{"id":599,"date":"2020-09-11T04:41:13","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T09:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/?p=599"},"modified":"2020-09-11T04:41:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T09:41:15","slug":"crabtree-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/crabtree-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Crabtree Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CRABTREE to FLIPPIN<\/strong> -State of Tennessee Weakley Cty February the 1st 1860<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dear brother and sister\u00a0 (J A and J A FLIPPIN\u00a0). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I set me down in order to answer your verry kind and most wellcomed letter\/ we wer verry glad to lern you were all well\/ we are are all well and getting along tolerable well\/ times is hard in this county at present\/ tobacco our only chance for mony is verry dul selling from 3 to 5cts per pound\/ every thing like eatables is hy for this country\/ corn is 83 per barrel and scearc at that pork is 6cts per pound\/ we have a railroad in five miles of us that is carying off evry thing that can be spared\/ it runs between here and McLemoresville\/ all of our chicken butter and eggs is carried to Memphis\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 they expect to open a tobacco market there soon\/ if they do it will be a grat advantage to our western farmers\/ we can eat breakfast at home and dinner in Memphis any day we wish to go\/ we made verry lite crops last year owing to the wet backward spring and the drouth in the summer\/ a pretties fall I nerver saw but the winter so far had pade up for the bratty fall we had a resel snow storm yesterday\/ the snow was not falling longer than seven hours and is four inches now\/ the Son shines beautiful all this day and did not melt the snow any it is so verry cold\/ we have had about ten snowes since it commenced snow\/ that wheat is killed but I hope it is not as bad as they think for I suppose there was some wheat sowed last wek over in Gipson\/ My toes feeles like they woul freeze by a good fire<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am very glad to lern you have and interresting neighbourhood and regret verry much that I cannot give you the same inteligence\/ I:pray Gods blessings on your sabbath school\/ be fsithfull as a teacher let nothing hinder yo from being at your post but the hand of providence\/ in that way you may bind shieve for the kingdom a good example is never lost\/ O that I could write my feelings on that subject\/ it is a nuff to say that God will bless the sabbath school where it is carried on as it should be\/ I wish to no what denomination preach for you and whether you are thich a nuff settled to have a good weak schools\/ <\/p>\n\n\n\n

we had a big campmeeting at old pleasant green last fall\/ it continued more than a week\/ I saw most of your relations there\/ grandmother white was rite peart for her age\/ they were all well except Rody\/ her health was verry bad she is afflicted withe a bleading of the lungs\/ little Nancy White you no was subject to fits all her life the older she gets the worse they hurts her\/ your grandmother thinks she will not last much longer\/ your granfathers funeral was preached on monday of the campmeeting by Abner Cooper from Esekiel the 47 chapter from the first to the thirteenth verses\/ I believe all your relations were their that day except Albert and his family\/ they were not there during the meeting that I saw\/ there has been several marriages on that side to rever lately two of Betsy Cribbe daughters one married a Leach\/ Martha married Jo Belew\/ his 1 wife died last summer\/ Jo Quinn came from California and took the last Harvy girl except old Missouri\/ there was severall others too tedious to mention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

well I am somewhat surprised I no not how the report could have started about George starting to that country\/ I have herd him say severall times that he just intended to go to see you if he lived but I dont suppose he had any thought of going there last fall\/ I would not be surprised if he keeps liveing if he goes to that country in two or three years\/ him and Abe Patton is going to merchantdiseing this spring in Obion cty Union City\/ George has bin over in Arkansas this winter to see Thomas and John\/ he got home two weeks after Christmas\/ they were all well\/ he did not like that country at all\/ I was at Marys in August the children had a great el to say about you especially Jane\/ she had not forgotten you\/ I hered from them two weeks since they were all well\/ Uncle Gregorys health is verry bad this winter\/ I was to see him last sunday\/ he sends his best love and respects to you and family\/ Sarahann Marry Jane and Leivina were there\/ they all wish you to remember them\/ <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aunt Sarah also joins in sending love to you\/ Benjamin is liveing on the Josiah more place doing verry well\/ his health is not good he has had the chill off and on for two years\/ John Patterson and Lacinda young was married lest week\/ James and Rachel is liveing at the Wedington place\/ they are well\/ Mas health is rite good\/ she wants to see you and your little ones verry bad but as it is impossible for her to see you do write to her often\/ you no she never writes any of late but so long as I live and am with her I will try to write for her\/ its past twelve thursday the 2nd\/ we are all well\/ I have two children William and Rachel\/ will growl verry fast\/ he has made a good hand in the farm two years he is five feet hy\/ Rachel is five years old and verry well grown\/ <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I believe I have gone thru with all that will be interesting to you\/ Ma sends her best love to you and children and says you must writs often\/ I receive a letter from you last spring\/ I had writen you one about the same time you wrote your and George has writen since\/ we had bin looking for a letter for some time kiss your little children for me and tell there Aunt wants to see them\/ Mr. Crabtree joins in sending love to you\/ you must write soon\/ so no more at present but we remain your loveing brother and sister till death. Mariah sends howdy to you and sait tell you she has three boys with her yet. S M and I S A CRABTREE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note: (Carroll County, Tennessee Records) Marriage Records 1838-1860, page 86, #343 Dec. 6, 1843 Samuel M. Crabtree to Isabella S. A. Patton by R. G. Weddington M.G. Submitted by Ann Westbrook Radcliff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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CRABTREE to FLIPPIN -State of Tennessee Weakley Cty February the 1st 1860 Dear brother and sister\u00a0 (J A and J A FLIPPIN\u00a0). I set me down in order to answer your verry kind and most wellcomed letter\/ we wer verry glad to lern you were all well\/ we are are all well and getting along Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-gutenberg.php","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"full","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"MaryCarol","author_link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/author\/marycarol\/"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Uncategorized<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Uncategorized<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 6 years ago","modified":"Updated 6 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on September 11, 2020","modified":"Updated on September 11, 2020"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on September 11, 2020 4:41 am","modified":"Updated on September 11, 2020 4:41 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions\/600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}