LETTER: Paul McAhron to Albert McAhron, 1900 Bullitt Co., KY & Le Sueur Co. MN. Copyright (c) 1999 by Anette Stanley Rardin & Terry Stivers. This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives. abrardin@shasta.com ******************************************************************* USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net *********************************************************************** This letter was sent to Paul McAhron of Cupio, Bullitt Co., KY, from his brother Albert M. McAhron who lived in Cleveland Township, Le Sueur Co., MN. A distant cousin, Terry Stivers, has the original and sent me a photocopy. My notes are given below the transcription of the letter. Anette Stanley Rardin Clevland May the 25th 1900 you wanted me to write to you I have nothing to write of any intrest we are having a verry dry spell of wether it hasent rained to amount to any thing for a month. Everything is as dry as it can be some corn is up and some is as dry as if it was in the crib I planted a patch of potatoes the 26thd ay of April and they are just a coming up some aint up yet if it dont rain soon crops will be short in this country. thar will be plenty of plums but some of the aples is kild and some of the trees in my orched is as full as they can be and some of them thare is not a aple on them. I heard Ike hibs is dead an Ellen quick davis goldsmith daughter i spose Arabell isent Married again she must try and get another Jim. Wheat is 50 and 60 cents, corn 25, potatoes 25, oats 20 and flower 2.00 per 100 lbs. I have nothing to tell you we are all [well?] Rands family and lus is well one of rands boys in in Washington teirtory he has bin thare a year last March tom in Washington louis is in st. Cloud he is a barber St. Cloud is a big city in the western part of Minnesota charlie he is at home . . . and will will he is a plaster. charlie he working on a farm Milton rairdon lu's boy he is a working for man by the name of elensworth at 13.00 dollars a month gi my love and respect to all my friends if I have any thare. A. M. Mc ahron NOTE: lu is Louisiana McAhron, Albert's daughter, who married first to Jefferson Ross Rairdon. One of their children was Milton Rairdon. rand is Albert's other daughter, Miranda, who married J. R. Rairdon's brother, Lorenzo Dow Rairdon. tom, charlie, and will are sons of Rand and Lorenzo. Ike is Isaac Hibbs who married Ann E. Goldsmith. Their daughter Catherine Arabelle (called Belle) Hibbs was married and widowed three times, each to a Jim (James Rardon, brother of Jefferson and Lorenzo Rairdon; James Burnell; and James Goldsmith, son of Nelson and Nancy Davis Goldsmith); hence "she must try and get a nother Jim." Lorenzo, James, and Jefferson were sons of Jefferson and Fanny Maria Caldwell Rarden/Rardon/Rairdon. When they lived in Bullitt Co., KY, the name was mostly spelled Rardon or Rarden or Reardon. After the parents and Jeff and Lorenzo moved to Le Sueur Co., MN, they took on the Rairdon spelling. Nelson Goldsmith married Nancy Davis and had a daughter Ann Elizabeth who married Albert McAhron. Nelson and Ann had a son James D. Goldsmith who first married a cousin, Zorada Ellen oldsmith, and secondly to Belle Hibbs.