Mosella Crowell autograph Perry Co

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Nov 11, 1880	To Mrs. Mittie Crowell May the blessings of God await thee, may the sun of glory shine about thee, may the gates of ______ plenty and happiness ever be open to thee, may no sorrow distress thy days no grief disturb thy nights and may the pillow of peace kiss thy cheeks and the pleasure of imagination attend thy dreams. And when bright of years make thee tired of earthy joys and the curtain of death gently closes around thy last sleep of human existence May the angel of God attend thy bed and guard the expiring lamp of life that it may not receive one rude blast to hasten on its extinction. Blest as the immortal God is His The youth who fondly sits by thee’s And hears and sees thee all the while Softly speak and sweetly smile John Will (Flviners?) Lobelville
Dec. 8, 1880	Mittie May health, wealth, love and peace with each succeeding year in _____ and Oh the lash come where it may be unto thee a happy day From your boy Jno. H. Britt Georgestown, Tn.
Nov 1^st 1865	To Mittie Thy mind so pure I’d not engage With words of worthless kind I’d place upon this priceless page A jewel for thy mind Believe me I would have it good Believe I’d have it time Believe me if I only could I’d make a wish for you I’d wish for you a life of peace As long as it is sweet And when thy toils on earth shall cease In heaven a crown and seat W.J.D. Spence
Nov 1866	To my friend Mittie My faithfull ______ I’d laid aside And thought to write _____ in ________ The subject though, that now invites Is so peculiarly refined It wakes the power of poetry As doth the rainbows beauty bright And swells the hearth with melody To look within those eyes of light TIs not thy form nor face so fair That claims the wealth I now entwine Thy virtues all so rich and rare Spring from a cultivated mind I love thy joyous laughing eyes Thy step so gracefully refined The power to appear so bold and shy But more than all they brilliant mind May peace and love and joy be thine And life a blessing always prove In works of love your actions shine And rest at last with God above Doug Reynolds Waverly
Dec 1891	Mrs Crowell Remember me when far away When absent from thy sight And I’ll do the same by thee With pleasure and delight Your loving friend Jenie McCall Dardin, Tenn
24 Nov 1878	To my friend Mrs. Mittie Crowell We may write our names in albums We may trace them in the sand Or may chisel them in marble In a firm and skillful hand In the book of God’s great album May your name be friend with care And may all who here have written Write their names forever there Lovingly your friend, Mollie A. Britt Britt’s Landing, Tenn.
27 July 1890	Mrs. Crowell Peace be around thee, wherever thy rovest May life be for thee one summer’s day And all that thou wish And all that thou lovest Come smiling around thy summer way If sorrow o’er this calm should break May even thy tears pass off so lightly Like spring showers they will only make The smiles that follow shine more brightly Your Friend S.J. Wesson
27 Feb 1866	To Miss Mozella Hunt A man of 67 years in the album of a young lovely girl What can he bring? Out of a long experience he can bring good advice On every page in this year book are written wishes for your happiness and heartily I add mine. Permit me to give you my analyze of true happiness This is a plant growing in your own heart Millions of gold cannot buy one grain of true happiness The seed of this heavenly plant has to be cherished very careful But it is in the reach of every one Without distinction formed by outward things or circumstances Like all the other blessings of heaven Experience shows how true happiness rather prefers The cottage before the stately mansion And this forms one more proof for the heavenly origin of the same Dear miss let this definition by your guide through And sure you will enjoy happiness under all circumstances Religion of Christ is the foundation of true happiness And the kind nurse of this tender plant in rough and adverse seasons That you enjoy this happiness is my fervent wish Charles A Miller
23 Nov 1866	To Miss Mittie Whose surpassing beauty and many amenable accomplishments Has ____ for has the admiration of all who know her May the youthful ______ not the _______ Nor her young heart know the blighting frosts of disappointment But her life be one proud flow of happiness And her pathway through the sweetest flowers trip the ____ That _____ as bright as sunset ____ turns to ashes And the let may no ________ ____ enter the pane But may pleasure and joy sign forever May Angelo and Seraphs be her guardians And may she when her griefs and toils are o’er And life’s firestorm is past May she safely ______ the heavenly shore Where joy is immortal last County Clerk’s Office Waverly Tennessee November 23^rd 1866 William W Hobbs
	Mrs. Crowell A few short days ago you had never heard my name I had never looked upon your face But that ____ _____ which oft in other years has smiled ___ ____ gave signal proofs of favor whom it _______ You _______ wishing them _____ of my acquaintance Only a few short days ago but now friendship ____ are firmly spun And cannot will not be undone I must leave you soon perhaps forever But written upon this _____ pages of my hearts volume Are sweetest memories traced by this finger of regard When in future years I take my guns from _____ casket Thoughts of you as perfect pearls Over safety glasses in the emerald setting of love When the frosts of many winters sparkle Your hair with threads of ________ When beauty flower withers on your cheek And its ______ brightness fades from your eye When death’s angel hovers near your _________ May he whisper in your ear this sweet assurance that You have passed through the world like an angel with wings And caught ______ happiness purity brings That far up that bright world Where sin never mars Your _____ shall be ______ _____ with stars Annie Cora Brashear Linden, Tenn.