| Madison County Letters© - 26Apr1841 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, Madison Co. April 26, 1841 Dear Caroline, Your letter of the 4th arrived on the 19th April. I did not hand it to the school marm, but I think she has read it. Our folks are all well, although most of them have had the ague this spring. Wm. W and Chamby (?) B. Weeks have been gone to Galesburg 20 days. They took 3 horses, wagon, plows. I see you have dropped the "Elisabeth" out of your name. You must not forget the memory of Miss Betsey Free. I saw your father at Collingville yesterday. He was well. He is making a crop at the Bluff, 4 ½ miles SW of Collingville. Do you live in the town of Monroe? If not, how far from it? Do you go to school? Do the other children go? Which of the O'Flynns is in "cahoots" with Miss Burt (?) of Gardner (?). The Baby goes to school once in a while and does (have?) stroke of bumps at playing. Miss Hannah Seybold (?) is our school marm. Joseph Gaskill is married to a girl of one of the Smarts. Next time you write to me, please put "PM" after my name on the outside of the letter to save Mr. Phelps the trouble of writing "18 ¾". Divine (?) and Mindry (?) boys and girl have got married. Among them Mr. George Brown and Miss Moore. (?) McMahan's School Creek speculation turned out bad, and he is nearly broken. Yours G. C* *George Churchill |