Cherokee County GaArchives History - Letters .....Morgan-Gober Letter September 12 1870
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Annie Gober Freeman aunt_albertine@hotmail.com June 11, 2004, 4:38 pm

Georgia, Cherokee County
September the 12 1870

My dear brother and sister

i vow will seat myself to write you a few lines whitch haves me well hopeing 
when this comes to hand it may find you enjoying the same blesing.  i want to 
see you very mutch and tell you about all of my troubels i have sen this year.  
i have lost my dear Companion.  She depearted this he 10 of July and i believ 
she is gone home to rest whear i believ all the redeemed of the Lord will meet 
in a coming day and i hope to the lord we will all meet her thear whear we will 
part no mor  i am left along to griev by myself but i believ that the good lord 
is with me and i hope you will pray for me that the good lord will still 
continue his goodness with me and i do want you to pray for me and i still try 
to remember you.  i went to meeting last Saturday and Sunday and after 
preaching, we met around the table and took what we call the lord's supper and 
then we got don and washed one anothers feet and we had a good meeting.  i cant 
tell you my feelings.  i will hav to  stop a while for i cant write for 
crying.  i lost a year old colt in the spring and two weaks after i lost my 
wife my mair died and i got my crop worked one time.  i was plowing  in it when 
my mar died but i think i will mak a nuf to due me.  Well nancy i will tel you 
about our folks i hav saw none of them in over a year.  ower preacher told mee 
he saw mother the fourth Sunday in July and she was well.  She was at meeting  
at old ebeeneeser Church at meeting.  i though i wold try to get her to liv 
with mee if i could.  you wrote that you wanted mee to come to see you.  i 
dount see any chanch now times is hard about money and i owe the doctr about 
$100.50 which will be more than i can pay now.  Haris i will tel your sisters 
prayer for mee the morning she died.  She called me to her and took mee around 
the neck  and sed may the lord bless you forever i pray my good and kind 
husband.  I could telel you more but i havt got time now.  i want you to write 
what has becom of William and pinkney if you know and anday also.

So, i will close 
by saying i sttill 
remine your brother
untel death

H.A. Morgan


Additional Comments:
This letter was written by Hardy A. Morgan to his sister, Nancy S. Morgan and 
her husband, William Harrison Gober.  Hardy was married to Lucretia Gober, as 
sister of William Harrison Gober.  Hardy Morgan lived in the Cross Keys area. 
The letter is stained with several large teardrops.

Hardy Morgan and Lucretia Gober had no children.  Hardy eventually remarried 
Nancy Cook on June 8, 1879 in Cherokee County.  Hardy and Nancy Morgan were two 
of the children of James and Sarah. Morgan. Sarah's maiden name was thought to 
be Kirksey.  "Anday" was a brother, Andrew Jackson Morgan who married Elizabeth 
B Bramlett and migrated to Mississippi.  He died in Choctaw County, MS in 
1889.  William was either their brother, John William Morgan or William Asbury 
Gober, the oldest son of Andrew Jackson Morgan.  Pinkney Morgan  had also moved 
to Mississippi.  Other siblings were  John William, James Daniel,  Henry Asa, 
Robert, Elizabeth, Crawford, Mary Jane and Salathiel Morgan.  

William Harrison and Lucretia Gober were the children of Wiley Gober, and the 
grandchildren of William Gober III and Elizabeth Burns.  Other known siblings 
were Wiley Gaines, Franklin Newton, Sophronia, Bushrod Washington, and 
Greenberry.  Greenberry also lived in Cherokee County, and served in the CSA as 
a 2nd sgt., 43rd Infantry Company B. 


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