JOHNSON COUNTY, TN - MISC - Letter from C.C. Austin to his mother, 
			    Emily Rebecca Trivette Austin, 31 Dec 1923
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                               12-31-1923 
                               Cass W Va 

dear mother an all 
will rite you all but a few lines 
to let you no we are all well 
hope you are all well 
I am at work at cass now 
guess i will not move down 
there until march think i can 
save some money say Joe you 
get some lumber and fix 
that house and get tar paper 
and cover it and i will pay you 
for it and cut out a hole 
for Bertha to s[p]it snuff throug 
ha ha say we had news 
from pogy Danel killed Gar 
Church and grand pa is Dead 
well as i dont no much to rite 
will close rite soon and all the no[i]se 
                               Lum Austin 

Contributor's Note:  "Pogy" of course, is Poga, Tennessee.  Lum is Cristopher 
Columbus Austin, son of William H. Potter and his wife Emily Rebecca Trivette 
Austin.  Bertha was his wife, and my grandmother Emily Bertha Potter Austin.  
I saw her sisters Lizzie and Debtless (sp?) dip snuff and spit into coffee 
tins strategically placed around Aunt Lizzie's house when I visited Poga years 
ago with my grandmother.  I had never seen anyone dip snuff before and I asked 
my granny Bertha Austin if she had ever done this, as well. She said 
"Certainly not - it's nasty and disgusting." I don't think the letter proves 
that she also dipped snuff.  It may instead have been my grandfather's way of 
tweaking her about her sisters' habit.

Danel was Bertha's father, Daniel D. Potter.  He served in the Johnson County 
Sheriff's Department.  In the conduct of his duties, he killed Gar Church, who 
I believe is James A. Garfield Church.