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Unkown to Dear Uncle, April 6, 1861, page 1

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  • At home. Ray Co. Missourri April the 6th AD 1861 Dear uncle I take my pen In hand to inform you we are all well at present & doing verry (sic, very) well for it is a raining almost every day & we have to sit by the fiers (sic) we have not done but verry (sic) little plowing yet & it is so wet we cannot plow for some time. times are verry (sic) dull here nothing is selling but little; corn is worth $2.00 cts per bbl. You requested me in your letter to write you the particulars of fathers death a request that is painfull (sic) to think of let lone have to write it although to comply with your request I feel it my duty to write to you the particulars as well as I can about the first of May last he appeared to become troubled in his mind & complained of the heat hearting (sic, hurting) him. (now in the first place the doctors says it was the heat that caused all; him being so fleshy weying (sic) about three hundred pounds the heat from his flesh caused his blood to run to his head & soften his brain that caused his rite (sic) mind to leave him; this was what several doctors said before they heared (sic, heard) how he was worked so when I tell you how he was worked it will prove to you just as the Dr. said) & complained of great pain in his head & had his hear (sic, hair) trimed (sic) clost (sic) to his head & talked wild & flity & kept gitting (sic) worse as the hot weather increased. I & the youngest brother of mine Bird Shelton boy that was working for us Marshall it was; was working on the prairie farm about three miles from home or from the old home & uncle Tom Misemer’s daughter Matilda was there cooking for us….. & he lingered on & appeared to be troubled about the way his mind was going & would not let us tell any body for he said he did not want any person to know how he was & said he was going to lose his mind & whe (sic, we?) was not goind (sic?) to rais (sic) any thing & every thing was going to rack or be distroyed (sic) & something bad was going to befall us all I was at home on the 5 day of July or left home that morning and he appeared flighty in his min & sayed (sic) something bad was going to befall us all & said he could not last long his self & I left home that morning the 5 of July & about the 9 or 10 there was a dove lit down in the yard clost (sic) to the door & cood (sic) like doves commonly do
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  • In this letter of April 6, 1861, Unknown writes their uncle from Ray County, Missouri to let him know they are well, but it is too wet to plow. He or she is answering a previous letter from the uncle by explaining their father’s death. The letter details the particulars of their father’s mystery illness starting about the first of May 1860 and lasting until his death July 12, 1860. It is likely that the letter is referring to the death of Jacob Misemer. The letter is cut short by at least one missing page.

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