Harrison Co. TX - Jesse Grimes Letters ----¤¤¤---- Letter # 70 South Carrollton Ky Sept 14th 1856. Dear Uncle I received your kind answer of July 25th which gave us joy to hear of your welfare - I have thus delayed for want of subject matter to communicate and ___ on account of engaugements in sending East for goods which are now on the rout from Philadelphia to Evansville by railway we will have some difficuly=perhaps to hale from the latter place as the watter is very low = tho the branch seen one flush as we have had plenty of rain for farming interest, crops in our vicinity are very fine- in many places near by- very indifferent + a fine prospect for mart- Pork it is thought will be $5. good Mules are worth $150. good sucking coats 55 to 60 horses about the same= corn will be worth about thirty cents at the heap, the parties in politics one firme __ resolute it wile see cloase in the States, but I think Old Ky. In this race wile go for buck & Breck. You wile please let me know. How your State will go. The price of Negroes keep up notwithstanding the exciteme?. A man Sold for $1100. in our town Saturday last, good Woman will bring near as much. My Partner in business is a heavy Tobacco dealer a very Safe man we expect to build a warehouse and also deal in tobacco; which will increase the value of my lots one half land near Carrolton is worth from $15 to $50 pr_. It becomes my painful duty to inform you of the death Of our dear Brother, Reubens wife, CAROLINE, who was in deed a dear good sister= also his little Daughter of ther years. He buryed them in one grave Saturday last, the deseas was flux= The health of the people is now tolerable good, You request to know how our opinions Coroberate I would just Say to you that words fail me to express my gratification on learning the Sentiments of an aged and experienced relative on a subject of So great interest to me which opinions Seem to blend So nearly with mine that you Seem indeed to me as a (black mark on page) in the cause of liberal Christianity, and hopes that you will not let those Sentiments be lost to your memory When JESSE GRIMES is laid low in the toom, but may your name be Subsend to Sentiments of liberal Christianity that may tell to posterity that the doctrine of crualy had no place in the mind of one of Maturer Years=. The children just now return from a Meeting with information that Sister Fanny is very low with Flux Still some hopes of her recovery- the information from this is that this deseas is rageing in all the driest portions of the country is common after droughts or much water--- I must close my pen is bad and arm Some what weary Receive my best respects. Saml. M. Ross __________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Christine Grimes Thacker ___________________________________________________________________