Randolph County, W.V., 1899 KITTLE/MILLER Letter

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KITTLE-MILLER Letter, 1899


					Womelsdorff, West Virginia
					May 1, 1899

Mrs. Elizabeth Miller
   Mt. Sterling, Iowa

Respected Madam:

     I send you the Elkins News.  A paper printed seven miles below Beverly,
Randolph County, West Virginia.  I am corespondent for the paper and live
on Roaring Creek, Randolph, West Va.  Your brother George Washington 
Kittle, died here Saturday, April 22, 1899.  He had been sick all winter.
He died from the effects of LaGrippe.  He was 73 years and 24 days old. He
was intered at the mouth of Roaring Creek at John K. Scott's Mills. Maybe
you know where that is in the Roaring Creek Cemetery.  I have an Uncle 
that lives in Azen, Missouri.  Maybe you know him.  His name is Jackson
Phillips, my name is Claude Phillips, oldest son of Moses J. Phillips. My
father's name was Moses J. Phillips, Jr.  My mother's maden name was Margaret
Scott.  You know them, I have heard them talk of you.  Roaring Creek is a
great business place now, work is plenty and wages are good.  Timbering and 
coal mining is being carried on extensively.  There is two band saw mills 
here that cut 100,000 feet per day.  About 500 tons of coal is shipped from
Roaring Creek daily.
     All of Mr. Kittle's children were at the funeral except Mrs Elizabeth
Mills.  She was down with the measels and could not come out.  She is all
right now.  Womelsdorf is situated at the Falls of Roaring Creek where
Clement Tillman Hilleary lived in your day.  It has about 700 people in it.
Tygarts Valley News is the leading paper in Randolph County, West Va. We print
the News weekly from every post office in the County.  Terms $1. a year.
Randolph County is the largest County in West Va.  Having 1200 square miles
of territory in it.  There is over 100 miles of Railroads inside its boundry
in your day there was no railroads here.  There is 45 post offices in the 
County.
     This letter is being written at the hezekiah Kittle farm on Little
Flat Bush Creek.  All Hezekiah's family are dead except Smith Kittle. He
lives in Upshire County.  All Mr. Kittle's (family)live here in Randolph
County.  Eight of them live in Roaring Creek.

			I am, my dear Madam, Yours most truly,
				Claude Phillips, Senr

				(address) Womelsdorff, West Virginia
Please acknowledge the receipt of paper.  Claude II.

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