Elbert County GaArchives Photo Document.....Letter (Matthews To Joe Harris) 
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	Oglethorpe Co
				Sandy Cross Ga
				April the 12 1891
(page one)
Dear uncle Joe and family I thought I would right you a few lines to let you all
hear from us.  We are all well at this time we felt Saddie she is not very well.
 We have a fine girl a month old to day  I hope these few lens will find you all
well  I have nothing enteresting to right to you  I am badly behind with my crop
but are no futher behind than the rest of the farmers around here  Farmers are
probably behind.  Some few are planting cotton seed wheat is looking fine and
oats I have a very promising prospect for wheat crop and oats. My corn is coming
up a little.  We had a bad freeze hear last Sunday night. Saddie  pa and mea
have bin talking of coming up their for a month but he says it is to pretty
wether to stop to come. Now we have bin looking for you to come to Oglethorpe
every since cerismas but looking have all I would be glad you and family would
come down and sea as Rich. Bridges wife 
(page two)
Do not let miss Lizzy Rice sea this foolish letter have bin very sick about a
month she has cures spells but she keeps up Bee is not able to do nothing mutch
 Saddie pa aimed to come up their this week  he went down to uncle George Harris
one evening this week and borrowed his Surry Buggy to come up their in when he
got home he thought about his horses was plowing he had not thought of having to
plow he was thinking of comeing to Bowman to sea his daughter inlaw. You tell
her that all of the family is glad she is willing to come to Oglethorpe.  We
learned she said she was glad the family was glad she was comeing to Oglethorpe
 Tell her we just got the family together the other day to consult about it she
ought to of seen them all together she can gess how many they was  tell them
Bowman folks paper and stamps is give out shuly we do not get but 6 letters a
week from the office now would be glad to get more so I will colse my foolnish
You all must come down to sea us soon right soon  Let us hear from you all so
good by
				Yours Truly
		April the 12 1891  A D Mathews

Compliers note: Joseph Marion Harris had sold his property around Millstone
Church in Oglethorpe County to his brother in-law, J.T. Pass. He moved to the
Pleasant Grove  Church area in Madison County, near Bowman, Ga. around 1890 so
his children would have different people to marry. This letter was from a
relative in Oglethorpe County, Ga.  


Additional Comments:
This two page letter to Joseph Marion Harris from his relative in Oglethorpe
County, Georgia, after he moved to Madison Co., Ga. He is buried at Pleasant
Grove Church in Elbert County, Ga.  Joseph Marion Harris later moved to Bowman,
Ga. where he died in 1911.


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