This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MATEER HUNTER LEVY CAMPBELL Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AY.2ADE/1114 Message Board Post: Recently I found the following letter from a lady I believe may be related to my husband's ancestor Robert MATEER of NY. I have no further information, but would like some! Linden Dec 20, 1930 Mr & Mrs J. M Mateer, Dear Friends, Just a line wishing that you are all well and to wish you a pleasant xmas and a Prosperous New year. I like many others will kiss 1930 Good Bye and be glad to see it pass out . This long depression has every one blue. I have not sold as yet my 1930 crop. I have it stored in the barn and insured for three thousand dollars against fire. all kinds of grain or crops are down this year, my neighbor sold grapes for two dollars per ton. so she told me. and some people received a trifle over one dollar per ton after all expenses had been paid. With such business as this going on there are no doubt in my mind but what California is going to be owned by some foreign nation. We had a nice pleasant autumn but now the weather is quite cold and frosty and very dry the ground is just as dry and hard as what it was in July or August, although some people are ploughing and putting their grain in for fear that it might rain to much when it starts raining. Mr. Mateer can you tell me any thing ab’t the N.Y. Exchange & Stock market or when the bears are gong to let the stock market go up. I have 5472 shares in Transamerica but I bought mine several years ago as an investment from the Bank of America. My friends tell me not to worry as everything will come out O.K. later on. I regret very much that Mr & Mrs Campbell came out to California. I could see that they were disappointed. Mr. Levy in Stockton would have given Mr. Campbell work at $2200 per week. and would also have given the Mrs work too. I did not hear how much he would have paid her. Mr. C told me what he said to Mr. Levy when Mr Levy told them what the wages would be. so I did not bother asking any one after that to give them employment. although they did not feel at least backward in asking me for enough money to get back home on. $101100 they received from me. some time before they arrived in California. I had a neighbor say to me that I should deed Mrs Campbell my home and no matter where I was traveling in the world I would always have a home to come to, of cours he did not know that my father had a long talk with me along such lines as deeding property that he was about to give me that would take effect at his death. outside people often cause trouble in families. I persume you are the grandparents of three nice children. I asked Lena Johnston how you folks was and the baby but she could not tell me whether it was a grandson or daughter. As I have forgotten how to write a letter I will now close trusting to hear from you soon, and asking you to forgive me for not writing but I thought of you just the same. Yours Lovingly Jennie H I am sending you a small package.

Hunter, Jennie View Image Online Age: 61 Year: 1930 Birthplace: California Roll: T626_210 Race: White Page: 2A State: California ED: 10 County: San Joaquin Image: 0750 Township: Douglas Relationship: Head Douglas twp is in Stockton. I didn't find any Campbell's or Mateers near her.. Hunter is a well known name in Stockton.. there is Hunter's square where the current courthouse sits.. Marge -----Original Message----- From: vtpeterson@prodigy.net [mailto:vtpeterson@prodigy.net] Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 7:16 PM To: CASANJOA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [CASanJoaquin] 1930 letter from Jennie Mateer Hunter This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MATEER HUNTER LEVY CAMPBELL Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AY.2ADE/1114 Message Board Post: Recently I found the following letter from a lady I believe may be related to my husband's ancestor Robert MATEER of NY. I have no further information, but would like some! Linden Dec 20, 1930 Mr & Mrs J. M Mateer, Dear Friends, Just a line wishing that you are all well and to wish you a pleasant xmas and a Prosperous New year. I like many others will kiss 1930 Good Bye and be glad to see it pass out . This long depression has every one blue. I have not sold as yet my 1930 crop. I have it stored in the barn and insured for three thousand dollars against fire. all kinds of grain or crops are down this year, my neighbor sold grapes for two dollars per ton. so she told me. and some people received a trifle over one dollar per ton after all expenses had been paid. With such business as this going on there are no doubt in my mind but what California is going to be owned by some foreign nation. We had a nice pleasant autumn but now the weather is quite cold and frosty and very dry the ground is just as dry and hard as what it was in July or August, although some people are ploughing and putting their grain in for fear that it might rain to much when it starts raining. Mr. Mateer can you tell me any thing ab’t the N.Y. Exchange & Stock market or when the bears are gong to let the stock market go up. I have 5472 shares in Transamerica but I bought mine several years ago as an investment from the Bank of America. My friends tell me not to worry as everything will come out O.K. later on. I regret very much that Mr & Mrs Campbell came out to California. I could see that they were disappointed. Mr. Levy in Stockton would have given Mr. Campbell work at $2200 per week. and would also have given the Mrs work too. I did not hear how much he would have paid her. Mr. C told me what he said to Mr. Levy when Mr Levy told them what the wages would be. so I did not bother asking any one after that to give them employment. although they did not feel at least backward in asking me for enough money to get back home on. $101100 they received from me. some time before they arrived in California. I had a neighbor say to me that I should deed Mrs Campbell my home and no matter where I was traveling in the world I would always have a home to come to, of cours he did not know that my father had a long talk with me along such lines as deeding property that he was about to give me that would take effect at his death. outside people often cause trouble in families. I persume you are the grandparents of three nice children. I asked Lena Johnston how you folks was and the baby but she could not tell me whether it was a grandson or daughter. As I have forgotten how to write a letter I will now close trusting to hear from you soon, and asking you to forgive me for not writing but I thought of you just the same. Yours Lovingly Jennie H I am sending you a small package. ______________________________