I found this letter while cleaning out my files, I know there are some of you who would be interested in reading it. Charlotte Daly Harrison gggrandaughter of Nancy Ann Elam ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------ Ann please tell your family about Charles passing. Thank You Fabens (TX) April 6th 1949 My Dear Ann and Fred: I am writing to tell you we lost Charley (Broadhead) on the 19th of March. He was sick about two weeks. He went to the hospital on Monday nite and lived until 3:30 on Saturday afternoon. Had he lived until Monday he would have been sick two weeks. He seemed to be doing all right until Friday before he died Saturday. The Drs. said it was a clot in his heart. He did not suffer so long but just could not breathe. Poor old Chas it was a terrible blow to us all. He was only about 61 years old and we thought he had a long life before him. How little we poor humans know. Mayme (Broadhead wife Elam’s cousin) isn’t too well fixed financially but I thank God I have saved quite a bit and will be in a position to help her out. Betty (Broadhead) has another year in college and that cost about $1000 per year. Va (Virginia B.) is talking about getting married. I don’t know just when. I may later on go up and make my home with Mayme we will see just what is best. Louise (Broadhead) came home a week before Charley left and I was so glad because she spent every day by his bedside and they got a lot of pleasure having a nice visit. Charles enjoyed having her so much and Mayme hardly left him nite or day. Well God alone only knows what is best, It is not for us to say. We only know we are heart broken and lonely. It is just 7 years today since Andy was called and don’t you think I haven’t been lonely but I thank God I have been well most of the time and life could have been much worse. I just returned from a trip down to see Irene and Ernest (Wetzig). I had a lovely trip went with Lawrence and Bobby Elam. They have a nice home also a nice farm but as far as finances things don’t look too good. Louis and Harvey Elam are turning their farms back to the man they bought from and taking a $20,000 and $30,000 thousand loss. They can not begin to make their payments. I don’t know what either one expects to do. They both had good farms here in the valley and they sold and inverted down there and all their savings are gone. neither one has had any experience in any other kind of work. I just can’t see what is to happen to them. Henry and Tidie are getting along OK and Henry seems to be in better health than he has in several years. I am so glad of that. Poor old Leigh is never well she says she is out of one spell and right into another. It seems to be her nerves and stomach. I can’t see how the poor kid stands it. I am greatly worried about her. Well Ann I must close. I have written so many letters lately telling our relatives and friends about our great loss. Please write to Mayme she will appreciate a few lines from you. With lots and lots of love and best wishes- I am your Aunt Simmie (Anderson) I believe the words in ( ) were written in by Pauline Daly, Elam Daly’s wife. Elam Daly living in Houston TX, Ann Daly Hill living in Girard KS, John J. Daly living in Carthage MO, and Eileen Daly Watt living in Tulsa OK, all children of John S Daly and Nancy Ann “Anna” Elam (The oldest daughter of John Combs Elam and Nancy Elizabeth Hadley) were known to send the mail they received to each other in sort of a circle so they all got the family news. This one must have ended up with Elam because Pauline sent it to Eileen in Jan 1989 with a note on the envelope to “open carefully old family letter enclosed” Simmie was the 2nd daughter of John Combs Elam and Nancy Elizabeth Hadley, Charles Broadhead was her son-in-law married to her daughter Mayme Anderson. I believe Betty, Virginia and Louise were Charley and Mayme’s daughters. “Andy” was Simmie’s husband Robert Anderson. Irene and Ernest would be Florence Irene Elam, Simmie's younger sister and her husband Ernest Wetzig. Lawrence, I believe is Lawrence Wetzig son of Irene and Ernest and Bobby Elam would be Simmie’s younger brother Robert Columbus Elam. Louis, I believe is Louis Wetzig another son of Irene and Earnest and Harvey Elam would be Harvey Waldo Elam another younger brother of Simmie. Henry and Tidie were Simmie’s younger brother James Henry Elam and his 2nd wife Tidie Ophelia Hinson. Leigh Elam was the youngest sibling in their family.