Houston COUNTY GA Historical Letter McCoy to Crutchfield File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Carol Dana1895@cs.com http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/houston/history/crutch.txt Houston County Georgia , November 28, 1860 Mr. John Crutchfield, Dear cousin, I again write you a few lines informing you a few lines informing you that we are all well, hoping this to find you the same.We are very much disturbed of our future event for we have made a very short crop and can't sell cotton at all now. I saw corn sell yesterday at a sale for 180 - 155 in twelve months time. There amongst all of this, we have a President elected that our Southern people it seems are determined not to serve under. What affect it will have I cannot tell. Well you requested for me to send the ages of you all from the old record, I do so with pleasure. Meredith Crutchfield was born April 28, 1818, Thomas June 23, 1820 John was born November 18, 1823. Sarah was born May 22,1828 died June 20, 1841. Grandfather WM Statham June 19, 1846 Grandmother Frances Statham died June 16, 1848. Aunt Eliza Statham died January 10, 1856 your mother's age is not recorded but you can come near it by Uncle John & Meredith if you know which of them were the oldest, I will ascertain from the Tomb Stones and write you in my next letter. Dear cousin I hope you have received your money I have your receipt for the amount and I have no idea of there ever being any disfunction about it. For it is too small amount for that. I have paid all the heirs and it has been a great of trouble to me for there were so many heirs. I wish you to take these receits I send and sign and have them signed by a justice of the peace and two witnesses as these have not the county and state on them. That is all they lack. Your true friend until death Meredith McCoy In transcribing this letter I tried to keep it true to form and much of the spelling the same as the original. Transcribed by: Carol http://ourworld.cs.com/dana1895/myhomepage/family.html Read about the Crutchfield family. ======================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other presentation. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for FREE access. ==============