WILKES COUNTY, NC - MISC - Letter from Elijah and Charity Church
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Contributor's Note:  This letter was written by Elijah and Charity Church of 
Wilkes County North Carolina, answering a letter informing them of the death 
of their son, Joel Church.


					July the 1st 1844

Wilkes County, NC

Dear Daughter  We received your lines of sorrow on the 27 of June last and we 
can not describe to you our feelings of distress & sorrow to hear of the death 
of our dear son whom we raised and nourished until he left us and traveled to 
that country to seek his fortune there, but he has only shared the common fate 
of us all.   We greatly lament and simpathy your sorrow, cears and labors and 
would freely aid you and comfort you if it was in our power but we trust the 
Lord will fullfill his promise and be a husband to you and a father to your 
children.  We would be glad to see you and your children but we have no 
prospects of ever coming to that country.

You wrote to us that you have ten children but did not write to us whether 
they were large enough to help you any.  We wish you as soon as you get this 
letter to send us an answer as soon as you can.   Write how you are doing and 
how many of your children is boys and how many girls and what their names is 
and how you are satisfied in that country.  Dear Daughter, we are advanced in 
years and of course cannot continue here much longer and as opportunity 
favourable to write please to write to us by every opportunity.  Direct your 
letter to Wilkesboro, NC.  So farwell.

From                                              To

Elijah Church                                     Sinthy Church
     &						     &
Charity Church                                    Children  


No envelope was used. The letter was folded and addressed on the back to
			Sinthy Church
			Clay County, Indiana
			Boiling green post office

Wilkesboro, NC
July 1st 1844