YANCEY COUNTY, NC - LETTERS - Helen Byrd Higgins to her sister Myra Byrd Hensley and brother-in-law Goodson McDaniel Hensley --------------¤¤¤¤¤¤-------------- Wilhite N.C. Feb. the 2nd 1901 Mr. M. D. Hensley & family I seat myself to write you a few lines in answer to your kind letter which I received a few days ago & was glad to hear from you & that you was all well. We are all well at this writing. You wanted to know how much was comming to you out of the estate. I saw C.H.B. this evening and he refused to show up how much & said he had wrote to you yesterday that it was 17 or 18 dollars the land brought $897.50 & I don't know how much the other sales come to as C.H.B. wont settle. E.K.B. sued the estate for $360 dollars that he claimed that he furnished the old folks & I dont believe it was just for we wrote to E. K. about the old man's death & he never put any claim in & M.T. went to E.K. & brought the claims back with him & I guess that they decided it. The old man give the boys land & they set in to ring the girls out of the home place & they done it. M.T. & C.H. got the land. You wanted to know if the land was washed away. I dont see that it is much worse than it was when you left here although there has been lots of it cleared up. The people are gitting along very well. Wheat is worth one dollar & corn 60, Oats 40, Cattle is low 2 years olds about 10 & cows 18 or 20. We dont keep much stock as it dont pay--you wanted to know some of the old soldiers name that was in the federal army. A. J. Burton, P.O. Burnsville, N.C. Marion Higgins, J. H. Higgins & Wm Philipps, P.O. Higgins N.C. There is a small pox in 4 miles of us down the Creek and measles in 4 miles up the Creek. Miry you may think that I'm a little girl yet if you could see me you would think different as I weigh 206 lbs and John 226 & we have 8 children: 4 boys and 4 girls & all living & the youngest is 5 years old tomorrow, the 2 oldest boys married Guy & George but George's wife died & left a girl baby 1 year old the 7th of this month. You wanted to know where your brothers & sisters lived. We live at the Hose Higgins Place and Lilth where you left her she has 4 children: 3 boys & 1 girl. The oldest boy & the girls is married, the other 2 stay with her. C. H. lives near the hill Spring & M. T. at the old place & E. K., Bristol, Tenn., & W. J. in 12 years till last week M. T. got a letter from his son. Jane lives at Burnsville N.C. & Bets where she lived when you left here. How about the government lands. Is it all taken up and if not what is the terms as I have thought for several years that I would like to live there if I could get good land & could sell out here I could move out there. So I will close by saying write soon & as often as you pleas & I will answer every letter that you write if it is once a weak. Yours as ever your Sister & Brother in Law J. N. Higgins Helen Higgins (Letter written by Helen Byrd Higgins to her sister Myra Byrd Hensley and brother-in-law Goodson McDaniel Hensley) ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Brenda Normandin ___________________________________________________________________