YANCEY COUNTY, NC - LETTERS - Jane Byrd to her sister
			Myra Byrd Hensley
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                        Burnsville, N.C.
                        Feb 28th, 1902

Dear Sister Mirah
    I am glad to write to you this evening.  I feel
very happy as the pleasant sunshine comes through the
window after our hard storm last night and I feel
thankful to God for the sunshine and rain and for all
of his kindness to us.  I also thank him for brothers
and sisters and for the ability of talking to them by
letters.
    Well every body seems happy in our little town  
the school children about three hundred and fifty of
which the two schools consist seem to be growing up in
intelligence to take the place in our country which we
older people now hold.
    We have a new baptist building here, the first
session opened last fall.  They have enrolled two
hundred scholars.  The presbyterians have a good
school also.
    Prof. Flack is the principal of the baptist
school.  He boards with us.  we all think well of him.
    Well Mirah how are you all.  We are all well here
at home now.  Brother Sidney Peterson is very sick. 
He was taken with paralisis nearly five months ago. 
We expect him to live only a few days.  Sister Betsey
is as well as you could expect.  Jane her only single
child and her waits on him all the time.  Our other
brothers and sisters are well as far as I know now.  I
wrote to William and Sue who lives in Tennessee.  I
received a letter from them a few weeks ago.  They are
getting along very well.  William is at work at a
sawmill.  I want to receive a long letter from you
tell me everything about the country you can and
crops.  Tell the children to write to me and I will
close for this time expecting you to write soon to us
who live away here in Burnsville N.C.

                       Your loving sister
                       Jane Byrd

May God bless you all is my prayer


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