JOHNSON COUNTY, TN - LETTERS - Sarah Dyson to her sister in law Nora Ann Harbin Williams, 21 Oct 1910 ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Adrienne Solomon yoadrienne@juno.com ==================================================================== Contributor's Note: This letter was from Sarah Dyson to her sister in law Nora Ann Harbin Williams in Watauga County, NC. Sarah was the daughter of William "Badge" Williams of Watauga County, NC, and the wife of Moses W. Dyson of Butler, TN. Nora Ann Harbin Williams was the wife of William Harrison Williams, son of William "Badge" Williams. Original spelling retained. Butler, Tenn. R.F.D. #2, Box 36 Oct 21, 1910 Dear Sister and Children, I will now after some delay try to ans your letter I received some time ago. Was glad to hear from you all and hear you was all well. This leaves us all well as comon. Now don't think hard of me for not ans sooner for I cut the end of my finger off when I was making craut and could not rite and can't rite much yet. How are you all getting a long. By this time all OK I hope. Have you got all of your work done. I think I will be ready to go to quilting in a bout a week. I wish you and Eliza was over hear to help me. We would have a good time. We haven't had eney frost hear yet. Have you all had eney over there? Don said tell Bealor he ought to come over and went with him to the big show at Bristol last Saturday. I was sorry you lost part of your apple butter. Tell Bealor and Earl and Mattie and Lessie and Jessie I want to see them all and for them to come over a you to see me. Tell them all to rite to me. Ask Mattie if she has forgot the peaches yet. Tell her I am coming after her to stay with me when Bell gets married. Bell said tell you she would love to see you all and she was coming before long. Sunday Eve I will try to finish my letter. I began it fryday Eve and Bell went to Elizabethton Saturday morn on a visit to see her people and I have had company since fryday morn. I went to Sunday School this morn and came home and got dinner and there wasonly 15 hear for dinner to day. So you can guess whether I am tired or not. Well I haven't heard from Bill since you was over hear. I guess he has forgot he has got a sister in old Tenn. Don't you? I have had one letter from Tom since you was hear and 2 from John. He sais he is coming home some time this winter. How is Maggie Johnson? Has she come home yet? Is her baby yet a live? How is your Paw and Maw? Are they well? Mose said tell you all hello for him. So I close for this time hoping to hear from you all soon. Rite me a long letter and tell me all the news and give my love to all the children. Your sister as ever. Sarah Dyson More notes: The Bell mentioned is Belle Hodge, who was living with Moses and Sarah in 1910. The Bill mentioned is William Harrison Williams, who had gone to Washington or Oregon for employment. He would later abandon his family and establish a new identity in British Columbia, Canada. Maggie Johnson is assumed to be a niece of Emily A. Johnson Williams, wife of William "Badge" Williams.