Putnam County OhArchives History - Letters .....Letter To Grandfather Joseph Barnhizer From Chester Defay Barnhizer November 8, 1896
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West Leipsic, Putnam County, Ohio
Dear GrandPapa,
I would like to write you a few lines to let you know how we are getting 
along.  How is Uncle Jay and Uncle Chester, how is Uncle Chet's wife and 
GrandPapa Barnhizer how many horses have you got.  how many hogs have you 
got?  We sold 19 yesterday.  We got $25 per hundred weight.  10 April pigs and 
now we have 6 head of horses.  We haven't got any corn cribed [sic].  The 
Republicans are going to have an ox roast.  You had better come out and have a 
good time.  The weather is very cold.  It is snowing but we are ready for 
winter.  We have got 20 bushels of apples for eating, we have got 40 gallons 
of cider for drinking.  We are going to get our pictures taken.  We are going 
to have a family shot.  We have got 10 kind of cats, we have one that we call 
Goldbug.
I will be 9 years of age next Friday.
Are there many gass [sic] wells where you live?
Flory and I are going to school.  We have the 4th reader and spelling book, 
Arithmetic and Geography.  Our teacher's name is Mrs. White.  
Mrs. Rachel Hickey went to Toledo to get a cancer taken out.  She hasn't fully 
recovered yet.  It was an inward cancer.  
We think Aunt Rose is pretty.
From your Grandson Chester

Additional Comments:
Chester Defay, Martha Floy [FLory] and Kingdon Eli Barnhizer were children of 
Thomas Jefferson and Eliza Andrews Barnhizer.  This letter was to his paternal 
grandfather, Joseph in Sigourney, Keokuk County, Iowa.  Joseph had owned a 
mill in Putnam County that he bought from his father in law, Elisha Stout.  He 
and his wife Samantha traded the mill for 320 acres in Keokuk County.  

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