Banks-Franklin County GaArchives History - Letters .....James Norwood Letter (typed As Written) May 25, 1869
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Homer, Georgia           May 25, 1869

Mr J.T. Walker & Mary Ann

Dear Son and Daughter.  I rote you by John House which is the last time that I 
have rote till now but I have not recieved an answer from you since.  I allso 
rote to Thompson & Liza.  Know answer from them either.

We are all able to be on foot but not very will.  Epsy is complaining.  I 
myself have ruematisum in my legs and ankles that troubles me very much as of 
late, though I work, not of choice but of necesity.  Our wheat prospects is 
pretty promising we think.  Our cotton prospects never looked so gloom at this 
time in the spring.  This month has been cold all the time.  And cotten looks 
like doing nothing.  Indeed nothing can grow much, the ground is kept so 
cold.  I am scarse of corn I have not one bundle of fodder nor could I get it 
if I had gold to give for it.  It is not to be had.  In all thin country there 
is know fruit.  Neither peach or apple.  In our country blackberrys & grapes 
is our only chance for fruit this year.  I am attending but a small crop this 
year.  James L. & myself is all to work.  Willey and the girls younger than 
himself is in school.  I have my land rented out.  Some for the third and some 
in the hands of freedmen on halves.  They all seeem to be working well.  
Should God bless us with a good season we may make enough to live on.

Thurman I wish you to send me some money, if it is ever so little in order 
that I may place it as a credit upon your papers, as I may be stepping over my 
rights & by that means be bared by the statute of  limitations, you can see my 
object.  It is to keep my papers from running out of date.  You have proof I 
think that I have every desire to favor you all I can, but while I am 
     (rest of letter missing)



Additional Comments:
This letter gives us glimpse of the hard times after the Civil War.
James Norwood, writer of this letter, was writing to his son-in-law John 
Thurman Walker and his daughter, Mary Ann Norwood Walker, who were living in 
Thomas County, Georgia. They had moved to Thomas County from Homer in 1861.
His reference to "Epsy" was his second wife Epsy Green Hardy Norwood. James L. 
was a son, James Lewis Norwood.   Willey was a son, William Carter Norwood.
James Norwood married first, Elvira Ann Maddox Jan 31, 1827. Elvira died near 
Homer Aug 23, 1836.  He married second, Epsy Hardy Feb 13, 1837.
James died May 2, 1872 near Homer.

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