Letters from L. Yancey to Dr. J. Ezell, LaSalle Parish, La. Submitted by: Pat Ezell, San Antonio, Texas ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** 1888 - Letter and note from L. Yancey of hinehart, La. to Dr. J. Ezell Rhinehart, La Mch 2d 1888 Dr. J Ezell Esqr Dear Sir I send you this morning By Manner my Note for $200.00 Two Hundred Dollars for the Two Horses for him and Clark. I also send you $8.50 Eight 50/100 Dollars the amt I owe you for Frank Adams. Hopeing This will find your health Beter this morning. I am as ever yours very Respectfuly L.Yancey ______________________________________ $200.00 Rhinehart La Mch 2d 1888 On January 1st 1889 I Promis to pay Dr. J. Ezell Two Hundred Dollar for Value Received Bareing Eight Percent Interest from Maturity until Paid L. Yancey Notes by Pat Ezell: Originals in the Ezell Family Papers in possession of Patricia E. Ezell, PatEzell@worldnet.att.net. No changes or corrections have been made in the spelling of words from the original documents to the transcription. L. Yancey was James Henry Langston Yancey, b. 30 Oct. 1860, LA - d. 5 April 1910, Catahoula Parish, LA; buried Forsythe Cemetery, Jena, La Salle Parish, LA. Langston Yancey married Alice Jane Rhinehart on 20 January 1886, Troyville (now Jonesville) Catahoula Parish, LA. Alice Jane Rhinehart, b. 22 January 1856, Jena, Catahoula Parish, LA - d. 1 July 1941, Jonesville, Catahoula Parish, LA; buried Forsythe Cemetery, Jena, LaSalle Parish, LA. She was the daughter of Thomas J. Rhinehart, b. 1831-d.1907 and Emily Baker , b. 26 May 1824- d. 8 March 1862) who had married on 2 Dec. 1852, Catahoula Parish, LA. Dr. J. Ezell was Jefferson Ezell, M.D., b. 2 Oct. 1831, Pike County, MS - d. 16 Jan. 1891, Jena, Catahoula Parish. Jefferson Ezell married 1) Rebecca Ann Baker, b. 10 Oct 1843 - d. 26 Feb 1862, on 27 March 1861, Catahoula Parish, LA and married 2) Martha Elizabeth Splawn, b. 21 July 1845, Jena Catahoula Parish, LA - d. 21 April 1931, Jena, LaSalle Parish, LA, on 15 Feb 1866, Jena, La.