CORRESPONDENCE: Matilda Blandford to James Burch, AFT. 1868, Bullitt Count, KY

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Transcribed by: Sallie Cannon SACANNON@prodigy.net
Date:  24 Oct 1999 
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    To follow, is parts of a letter that belonged to James Burch, b. 1816 in Bullitt Co., 
KY.  In 1835, James, his parents & siblings, left KY and moved to TX.  Although there is no 
date or address on the letter, due to other names mentioned in the letter, one in 
particular, Magruder, as in Levi Magruder, one would assume that the writer, Matilda 
Blanford, was living in Bullitt/Nelson Co. KY.
    In 1835, Samuel Burch & wife Dorothy Burch (parents of James Burch), sold their Nelson 
Co., KY land to Benedict Blandford of Nelson Co., KY. The Bullitt/Nelson County line, ran 
through Samuel Burch's land.
     Since the writer, Matilda Blanford, writes that ..."the Magruder family he is dead"... 
, the letter would have been written after 1868, when Levi Magruder died. The details of the 
letter indicate that the writer is referring to Levi Magruder.
    In the letter, Matilda Blanford writes that she will send James Burch,  a picture of her 
brother.  I have 3 unknown  tin-type photos that my TX Bruch relatives have not been able to 
identify.
    

I recd your kaind Letter
and was glad to here
from you all and sory
to her of so Many death
and Maw was very glad
to her from you and all
of us was glad to her
from you all and all crops
is good ex oats  Her Maw is in
Sefenty and ant wore Spex
yet and ant got neary
grand child  I will bring
my Letter to a close by
in veiting you to rite and
tell all the rest to rite
 From Matilda Blanford

To Mr. James Burch
I will send you my brothers
picter so you can see how he
Looks
   (page missing)

and Elias thompson is still
Living  I want to no where
James Boeing is a Living or
dead  he has too Sisters and
one brother a Living yet
you wanted to no about
the Magruder family  he
is dead and left a wife
and 3 children and  they are
all little  he has been married
three times and Farden
is a living in the old
Tuckery place and William
is a living on his fathers
old place
you never rote any thing
a bout your brother
ben  I want to wher
he is dead or a living
and we wood be glad
to have you all for nabers