Clay County AlArchives Photo document.....Anderson, Elizabeth Betsy (Letter 2)   1868
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Alabama Clay County May 24th 1868  

                                     Elizabeth Joiner I avail my Self of 
this opertunity of writing you a few lines to let you no I am in tolerable 
helth and hope these line may reach you soon and find you all well., I will 
now give you a out line of how things is going on on your place. Chares 
Rasco is tairing up the place he has 3 cropers and has cleared all the land 
above the mil and lane and tore up the mill house and thrash and bolt  and 
ses you never will get any rent and he has never cut me afire of wood nor 
got me a pine not since you left and I don't get a thing from him only part 
of my bred and he ses the expence will take all the rent and you will get 
nothing now this I write to you to let you no how things is and I don't 
want you to let Charles no anything about what I write I want you to 
come and see how things is I don't want them mad with me it is bad 
anough without their being mad with me., I want to see you al very bad 
and I want you all to come back I want to kiss that Pretty little gal of 
Victorias if James and George will come back I will give them a cow 
apeace and Mark a three year old steer if you all will come back there is 
houses for you all to live in on the place and Cleared land apleny., Joiner 
wrote none of you would not come back in several year and Charles has 
gone to work and is going to rebild the mill and thrash this season the 
place is all you will ever get and I would get it this winter before he ruins 
it any wors you had better come back this fall rember my love to Goode 
and his wife tell them I was sorry to hear of their loosing their little girl 
but their loss is her infinite gain., I send howdy to you all so I must close 
at this time this is for your good.,
                                     Elizabeth Anderson.,  
N.B. I want you to write to me on the receipt of this whether you are 
comeing back or not and what you are going to do

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Additional Comments:
This letter was written in Clay County, Alabama in 1868 by 
Elizabeth Betsy Anderson (the mother of William C. Anderson) 
to her daughter-in-law, Elizabeth Lott Anderson Joiner, who was 
in Bell County, Texas. After William C. was killed in the Civil War on 
June 27, 1862, Elizabeth Lott Anderson married G. W. Joiner. 
In September 1865 Elizabeth Lott and G. W. Joiner left Alabama and 
moved with their children to Texas.
This letter is one of two letters that were in a metal bank box that 
belonged to Jefferson Mills and his wife Mary Elizabeth Anderson Mills.  
The other letter was written to Mary Elizabeth Anderson (granddaughter of the 
letter writer).
The bank box also contained numerous original land deeds to Jefferson Mills 
beginning in 1857. Also in the box were property tax receipts. 
The box was given to me (Eva Jo Butler) @ 1980 by Bertha Parrott Swan (Tots). 
She and my mother (Aura Belle Coker Jones) were granddaughters of Mary 
Elizabeth Anderson Mills.
Another complete transcription of both letters, profile of Elizabeth Anderson 
and color scanned images can be seen at 
http://www.genrecords.net/alclay/history/anderson.html


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