| Madison County Letters© - 18Aug1839 Copyright 2000 Fredi Perry In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data and images may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or for other presentation without express permission by the contributor(s) Ridge Prairie Aug. 18th 1839 Dear Cousin, I have just finished a letter to Sarah Chipman and am in a perspiration nevertheless. I will say a few words to you hoping these few lines may find you in a comfortable degree of health. I was very sorry to hear of your illness. Harriet was taken sick the day you left. She is getting better now. She is as homesick as you was. She wishes she had never left Pike. I came home Saturday after you went home and found the folks in such distressed situation that I did not go back again. Father and Mother went out yesterday and got my things. They were both to let me off. Mother told Mr. H that I might go back in a few weeks if she could get help. James Posey died last Tuesday. Mother Wood and McMan are very sick. John Piston (?) is sick with the augue and fever mixed together Dr. Jennings was there last Sunday trying to separate it. Williams was at home last Sunday. We all went to camp meeting all the beauty and fashion of the Prairie. Collinsville and Troy were there. George Coppasway (?) as native ? was there and gave us a talk. My pen is so bad I will not write any more for fear you cannot read it and write an answer this week. Please to write us soon as you get this an let me know concerning your health and all other matters and things. Yours truly. H. A. Weeks Miss C. E. Churchill Alton Illinois (Postmarked Ridge Prairie Illinois Aug. (written in ink) 28. 6 written in stamp corner |