In one of these letters, written in Aug of 1895 from Hookerton, NC, Sis Myrtle (Heath) writes to her sister Sallie telling her of the family she is busy visiting. She mentions going to "cousin Alice Lassiters". I do not have this person or the name Lassiter in my files. Anyone know her? She also mentions that she has heard that Sallie is "having a splendid time with the boys, J.J.M especially. I think Joe is a very nice young man". (Sallie married my great grandfather George Rouse in 1899) Also mentioned is about Eva Taylor and someone named Bob, who seemed to have been "a thing" at the time. Myrtle writes that Lizzie Dixon "having died last Sunday" (the letter was written on August 21, 1895) says she "helped to shroud her, it was my first experience" I shall miss Lizzie lots, she was twelve years old. There was something remarkable about her death, she had an aunt Lizzie fourteen years ago she dies of gastretis, she was taken sick on Wednesday with a chill and died on Sunday. Lizzie Dixon was taken the same day and died the same day and had the same disease, both died on third Sunday in August." She also tells of meeting Mr. Tom Kilpatrick while she was visiting in Institute and then a Mr. Charlie Smith, she describes as "handsome and very light complicated". There are many more letters to read from 1891 - 1904. This is better than the novel I am reading at night. Susan