Lenoir County NcArchives History - Letters .....W. H. Chambers To Whitfield Grady 1846
************************************************
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:
Martha M. Marble http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00022.html#0005285 January 30, 2014, 3:39 pm

W. H. CHAMBERS TO WHITFIELD GRADY - 1846

The State of Al  March 12th 1846

Dear Uncle
 I now according to promise Seat myself to address you & indeed it is with 
pleasure that I address one whom I love & miss as I do you & Aunt is to hear 
equally with my love and esteem.  I arrived safely to the homes of my kindred & 
friends without Sustaining any loss whatever & reached home about a week after I 
parted with you.  I found all well & believe me some appearently rejoicing at my 
arrival the Supposition with them was, He will never return that is Wm. Chambers 
will never return and it is with feelings not describable that I mediate upon 
the pleasant moments that I experienced while there with you & would freely 
grasp them but alas; duty compels me otherwise.  But I console myself with this 
reflection that I expect to be there again in the course of twelve months 
perchance sooner.  Uncle I have a little news to convey to you.  Uncle, G. W. 
Kornegay is married again.  He wedded a Miss Leond & is in Texas or at least he 
stated that he was going there. The Lady said that she was very well acquainted 
with his first wife & also stated that no person could live with her nos ??? in 
fact with none of the rest in peace.
We have had some disagreeable weather in this part of the country than has ever 
before been witnessed & the prospects is the probaliaty is that it will continue 
some length of time yet.  So it will do one thing for the farmers & that is 
this, it will cause them to Sustain real losses, in this way, they generally 
begin to plant in March so you see they will loose their labor & grain too.  
Land is worth from five to ten dollars per acre.  And indeed it is excellent 
land that will bring ten dollars, land that will produce five hundred lbs of 
lint cotton per acre & from thirty to fifty Bus of corn.  And if the land yields 
that way doubt not that there is any acres spared in the way of cultivation.  
Health is good strong or in our vicinity, the people enjoy as good health as 
here could wish  For at present all of the connections is well as far as my 
knowledge extends.  I saw Mother three days ago and told her that I was going to 
write to you in a few days & she said to me Remember her to you & family & she 
yet hoped to meet with you. I have told her that I expect to go out there next 
fall again & she says that she is coming with me so you will be troubled with 
two next time in place of one.  But I think it really doubtful in accordance 
with Mothers coming if she holds out faithful.

Page 2

I am teaching school & have been every since the seventh of Jan.  I arrived on 
Friday & on Monday I begin business So you see I did not loose much time.  I am 
also reading & am progressing finely says my instructor, Dr. Powell.  I read 
till half after eleven o’clock every night & then again in the morning about two 
hours so you see I read as much as necessary & make a little too.  I go to 
recite or rather to be examined on Saturdays.  I have from twenty to thirty five 
students.  Tell Cousin James to write to me & some of the girls too you know my 
meaning; give my love to all of your family & except much love and stability.
From yours
W. H. Chambers

N. B.  Write soon and direct your letters to Hickory Grove, Al. Let me know 
about that rail road whether completed or not. 

END OF DOCUMENT

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/lenoir/history/letters/whchambe71ms.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ncfiles/

File size: 4.0 Kb