Decatur County GaArchives History - Letters .....A Letter from Mary Tallulah Spooner March 20 1899
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  Attapulgus Ga. Mar 20eth 1899
My Dear aunt -
              Your letter was rceived and red with much pleasure. Please 
exchose me for my bad writing I don't feel much like writing this evening.
I am sick with cold and fever have been sick for three four days we are all 
sick with cole and fever Ma was in bed near a week but is up now but not well
sister Liew Ellen was in bed for three or four days last week is up now but not 
weell Buddy was in bed a day is up now but not well sister Vianna ben down yet, 
Pa havent' eather. Feb. 12th it snowed from about 11 or 12 oclock untill in
the nigh the snow was on the grownd 3 days I beleive it was about the coldest 
time I ever saw. How are you all now I am sorry you are all sck hoping you will 
all get well. Aunt Mary died the 10 of Mar She has a sufferer for svreal years
and is better off now. Aunt I would be glad to be there but for the partys I 
don't care any thing for them I haven't been to but two and did'nt enjoy them. 
The patracted meeting is to begin the first sunday in september and is 
expecting a Irsh preacher to help. I will send you the children some poppy seed 
I think they are ver pretty red flower. I will send cowan Chloe a flower that I 
made hers is the one with the blue streak    I will send cousin Alethea a 
flower the largest one I will send the baby the smallest one and a little
hatchet please tell him to go to cuting down new ground with his little hatchet 
tell the girls to tie there flowers on a green vine or on a green bush.
Plese write soon and often.
   Yours truely
  Tulula Spooner 

  

 




 




Additional Comments:
This letter was given to me some time ago by my Uncle Birdie May of Edinburgh, 
Bradley County, Arkansas.  It is from Mary Tallulah Spooner to Elizabeth 
Brunson-Ingram. Elizabeth was married to Jackson Henry Ingram, Jr. of Decatur 
County, Georgia.  Mary Tallulah was his sister Martha Jane's daughter.

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