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Esther Lucinda "Essie" Uhl, was my Great Grandmother. She was born
21 Sep 1861 to Jonathan and Katie (Tremper) Uhl in Lee County, IL. Jonathan moved his family to Shenandoah, Page
County, IA in 1871, where Essie and her siblings finished school. Essie married Albert S. Carter at Shenandoah,
in 1886. Essie died in Los Angeles, CA on 27 Mar 1956.
Thanks
Margaret Gagliardi
Annandale, VA
True worth is in being, nor seeming;
In doing, each day that goes by,
Some little good; Not in dreaming
Of great things to do by and by.
For whatever men say in their blindness
And in spite of the fancies of youth,
There is nothing so Kingly as Kindness
And nothing so royal as truth.
Your affectionate Grand Pa
A. A. Trimper
To my daughter
Essie L. Uhl.
Keep thy heart in due
Dilligence, for out of
it cometh the issues of life
From your loving father
Jonathan Uhl
Friend Essie
May your day be bright
May few dark clouds
Darken your Horizon; is
the wish of your Friend
Maggie E. Downer
March 13, 1882
Miss Essie Uhl
You have my kindest wish, and my earnest desire is that you will obtain a high education, and
while I speak of education, I will repeat a verse in the song we so often sing in school.
The time we spend our mind to store
Is labor not in vain
We know when School days once are oe
r
They ne
er come back again.
Our moments are as grains of gold
If sowed with careful hand
Will yield a harvest worth untold
That wealth could not command.
Remember me
Ever Your Friend
Alice Hughes
Hopkins MO
May 1st, 1881
Dear Essie
Remember your Schoolmate Melva
Melva Schaeffer
Shenandoah, Ia
Dear Essie
When memory with her __ hand,
Counts oer her gems by lifes dark sea,
Drop not my pearl upon the sand,
In some lone corner of thy heart
Round which swell memories may twist
And also giving them & remember me.
Your sincere Friend, May
Friend Essie
If scribbling in albums our
Friendship secures
With the greatest of pleasure
I
ll ser__ in yours
Your sincere friend
L. S.
May all that is brightest and sweetest
In life, be they portion and share
Be happy Gods blessing attend thee
Is ever may wish and my prayer.
Your Friend
Corry White
Shenandoah
May 4th 1881
June the 19, 1881
Miss Essie
Remember Me Ever
In Kindness I Pray
Forget Me oh never
Thought far far
From you Friend
Henry Patterson
Shenandoah, Iowa
April 25th 1882
Friend Essie
Remember well and bear in mind
A constant friend is hard to find
So when you find one kind and true
Change not the old one for the new
Ever Your Friend
Jay White
Shenandoah, Ia
Dear Essie
Sleighride
Ring
Molasses candy
I only ask for one little spot
In which to place,
Forget me not
Lovingly your cousin
Gracie Bennett
Shenandoah, Ia
Dec 28, 1880
Dear Essie
May 10th
Were gliding down the rapid
River swiftly down the
Mighty stream of time
Were sailing onward onward
Ever to eternity the unknown clime
Your friend
Bessie Beam
1900
Accept These friends as guardians {she drew sheep} of your heart.
Your friend
Who-is-it.
Annie Oppenheimer
1900
Every cloud has a sliver lining
Your cousin
Eva Southwell
Burlington, Iowa
Aug 3rd, 1881
To My Darling Daughter
Be good, Sweet maid, and let who will be clever;
Do noble deeds, not dream them all day long.
And so make life, death, and the vast forever,
One grand, sweet song.
Your loving mother,
Katie Tremper Uhl
July 11th 1881
To Essie
Let us love one another
Not long may we stay
Let us love one another
Today and always
From your sister
Gracie Uhl
Jan 11, 1882
Dear Schoolmate
Friends must part and strangers
meet hearts be broke that
Once were sweet all things
change from old to new and
I give you my love I must bid adieu.
Your true friend
Lottie J.
Shenandoah, Iowa
May 5th, 1881
Love
Miss Essie Uhl
May the sunshine of happiness ever shine
o
er the sky of your young bright life.
Your Friend
W. W. Hughes
June 30, 1881
Ida M. Southwell
Burlington, Iowa
Aug 3, 1881
Miss Essie
Oh life how fleeting and how frail are all they vast joy, and power,
All we may treasure in thee Death devours in one short Hour and
eve we can call aught our own it has from us forever sown,
But why should we philosophically Experience teaches us enough
all the logic we can Devise
Will never make life
s waves less rough,
Will never ease a wounded heart nor, rid it from one piercing dart
Life is a book composed of Prose and poetry
the poetry
Is surely the happy
Hour we spend at School
With due Respect
Your Friend Nellie Hiller
Shenandoah, Iowa
Friend Essie
May 10, 1882
The pleasures of life we hope
To gain its sweetest flowers we
Strive to gather while onward rolls
The rapid main our eager hands
are empty ever
Your friend Laura Beam
Shenandoah, Iowa
To Essie
Remember me is all I ask
I have no other claim
And if remembrance is a task
Remember just my name
Your Schoolmate
Ella M.
Dec. 25th, 1882
Miss Essie
Reading in a book one morning
Long neglected duties old,
And its yellow pages adorning
Pale and torn for years untold.
I found a withered rose
Nor do I know whose hand it was
That plucked and laid it there
For what gay or sad emotion
With its spreading fragrance fair
Inspired forgotten all.
Thus tis evermore we remember
When the past we would recall
Gentley dimed and sweet and bitter
Thoughts of friends and thing withal
Just like a withers rose
When looking at these few lines
Call to rememberance a friend of
Former times.
Belle Miller
Macomb, Ills
April 23rd, 1882
Shenandoah, Iowa
Page Co.
Essie
Always (music symbol
Sometimes (music symbol)
Never (music symbol
Gilbert H. Downer
Feb 12, 1882
In this corner is a little spot
In which I
ll say
Forget me not
Work for some good be it ever so slowly
Cherish some flowers be it ever so lowly
Labor - all labor is noble and holy.
Your Friend
G. Beam
Dear Essie
Remember me
When this you see.
Your true friend
Ella Beer
May 16th 1881
Dear Essie
When God sends his angels
With Blessings ladened for the good and true
To your home and health I pray
And bring their richest gifts to you.
Ever you true Schoolmate
Florence Hodges
Shenandoah,
Page Co,
Iowa
May 16th 1881
(Good Advice)
Dear Essie
Fall from off the roof and
Break your neck, fall into the sea
From off the deck; fall from the starry
Heavens above, But never, never, fall in love.
Your True Friend
Gertie Hodges
April 27th, 1881
__
Essie
Life is a volume
From youth to old age
Each year finished chapter
Each day a page.
May none be more charming
More womanly true,
Than that, pure and noble,
Sketched yearly by you.
Your Friend.
C. Matthews
Friend Essie
Remember thy
Seaton in the days
Of they youth &..
M. A. James
Shenandoah, Page Co, Iowa
Friend Essie
Rember me when
When this you see
Your Friend
Fred E. White
May 18th, 1881
Skating Sunday
Coal House
Remember me.
May Bennett
Shenandoah, Ia
Dec 28th 1886
Friend Essie
Some folks can be very funny,
I never could be so;
So I
ll just inscribe my name
It
s the funniest thing I know.
Your Friend
Taylor Henderson
May 15, 1881
Miss Essie,
Think for thy-self one good idea
But know to be thine own,
Is better than a thousand gleaned
From fields by others sown.
Nellie Book
Bingham, Iowa
June 12th 1882
Ever your friend
Friend Essie:
What! Write in your album, for crikes to spy,
The learned to laugh at?
No not I.
Your Friend
Lotie Moore ?
Shenandoah, Jan 1883
At the gate
Your Sister
Josie Uhl
Shenandoah, Iowa
June 22, 1885
Your Sister
Josie Uhl
White Cloud
Jan 16th 1882
So should we live, that every hour
Should die as dies the natural flower,
A slef-serving thing of power.
That every thought and every deed
May hold within itself the seed
Of future good and future need.
Esteeming sorrow, whose employ
Is to develop, not destroy.
Far better than a barren joy.
Your loving Aunt Mary
Essie
Last in your Album
Last in your thought
Last to be remembered
First to be forgot.
Everett Downer
Feb 12th 82