{"id":3048,"date":"2013-03-22T18:26:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T18:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/henderson\/?page_id=3048"},"modified":"2013-03-23T12:48:07","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T16:48:07","slug":"letter-davis-8","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/henderson\/private-letters\/letter-davis-8\/","title":{"rendered":"David Davis &#8211; 15 Nov 1842"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>Henderson County, Tennessee\r\nNovember 15, 1842\r\n\r\nDear Son,\r\nI received yours of September 5th, 1842 which informed me of \r\nyour marriage and also the birth of a son, which gave me pleshur \r\nto hope that you was done sowing wild oats and now for this \r\nand the world to come, I want you to be orniment to yourself and \r\nyour fammily. We have to live alter we are dead if you are rightly, \r\nmoney or no money.\r\nYour mother wishes to see you wonce more. Doctor Montgomery with \r\nall his family came here last June, and Honey and Polly Davis. \r\nShe is married to David G. Montgomery. He has taken a ocupent \r\nover the Nachex trace, and Michael, his father, has bought \r\nWilliam [?]'s by Benjamin Nicolls in Carroll County. \r\nJohn B. Davis and your mother has been to the old world \r\nand returned July, 1841. And old father Davis was living who \r\nhas since died. Saludia Cary is dead and is buried at my buring \r\nground with her father and mother.\r\nReligion runs high, the people is all got good. I wish they \r\nwould all hold it until death.\r\nThat being in debt I do not like to hear. I want you to git out. \r\nI got land enough for you to work. Your mother wants to see you. \r\nShe wants to see your boy. I want to see your lady and her boy. \r\nLucindia was [?]'s name. There is aone of that name at my knee. \r\nJames M. Davis' girl and John B. Davis' girls are here. \r\nWilliam Parker has got a little one and Jane Lawson has got \r\na little one, and Bobb has got a abig one. Thomas is going to school. \r\nOld Uncle Bob Cozard's girls is married. Aunt Lottie I think \r\nshe will go next.\r\nGreen A., I think you said you intended to make something before \r\nyou returned. You have never returned I fear you have never made.\r\nIf you was able to come, your mother say she wold kill the fatted calf. \r\nI fear you are not able. As to my part I want to hear and know of \r\nyour well doing than see you in debaugh. I could write much so \r\nI could give fear of God to others.\r\nI remain your father and well wishes till death and when \r\nthis you see, remember me.\r\n\r\nDavid Davis\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nDear Brother,\r\nI will write a few lines to inform you some things left out above. \r\nThere has bin several death and marages. It has been tolerable \r\nhelthy this year in this part of the neighborhood but of some \r\ndistance a good many deaths.\r\nThere is the greatest revival of religion I ever knew in \r\nall of my life. Scores at all most every camp meeting.\r\nWe made good crops this season of corn and cotton. Oats, tobaco \r\nand cotton don't sell hardly at all, say 100 lb of cotton [?] \r\none dollar per cwt. \r\nTobaca is selling at 2$5 in [?] per cwt, corn 75 cents per barrell. \r\nWheat 62\/[?] per bbll, bacon 6 cents per pound, pork $1.50 per \r\nhundred cwt. Every thing is cheap for money is scarce, \r\ntho there is sum. What we have is good. I recon a man can do \r\nas well in Tennessee as any where else in the long run. \r\nTho men make money faster at other places but they spend it \r\nfaster too and come on a level at last.\r\n\r\nJohn B. Davis\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"parent":2915,"menu_order":17,"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-3048","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 12:48 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","featured_img":false,"series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3048","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=3048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3048\/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=3048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}