Hi Vick Cousins, Thought some of you might be interested in this letter from Adela Vick in 1870. Doris Moore ---------- > From: ReminderService@MyFamily.com > To: Doris Moore <djmoore@nb.net> > Subject: Don't forget 7 Feb 1870 letter from Adela Vick* on February 7 > Date: Sunday, February 06, 2000 2:38 AM > > Don't forget: 7 Feb 1870 letter from Adela Vick* on February 7. This > anniversary reminder is from ~ Us Mississippians ~. > > > Lexington, Texas. > > Dear Aunt -- > > Yours of the 26th of Jan. came to hand the fourth of Feb. It found us all > well. We was on the road about six weeks. We camped here one week > waiting for them to get out of the house. > > We are all living in the same house except Uncle Thomas and he lives in > site. The house we live in had eight rooms to it, is a double house > shedded all around except one end. > > It has three rock chimneys, we have three bedsteads. Two of them is _____ > cost $8 each in Lexington, the other cost $7 in Brenham. > > Joe & John has made three trips to Brenham. They carried cotton down and > bought lumber and groceries. It is 45 miles and is a good road to go by > Evergreen. > > There are about five creeks. It would be bad if it would rain. It has not > rained but three times since we been here and they was very light. > > I have seen plenty mule eared rabbit, prairie chickens & deer & turkey. > Joe killed a mule earred rabbit the other day. They are larger than our > rabbits. They ears is about four inches long as well as I can guess. > > They killed some prairie chickens. They resemble a partridge. > > Julia Valentine & Jim Evans married about two weeks ago. I heard that > Caroline & Jim Evans' brother was to be married last Thursday night. I > haven't heard whether they married or not. I understand that Miss Lizzie > Perry is to be married shortly. > > There isn't but one church in Lexington that I know of and its a Baptist. > The Methodist preach in the Academy. There is another in four or five > miles. I have been to Baptist preaching twice and to prayer meeting once. > It is the worst looking house I ever saw to be a church. > > There isn't but one school in Lexington and it has forty scholars. There > is none of going to school yet. > > I have formed a good acquaintance with one family, Mr. Harrington's > family. He has a daughter about my age and two grown sons. I am well > pleased with them so far. > > We have a pump cistern. It is at dining door. Jim Marcus (marquis?) is > living with Uncle Hartwell and John lives with us. > > Mother has a cooking stove. It is number eight and she is very well > pleased with it. > > We have planted garden seed and they are up nice. We got 125 lbs. of > dried apples. > > I went to two shows in Lexington. > > Uncle Berry's negros came all the way. > We have made six pots of soap. > > We picked cotton when we first got here at 41 1/2 per hundred. I picked > 140 lbs. > > We live about three miles from Mr. Nallie and about two miles from Mr. > Sykes and about two miles to Billy Perry. > > Old Billy Valentine is living there this year. I suppose he was very low > when he first came. Mother & grandmother went to see him but he is > better. He had the newmonia. > > Mother has bought four geese. > > The roads is as good here as they are there in the summer time. They is > so levil we can lope all the way to church in the buggy. > > I must come to a close. Write soon. Give my love to all and reserve a > goodly portion to yourself. > > -- Adela Vick > > > > **$15 GIFT CERTIFICATE FOR PURCHASES OF $30 OR MORE IN THE GIFT CENTER** > >>> http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=couponanniv > > If you have forgotten your username or password, please visit the > following address: > >>> http://www.myfamily.com/security/forgotpwd.asp > > If you do not want to receive these anniversary reminders in the future, > please edit your email preferences by clicking on this link: > >>> http://www.myfamily.com/sub/prefs.asp?ID=1B255BB8D36064D >