{"id":3039,"date":"2013-03-22T18:26:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T18:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/henderson\/?page_id=3039"},"modified":"2013-03-23T12:55:06","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T16:55:06","slug":"letter-davi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/henderson\/private-letters\/letter-davi\/","title":{"rendered":"Green and Sarah Davis &#8211; 13 Jun 1844"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>Address: \r\nGreen A. Davis\r\nFarmerville Post Office\r\nYounion Parish, Louisiana\r\n\r\nTippencanoe Gen\r\nJune 13, 1844\r\n\r\nDear Brother,\r\nWe received your leter the May 4 and was very glad to here from you, and\r\nthat Alexander H. Cannon was with you and your mother says it don her \r\ngood all over.\r\nWe are all well at present. Hopen these lines will find you in the same \r\nstate of health. I beleav that they are very well satisfid with thir new \r\nhome. Your friends are all well and nabors are all well.\r\nCrops are very good. Wheat worth 25 sencs, corn 1 dollar, meat 6 sencs, \r\ncoffee 10 sencs a pound.\r\nI am at a loss to writ but I will writ something. Thare has bin some \r\ndeaths and maridgs. Liza Ann Montgomery is marid to Presly King and if \r\nyou will come, I and Chesley King will mary and kill the golen and I \r\nexpect Lucy G. will mary as sune as she can. \r\nDavid want and I want you to come. Fetch your wife and pretty boy for \r\nI am atired of girls. Mother says she wants to see it vary bad \r\nand do I. Aunt Nancy says she waunt to see you and your litil wife \r\nand son. If you did know how bad your mother did wont to see you, \r\nyou shorly wold come. I think you would come and mabbe you will give \r\nmy respecs to my nice cousin and tell him to have him pick out a yant. \r\nCome and I dont know when that will be. Now more at present but remain \r\nyour lovin sister until death.\r\nSarah Ann Davis to Green A. Davis\r\n\r\nDear Son,\r\nI know take oportunity to inform you that I am well at present. I realle \r\nglad that you inform us all abot your consuns how you a getiing along. \r\nCorn crops are promising. I clous at unite (?) to is poorly but can talk on \r\non poletickes yet. We hav had a rain yesterday and quinting thinning corn. \r\nAl is at work in the shop. My hand trimbling so I can't write. \r\nGreen A. Davis, wish you would come. \r\nJune the 14th David Davis\r\n\r\nDear Brother, I will write a word or so not that care much about it, but \r\nbecaus it is the fashion. I am a live but can't eat my share of anything \r\nat all. I am a Henry Clay Whig and hope you are.\r\nTo Green A. Davis John B. Davis\r\n\r\nBefore I close this leter, give my respects to Alexander Cannon but you did \r\nnot write what you said you would writ. I rechn you would like to hear from \r\nJane. She is well I believe. I was at Aunt Nelllys the other day. Tha was \r\nall well. Your friends and relatives are all well. Sally says she waunts \r\nyou to come if you come home. Adline Allen had ? ? and is to be babtiz nex \r\nmeting. Old Tomy King and Mrs. Hammit is married and has (?) six or seven \r\ntimes. Al Wilks is working here in old man's shop.\r\n\r\nGood morning, Alexander. How do you on this morning. I wod be glad to see \r\nyou this morning. I am goin to meetin if it dont rain. I expect to see \r\nAdline and what must I tell her, I saw Jasper yesday he was well. I have \r\nnot seen James in sometime. William Halbrooks was here last Sunday. He was \r\nas purty as ever.\r\nNothing more at present but remaine a friend until deth.\r\nSarah Ann Davis to Alexander Cannon \r\n\r\nWe are all well this morning. A good stomake to eat and none to work. James \r\nM. and his wife is well. Tha have two children. I can hear James talking to \r\nhis babe one a half a mile, and Suzy (?)\r\nAlexander, how do you com on. Ar thar many pretty girls thar. If thar is, I \r\nwill come and see them. I saw Jane last Sunday was a week. And says she (?) \r\nto (?) you no mour of your (?).\r\nYours David Y. Davis.\r\n\r\n[All the above letters were sent at the same time.]<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Address: Green A. Davis Farmerville Post Office Younion Parish, Louisiana Tippencanoe Gen June 13, 1844 Dear Brother, We received your leter the May 4 and was very glad to here from you, and that Alexander H. Cannon was with you and your mother says it&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"parent":2915,"menu_order":8,"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-3039","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 23, 2013"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on March 22, 2013 6:26 pm","modified":"Updated on March 23, 2013 12:55 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","featured_img":false,"series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3039","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=3039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3039\/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=3039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}