ATHENS COUNTY OHIO Letter from E W Tinker to "Dear Sister Addaline"
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These letters contain the Tinker family correspondence.  It was typed exactly 
as it appeared in the letters so there is little punctuation and many misspellings.  
The first couple of letters were written by my great great grandfather, John Quincy 
BOUDINOT to his wife, Levina Adaline TINKER during the Civil War.  John and 
Levina lived in Belle Rive, Illinois but were both born in Athens County, OH and 
migrated to Illinois shortly after they married.  Apparently Levina's entire
family--the Tinkers--remained in Ohio, and from all the names in the letters
I gather they were a large family.  I still have not been able to
"straighten out" all the Tinkers but am working on that.  Hope this info can
be of some help to others.
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Letter from E W Tinker to "Dear Sister Addaline", written from Columbus Ohio 
on November 22nd 1868

Dear Sister Addaline

	I take this opportunity to write you and John a short letter hoping you
 will excuse me for not answering your letter  I supose that you have heard that
 I am in Columbus attending the medical college  I have been here since the 16th 
of Oct  We have a very nice class of students about 75 in number.  Much fewer 
than last winter  I have a pretty good time going to school  It is very interesting
 to me   in the profession there is some thing that is realy spicey   I have only 
one room mate  he is a good fellow, a married man so you see he can keep me 
strate  we hardly ever gow out as this is our second term and there is more to do 
than las winter  I am acquainted with quite a number of ladys but have not called
 on any since I have been here  well how are you all getting allong  I supose 
Florence has got to be a big girl by this time and little Charly he use to call me 
the old man  is he as pretty as he was  when you was home   little Effa she is a 
dutch girl an was so fleshy that you know I called her so  the little boy I must 
confess I don't know his name tell them that I send my love to all  I supose Pa 
and Ma will be there before this letter reaches you  as I received a note from Pa
 in Athens and he said that they were going Illinois  tell Pa that I received his 
check all rite and drew the stamps yesterday with pleasure as I only had .50 cts 
when I got the check  how is R W and wife getting allong  I wroat him some time 
sooner but have not received an answer yet   what does he intend to seek out for
 an ocupation   he was not settled in his mind when he wroat last  tell him that I 
would like their Photog___ John's and yours too  I believe I sent mine three years
 ago but it is not a very good one and I will give you a better one some day   
the Lunatic Asylum burned down on Wednesday night last   there was 7 of the 
inmates smothered and was taken out  they were all sent home  it is not known 
how many was burnt up  there is thirty missing  some fleed like willd beasts and
went to the Goodale House and put up for the night  one walked 30 miles  told his
folks that the building had burned and he thought he had better come home  it an
 f___ ____  ___ a Ball in the front of the building and it got a big start before it was 
discovered  I have not room to explane all

Particular's   write soon  to all
Respect yours   E. W. Tinker
Address Columbus

(In above letter, the names "Florence", "Charley", "Effa", and "the little boy" refer to 
the children of John and Adaline Boudinot.  "Florence" is Florence A. Boudinot, b. 12 
April 1857.  "Charley" is Charles Tinker Boudinot, b. 14 Feb 1859.  "Effa" is Effa Mae 
Boudinot, b. 21 Feb 1862.  The "little boy" is
Austin Fuller Boudinot, nickname was "Ott", b. 10 Sept 1866. )