Jones County, NC - Letters - Evan Griffith to sisters ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ LETTER From Evan GRIFFITH to Sisters 18 June 1841 & 16 July 1851 Ga. State Archives GRIFFITH Vertical files 5 Aug. 1968 donation Mr. Hugh. L. VALLOTTON Valdosta, Ga. 1)Letter dated (Re)public of Texas, Redriver County, June 18, 1841 to (Dear) Sister (Isaac BROWN, Nancy BROWN and children) from Evan GRIFFITH, Elizabeth GRIFFITH and children-2 pages. 2)Letter dates State of Texas, Titus Co., July 16, 1851, to dear Sisters from Evan GRIFFITH and Elizabth GRIFFITH to Nancy BROWN and Mary HEATH. Reverse addressed to Mrs. Nancy BROWN, Comfort, P.O., Jones Co., N.C.-4 pages. (written as letter appears) Republic of Texas Redriver County, June the 18, 1841 Dear cister, I take my pen in hand once more to let you know that I am yet on the land of the living and in joys aresom able helth also my family is well for which I feel thankful to the supremem being for so grate ablesinc Catherine was maried to James M. HAMILTON a fine young man. Isabell is grone, John M, Dorcas Ann Daniel Francis Amos Hering all grone fast I have rote to you but has never reserved no leter from you sinse I left Mysi-? I resived a leter from Council GOODING the 3 of this instant which gave me grate satisfaction about you al but sorry to here of the death of your companion Sister you have seen a grate deel of trouble Sister I shold be glad to se you and imbrase you in my arms but I will talk by leter have all things with pations since the lord and letus strive to meet in the relms of glory where parting will be nomore this is the praise of your affectionate brother Cousin C. N. MILLER come to my house the 4th of this instant he tells me that ther is very little revival of religion in his neighbour hood I am sorry to hereit to think people will be so unconcerned about there future happings we have preaching in our neighborhood every Sunday we have Baptist methodis & Presbyterians Catherine and Isabel has profest religeion sister it is grate satisfaction to me to see my children walk in the path of rectitude in there youth sister admonish your children to sence the Lord I wrote to you that I had seen your daughter Elizabeth I will say again I was at her house stade a few days with her last winter was a year ago she had two hansom little sons I thought they were doing well they apperd to have a good track of land and and stockof all kind her neighbours apperd to think well of her Cister MILLER has lost her companion he has been dead above two years & her son Richard come to this country with me he is all the connection I have here we have good land and range I have a good stock of hogs cattle we donot feed cattle here my wife and children gives there best respects to you and your children we s—be glad to see you all but never expects to as we are thirteen hundred miles apart I want you to write to us and let me know how you are doing and write about Dorcas and Lissy and the rest of your children I believe Jessy wold do well to come here as whare he culd get land that is good at a low prise if he was here before the furst of January next he wold be intitled to three hundred and twenty achors of land from the government as he is seventeen years old in august when you write let me k now if you have herd from Cister GOODMAN I have not hern from her in three years when you write direct your letters to Texes Redriver County Clarksvill by the way of fulton Arkinsaw pay the postage to the line. Letus strive to meet in glory is the pashion of your loving brother fare well sister and cousins cousins (sloeet?slout?) Evan GRIFFITH Elizabeth GRIFFITH and children to Signed: Isaac BROWN Nancy BROWN and children State of Texas Titus Co. July 16th, 1851 Dear sisters these I once more take my pen in hand to write how all are I and my wife is as well as we could expect Daniel Frances and Amos Hering is fine helthy boys nearl as large as I am Catherine has three sons children one daughter two sons they live nere me they are well Isabel lives seventy miles from me she has fore daughters I herd from them in may they ware well escept herself she was nearly blind with sore eyes Johns wife hs two children daughter and son they live six miles from me they are well I received a leter from Cousin Embee L. MILLER he in formd me you were well Dear sisters if I canot see you it is grate satisfaction to here from you I have no sister to talk with no sisters child to talk with except Catherine WHITE my loving nephew Richard MILLER is nomore here he is dead we cant mingle our voise together nomore I shold I donot expect to see you in this life it is hard for children to leve their mothers I shold be glad to see some if not all of your children here this is affine country both fro produse and stock people commence driving beef cattle in apriel it is common to see from fifty to a hundred head in a drove to pararies? Is the plase for stock that is from fifty to two hundred miles west of me I live in a cotton raising Country we have good land and good water I live thirty six miles west of Jefferson our plase of trade produse sels high here last winter Coten was worth twelve dollars a hundred pork five dollars a hundred corn one dollar a bushel flower six dollars a barril cows and calves ten dollars there is a grate deal of land hire for sale unimproved land is worth from seventy five cents to one dollar par achor improved land sels higher a greeable to the improvement this county is settling very fast we have good schools here both male and female you might think Texes a mene state I tell you we have the land and climate you have no idea the welth theiris in this state. Dear sisters I will now say something of our crops we have had norane since the twentieth of apriel to wel our ground we have had some light showers sinse in some plases the drouth is in part of Louisana as well as here I lern it reaches about one hundred miles south of us travelers sase worse thare then here I donot believe I shall rase one sixth of a crop of corn it appers that the cotton will do nothing some of my neighbours is well not make anything hardly at all I understand that crops is good in forty miles north of here then west for two hundred miles they have had abundance of rain I understand by Cousin MILLER that your son Isaac intends coming to this plase I say come on if we cant rase corn here we can hall it I cannot see for my life what is the caus that people will not leve that part fare Country as old as I am I wold start to Calaforna if I thaught I cold better myself I donot beleve I shold so I shant go there I tell you. Sister Nancy I want you to write to me and Sister Mary I want you to write to me I do not no where to direct a letter to you I want for us to converse by our pen I want you to write to sister Penia GOODMAN if she is living and tell her how to write to me I donot know whare to write to her tell me how your children is doin I want to see them all I wold be glad you and they ware all here I wish you ware here this summer to help my wife to dry peaches I have the finest you ever saw from the plum peach to the large inglish peach froot of all cines grose fine here my wife gives me in writing to you she wishes you to say something to him about their people and how Isabels children is doin they never write to us I expect they have not time to write nomore I did not come here to work hard and share enough I don not do it I had like to forgot to say something about the honey country Isabel lives in that in February they had thirty six stans? HAMILTON saise some men had a hundred and fifty it is comen to take from five to ten gallons ot the stand when you write to me direct your letters to Oak grove Titus Co. that is in three miles of me our trade from Neworlens is up red river to Jefferson Dear sisters if weever meet in this life let us strive to meet in heaven farewell Evan GRIFFITH Elizabeth GRIFFITH Nancy BROWN Mary HEATH _____________________________ Mrs. Nancy BROWN Comfort P.O. Jones Co., N.C. Oakgrove Texas 19 July 1851 ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Sloan Spence Mason ___________________________________________________________________