get it read   it is a gumbled up mess but it is not half as much gumbled as my head is   Allie and Lem sends love and best wishes to you

your loving mother   love to all