CORRESPONDENCE:  F.K. Edlen to Unknown Cousin, 1863

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Transcribed by: Mary Fran Felts-Nordstrom (marynord@earthlink.net)
Submitted:      15 May 2003
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Wilderness Road.



Grayson May 3rd 1863

Dear Cosin

    Yours of the 27th April is at hand and in
compliance with your request no less than with
my own wishes I hasten to answer it.  We are
all well at the presant.  Tell cosin Mary that I
sincerely sympathize with her and ardently desire
her restoration I trust her disease will yield
readily to medical treatment and when next I here
from her it will be under her own hand assureing
me of her convalesence.  We all send our fondest
love to you all.

    Tell uncil and aunt to write to us.  I seen
your cosins on Rockcreek a few days after you left
they seemed to be very sorrow because you did not
call on them.  I told them that you did not feel
safe by staying too long in the country and you
had been long from home and felt anxious to see
your father.  Don't give out coming to see us all
if you can posably help it and bring cosin mary
if you come Surtin and tell uncil Elick to come
and bring his family to see us all in grayson
once more it he pleases.  I was at a Weading &
Infare las week of Brother lecks.  He married one
miss Higdon.  Eliza and I was to see uncil Nathan
Neighbors.  This winter cosin Sue came home with
us and spent two weeks going to see her kin folks.

    I am sorrow the yankeeys treated you so
Rough.  I hope they will have enough stolen to do
them the balance of there days pretty soon.  Recon
you new politics are worth to you what you had
stolen from you.  That is if you join them and
have as good luck to steel as them But I am
satisfied that you wont join soon without a great
change and those changes are very real in sensible
men.  You have not ought hered about morgan coming
though Grayson and Nathan Storms going with him.

    We hered from the grayson Boys in the Reble
Army about a week since and they were all well then.
They had a sudden death in paps family soon
after you left for home.  Old aunt Betsy droped
dead withoug any sickness at all.

    I have no more to write at presant But write
Soon as you can make it convenient.

With Sentiments of Love & Respect

I Subscribe myself

Your Cosin            F. K. Edlen