to T. J. Kersey, August 19, 1894<\/p>\n
Letter is property of David B. Kersey, Obion County, TN, all rights reserved, 1998<\/em><\/p>\n To her brother Tom Kersey (David Thomas Jefferson Kersey) Comanche, Texas T. J. Kersey. Troy Tenn.<\/p>\n Dear Brother<\/p>\n Your letter at hand glad to hear you all but sorrow to hear of my Dear old Mother death What is the Resion You all dont Writ to Me offton Hiram (brother, Hiram T. Kersey) Wrot to us before went to see You all and since then I have never got one card and We ancered it and heared from him eny more I got Letters a While from Nancy (sister, Nancy J Kersey Harmon) but she has quit Writing We have Wrot to you all ever time We Got a Letter & more too.<\/p>\n Puss (Clarinda H. Calhoun Kersey) Dear Sister I Would be so glad see You all. I no you was good to our old Mother—<\/p>\n May the Lord Bless You & Your family. Give my Love and Respects to all the Connection and Reserve a lare (large) poshen yourself. Tell them to Write to ME. So I Will Close for this time.<\/p>\n Write soon to your Sister P.S. this leves us all Well hoping this Will find You all Well<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" to T. J. Kersey, August 19, 1894 Letter is property of David B. Kersey, Obion County, TN, all rights reserved, 1998 To her brother Tom Kersey (David Thomas Jefferson Kersey) August 19, 1894, Comanche, Texas, after the death of their …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2493,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/2493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAugust 19, 1894, Comanche, Texas,
\nafter the death of their mother,
\nSusannah H. Trigg Kersey, August 4, 1894<\/p>\n
\nAugust 19, 1894<\/p>\n
\nbut the Lord help us to
\nsubmit to thy Will
\nSo Let us Live So as
\nto Meet her in heaven
\nhow old was Mother<\/p>\n
\nDrusiler R. Young<\/p>\n