CORRESPONDENCE:  L.M. PARRISH to Fannie and Frank PORTER, Bullitt Co.,                  
                 1887

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Transcribed by:  Marabeth Plowman (maraedplow@earthlink.net)
Submitted:       25 May 2003
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Letter written by L.M. PARRISH to his daughter, Fannie Isadora PARRISH 
PORTER, and her husband, Frank.

Mt. Washington, Ky. Dec 7th 1887
Dear Frank and Fannie,
	We received your welcome letter this evening and was sorry to hear 
that you were having such a time with colds, but was glad to hear that 
not withstanding your sufferings you have a good appetite. Tell 
Clarence to come right along to Grand Pa's when ever they don't treat 
him right at home. Tell him I need a little boy very badly. Frank I am 
afraid if you spend so much time at the barn you will not make 3 shocks 
hold out till the last of March, and Fannie as to that oldarny heifer, 
it reminds me of the Irishman who was on trial for his life. The Judge 
called him up and put the usual question to him. Are  you guilt? or not 
guilty? The Irishman says faith and bejasus that is what we are about 
to try. Well Fannie we did not look for you atall the evening you and 
Miss Julia was to have come up. The weather got so bad and cold that a 
body can't hardly be comfortable at home but we did look a little for 
you last Saturday. Edna and Will come down last Saturday a week and 
went lack on Monday. We got a note from her last week and she said the 
Dr had been down that week and froze her gums and took out 7 of her 
teeth without getting up out of the chair. And said she stood it 
finely. She then had all of her upper teeth out and was to have the 
lower ones taken out this week. Well Fannie Ma and me both have been 
quite poorly. She with palpatation of the heart and me with smothering 
and shortness of breath. Tell Mrs. Johnson I have got to be a regular 
Mullein smaker. I am also taking a remidy made of carrots, lemon and 
loaf sugar made into a syrup, but with all the remidies last night 
after my first nap I suffered so much that I had to get up and smoke 
and my stomach seemed to have such a knot in it. I took a teaspoonfull 
of salt and went back to bed and in two minutes my stomache commenced 
growling. And after I got warm I slept good till about half after 4 and 
I have felt better all day till night I am feeling badly now. Ma took a 
dose of oil this morning she is feeling some better tonight. She 
sympathyzes so much with me and is so troubled about my condition that 
one has brought on palpatation that gives her a great deal of trouble 
at times. but she says if I could get better she would get better too. 
The rest are tolerably well except Lee. He come in from (the remainder 
of the letter is missing.)

Note: The following persons were referred to in the above letter:  
Clarence Albert PORTER, grandson of L.M. PARRISH; Lucian Lee PARRISH, 
s/o L.M. PARRISH.

Submitted by Marabeth Porter Plowman