Misc. Letters, Henry Martin to Jefferson Ezell, M.D., LaSalle Parish, La.

Submitted by: Pat Ezell




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Elmo Sept 20/74 Tex

Dr. J. Ezell
         Jena La
                 Dear Dock

     Yours of 7th ____ is at hand which I was glad to receive.  & also glad
to hear that you were all well.  You wanted to know how I like my new home.
I am not very well pleased with it.  I dont know but what I will come back
or go some where else.  Texas is not the thing that it is represented to be.
If I can sell out I may come back to Catahoula for this is no place for any
one without he has a Bushel of money & then he will fare bad.  the hands
that I brought out have all left but John Peyton & Tom Francis.  the Negroes
all left but little Jim.  John Kendrick left also.

we have nearly finished building & are geting on very well with our new
place.  will have it ready for cultivation next year & then I can tell
whether the  land is any account or not.  there wont be more than one
quarter of a Bale of cotton made to the acre in this country & the corn is
very shaby.  the drought injured crops very bad in this country.  I think
that you are doing better where you are than you can do in this country for
times are very hard here as well as in Louisiana.  there is no money to be
made farming in this country.  crops are to unsurtain.

I won't you to come out and look at the country any way & see whether you
like it or not.  Tom Francis has been sick every since we got here & is
still in the same condition & I don't think that he will get well soon.  he
hasn't done anything since he has been out here.

Give my love to Martha & all the children & also to Martin.  This leave us
all well.  write soon

  Kitchens sends his                Yours
  just respects to you                 Eli Splawn


(Original Letter among Ezell Family Papers & Photographs.
 Transcribed by Patricia E. Ezell,July 1991.)