CAMPBELL COUNTY, GA - HISTORIC RECORDS - Letter Joel Yates, Cherokee County, Ala, to his son-in-law, Robert B Smith, Campbell Co., Ga.

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Letter from Joel Yates, Cherokee County, Ala, to his son-in-law, Robert B Smith, Campbell Co., Ga.

 

Alabama, Cherokee Co, June 25, 1854

 

Dear Children:

 
I this morning take pen in hand for the purpose of
writing you a few lines, as it has been some time since I
have written or heard from you, to let you know that
these lines leave us in good health for which I desire to
be thankful to Almighty God, and I hope that they might
find you the participant of the same like blessing.
Though we have nothing of very great importance to write
at present, the connections I think in this country are
all well at present.



Emily Richardson has a tumor or cancer in one of her
breasts which it is feared will prove fatal and that
before long.  Our crops look tolerable well at present,
they are clean.  There has been a good deal of rain for
the last six weeks, which makes the grass and weeds hard
to contend with.  Our wheat crops are generally tolerably
good I suppose; I shall harvest some 80 or 100 bushels of
wheat when got out.  Old wheat has been selling at one
dollar a bushel, corn 75 cents, bacon 10 cents a lb.



There is a great deal of excitement here about mining.
It is thought our mountains are rich with metals,
sulphur, iron, copper, zinc and silver companies are
coming in testing and taking leases.  I don’t know that
any rich vein has yet been struck.  The territory alluded
to lies sough of the Alabama road on the state line in to
Benton County.  Hardly a family in this neighborhood
without but what has samples to show.



I received a letter from Jared Richardson’s folks,
dated 10th instant, stating they were all well and
getting along about as usual.  I received Jefferson’s
letter last Spring, asking me to write to Jared’s folks
requiesting some of them to meet Sarah and some of you to
meet them here this Summer that wrote to your mother to
feed her shoat till the 10th or 15th of September.  It
was their intention to be here by that time with Polly
and some of the youngest children.  Therefore, we hope we
shall see Polly and Sally together at their father’s
house once more in this world, and hope our spirits will
meet in the world of immortality of bliss never more to
part.  Search the scriptures and exercise your best
judgment what they testify of Christ.



We wish you to write what your intention is about coming
as soon as you get this.  Give our respects to our
friends.  Tell Elizabeth Barefield that I was at Thomas
Richardson’s a few days ago and that they were all well
and doing well.



So I come to a close by subscribing myself your
affectionate Father till death.

 

To:  R. B. Smith                                                                   Joel Yates

 

Note:  the above is a copy of an original letter written
with the spelling and composition corrected to conform
with present day usage.  The original letter in
possession of Miss Lucy Smith, Palmetto, Ga RFD #1.
Copied by Adlai Robin Yates of Bogalusa, Louisiana,
August 25, 1937