Coffee County GaArchives History - Letters .....John Lewis Palmer Letter To His Sister Lilly Palmer January 13, 1919
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John Lewis Palmer Letter to Lilly Palmer, Jan 13, 1919

[On Palmer-Chambliss Hardware Co. Letterhead]

J. L. Palmer and C. F. Chambliss
Palmer-Chambliss Hardware Co.
Dealers in Hardware
Terms Cash – Interest Charged After 30 Days
Oliver Plows, Mowers, Rakes, Binders and American Wire Fencing
Also Exclusive Agents for Famous Roberson Cutlery

Broxton, Ga., Jan. 13, 1919

Dear Lilly,
We received your letter yesterday and was glad to hear from you. Yes, Ludie died
Dec 19th. It was a great shock to us all and it leaves me in a bad fix. Six
little children to look after besides Lee and Estelle. The baby has been real
sick for a week. We thought Friday it wouldn’t live, but I am glad to say it is
so much better this morning, and believe it will soon be well. It has a stomach
trouble caused from feeding it. He was nursing and we had to go to feeding him.
He vomited everything he ate for 4 days, then his eyes and face began to swell.
The Dr. said it was a poison caused from eating.
Ludie died I suppose with acute indigestion caused from the condition the
Influenza left her stomach in and then ate something that didn’t agree with her.
She was first taken on Tuesday morning while cooking breakfast. We got the Dr.
and she got easy in about 2 hours and Wednesday worked all day. Wednesday night
she had an other spell but got over that about 10 o’clock that night. Thursday
morning she did not get up. She said she was so sore, but not in any pain and
about Dinner Thursday she was taken again and was nearly dead before we could
get the Dr. She died about 4 o’clock Thursday evening. 

Our baby liked 10 days of being a year old. Our two little ones names are Hugh
and Walter and the baby is name Carl. 

Estelle is with me now, but don’t know how long I can keep her as her husband
has a job in Douglas, but I will get on some how. I can cook and attend to them
my self. Mrs. Knowles is very feeble, not able to do much so she can’t help me;
Lena Mae, J.L. and Margarette are in school. All except the baby are doing nice
and are as fat as pigs.

I wish you could come to see us and stay a while. When is Charley coming? We
have looked for him ever since Christmas. We gave Ludie a nice burial. A solid
steel casket and a cement grave, and I hardly ever saw so many pretty flowers.
Some came from other towns as far as 25 miles. Ludie was a good wife and mother
and we miss her so much. No one but those who have experienced it can know
anything about it. I will close. Love to you and Charley. Write again.
				Your Bro,
					J.L. Palmer
p.s. We had just about gotten well when Ludie died. We had nine sick at one
time. Lee and I had Pneumonia. I am not real well yet, Can’t get to feeling
good. Lee seems to be all right. We certainly had a time, 2 Drs. and a trained
Nurse.
						J.L.P.



Additional Comments:
Transcribed by Anne Dunstan Palmer Johnson, April 24, 2007. Transcriber's Notes:
Letter written by John Lewis Palmer (residing in Broxton, Coffee Co., GA) to his
sister, Eliza “Lilly” Palmer (residing in Gulf, Chatham Co., NC) after the death
of his wife, Lucille Margaret “Ludie” Knowles. Lee and Estelle are John Lewis
Palmer’s eldest children (by his first wife, Lena Cole). The sick baby he refers
to is his youngest, son Carl Jenkins Palmer. Hugh and Walter are Hugh Knowles
Palmer, and Walter Woodrow Palmer. Mrs. Knowles is probably Ludie’s mother,
John’s mother-in-law, Mrs. Sarah Patience Hood Knowles.  Lena Mae, J.L, and
Margarette are his children Lena Mae Palmer, John Lewis Palmer, Jr. and Mary
Margaret Palmer. Charley is John Lewis’ brother, Charles Christian Palmer.
John Lewis Palmer died later in the same year the letter was written, in August
of 1919. At that point, the children were orphaned and split up between family
members in GA and NC. 


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