75-11-23  Colfax Whitman County W. T.  November the 23td 1875 to E Damrell 
from Cynthia Henderson                

Dear Grand Ma,             
Once more in life I am blessed with the privilage of dropping you a few lines 
to inform you we have not forgotten you and never will as long as life lasts.
You are very near and dear to us, though we can not see you or hear you talk 
still you are in our memory yet.  It has been a long time since I wrote to 
you, and I waited for on an news from you it did not come.  Then I wrote to Pa 
to know why you did not write I thought you had got feble to write, you said 
you would write to us as long as you could.  Pa did not write to give us any 
satisfaction so we seldom hear from Home any more unless it is by the way of 
others letters, we recd a letter from Abba not long since. telling us she had 
been to Sullivan on a visit and they was all well,  You cant imagine the 
satisfaction her letter gave.  She also said you read and write without 
specks.  Oh Grand Ma I wish we could see you.  It has been over 12 long years 
since me met.  time has changed us all surely since then still we are the same 
persons.  Everything would seem strange if we could go back there.  Have you 
got you a set of teeth Grand Ma.  They say they are such a help to old folks. 
 that is healthy for them to chew their food.  Pa must look pretty old by this 
time.  we would be so glad to get letters from him regular, I think it is to 
bad, none of our folks writes hardly.  Ben is the closest to us, on my side of 
the relations and he lives a bout 5 or 6 hundred miles from us maybe more.  we 
are living in sight of Willie Henderson.  he is still keeping house with his 
children.  they do very well to considering there is no woman there.  He says 
he must get a woman to take care of the house, for it is to much care on his 
mind to have the care of the house and out doors to.  Hannah and her husband 
lives 217 miles from here.  The time seem long between our visits.  she hardly 
ever gets to come here and I don't get over there.
I dont go away from home often, Roberts health has been so Poor for nearly 2 
months.  he is you might say only able to go about.  cant work but little at a 
time.  his lungs hurts him so.   has a pain in his Breast.  Coughs so hard, 
sits up a good deal, like one that is consumptive.  He had a spell of bleeding 
at the lungs last spring.  He get hoarse every Night.  part of the time can 
hardly speak above his breath.  Robert went with a man to Colfax yesterday has 
not got back yet.  The time seems long and lonely when he is gone, knowing his
situation.  It draws like cords around my Heart, but I must wipe away my tears 
knowing we only have one comforter and we must all look to him to be 
comforted,  Through many sorrows and Affictions in this unfriendly world.  
Grand Ma I dont write you this to make you sorrow.  You have lived to be old 
and went through more sorrows and afflictions than I ever expect to see for I 
have no Idia I will live to be as old as you are; time rolls swiftly on to 
call us all Home.  Sister Abba wrote to me to give you all the Particukulars 
about our Family and Bens also.  Bens seldoms write to us.  We recd a letter 
from Sister Caroline not long since here and husband is in poor health.  they 
have gone to Bens to stop all winter.  She said Bens was welll. they have 6 
children  I believe if Caroline didnot make a mistake in her letter their P. 
O. is Myrtle Creek, Douglas Co Ogr....
Grand Ma it is nearly 11 oclock and I will close telling you we have 3 
children and they are all going to school.  times are hard here.  we have had 
winter weather a month.  the creek is frozen over, please answer soon.  we all 
join in love to you and all the rest of our relations and Friends their.  
Yours truly,                        Robert & Cyntia Henderson.

tell them all to write to us and we will answer.