NC, Greene, Letter, Daniel W. Patrick ========================================================= USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed by Dora Pearce, Sept. 2000. ========================================================== PATRICK LETTER From the Collection of Dora Pearce. NOTE: Identification on some of the people named from Ruth Fentress. Writer was Daniel W. Patrick - 1853-1922, buried in the Patrick cemetery. Md Emma A. _____?, she b. 1850 d. 1931.. Daniel W. had a brother J. Menon Patrick 1859-1911. Daniel's mother was Aug 1894 although the death date for his fatherdoesn't match what was in the letter; Father d. 2 Oct. 1886, in my notes. (NOTE that an error probably occurred in the original transcription of the letter) If so, they were sons of (my notes say) Susan Carr & husband Edward Patrick. Cousin Winnie{ in letter} (nee Rountree - dau of Charles Jenkins Rountree & Susan Hart.) md 1. Allen Blount, JR., s/o Allen Sr. & Esther J.Carr. Winnie & Allen, JR. had 3 sons; Charles d. as infant; Elias C. (1847 -1895); Allen Robert Blount (1852 - 1922). Winnie (Rountree) Blount md 2. James May, & had a dau Sudie May who md a Cannon. Note says the letter was written on U. S. Customs Service Stationary New Bern, NC April 30th, 1907 Mrs. H. H. Garrard Chief, Kaufman County Texas My dear Cousin Hannah; I received your letter of the 25th instant while I was at Snow Hill, yesterday. I remember writing you in answer to a letter written by you to Miss Susan Brown of Greenville, N.C. in which letter you wanted to learn something of my mother. I ask my oldest daughter one day this past winter if she knew where the letter was I received from you in answer to my letter written in May 1890. She stated that all of my letters were packed in a box and the box was stored in a warehouse three years ago when we all separated by our youngest daughter being married which broke up our home. We have no home ties now. My wife and I live in the hotels and boarding houses and our home in is at any old place we hang our hats except when my wife goes out to our old farm, where you visited my father and mother in 1857 which belongs to my youngest brother John M. Patrick and myself. We own the whole of the farm once owned by your father and where your grandparents owned and are buried. The old burying ground is still intact, and has not changed but little since you saw it fifty years ago. The last person buried there was cousin Lizzie, your sister. The same plank that was put on the fence by your father or uncle is there now. The same house that my father and mother lived in which you visited them is still there sheltering us, when we go out to spend the summer with but little change. We have taken down the lattice porch in front and recently built a long piazza. You would know the place as soon as you saw it. We have cleared four or five hundred acres more land but have not altered the Dwelling Home but little. Robert H. Rountree of New York is a brother of our cousins you mentioned in your letter. There were several of Aunt Susan Roundtree's children that you do not seem to remember. She had five boys and two girls - Robert H., William Samuel, Charles, Frank, Winnie and Susan. They all married and left large families except Charles he never married. They are all dead now but two, Robert H. and Susan. Susan married William Dunn and lives near Kinston her husband died yesterday. She has three sons all grown and doing well. Cousin Winnie was married twice. She had two sons by her first husband, Elias Blount and Allen Blount. Elias died some six years go. Allen lives in New York and has accumulated some money. She left one daughter by her May husband. Her name is Susan, she married a man by the name of Caleb Cannon. They are doing well. All of our Aunt Charity Edward's children are dead except one, Daniel W. Edwards. He lives in Arkansas. I do not know the name of the town. He has three children and one wife living in this state. His first wife, a Miss White of High Point, NC. She went with him to Arkansas in 1870, but soon came back to High Point to educate her children and never went back any more. He came to see them regularly every year for several years but finally quit and married again in his adopted state. I have not heard from him for several years. Aunt Charity left several grandchildren. My mother died August 1894. I have one sister older than I am and one brother younger. Three of us who lived to get grown in age and are still living. My sister married a Hardy and has two boys and four girls. Our brother has never married and unless he marries soon the Patrick family will be extinct, him and me are the only male members of the immediate family now living. I have only two children, both girls. We have an old cousin of all of us living with my brother by the name of Miss Lucy Ann Speight. She is a grandaughter of one of your Aunts who married a man by the name of Ormond. I do not remember his given name. Miss Susan Brown has been dead about ten years. Nearly all of your kin who were grown when you was out in this state are dead. My oldest daughter Blanche has two children, one boy and one girl. My youngest daughter had a fine boy but that lived to be seven months old. I surely would be glad to see you once more and if I ever get with my work so I can spare the time and you are living I will take a trip to Texas for the sole purpose of seeing you. I have traveled in nearly every state this side of the Rockies except Texas and expect to some day go through Texas to the Pacific Coast. I have been poor all the days of my life; or should have said since the death of my father in 1865 and have not had the time to travel much. I had to work to give my mother comfort and to raise and educate my brothers and my two children and now I feel as if I can see some of the world provided I can leave my business. I am 53 years old but do not feel my age. I still like to drive a wild horse as well as I did when I was young. You will excuse this long letter Write me again Your cousin Dan W. Patrick P. S. I too have several letters from Mr. McFarland concerning our families.