Lemuel Colton, Jr. to Ella Fletcher and Lemuel Colton to Andrew and Ruth Fletcher, 1868 December 27
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i take the opportunity to answe you letter i reseive abought fore week ago i have
ben so buysy tha i diding get time to write i wish you happy Newyear i am
taching school this winter abought ten miles from home i came hom a Chrismas
eavning i went to a party i had a good time i was to [ ] school last Night Father & Mother is well at
present sleying is very poor here i hand three or fore sley rides this winter i
have abought twenty Scholars that comes
to School to me i went to
School last Sumer i got kict last fall and i was laid up litle while i thought i
would never get overe it but i am abought over it well Ela i thank you for
writing me to come out and see you but i cant come out this winter you must come
out and see us well Ela i must bring my leter to a close fore i have to my
School to day you must excuse all my writing fore it is Sunday Morning So more no more fore this time you truly Ela write Sone
as you can Ela Fletcher
from you cosinLemuel Colton Junior
Lemuel Colton to Andrew and Ruth Fletcher, 1868 December 27 (?) Dear Brother & Sister
I embrace the opportunity of writing a few lines to you as Lemuel is writing to
Ella to inform you of the death of Brother Shepard he died the 7th of last March
in hopes of a glorious immortality and has gone to his new and Lyman & his
family & Verona and her were well a few days ago we enjoy tolerable health
at present but have got to be verry infirm there has been a survey for a Rail
Road here and it runs across one corner of my farm we should be verry glad to
see you out here but are unable to come out there we have a comfortable home
and have raised enough the past season to make us comfortable and
ought feel thankful for it we are better off for a living then I ever expected
to be but am reminded that my race is almost over but it does not matter when if
we are prepared to meet God in peace I should have wrote to you of the death of
Brother Shepard but suppose that Lyman had wrote give my love to Sister Lydia
and family and tell them that we should be verry glad to see them out here the
coming sumer we have to live alone this winter as Lemuel is a teaching school I
will have to close for the present write as often as you can
Your Brother and SisterLeml & M Colton