Gwinnett-Forsyth-Madison County GaArchives History - Letters .....Knox, J. W. To Pool, I. M. Letter Dated April 19, 1884 April 19, 1884
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From: Duluth, GA
To: Cedar Grove, Ala. (Near Leeds)

Date: April 19, 1884

(Note: Four of Isaac Mitchell "Mitch" Pool III's family members died February 
19, 1884 from the results of a tornado in the Cahaba Valley near Leeds, 
Alabama.)

Dear Mitchell,

     I read your letter about two weeks since and have been expecting to hear 
from you again before this time.  We are very anxious to hear from you often.  
You ought to let Uncle Isaac (Isaac Strickland Jr. - s/o of Isaac Strickland 
and Mary Hargrove) hear from you once a week of no more.  He inquires every 
time he comes to town about you.  We are getting along tolerably well.  John 
Craft is staying in the store with us.  He makes a pretty hand considering.  I 
think it suits him very well to stay in a store.  We are making slow progress 
with the lumber yard, but all soon getting ___ bank, and lumber to build 
with.  We are troubled about a carpenter to do the wood work.  W.E. Johnson is 
the only chance and he has been sick some time.  Not very sick but not able to 
work.  Zack (Zachariah Taylor Roberts - married Sarah Frances Lenoir, d/o Ann 
Chapel Rogers and John Wilson Lenoir) and Alex Roberts (Alexander Pitcarin 
Roberts - married Emma Elizabeth Lenoir, d/o Ann Chapel Rogers and John Wilson 
Lenoir) have gone to Florida.  We had a terrible rain here last Monday night.

     The creek and rivers were higher than they have been for many years so 
the old settlers say.  I have got your watch & pistol.  Will take care of them 
till some chance to get them to you.  We are selling a great deal on credit 
again this year as usual.  I have not collected anything on last years 
accounts.  Scrap city since you left.  I am afraid the farmers are going to 
heavy on time.  The grain trade is pretty good.  Banker and I have sold 86 
sacks today.  We have sold about one hundred tons in all.  There has been 
right smart sickness around here this spring and several deaths but none that 
you are intimately acquainted with.  The school here and farmers academy are 
holding up very well.

     Mitchell I know you like to get letters from out here, but it looks like 
I can't write anything to interest you.  The younsters are very quite even 
since you left. When you write to me again you write to me to get your money 
from Fly (Madison "Fly" Strickland - s/o Isaac Strickland Jr. & 
Elizabeth "Betsy" Gilbert and Mitchell's uncle) and I will get after him for 
you.  I don't know as it will do any good but we can try and see.  W.E. Jones 
has sold his plantation to Bill Bone of Lawrenceville (Georgia) and is fixing 
to go to Florida.

     Write soon as you can.

     J.W. Know (John Wilson Knox)

Additional Comments:
John Wilson Knox
Born: May 25, 1856 Georgia
Died: May 14, 1943 Georgia
Father: Samuel Wilson Knox
Mother: Mary Ann Strickland (d/o Henry & Anna Strickland)
Spouse # 1: Willie J. Goodwin
Spouse # 2: Evelyn Lewis

Isaac Mitchell Pool
Born: June 24, 1860 Leeds (Cahaba Valley), Jefferson Co., Alabama
Died: March 28, 1946 Leeds, Jefferson Co., Alabama
Father: Isaac Mitchell Pool (1833-1867)
Mother: Martha Strickland (1843-1920)d/o Isaac Strickland & Elizabeth Gilbert)
Stepfather: John Columbus Pool (brother of Isaac Mitchell Pool 1833-1867)

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