Covered Wagon Women, Volume 1 by Kenneth L. Holmes

Author:Kenneth L. Holmes [Holmes, Kenneth L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781496225542
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: 2020-07-28T00:00:00+00:00

TWO LETTERS FROM OREGON

Bute ville16

Sept 2 1850, oregon Ty yam hill county17

Dear and estemaable friends Mrs. Paulina Foster and Mrs. Cintha Ames

I promised when I saw you last to write to you when I got to Oregon and I done it faithfully but as I never have received an answer I do not know whether you got it or not concequently I do not know what to write I wrote four sheets full and sent it to you but now I have not time to write I write now to know whether you got my letter but I will try to state a few things my husband was taken sick before we got to any settlement and never was able to walk afterwards he died at Portland on the Willamett river after an illness of two months I will not attempt to describe my troubles since I saw you suffice it to say that I was left a widow with the care of seven children in a foreign land with out one solitary friend as one might say in the land of the living but this time I will only indever to hold up the bright side of the picture I lived a widow one year and four months my three boys started for the gold mines and it was doubtful to me wether I ever saw them again perhaps you will think strange that I let such young boys go but I was willing and helped them off in as good stile as I could they packed through by land Russel Welch went by water the boys never saw Russel in the mines

well after the boys was gone it is true I had plenty of cows and hogs and plenty of wheat to feed them on and to make my bread in deed I was well off if I had only knew it but I lived in a remote place where my strength was of little use to me I could get nothing to do and you know I could not live without work I imployed myself in teaching my children yet that did not fill my mind I became as poor as a snake yet I was in good health and never was so nimble since I was a child I could run a half a mile without stoping to breath well I thought perhaps I had better try my fortune again so on the 24 of June 1849 I was married to a Mr Joseph Geer 14 years older than myself though young enough for me he is the father of ten children they are all married but two boys and two girls he is a yankee from Connecticut and he is a yankee in evry sense of the word as I told you he would be if it ever proved my lot to marry a gain though I did not get all, I did not marry rich but my husband is very industrious and is as

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