[email protected] wrote: > Subject: > > OHATHENS-D Digest Volume 98 : Issue 72 > > Today's Topics: > #1 Herrold letter ["Frankie" > <[email protected]] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from OHATHENS-D, send a message to > > [email protected] > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > ______________________________ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Herrold letter > Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 09:13:22 -0600 > From: "Frankie" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > > Thought I would send this transcript. If you want copy of original I > will > send it snail-mail. > Christopher Armitage is the name mentioned in the letter. > Benjamin F. Herrold is living in Laporte County Indiana, but his > family is > still in Athens County, Ohio. He left Athens County when he went to > California. He had relatives in LaPorte county, Indiana and ended up > settling there. > > LaPorte county State of Indiana July the 3-1851 > > Dear Sister I received your letter and was glad to hear > from you and > should like to see you very much. you say you want me to come after > harvest > for you if nothing hapens. I shal come if Thomas i Wilson wants to > come and > see the folks and country and bring you along, that I will pay the > expence > out and back for horses are very dear in this part of the country and > I > should have no other use for them after I had made the trip, but I > intend > to provide some way, Sop, to get you here if I have to come with A > whell > barrow, for it would be a great comfort to me to have you here where I > > could see you every day, then I could talk more freely and could tell > you > all about my California trip which was a hard one, I assure you, but I > > stood it first rate and am not sorry that I went. Although I did not > make a > fortune but did better than to staid at home. I avraged 50 dollars per > > month from the time I started until I got back again. We took a > sailing > vessel at San Francisco and was 55 days getting to Panama. The fare > was > hard salt beef and pork and hard bread and for several days we had > nothing, > but bread and water but we had plenty of lice I assure you. I saw > Doctor > Mansfield. We ware in company from Chagres to New York. he told me > that he > saw Christopher Armitage and Isack Desler. I meant to sent some > presents by > him to them chiln but it was dark when we landed and the captain was > drunk > and so was the pasengers which caused quite an excitement and I did > not > see him any more. Tell Thomas he had better come out and bing Barbra > along > if he will I have got 80 dollars for him and will send it to him or > pay it > when he comes. no more at present. excuse this imperfect letter and > poor > writing and bad selling and write soon the next time I will try and do > > better-- F Herrold > Sophia Herrold > > Frankie > (Linda DeFrees Franks) > Soda Springs, Idaho > [email protected] Hi Frankie, Great letter. The captain was drunk! Must have been some landing. Not my family at all, but I would enjoy having a copy. Lou Moses 12575 Brompton Rd., Carmel, IN 46033 My Athens Co OH names are: LINSCOTT, SWETT, JOHNSON & FONNER Thanks for sharing the letter. Lou [email protected]