Letter from Sarah Price to her son, John Price, 1843 - Jackson Co., AL ******************************************************************* USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Lygia D. Cutts ALGENWEB Archives File Manager ******************************************************************* Contributed by Janis Price Lindemann JULY 1999 If you are a Descendant from this Price family and would like a paper copy of the original letter, please send a SASE to: Janis Price Lindemann 1809 Bradley Lane Russellville, Arkansas 72801-4747 Letter from Sarah Price to her Son & Daughter, 1843 ENVELOPE INFORMATION Return Address: Woodville, Alabama TO: Mr. John Price Jackson County Pope County Stamped Date: Nov. 30th Scotia Arkansas -------------------- Nov. 18, 1843 Dear Son and Daughter I wonce more take the opertunity of writing you a few lines in order to inform you that myself and the rest of the family are injoying good health at present and ardently desire that when this ltiterat mesage comes to hand that it may find you and your family Enjoying like Blesing. Although I have some sickness this sumer but are much better at this time & Polly Smith has been very sick but is improving very fast & your sister Peggy has the Ague for a long time but us now Enjoying very good health. Your sister Elizabeth has another heir & calls its name Sarah Elizabeth we are now living on the East side of Paint rock on a tract of land containing Eighty which we have purchased from widow Justice for which we are to two hundred and fifty dollars we have five years to pay for it fifty dollars anualy & there is some adjoining it that we have purchas from the heres of widow Lewis. This tract Containing thirty Acre. You wanted to know whether we had any Idea of moving to wher you live I think it is doubtful whether Robert and David will but I cannot say that I am contented here I want to see you and your family very much and would be glad that you could come to see us times are very hard in respect to money matters though there is fine crops of corn & cotton has been raised here. Cotton is not worth one dollar twelve & half cents per hundred & corn is worth only seventy cents per Barrel Your Aunt Martha Anderson is dead She died last March was a year ago and William Anderson is married to Susan Kinemere & Sarah Anderson maried David Jones Briton Jones Brother and he died the first of August last his wife had a fine sone one or two days before his death and he named him Felix and she is (paper torn)--ture and her Brother Birton is living with her. Your Grandmothers Mother is not living with us she is living in Tennesssee at your Uncle Fan and she was in good health last account we haad from her we sih you to write Imediately after the reception of this as I wish to here from you very much but would be much more Gratified if you came to see us. You wish to know where your Aunt Norvil is she is living in Mississippi in about Forty miles of the Holley Springs & I canot tell You how she is prepared to pay the Debt you spoke about in your letter. She moved to that State two or three years ago and we have not herd but vary little about her since she mooved away befor I lay down my pen I will inform you that John Keel and his wife is both dead. They wer picking out cotton and a large tree fell on them they were both baried in one coffin I do know that that I have any thing more of importance to write to you at present that we all Join in sending our best love and complyments to Mr. Gibsons Family. I am with Respect your affectionate Mother till Death Arliew Sarrah Price