Jones County NcArchives History - Letters .....B. W. Brown To Enoch Noble 1848 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sloan S. Mason http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00022.html#0005225 August 24, 2022, 4:38 pm Transcribed by Sloan Mason slomas7@comcast.net Jones County, NC Enoch Noble Collection Letter from B. W. BROWN of Houston Co., GA to Cousin Enoch NOBLE of Jones Co., NC 26 July 1848 Henderson, Houston County, GA 26 July 1848 Dearest affectionate Cozen, after a long and troubled time of mind. I once more attempt to write to you, I think it has been four or five years since I have received any letter from you, I think I answered the last one you wrote me which is now before me it was dated 17th June 1843. I know that time gets away and we hardly can tell how observed in that letter that had bin along time since you wrote me but that you had concluded to write again least I would think it was so Dear Cozen I very seldom write unless it is on some business I am so much out of practice that I I shall no doubt make many mistakes but you as my poor Brother Hardy youst to say you read what you can & guess at the balance Dear Enoch my situation are so much different from what it was when you were here that I doubt Hardly know how to write to make my letter as I once could write, when I came today we are all a live & well what is yet here is in very good health. I Expect you have herd of the death of my dear wife which has bin one sore affliction to me and one that seems will never be forgotten I am sure that the living can not live by the dead but when I think of her long affection and how much she suffered it is all fresh in my mind, not only loosing my half mate but my bosom friend and a good wife, O Enoch it seems like a death stroke it fills my heart I can hardly write what I want to - you are acquainted what sort of Family I have & how I have to live here I have no much Company aLes any more who do not Keep a public house but they are my friends and my children friends, I have a young Family & they wish to Enjoy them ——— with their friends. It is my disposition to like to see my children. Enjoy themselves as far as I think is right and now my two Boys are grown as large as I am, Frank is large, I have no need to boast and neither of them but I thank God that he has induced them with good sense and they bid for to make smart men I send them to school & then take one home and make him the oversear and then take him home & make the other act the same ) I Expect to send Hardy in in two or three weeks to Emory College, Oxford, Newton County, GA to finish his Education he is a very steady boy & I want to give him a good Education, Frank is nearly as good a scholar as Hardy Except some of the dead Languages- Caroline is Grown about as large as Eliza the two other little Girls next to her are very well grown one almost as Large as Caroline, the last boy Richard was seven years old last March, he is a very bright promising child and the dear little Infant daughter Louisa Jacinta will be 2 years old 26, day of Sept next - and a find healthy child. it seems as if the God above has blessed us with children all born with good sense & good form so aw are blessed with some things and distressed with some others but we should be satisfied it is Gods will and we dare not minimize death has visited our Family again Last February. Mary EVANS formerly Mary BRYAN died very sudden with the newmony left our fine little boy and fine husband to morn her loss. Last Tuesday was a week ago I was at the burying of Brother Dempsey’s wife she was bout to be confined to bed and something took place & she died in a few hours I don’t remember any more deaths in our Family or Family Connections and as far as I know they are all in fair health. I am trying to keep house as I formerly have done but it is not satisfactory to me though I can not complain of the girls I think they do very well taking Every thing in Consideration I am not sure that I shall keep Nancy BRYAN much longer the boys are knocking about her very often - Penny and Eliza and their Familys are all well. to say something about the crops we have now the finish prospect of Both Corn & Cotton I ever saw in Georgia and it appears to hold out Every where I can hear from in this Country the old lands that have bin worn out & now taken in have five crops on them. I never have seen the like of corn. I think corn will Enough be sold at 25 Cents pr. Bushel or have had a very reasonable year rather two much rain. In some places some of the Lowest places of my lands are some around but not with Standing I have a good or rather better or prospect then I ever have had Old corn is now plenty at 40 Cents pr. bushel wheat crops are not so good this year but you can buy plenty at $1.00 pr. Bushel I am not able to say any thing about the price cotton may be it now is worth from $5 to $5.50 and a great deal on hand. I don’t suppose I need to say anything about your moving as I understand you have settled yourself probably for life. Dear Enoch I don’t know anybody that I had rather see them you there so yet plenty of Land In Georgia for sale but people are as they always are many an moving to the wishes soon to Texas & some to Louisiana. I don’t know that I shall Ever go unless my Boys get one of they are like many of others they think the good place is yet a head they are often teasing me to sell but and go but I have not got much notion to leave the Burying Ground while I live I must close this letter I have had some Inclination to visit my old native state one more time but my situation as such that I can not promise myself whether I shall or not there might be one inducement, my last lines dear Cozen we all have to die sooner or later I presume the bloom are over your head and you surely must Expect death is near. I beseach you as your loving Cozen to seek for happiness after death - write me soon as you get this morose? but remains your affectionate Cozin til death. Signed: Wm. BROWN To Enoch NOBLE Enoch NOBLE, Esqr. Trenton, Jones County N. 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