Through the process of elimination, I have come up with "Dock"'s name. It is Robert E. Crowley, their second son. She mentions getting a letter from Benjamin later on in the letter and states eight children living. Using the 1850 and 1860 census, and adding the two youngest she mentions in the letter, that leaves only one missing child which is Robert E. I searched the 1870 and 1880 censuses and could not find them. Wilma ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roberta J. Estes" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 4:52 PM Subject: Re: [YOUNGER] Louisa Jane Younger -Clay Co Missouri > Is there any chance whatsoever that the tin type or other picture of this > person still exists? She references him as Dock. Is that his name? Can > someone put this in perspective for me? > > Thanks, > > Bobbi > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On > Behalf Of Leni Lopez > Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 5:23 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [YOUNGER] Louisa Jane Younger -Clay Co Missouri > > Post Civil War Letter > > Letter from Elijah P. and Louisa Jane Younger Crowley to Isham and > Elizabeth Medlin Crowley: Greenville, Clay County, Mo. August the 2, > 1866 > Dear Mother and Father, Brothers and Sisters: I once more embrace this > opportunity of writing to you to let you no that we are on the land among > the living and our health is tolerable good at this time except myself. I > am > just getting over a spell of sickness. I was confined to bed three weeks. > My > hert is not good but I do hope that when these lines reach you they will > find you all well and doing well for it has been a long time since we have > had the pleasure of writing to each other. We have seen and felt a great > many hard trials since this most cruel and unlhoy war commenced. Doubtless > you have heard that my dear and lovely boy Dock as we always cauled him > was > murdered shortly after he came back to Missourie by a pack of those > thieves > and murderers called feds for that was their business whenever they > thought > the had the > chance. He came home on tuesday night the 28 of March 1865 which was > very > unexpected to us for we told him if he ever got to Texas to stay there > until > the war ended, but I expect he wanted to see us and no what had become of > us > again. He was at home three times, tuesday night, thursday night and > friday > night. He went to tries to get away, for the feds was after them and had > killed too of the young horses that day. On saturday night he and James > Charley was taken prisoner as they was going through Smithville. They kept > them there till late Sunday evening. They told them they was going to take > them to Ridgely and try them. They went about a mile and a half, took them > out in the woods and shot them and left them laying there. An old man > heared > their groans and went next morning to hunt them and found them and made > his > too little boys bury them. We heard that they were killed we got a union > man to go and find about it. We then had a coffin made and sent for him > and > brought > him home on friday and buried him at Bethel Church on saturday the 2 day > of > Aprile and I do hope and pray that he is better off than his murderers > ever > will be and if they do not meet with justice in this world, they will be > sure to in the world to come. I have his tintype that is dear to me. He > had > it taken and gave it to me before he left home. We have also got the > little > gray mare that he left home on. Perhaps you have heared him speak of her. > He > called her Kate. We all think a great deal of her. We would not part with > her for no mention on his account. He told us he was with you all and how > kind and good you was to him. I hope the Lord will bless every one that > was > good and kind to him while he was gone. He professed religion several > years > ago and joined the Methodist Church. I hope he had not forgotten it. He > was > a good and kind boy to us all and beloved by all. His acquaintance Robert > Ellington professed religion last fall and joined the church. He is a good > soldier > and he had a spell of typhoid fever last winter and came very near dying. > He lay ___ weeks before he could set up. We had a serious time of sickness > in our families at that time. There was five down at the same time there > was > fever. Nancy, Elizabeth with rhumatism of the heart. The doctor said she > was liable to die at any time. There was several weeks we had to set up > with > them but our neighbors was good to come and set up with us but thank the > Lord they all got well by the help of a good doctor that had practised in > the Confederate Army, ever since the war began. Our friends and > relatives > are all well as far as I no. Uncle Travis Finley was here yesterday he is > well. He had been down to James P. Crowleys a few days ago. They was all > well perhaps you heared that James had lost his wife and was married > again. > He married Miss Thude _____, and Margaret Crowley was married last spring > to > a Mr. Hugh Fields. He is a very fine man. Uncle Jack Crowley and family > are > well. > The blacks have all left him but four, three women and one boy. My mother > and stepfather are well. They living in Greenville. This is a real nice > little place there is too stores here one blacksmith shop, one wood shop, > sadlers shop and too good doctors Denham and a doctor Sheets, a good > church. > We have preaching once a month by the circuit preacher, southern Methodist > and generally every two weeks. The are going to commence a tented meeting > here the tenth of this month. I hope we all have a good meeting. The > crops > looks well. Corn is very good, wheat, rye and oats are good. We have a > good > sugar cane patch. We make melons enough every year to do us. The people > have > got to raising right smart cotton in Missouri, some raise as high as three > and four hundred pounds. I have been wanting to rite to you a long time > but did not no whether letters could get to you or not. Neither do I no > whether this will reach you but I hope it will. _____ Crowley has been > talking of writing > ever since he got a letter from Benjamin but did not think they would get > it. If you get this immediately and let us hear from you all once more, > for > we are serious to hear from you all and no how you are getting along. Mr. > West left here week before last going to Dallas. We would send a letter by > him if we had known when he was going to start rite soon. Give my love and > respects to all and receive a portion yourselves. [change in > handwriting] > This war has been reched on us. We have lost a great deal by it. We > greatly > feel the knead of what we have lost. Taxes is about to breake us up. They > have been very high for several years but double this year to last year. > Times are rather unsettled here. Every few days some are killed. The > policy > of our State is very bad. The radicals has the rule. We look for bad times > at the next election, but the people are determined to change policy. > There > is a large majority of Johnson men in this state, if they can vote. Our > county has > but few radicals. In upwards of 2 thousand in favor of Johnson's > reconstruction policy. I will give you a short history of the times. > Money > is a little secarser than it has been, property high good horses 2 hundred > dollars, mules about the same, milch cows from 35 to 75 dollars, 3 year > old > steers 50, 2year old 35, one year old 20 to 25, hogs from 8 to 10 cts > groce > per pound. hemp about 12 dollars per hundred. We greatly mourn the loss > of > our dear brother Hiram but we hope he is where all the angels of heaven is > rejoicing. Tell his companion to weep not for him for he died in a good > cause but trust in God and persevere in holiness. Louisa J. Crowley > [return to original handwriting] We have eight children living, four > girls > and four boys. Our too youngest are boys Charley Davis and Edward Lee. He > is > in his third year. [handwriting of Louisa] When this comes to hand > please write fourth with direct to Prospect Hill, Clay Co. Mo. Yours in > true > love in Simpathy > through life. E. P. Crowley Louisa J. Crowley > > > > --------------------------------- > Check out the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta - Fire up a more powerful email and > get things done faster. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message