Letter to George Washington Sizemore, Cullman, Alabama http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/cullman/history/letters/gwsizemore.txt ================================================================================ USGENWEB NOTICE: All documents placed in the USGenWeb Archives remain the property of the contributors, who retain publication rights in accordance with US Copyright Laws and Regulations. In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, these documents may be used by anyone for their personal research. They may be used by non-commercial entities so long as all notices and submitter information is included. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit. Any other use, including copying files to other sites, requires permission from the contributors PRIOR to uploading to the other sites. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed and copyrighted by: Debbie Hulsey Zouras ================================================================================ October 2002 Clarksvill Ark Sept 8 1901 Mr G W Sizemore Dear friend it is with pleasure that I ans your letter which I receved last Monday was glad to heare from you and to hear that you all was well all are up able to get about Joe and hap have been chilling and mother has had the fever well i guess you think we write mighty curous back thin in one letter we are all well and in another we are all sick we are hable to take sick at anytime I was proud to hear that you all had a good corn crop for they aint a making any corn hear to amount to anything they last week in August was so hot that it nearly rnent the cotton you wrothe that you all was having rain we have not had any rain since July and it is hot and ever thing is burning up I dont rechan you ever saw cotton a___ as ____ as it is hear in your life I have got out four bales and 2 open in the patch I think I will be ____ ab 10 bales and may be 12 I will send you the weight of my bales af cotton that I have had here up the first 492 598 lbs 532 lbs 536 ______ _______ of my ___ cotton is 2088 lbs I havent sold any cotton yet I am wighting for a better price cotton is selling at 8 cts you wrote that I may get the preach at but ___ ___ _ about preach for less than $5 ___ a yeare and the money in advance and if I fail to fill my ___ appointments I will get T B H to fill them for me tell Hodge to write another preach to the Joppe and tell us when the balance ab the___ (There may have been more pages but this is all I have)