Contributed by: Margie Pace
March 2010
This is the autograph album of Mosella G. Hunt Crowell. This album is from the 1860s through the 1890s. A number of people who wrote and signed her book appear to have been from Perry County. It appears that many of these pages were written in her book during two times in her life:
1) During her marriage to David Crowell. Then she is still “Mittie” Hunt.
2) Times that seem to be bidding her farewell as a teacher around 1890-1891. Then she’s referred to as “Mittie Crowell.”
Mosella lived from 1847 to 1896. She married David Crowell in 1867 in Humphries County. By the 1870 census, they are living in Perry County. She continued to live in Perry County until her death in 1896. She is buried in Danielsburg Cemetery.
This album was submitted by Margie Pace of Jacksonville Florida. (bob dot pace at comcast dot net). Mosella Hunt Crowell was her husband’s great grandmother.
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| Nov 11, 1880 |
To Mrs. Mittie Crowell
May the blessings of God await thee, may the sun of glory shine about thee, may the gates of ______ plenty and happiness ever be open to thee, may no sorrow distress thy days no grief disturb thy nights and may the pillow of peace kiss thy cheeks and the pleasure of imagination attend thy dreams. And when bright of years make thee tired of earthy joys and the curtain of death gently closes around thy last sleep of human existence May the angel of God attend thy bed and guard the expiring lamp of life that it may not receive one rude blast to hasten on its extinction.Blest as the immortal God is His
The youth who fondly sits by thee’s
And hears and sees thee all the while
Softly speak and sweetly smileJohn Will (Flviners?)
Lobelville |
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| Dec. 8, 1880 |
Mittie
May health, wealth, love and peace with each succeeding year in _____ and Oh the lash come where it may be unto thee a happy dayFrom your boy
Jno. H. Britt
Georgestown, Tn. |
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| Nov 1st 1865 |
To Mittie
Thy mind so pure I’d not engageWith words of worthless kind
I’d place upon this priceless page
A jewel for thy mind
Believe me I would have it good
Believe I’d have it time
Believe me if I only could
I’d make a wish for you
I’d wish for you a life of peace
As long as it is sweet
And when thy toils on earth shall cease
In heaven a crown and seat
W.J.D. Spence |
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| Nov 1866 |
To my friend Mittie
My faithfull ______ I’d laid asideAnd thought to write _____ in ________
The subject though, that now invites
Is so peculiarly refined
It wakes the power of poetry
As doth the rainbows beauty bright
And swells the hearth with melody
To look within those eyes of light
TIs not thy form nor face so fair
That claims the wealth I now entwine
Thy virtues all so rich and rare
Spring from a cultivated mind
I love thy joyous laughing eyes
Thy step so gracefully refined
The power to appear so bold and shy
But more than all they brilliant mind
May peace and love and joy be thine
And life a blessing always prove
In works of love your actions shine
And rest at last with God aboveDoug Reynolds
Waverly |
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| Dec 1891 |
Mrs CrowellRemember me when far awayWhen absent from thy sight
And I’ll do the same by thee
With pleasure and delight
Your loving friend
Jenie McCall
Dardin, Tenn
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| 24 Nov 1878 |
To my friend Mrs. Mittie CrowellWe may write our names in albumsWe may trace them in the sand
Or may chisel them in marble
In a firm and skillful hand
In the book of God’s great album
May your name be friend with care
And may all who here have written
Write their names forever there
Lovingly your friend,
Mollie A. Britt
Britt’s Landing, Tenn.
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| 27 July 1890 |
Mrs. Crowell
Peace be around thee, wherever thy rovestMay life be for thee one summer’s dayAnd all that thou wishAnd all that thou lovestCome smiling around thy summer way
If sorrow o’er this calm should break
May even thy tears pass off so lightly
Like spring showers they will only make
The smiles that follow shine more brightly
Your Friend
S.J. Wesson
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| 27 Feb 1866 |
To Miss Mozella Hunt
A man of 67 years in the album of a young lovely girlWhat can he bring?Out of a long experience he can bring good adviceOn every page in this year book are written wishes for your happiness and heartily I add mine.Permit me to give you my analyze of true happiness
This is a plant growing in your own heart
Millions of gold cannot buy one grain of true happiness
The seed of this heavenly plant has to be cherished very careful
But it is in the reach of every one
Without distinction formed by outward things or circumstances
Like all the other blessings of heaven
Experience shows how true happiness rather prefers
The cottage before the stately mansion
And this forms one more proof for the heavenly origin of the same
Dear miss let this definition by your guide through
And sure you will enjoy happiness under all circumstances
Religion of Christ is the foundation of true happiness
And the kind nurse of this tender plant in rough and adverse seasons
That you enjoy this happiness is my fervent wish
Charles A Miller
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| 23 Nov 1866 |
To Miss Mittie
Whose surpassing beauty and many amenable accomplishmentsHas ____ for has the admiration of all who know herMay the youthful ______ not the _______Nor her young heart know the blighting frosts of disappointmentBut her life be one proud flow of happiness
And her pathway through the sweetest flowers trip the ____
That _____ as bright as sunset ____ turns to ashes
And the let may no ________ ____ enter the pane
But may pleasure and joy sign forever
May Angelo and Seraphs be her guardians
And may she when her griefs and toils are oer
And life’s firestorm is past
May she safely ______ the heavenly shore
Where joy is immortal last
County Clerk’s Office
Waverly Tennessee
November 23rd 1866
William W Hobbs
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Mrs. Crowell
A few short days ago you had never heard my nameI had never looked upon your faceBut that ____ _____ which oft in other years has smiled___ ____ gave signal proofs of favor whom it _______You _______ wishing them _____ of my acquaintance
Only a few short days ago but now friendship ____ are firmly spun
And cannot will not be undone
I must leave you soon perhaps forever
But written upon this _____ pages of my hearts volume
Are sweetest memories traced by this finger of regard
When in future years I take my guns from _____ casket
Thoughts of you as perfect pearls
Over safety glasses in the emerald setting of love
When the frosts of many winters sparkle
Your hair with threads of ________
When beauty flower withers on your cheek
And its ______ brightness fades from your eye
When deaths angel hovers near your _________
May he whisper in your ear this sweet assurance that
You have passed through the world like an angel with wings
And caught ______ happiness purity brings
That far up that bright world
Where sin never mars
Your _____ shall be ______
_____ with stars
Annie Cora Brashear
Linden, Tenn.
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