Ridge Prairie, Madison Co., Illinois, July 5, 1847
Dear Caroline,

I avail myself o the visit of your brothers to drop you a few lines! I have enjoyed totally good health for the last year. I have almost got through my debt, having paid $850 within the last 12 months.
It appears by letters from Galesburg that there was considerable sickness in that place last fall, and in the winter, and this spring. Mr. Weeks was taken sick last summer and is not able to work yet. Norman Churchill's wife and oldest son have been sick.
Troy has become a considerable town. There is a French Academy at Mechanicsburg, adjoining Troy, taught by Mrs. Alvord, the preacher's wife.
Miss Lydia Ann Scott is teaching school in Plattan's (?) Prairie. Miss Candace Seybold is teaching at Mount Zion near Mrs. Teten. Minerva Gaskill is married to George B. Judds of St. Louis, formerly of Marine Setlement.
I am glad to hear that the Badgers had sense enough to reject their silly Constitution. Tseekers (?) have a Convention now in session, in keeping their Constitution.
James M. Seybold, Samuel Purviance, John Quincy Adams Gaskill, and Joseph Keho have gone to Mexico, "a soldiering." Zach Hays has left his bones in Mexico. Norman will tell you about the Duncan mob, and other matters "too numerous to mention in a letter."
Truly Yours, George Churchill

PS: Squire Small and family have got back to Collinsville




Submitted by Ray Reed at MesaV3013@aol.com. The McMahan's are his paternal grandmothers side.

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