Milam County Texas Archives Photo Document.....Jeremiah To Walker Perkins, Envelope 
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Jeremiah is writing from Port Sullivan, Texas, to his older brother Walker who
is in Georgia. In it he references that Walker tried to come to middle Texas
once before, got to the Red River, turned around and went back to Georgia. Now
he wants to try again and Jeremiah chides him for his new plan. Walker had
mentioned in a previous letter that they should entice their father to come to
East Texas. William Perkins has a step son, Jim Holloway, in East Texas. He
chides Walker for wanting to go to East Texas... that would be fine if he wanted
to raise gourds and squash.There was no reason for their dad (William Perkins)
to stop in east Texas to stay with Jim Holloway when William already had three
children in middle Texas (Jeremiah, Sarah Jane Phillips and Elizabth Ann
Cunningham). At the end of the letter Jeremiah refernces a river crossing he
tried to make where he nearly drowned.

Our great aunt Gladys told me that when they came to Texas it was like a big
wagon train with wagons, buggys, slaves, children and all.

William Perkins dies the same year this letter is written.


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May 1858

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