Coke & Runnels Co, TX - Hayley & Pearce LETTERS WRITTEN BY HENRY DAVIS PEARCE TO HIS DAUGHTER ETHEL PEARCE HAYLEY ********************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ********************************************************************* Submitted by Mary Love Berryman - marylove@tyler.net - 17 Apr 2000 The Pearce Hotel H. D. Pearce, Prop. Ballinger, Texas, Oct 18th 1904 Mrs Ethel A. Hayley Bronte, Texas Dear Daughter You wrote asking me about the Fair. I had wrote up my trip for the Banner Leader at quite a lenth one half of which was published last week and the other half will be this week and there is more than I can tel in a long letter as it took 13 pages of fools cup paper to write it however, I think you would enjoy the visit and if you can I would be glad for you to go and if you have as much as a 15 or 30 day tickett you would enjoy a visit up into Ill and see our kinn folks they would treet you royaly. Aunt Sarah Ellen Bacon, and her Daughter Emma Edna Barthalomew live in Quincy at 425 North 6th St. It costs 4.00 to go up the river on the Diamond Jo Line to Quincy or $7.00 for the round trip and it takes a day and nite you get a state room and three meals on the trip and it is good fare. Or if you are in a hurry you can go on the Wabash R.R. and it only takes a few houers it is 162 ms to Quincy and when you get there if you want to go out to Uncle George W. Pearces 23 as you can go in the mail hack for one dollar and you will first come to Uncle William Barnards one mile before you get to Uncle George's and they will treet you nice and they are prepared to do so and they will take you to see the other kinn folks Uncle William Barnard keeps the Post Office name Barnard, Ill. and I realy think should you go to the Fair you should go to see them, if you even do not get to stay much at the fair. Also you should take your warm clothing along as it is likely to be cool or cold wether possibely it may be plesent Uncle George lives on the old Pearce Homested and the famly burrying ground is there whare our father is burried If you think of visiting them you art to write them and they will be looking far you and I would go as soon as cold well get off as it is getting late in the fall I went up on the Quincy steemer, and if I was you I would go up on the boat but I would come back on the cars as something mite interfeer in coming back on the steemer it only makes one dollars difference. Hoping that you may see your way clear to make the trip I am your with best of wishes. H. D. Pearce -------------------------------------------------- The Pearce Hotel H. D. Pearce, Prop. Ballinger, Texas, Oct 22nt 1904 Illinois Relations Mrs Sarah Ellen Bacon - Fathers half Sister Adress 425 North 6th Stre Quincy Ill Mrs. Ednia E. Bartholamu Daughter of Mrs. S. E. Bacon Adress 425 North 6th Stre Quincy Ill Wm Barnard Married Aunt Mary Pearce his son Henry Barnard and daugher Permila Barnard live with him 23 miles east of Quincy in Liberty Township P. O. Barnard George W. Pearce fathers brother lives one mile from Barnard's P. O. Barnard If you want to go on stemer enquire for Dimond Joe Line at Warf boat at of Olive St, St Louis Mo Rooming Place 510 West End Place A place about half way between Union Depot & Fair Ground -------------------------------------------- The Pearce Hotel H. D. Pearce, Prop. Ballinger, Texas, April 13th 1906 Ethel Hayley Bronte, Texas We are all well I received a phone message from Ceder Hill this evening that Mrs Mary Smith was very sick and that eather her sister or my sister was there and for me to come. I expect to start to Ceder Hill tomorrow eather at 12 n or 4 pm The train that will get me ther first I got the mesage 6:30 pm this evening when I get there will eather phone or telegraph to your mother at Ballinger how she is expect to get there Sunday between morning and noon. H. D. Pearce