YANCEY COUNTY, NC - LETTERS - Isaac M. Byrd to Myra Byrd Hensley
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                         Armstrong, N.C.
                         Oct 4, 1890

My dear Aunt Mira
    In writing to you I feel ashamed of my negligence
and failure to write earlier, but better one than
never probably if you will allow the expression...   I
received your letter about 3 or 4 months ago, and was
glad to hear that you all were so happy then and hope
you are still enjoying the luxury of good health &
happiness.  But if I write you an interesting letter I
must tell something new if I can But I don't guess I
know any-thing you care about hearing except I tell
you that Your Father & Mother are still alive and
having a tolerably easy time of it.  I suppose their
farm will yield enough this year to support them
another.  They have it rented and do not have to till
it themselves.  I will try to make you glad by telling
you that all the connection in general is well as far
as I now.  I know you are anxious to get those
photographs of your brothers and sisters but I am
sorry to say that I have, in vane, tried to get them. 
I am away from home at present and cannot get them but
I shall make another effort.  As to your brothers two
of them are gone from here and I cannot get theirs. 
One of them I never saw but once viz Uncle William. 
He was at home here in 1888 but he went to his home in
a short time and wrote us two or three letters.  In
the last which was received over a year ago, he stated
that he would move 100 miles west of where he then was
then which was in Middle Tennessee, but he has not
written since so we do not know where he is.  Uncle E.
K. Byrd is in Texas.  I suppose I have never met him
but a few times   I am in McDowal Co, N.C. teaching
school   I came from home last Sunday so I know a
little of what I have written at the least.  I have
been here six weeks in all and as above stated shall
stay 2 1/2 months longer.
    If you choose to write to me address letters to
Wilhite, Yancey Co., N. C. for I can get them from
there.  Please excuse bad writing & etc.   

                 Yours affectionately
                    Isaac M. Byrd


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