Llano County, TX - Letters:  Allsup, H. P. to son Andrew Allsup. 1898

Friday, May 19, 2000



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Reck, Ind. Ter. March 11th '98

Andrew Allsup & family

Dear son and daughter

I seate myself to Drop you

a few lines to let you

know that we are all

well at Present hoping these

few lines ma find you 

all the same there has

ben a heape of sickness

in this country this winter

but we have escaped so far

Lagrippe and Pneumona

has ben very fatal old man

Byfield Died the 17th of

Feb the old woman and

Alaice Talk of going to

New Mex to Columbus

I have rented Part of

My farm to Frank

me and Judy will cultivate

the balance Carl is still

teaching school Columbus

started for Mexico with cattle

but they could not cross

the continental line and

they had to come back

I dont know what he will

do  John is still at 

Shawnee Oklahoma

I thought perhaps he would

come by to se us but

I guess he has gone back

before now We have had

a considerable Drough but

its Raining Now from

a way back    some few

People are Planting Corn

but it is most to soon

for this country we are

done braking land but

will not Plant for some

days yet  Ardmore has

Received by wagon 48,500

bales of cotton this fall

and winter can any 

of your Texas towns beat

that  the two gins at Ardmore

has gined over 4000 Each

some of our country gins

has gined over 2000 our

gin at Reck is a small 

consern but it has gined 

over 700 bales

  Respectfuly your

         H P Allsup



Notes by Phyllis Hill:

Old man Byfield was James Byfield who was married to Elizabeth Hines Byfield, 

an older sister of H. P. Allsup's wife, Syrilda Jane Hines Allsup.  Columbus 

and Alice were their children. Columbus Byfield was listed in the 1900 census, 

living in Nogal, Lincoln Co., NM. Elizabeth is buried in the Nogal Cemetery.  

James is buried in the Reck Cemetery in Carter County, OK. Carl, the teacher, 

was a son of H. P. and Syrilda Allsup, as were Columbus and Frank, Judy must

be the son Judson Bailey, called Jud by the family.  John, who was at Shawnee, 

Oklahoma was a son of H. P. Allsup and his 2nd wife, Frances Moore. Andrew 

Allsup was a son of H. P. Allsup and his first wife, Eddith A. Moore.  

Henry Pulliam Allsup and his family, the Byfields and the Isaac Weeks family 

were all in Llano County in the 1880 census.  Martha Matilda Hines Weeks was 

a sister of Elizabeth Byfield and Syrilda Allsup.  They moved to Reck, Carter 

County, Indian Territory, Chickasaw Nation, in 1896. 

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