Monroe County GaArchives History - Letters .....Letter From Amanda Jane (Buff) Thurmond To Her Husband William Harrison Thurmond, Jr. October 15, 1871
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							Forsyth, Ga.
							Oct. 15th, 1871.
My dear husband:
	I write this and put it in my trunk, hoping you may find it some 
future day.  I am prest with a belief too plain for me to be misstaken, that I 
must die in a few days, my body may be lying in the cold clay ere you find 
this, dear husband, not withstanding death is only a spans reach.  I am 
happy.  In my imagination I can see mother in Heaven, in all my dreams about 
her since her death, I have dreamed of seeing her in heaven.  I hope to meet 
her there.  Jesus is loving and kind May God have mercy on you.  I know you 
are a good moral, and kind man Will you not pray to God to forgive your sins 
and meet me in heaven, where we can prais God for ever.  Dear husband take 
care of the little children—treat them with kindness, and respect them, and 
train them to love each other.  Tru [Thru?] some cause God chooses to take me 
from them.  O, that I could live to train them in the way they should go.  May 
God have mercy on them Dear husband I pray you will set a good example before 
them, and teach them to love their Savior.  Dear husband please read what I 
have written here every Sabath morning, that your memory may be refreshed of 
your dear wife who has always been so loving and kind to you and the 
children.  God bless you all.  May we all meet in Heaven is my prayer.
 	Your loving wife
		A. J. Thurmond


Additional Comments:
Punctuation and spelling has been copied as written.  According to family 
legend, Amanda left this letter in the trunk where she kept the children's out 
of season clothes so her husband would find it when he got their clothes out 
the following season.

Amanda Jane Buff was born 17 May 1829, the daughter of David Buff and Sarah 
(Smith) Buff.  Amanda died on 28 October 1871, the same day as her last son, 
George Lee Thurmond, was born.  Notice that the letter is dated only a few 
weeks before her death.

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