N C Mcdowell Co Feb
thursday the 18 1864
My Dear husband,
I seat my self to write
you afew lines to let you know that we
are only tolerable well. I am a little
better than I hav bin. My baby dont see a
well day but I do hope and pray that
these few lines may reach your kind hands
and find you in good health for I am
uneasy about you. I haint heard from you
in most four Weeks and it _____ longer a
year hav you forgot me or cant you write.
I would like to know what is the reason
you dont write. the last I heard fom you
you was sick. I would be very glad to
hear from you. I feel very lonly and
troubled to think I cant hear fom you. I
want you to tell me what to do about
giving apart of the crop to Henrietta.
she says she is going to take the sow and
pigs. I want to know if they aint yours
and write to me what to do about it. she
said that you was not to hav her for the
one that you killed last winter. I think
she is acting very mean to do as she is
doing to try to sell the sow and tell a
lie and say they are hers. she sed she
would hav them or kill them in the woods.
write what for me to do about them. I
want your word to show. Joseph Landis was
Married last Saturday Night to Jeannar
Coopper a daughter of Bill Coopper. what
kin is he to Susy Coopper? [p.1]
we hav had the prettyest
weather for the last five or six weeks.
it was like corn planting time but it is
very Cold. now I think it will snow. we
had snow last Monday but it Melted off.
they are furlowing fom the 22 regiment.
E. Neal, Barny Brackett and son
Hufstuttle, Overton West, Grason Dickson
has all bin home lately and John Coven
and Johnathan Taylor is at home half of
there times. if you could get to come as
they do it would be a great help to Me.
the yankeys got Soloman Barns. they say
that this state will go in to the union
and South Carolina is going as soon [as]
this state. the quarter Marsters is to be
round next week to get all the dry
Cattle. I dont see what on Earth we will
do. there aint corn to do till Harvest
and Wheat dont look like it will be any
acount. for My part I dont know what I am
to do. I do wish and pray peace would be
Made so that you could come home to help
Me Make support for our little children.
I want you to get a furlow by th_ 12th
of May and Come Home to take care of us._
I want you to do the best you can and
serv_ the Lord and pray for me and I will
for you. My heart and eyes is so full I
cant hardly write. write soon and often.
I want to know if you got the box of
things I sent by Mary Higgins. May the
Lord bless and save you is the prayer of
your disolate Wife. farwell dear.
Martha A- E. Poteet to
her loving husband Francis M, Poteet.
remember me. god bless you My dear
husband. [p.2]
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