This is a copy of the letter that I've been referring to that Eva Aills Voiers wrote. I thought it was on MyFamily but I didn't find it there. I had this in my 'notes' Roberta sent the handwritten letter and I transcribed it. _________ In my notes: I typed the letter from Eva Aills Voiers wife of Marshall Voiers to Mr & Mrs. W. F. Dials in Calif. The post mark is June 8, 1938. Roberta sent copies of this letter as it was hand written by Eva. Sunday afternoon, June 5 Dear Old Pals:- Marshall has gone down the creek to church & I am alone. I would go up the creek if I thought I could stand the trip. I haven't any way to go only walk. Our buggy has been worn out long ago and our horses are to old and crippled up.to drive or ride & we haven't enough to buy a car so it is either walk or stay home but I think I will try walking some Sunday pretty soon when it isn't raining. We sure have pg2 been having plenty of rain & even some hail. I never saw it hail as hard as it did last Sat. May 28. I picked up enough & kept it 3 hours to make ice tea for supper. It tore two or three of our tobacco beds up. We had taken the canvases off of them but we had one bed up by the old wood house with good canvases on it, & we got some plants out of it. It tore the tops out of our tomatoes and tore the cabbage full of holes but I think some of the cabbage will grow out & our sugar corn was just torn pg 3 in shreds. Haven't but one field of big corn planted & doubt if it comes up the ground is packed so hard and crusted. Things look pretty blue to us sometimes we don't make ends meet now. One cream check a week don't go far when you divide it. Buck gets discouraged too & thinks he can do better somewhere else. He isn't taking the interest in things he did last year. We think he had a good pg 4 show. We have the taxes to pay & the place to keep up & give him half of everything. He hasn't made as much off the cows this year. Cream has been cheap but he gets half of the cows. Everyone here thinks he has a good show but of course there's lots of work to do here to much work for him, I think but Marshall helps a lot more now but he shouldn't for when he works hard he is so nervous and can't sleep at night but pg 5 you know how he is sees so much to do just thinks he has to work. I help Buck too. In tobacco and hay. Marshall still takes medicine. If he only would listen and wouldn't try to work this year he might get some stronger but he is so irritable & cross with me. How we both wished when Marshall first got sick you folks were here & we still wish it. We have house enough for all page 6 and work enough too. If you could come this Fall it would be perfectly all right to come & stay with us. Our house seems so big and empty now. Once Doll left the same evening of the Funeral. Poor old Dad Voiers lingered so long he got so he didn't even know us or try to talk to us for 2 weeks but the end was quiet and peaceful. I never saw anyone pass away so easy. Marshall & Doll & I was standing by him when he left. page 7 he was so tired and weary of life he would often say won't I ever go. He was down in bed flat on his back for that was the only way he could lie for 9 months just lacking 6 days. We had the funeral here at the house. Such a large funeral our house was full. I think there was over 20 machines besides the hearse went out of the holler Several came over to the road. A rain came up just as we was leaving pg 8 the house which made it bad getting out of it. Had also rained on Sat night before Markie, Louise & Forest came & they had a wreck just 7 miles out of Vanceburg when they started to go around a curve there car turned over I guess 2 or 3 times tore their car up pretty bad and hurt Markies shoulder sprained it I think and broke Louise's glasses & cut her nose some but more of a scare & shake up than anything else could have been worse pg 9 He (Dad V) has been gone 3 weeks and we still miss him so much I still listen for his moans. I can hardly stay in the house long enough to clean it up. Seems so quiet and lonesome. Seems so odd for us to live alone. I guess we will have to take a boy to raise (or one to keep us) Some man wanted to give Marshall a baby a week or so ago. His wife had died and left this baby but I pg 10 am afraid it would be too much of an undertaking for me now to try to raise a child, have you got Ralph's baby now? Sallie's youngest boy & another boy from Ind. was here a few days week before last. He graduated this Spring & is trying to find work. Sallie is so afraid he will go to Calif too. She is still working for people & is making the living for herself & the 3 that is at home. Clifford has been gone to Calif for over a year. He is page 11 at Ventura when he isn't with the children Jane is keeping house he stays with her some but he don't help Sallie any. The children send her some money occasionally but they do well to keep themselves. Mother has been dead 28 years the 4th of June and Daddie 7 the 10th of March don't time slip away fast. Are you getting grey headed? Have you still got your hair bobbed? Have you pulled all of Floyd's page 12 hair out? My how I wish I could look out and see you all driving in. Tell Charlie hello & I hope he is feeling better since the weather has got warm. We haven't had much hot weather yet. I am trying a few chickens. Did have 50 but I have lost a few. I guess my ducks got tired staying here and left. I have lost 11 but I expect they went in someone's roasting pan. Must now close. Write us real soon. Alice D is all OK & Alice A also. Much love Marshall and Eva