Houston County GaArchives History - Letters .....Wm. Brown Letter To J. W. Kinsey 1847 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sloan S. Mason http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00023.html#0005630 August 22, 2022, 8:14 pm Transcribed by Sloan Mason slomas7@comcast.net Source: Edna W. Curl & Williams Family Collection (Lenoir Co., NC) Jones County, NC Enoch Noble Collection Letter from Wm. BROWN to J. W. KINSEY 26 May 1847 Henderson, Houston County, the 26th May 1847 Dear friend, this moment I seat myself down to drop you a few lines, it is with a Solemn and a mournful heart that I try to write I have had many hard and difficult trials in my past life, but God in his favor has visited us and has taken from me the nearest and dearest bosom friend my wife. O there is none but those that Experience can tell loss of a tender and an affectionate Mother and a dutiful good wife, My Eyes rough? in tears my heart mourns for her loss, She was sick for months or more and was reduced to the poorest object I ever saw for better then two months confined to her room most part of this time helpless but perfectly in her senses all the time. I think that she thought for sometime before she died that she could not over it in her greatest illness she would cast her affectionate Eyes on her dear little Infant - not Six months old and Exclaim bless your precious Sweet little Eyes, I am not able to say what her disease was, two doctors said She had Dropsy of the Chest & another said she never had the dropsy at all but her disease were all in her stomach, she died the 17th of last March amongst all my distress there i is one thing Comforts me, she left testimony behind that she would be happy she was asked several times who she felt about death whether she was willing to die she said nothing troubled her but leaving her Little children. I have all faith to believe that she lived a Christian life for some years. I trust that the Lord in his Mercy rewarded her and that she is now a Shining Angel in Heaven. I pray this Lord it may be my happy lot to live in the strong faith that I think she died in and the rest of my Family are all in reasonable health with some little Exception. I had the misfortune to loose a fine young Negroe Woman last fall with typhus fever as the doctor said. I don’t know of any particular complaint amongst any of our connection at this time. we have had a backward cold spring there are vey bad strands of Cotten and Corn both in many places. I hear of (in some of the upper Country the grass happen has Eat up there Cotten so that many of the farmers have to plough & plant again some wheat crops are about Common in this Section. I shall make a plenty & so spare. If I can save? it some people are cutting a week ago these that got good favored plants of Corn now talks about laying by. I have now quite Large Enough though there is corn tosling? in the fields as I have had some say If we should be fortunate Enough to make good crops of Cotton the prospect is flattering for a good price I think our Macon Market is about $10.00 to $10.50 for Cotton. corn here in the Country 50 C. for bushel one while in the spring corn took a great rise in Savannah & some thought it would go up with — but not so I think it is now at its best. Bacon is Hawling though the Country for Sale at 8 C about the same as my Corn. You speak about moving and If knew of any such a place as you describe I do not particularly know of any. Our place that would suit you but I know there is always Land sellers Enough so that I think you could buy a very good place with the amount of money you mentioned and If you were disposed to Extend your credit and buy a valuable place I don’t know Exactly where you have settled but I think I can go down here in Dooly and buy a place for three or four hundred dollars that is 202 per acres that would be worth 1000 acres are many places of the Beaverdam. I have lately bin? a small visit in Dooly, Eight or ten miles and Even assure you I am real pleased with some of their piney woods farms. I never like to Flatter a man and tell him that things are thus & so & at the same time they are not but I do Easily say that I do think there is a far better chance here for a move to being & get Land there there is there one of my neighbors sold out his Land & moved about Eight miles in Dooly & bought 405 acres of piny woods Lands for $12.00 as cash with very good Log buildings and about 100 acres open land which he says last year Brought from 600 to 1000 lbs of Cotten to the acres & the land does surely look good Enough to bring that or more for the man that toward? it was not called a good farmer. I should be very glad If you would move and any Information that I can furnish you with it write to me when you receive this and state me all about things in the old country tell Cozin Enoch that I am sorry he found Georgia on Bever Creek that I think he had better sell off and Come to Georgia for I think he can find some Land here a little better then he has bought I must close. Give my best respects to Enoch & his family, your Father & family & Except of a large share for your self, wife and family & all inquiring finds. I remain your friend & well wishes. Wm. BROWN To J.W. KINCEY Mr. J. W. KINCEY Trenton, Jones County No. Carolina Additional Comments: Letter images available at this link http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/jones/images/letters/brown/brown01.htm File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/houston/history/letters/wmbrownl823gms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 5.8 Kb