Henderson County, Tennessee November 15, 1842 Dear Son, I received yours of September 5th, 1842 which informed me of your marriage and also the birth of a son, which gave me pleshur to hope that you was done sowing wild oats and now for this and the world to come, I want you to be orniment to yourself and your fammily. We have to live alter we are dead if you are rightly, money or no money. Your mother wishes to see you wonce more. Doctor Montgomery with all his family came here last June, and Honey and Polly Davis. She is married to David G. Montgomery. He has taken a ocupent over the Nachex trace, and Michael, his father, has bought William [?]'s by Benjamin Nicolls in Carroll County. John B. Davis and your mother has been to the old world and returned July, 1841. And old father Davis was living who has since died. Saludia Cary is dead and is buried at my buring ground with her father and mother. Religion runs high, the people is all got good. I wish they would all hold it until death. That being in debt I do not like to hear. I want you to git out. I got land enough for you to work. Your mother wants to see you. She wants to see your boy. I want to see your lady and her boy. Lucindia was [?]'s name. There is aone of that name at my knee. James M. Davis' girl and John B. Davis' girls are here. William Parker has got a little one and Jane Lawson has got a little one, and Bobb has got a abig one. Thomas is going to school. Old Uncle Bob Cozard's girls is married. Aunt Lottie I think she will go next. Green A., I think you said you intended to make something before you returned. You have never returned I fear you have never made. If you was able to come, your mother say she wold kill the fatted calf. I fear you are not able. As to my part I want to hear and know of your well doing than see you in debaugh. I could write much so I could give fear of God to others. I remain your father and well wishes till death and when this you see, remember me. David Davis Dear Brother, I will write a few lines to inform you some things left out above. There has bin several death and marages. It has been tolerable helthy this year in this part of the neighborhood but of some distance a good many deaths. There is the greatest revival of religion I ever knew in all of my life. Scores at all most every camp meeting. We made good crops this season of corn and cotton. Oats, tobaco and cotton don't sell hardly at all, say 100 lb of cotton [?] one dollar per cwt. Tobaca is selling at 2$5 in [?] per cwt, corn 75 cents per barrell. Wheat 62/[?] per bbll, bacon 6 cents per pound, pork $1.50 per hundred cwt. Every thing is cheap for money is scarce, tho there is sum. What we have is good. I recon a man can do as well in Tennessee as any where else in the long run. Tho men make money faster at other places but they spend it faster too and come on a level at last. John B. Davis