{"id":3037,"date":"2013-03-22T18:26:40","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T18:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/henderson\/?page_id=3037"},"modified":"2013-03-22T15:46:14","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T19:46:14","slug":"letter-davis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/henderson\/private-letters\/letter-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"David Davis &#8211; 11 April 1841"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>Address: Mr. Green A. Davis\r\nFarmerville, Union Parish, Louisiana\r\n\r\nTippecanoe Gen April 11, 1841\r\nState of Tennessee \r\n\r\nDear Son,\r\n\r\nWe are all well at present. We receved yours of October 26, 1840 and was \r\nglad to hear you was alive. The last day of March, your mother and John B. \r\nDavis started for Old North Carolina. We wrote to you to come and go, \r\nbut you did not hear. If you will come about the 20th of June, you may see \r\nthem return home again. \r\n\r\nThey and you will be glad, no doubt. I wish I knew whether you are doing \r\ngood for yourself or not. I am anxious to know.\r\n\r\nDavid finished planting last week. We talk of planting tobacco and \r\nthen [???] for wasting as yours was done, for it was all wasted.\r\nI will now inform you of some of the diseases and deaths that has been \r\nhere the last Summer. It was the sicklyest time that I ever experenced \r\nor herd of in all my life. Twenty four in my neighbourhood.\r\n\r\nAbout the first was Squire Van Hook and wife. Henry Morris's wife and \r\ntwo children followed. Matthew H. Davis died August the 27, 1840. \r\nThe same day neighbor Jepthah Parker and was buried in our buring \r\nground. The same day Archibald Wilson's daughter Emirinthy, \r\nMrs. Parker also followed her and buried beside the old man.\r\n\r\nThree new graves at our buring ground and in Owen's Orchard there \r\nare six new graves. Three for Henry Norris and three for B. Morgan.\r\nThere is but few families but what sickness and death has occured \r\nin them. Old John Owen died since the old woman started for \r\nNorth Carolina. Myself and the old woman had a tuff time with the \r\nAgue and fever and we are all on foot.\r\n\r\nJames M. is married to a Miss Halbrook and has one heir, but not living. \r\nJohn B. is moved from Club Creek and built above Rinloins old house.\r\nWe have several new neighboirs since you left and many gone. You said \r\nin your letter you was anxious to hear from us but your staying away \r\ndenys that.  I am anxious to see you and so is your mother and all \r\nthe rest of the friends of yours. I will try to mend my pen.\r\n\r\nI shall look for you the 20th of June, 1841 which time I expect your \r\nmother and John to return with some of the North Carolinans to come \r\nwith them. You might find work in my shop to amuse you a small space, \r\nfor I am now behind and will be more so for John has kept with the \r\nague almost all last Summer and now is gone to make his fortune.\r\n\r\nSo I add no more. Only if you do not intend to come at the time I said, \r\nyou must write to me all about what you are doing and have done. \r\nAnd may God bless you in your good doings and retract you from vice.\r\n\r\nDavid Davis<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"parent":2915,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3037","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"coauthors":[],"author_meta":{"author_link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/henderson\/author\/","display_name":""},"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 13 years ago","modified":"Updated 13 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on March 22, 2013","modified":"Updated on March 22, 2013"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on March 22, 2013 6:26 pm","modified":"Updated on March 22, 2013 3:46 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","featured_img":false,"series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3037\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}