LETTER:  Letter from R. J. Clark of Shepherdsville, KY, 1937, Bullitt Co., KY

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Date: 26 Jan 2002
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Here is the letter from my Uncle Jonce (Richard Johnson Clark) to his brother James Kellogg Clark (my 
grandfather).  The Annie Hardy mentioned is Celia Ann Clark daughter of Davis Clark and Mahala Dickey. 
Celia Ann Clark married John Raymond Hardy.

Shepherdsville, Kentucky                                                        
Xmas 14th, 1937
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Dear brother and sister

I will try to answer your letter I received but a few days ago it is not worth while to say we were not glad 
to hear from you all once more we were more than glad, and to know that you all are still living. but sorry 
to hear that Jim got hurt. I do hope he is all right and better by now. We are all well at this time and 
having good health. with real winter weather here now

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I guess you all have read all about the flood    I can't tell it any worse than it was. The dammage to 
Kentucky alone will run into over a million dollars to property and livestock. We were not in the Flood 
exactly but we could stand in our yard and see all over the Salt river bottoms. It was just from hill to hill 
to tell it right. Although I was not satisfied with what I could see at home

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my neighbor had a flat boat we went to Shepherdsville in it all you could see was water. We dared all over 
the town in the boat. Their was not a house in Shepherdsville that the water wasen't in. It has effected 
the whole Country. I had my Automobile in the Garage in Shepherdsville during the flood and haven't got it 
yet think I will get it this week and hope so at least.

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Well I had a letter from Dave Simpson's little girl about the sometime I got yours. One from Aunt Annie 
Hardy and on from Maud Langenour lives in Woodland Cal. Jim I all so had a letter from Everet Crenshaw. 
You remember him I guess. The first I had heard from him since we bought the Farm from them he is up in 
Arizona. I thought he was dead it had been about thirty years since I ever heard from him.   

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Well I guess I will close for this time will try and think of more next time. I tell you more about the people 
in next letter.

From our Bro and Family
R J and Lela Clark
x  Milton