Brown County Texas Archives History - Letters .....Marie Martin's Letter To Her Mother In 1914 October 12, 1914 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/txfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Glenn D. Wheatley gd1wheatley October 2, 2007, 6:47 pm Page 1 Brownwood, Texas Oct. 12, 1914. Hello. Mama, guess I will try and write a few to-night as we have a new norther this eve, don't guess it's cold up where you are none at all? Mama, they unveiled Tempie Wells grave yesterday eve and I was there with my Wells too. All rightie. I am still liking him as well now as I did and little better but, I liked to have got mad on him yesterday was a week ago. He ran off with Miss Ora Sparks and told me a storie about it he said he was going to the rail road sunday eve so he could be there earlie monday morning to go to worke and he didn't do it and then Page 2 yesterday he apoligised to me about it. but Ora sure was mad at me I guess, and she wouldn't look at the buggie where we was (but I didn't care) and then as we was going to B.W. we went by there and Ora saw us coming, she went and got in one corner of the house and looked out of the window just like a mad BULL I was at B.W. last night and to day both I went right cloth to uncle Johns but didn't go by and stop for Lola and Rubin was full of cream and was raring to go and so we goed on. but I went to see them all today. Grand dadie come very near dying Sat. eve they all was as kind as pupies and Creola is a dandie. Sam is just about to worrie Page 3 the devilout of me he is under the table and has hold of my foot just a going after it but I have him out now Mama, you said that dadie would beg me to go with him when he saw me and you wasn't with me but he never done no such a thing and he had a good chanch to have ask me if he had have wanted to for we went out and looked at his light sprange wagon and I got to see the over jets too. Dadie and Mae both said they was coming out to see me before they left B.W. but I hope they won't come on sunday for I wont have any time to spare on them. Creola was sick this eve with a cold and was cutting her teeth both but she is sweet all the same. And I saw John Robert. Page 4 he just took up with Grandmaw he had a picture of a mule and you could make it have diferance head and tails by moving a piece of the card and he showed it to me and I ask him was a picture of a mule all he could afford and he said "I can afford a dog but it is Uncle Roberts" Oh! yes dadies mules are prettie good looking mules and they are not burrows eather. Guess I had better got to bed so I can get up in the morning am still picking cotton for Guy H. how are all all well here Marie P.S. I got my rings in the shop to get them made larger and dadie give me a dollar and said he would give me more when he got it.it is on the road coming. the rings you give me will cost 65 cents and the one dadie give me will cost 50cents so you see I won't be out any at all only 15cents on them both. You see I will get them fixed. Additional Comments: This letter was written by Marie Antoinette Martin who was the daughter of Robert Clifton and Francis "Fannie" Adline (Williams) Martin. Marie mentons attending the unveiling of Tempie Wells grave with "my Wells" who was Winfred Wells. The letter was written one year before Marie and Winfred married in Brown County. She mentions B. W. (Brownwood) and her visit with Daddy, Mae and Creola. This refers to Robert Martin, his second wife Biddie May Kelley and their daughter Creola. She refers to her grandfather and grandmother in the letter. That would hve been Dickinson Moore and Sarah Ann Frances (Honea) Martin who lived and died in Brownwood. Marie also metions John Robert in her letter. He was her cousin and the son of John Robert and Cynthia Caroline (Martin) Stephenson. Marie Martin Wells died 18 March 1925. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/brown/history/letters/mariemar3nms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/txfiles/ File size: 7.7 Kb