Address: Mr. Green A. Davis Farmerville, Union Parish, Louisiana Tippecanoe Gen April 11, 1841 State of Tennessee Dear Son, We are all well at present. We receved yours of October 26, 1840 and was glad to hear you was alive. The last day of March, your mother and John B. Davis started for Old North Carolina. We wrote to you to come and go, but you did not hear. If you will come about the 20th of June, you may see them return home again. They and you will be glad, no doubt. I wish I knew whether you are doing good for yourself or not. I am anxious to know. David finished planting last week. We talk of planting tobacco and then [???] for wasting as yours was done, for it was all wasted. I will now inform you of some of the diseases and deaths that has been here the last Summer. It was the sicklyest time that I ever experenced or herd of in all my life. Twenty four in my neighbourhood. About the first was Squire Van Hook and wife. Henry Morris's wife and two children followed. Matthew H. Davis died August the 27, 1840. The same day neighbor Jepthah Parker and was buried in our buring ground. The same day Archibald Wilson's daughter Emirinthy, Mrs. Parker also followed her and buried beside the old man. Three new graves at our buring ground and in Owen's Orchard there are six new graves. Three for Henry Norris and three for B. Morgan. There is but few families but what sickness and death has occured in them. Old John Owen died since the old woman started for North Carolina. Myself and the old woman had a tuff time with the Ague and fever and we are all on foot. James M. is married to a Miss Halbrook and has one heir, but not living. John B. is moved from Club Creek and built above Rinloins old house. We have several new neighboirs since you left and many gone. You said in your letter you was anxious to hear from us but your staying away denys that. I am anxious to see you and so is your mother and all the rest of the friends of yours. I will try to mend my pen. I shall look for you the 20th of June, 1841 which time I expect your mother and John to return with some of the North Carolinans to come with them. You might find work in my shop to amuse you a small space, for I am now behind and will be more so for John has kept with the ague almost all last Summer and now is gone to make his fortune. So I add no more. Only if you do not intend to come at the time I said, you must write to me all about what you are doing and have done. And may God bless you in your good doings and retract you from vice. David Davis