Runnels County Texas Archives News.....Lett, Andrew Jackson and Sarah Emma Estes 68th Anniversary September 5, 1944
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Abilene Reporter-News September 5, 1944
Abilene Reporter-News Tue Sep 5, 1944

A. J. Letts to Celebrate 68th Wedding Anniversary on Sept. 7

Winters, Sept 4 --- The 68th anniversary which Mr. and Mrs.
A. J. Lett will celebrate Sept 7, is the culmination of a romance
begun 75 years ago when Mr. Lett, then a boy of 12, escorted
Mrs. Lett, the eight year old Sarah Emma Estus to school.
Seven years later when she was only 15 they were married on
Mr. Lett's 19th birthday anniversary.
The simple wedding took place at the home of the bride's foster
mother and aunt near Rockford, Ala. Both the bride and the
bridegroom had been orphaned indirectly by the Civil War, and
both had been reared by relatives. Mr. Lett's father died of
wounds received in a battle in Virginia and within  a few months
his mother also died. Mrs. Lett's father was killed in the second
year of the fighting, leaving his wife and two young children, who
returned to the plantation farm of the young widow's father. Both
her mother and oldre sister died shortly afterwards leaving only
Sarah Emma.
Mr. and Mrs. Lett came to Texas in 1899 when they and their
six children settled at Salado in Bell county. In 1906 they moved
to Haskell county settling near in Judd, which was wild country
then with wolves coming up to the houses to kill chickens in the
door yards. Over a year ago they sold their home in Haskell and
moved to Winters where most of their sons and daughters reside.
Although Mrs. Lett is 84, she does her own housework, cooking
and ironing and looking after their flocks of chickens. Mr. Lett,
now 87, tends their victory garden and plays with their dog.
One son, A. J. Lett Jr., is still living with his parents and two
daughters, Mrs. Charles Williams and Mrs. C. W. Cain live
at Winters and a third daughter Mrs. Walter Walker lives in
San Angelo. A son, Marshall and a daughter, Mrs. Walter
Walker lives in San Angelo.
A son Marshall and a daughter, Mrs. Oscar Williams died
several years ago. They have 22 grandchildren and 
35 great grandchildren 
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