Union-Towns County GaArchives History - Letters .....letter from Jarrett Burch to Mr. and Mrs James K. Byers. July 12 1847
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Georgia Union County July 12 1847

Dear son and daughter.  I now avail myself of the opportunity to let you know 
that we are all well at present. Hoping these lines may find you all  (?)sing 
the same blessings.

I have not much of anything to write to you, only to let you know that we are 
all among the living, and are all where we can see each other, except Lewallen. 
He has volunteered and gone to Mexico.  Started July 6 with much grief to us 
both to see our son start to a foreign land never to see him again.  We have 
never received any letter from you.  I want you to write to me as soon as you 
read these lines without fail, for we believe by your not writing to us that 
your gone to Mexico.  If James has gone Ary, you must write to us and don't 
fail.  James, if you are not gone, don't never go to this Mexico and leave a 
dear companion and children to grieve after.  Sarah Ann was married April 17, 
1847 to Mr David Kisey (Kimsey).  James is a only child we have with us.  Crops 
is (?) in our country (injured?)by the wet weather not.  So lad cut not ???? 
any prospect of perishing.
So nothing more at present, but remaining your parents until death.
                                                    Jarret Burch
                                                    Emily Burch

Additional Comments:
A copy of the transcribed letter was sent me by Kathy Hoolihan.  This letter is 
mentioned in the book "Hearthstones of Home:Foundations of Towns County 
Georgia" edited by Jerry Taylor.  Where (?) appears I am unsure of the word 
I've corrected the spelling and grammar where obvious, but left all wording 
unchanged..  Punctuation was noticibly absent, perhaps partially due to the use 
of ink and quill.

The letter was written by Jarrett Burch to his daughter Ary Ann and her husband 
James Kuykendall Byers, who had moved to Jefferson County, Alabama in the early 
1840's.  Another daughter, Nancy Burch, married one of Jame's Byers brothers, 
Robert in Union County in 1829 and remained there.  Jarrett also signed his 
wife Emily's name to the letter.  The main theme of the letter was to inform 
Ary Ann that her brother, Lewallen Burch (1825-1847 or 48?), had left for the 
war with Mexico (he never returned) and to admonish his son in law James Byers, 
not to do the same.  The letter also mentions another daughter's (Ary's sister 
Sarah) marriage and that Ary Ann's brother James was now their only child in 
the house (that wouldn't last--by 1850, they would have 5 orphaned children of 
another daughter, Lydia Burch Allen). 
 
Jarrett and Emily Burch were married in Pendleton Dist. S.C. in 1805.  Two of 
Milly's sisters also married two of Jarrett Burch's brothers.  Jarrett Burch, a 
son of Judge Henry and Sussannah Burch of Pendleton Dist. S.C., died in 1856, 
in the part of Union Co. that became Towns County.  Emily (Milly) Burch was the 
daughter of the Revolutionary War Soldier Joseph Pinson and his wife Marjory.  
She'd die in Towns County at the age of 93 (1880 or 81).      

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