{"id":3042,"date":"2013-03-22T18:26:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T18:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/henderson\/?page_id=3042"},"modified":"2013-03-22T16:02:37","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T20:02:37","slug":"letter-davi-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/henderson\/private-letters\/letter-davi-2\/","title":{"rendered":"David Y. Davis &#8211; 27 Nov 1846"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>State of Tennesse\r\nHenderson County\r\nNov. 27, 1846\r\n\r\nDer Brother,\r\n\r\nWe are well at present and hoping that thes lines will find you in \r\nthe same state of helth. The helth of the nabers is good. It has \r\nbin better here than it has bin in seveal yers befor. We just have \r\nreceived a leter from North Carolina. Times are tolerbel thar. \r\nIt has binn very sickley thar. Tha made good cropes thar. \r\nJohn A. sade tha coming next fall. Cropes are tolerbel. Good corn \r\nis one dollar, wheat is 50 cents. It was very dry this last sumer. \r\nJohn B. has moved to Cub Creek. James M. lives on the Rainey place. \r\nSarah M. lives wher old Mr. Cannon lived. She was mared on 14th of June \r\nto Alexander Allen and I ant marred yet. Wood you have thout it \r\nMother is gone to a quilting and Lucy Jane Montgomery, she is staying \r\nwith. Yor father had a very lite spell of the fever but has \r\ngot well. The docter sade that he wold not get up but he has. \r\nThomis O. is sold out and is going over Sunday. Ther has several \r\nmoved and talks of moving.\r\n\r\nI want you to com out. We have a hundred and fifty or two hundred \r\ndollars fore you if you will come after it and mabe I will go home \r\nwith you. You sade thar were some of the prettest girls I ever saw. \r\nTimes are looking up some litle cotton bring a good price. Goods are lo, \r\nevery thang is lol. I beleeve I quit my scratching and go to the quilting. \r\nWe received your leter and was glad to hear from you and wold be glad to \r\nheare from you now. You must excuse my bad hand writing. I beleeve I have \r\nnothing.\r\n\r\nDavid Y. Davis\r\n\r\nI have just rased from a grate spell of sickness. I was given out for \r\ndead by doctors and friends. Though I now am well and harty.\r\nWe got a letter from the old world as you have been told by David. \r\nTheir will be a mighty moving next fall. The Davises and Reeds are \r\ncoming. Thley sicklyer there than ever was known before.\r\n\r\nWoodly Thomis has been living neighbor to us for two years. He is \r\nliving in the Granny Morgan house between me and my old place. \r\n\r\nHis wif has been very sick. She is getting well. John B. has moved \r\nto Cub and his cattle will starve if he dont attend to them.\r\n\r\nWhen you write tell everything.\r\n\r\nDavid Davis \r\n\r\n[On back of letter] \r\nYou will plese direct your letrs to Tippecanoe \r\nposte offis, Henderson County wher Eliza Morgan lived. \r\nJames wife has 3 children, John -four, and will soon have another. \r\nI beleeve I have nothing more at present.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State of Tennesse Henderson County Nov. 27, 1846 Der Brother, We are well at present and hoping that thes lines will find you in the same state of helth. The helth of the nabers is good. It has bin better here than it has bin&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"parent":2915,"menu_order":11,"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-3042","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 4:02 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","featured_img":false,"series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3042","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=3042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3042\/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=3042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}