Craven County, NC - Letters - Nancy Tull Heath Jarman to her daughter, 
                              Sarah Florence Heath Carmack, 
                              dated May 24, 1887

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Bell Farry Pitt County
May 24, 1887
     Dear daughter I recive your letter the first this month and was glad to 
hear from you and family and to hear you were all well.  I family is up but 
not well but I hope that the lord will help us for we don't noe (know) what 
will become of us in this world.  but I hope that we will be prepared to meat 
our good father in a ___ place than this world.  Florence I have fine cabbeg 
(cabbage) and colard (collards) and beans that are in full blooms.  My beats 
is nise (nice).  I have had sum (some) twice.  Every thing is groing (growing) 
of nise (nice) corn and cotton is pretty.
     Florence I recive (receive) a letter from sister Elisfa or Eliya and I 
was glad to hear from her.  She has bin (been) sick but she up and gone. M___ 
and Pensey is both well.  Nead and Florence is coming up after ____ _____ if 
tha (they) can tell Vick and luler that they must come to see gran ____ for.  
I wants to see them daughter.  I want to come to see you but I haven't got nae 
(any) way to come.  It is so fare (far).  I can't walk there.  Florence I have 
______ so I ___ check wasn't big nuf (enough) to frey (fry) so I must come to 
a close.  Rite (write) soon to your dear mother.
                                N. R. Garman
 
Contributor's Note:  The lines are what I could not read.  The words in 
parenthesis is what she meant to say and the spelling was bad.  Sarah was my 
grandfather's mother and Nancy was his grandmother.

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