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Griffin, GA. Dec.
3rd, 1906
Mrs. Ethel Perry,
R.F.D. #I. Canton,
Ga.
My Dear Cousin;
Your welcome letter
to hand several days ago, same noted. In reply will say that we were
all glad to hear from you specially to know that you were well and able
to visit your mother. And that the little ones were well and getting
along all right. I am sure found suitable names ere this. To follow
the old custom necesita that. But the old custome is fast changing and
people now get up names for twins that to judge from their names one
would not ask the question are they twins? In fact some people like
to boast of having twins while others do not. This is the reason why
they name them such names as will best suit the taste and will be pleasing
to the childs ear after it grow up and is grown, I think my self that
names some times as to to with the persons lives in after years. Of
course every one desires the prettiest name that they can get up for
their little loved ones. And the are more particular while the child
is little and young than they are after they grow up and are grown.
My mother is hare and she says she thinks that the names Jenetta and
Rosetta? are pretty names. (Fannee) and Francis; Mary and Martha; Julia
and Juda; Bettie and Beattrice; Majorie and Marie; Margrette and Margret;
Geneve and gena; In fact I have tried to get up some names that I thought
especially pretty but I find it a hard job. If I could see them I might
think of some appropriate names for them. Mother is in a critical condition
and unless she improves very fast the Doctor says she can not live very
long. It is a mad thought to think as giving up your Mother, you have
lost your Father but the pain is not half as great as having to part
from your mother, She is here with us aNNN.. and I shall do all that
is in my power to relieve her of any suffering thatis in my power so
to do. For when we loose our mother we have lost our very best friend.
Oh, that she cold only be well once again. Father is not in very good
health either, and they are having a pretty hard time of it. Mother
will go home next Sunday, but I shall try to get someone to stay with
her untill she gets better. She is having awful spells with her heart
and the doctor says he can not to her any good. The spells come on her
and last only a few minutes but Oh, How she does suffer while they do
last. There don't seem to be and remedy for her. All the rest of our
Family are well and are having a good time there will be no use of my
mentioning all their names as you know who they are. I have had a successful
year in business and we had a Banquet at my house last Saturday and
we all enjoyed it very much. We had a group of our pictures made and
we all look very well, I will bring one with me when I come up and let
you see them. I keep on putting off my visit up there but dont give
me out I will roll in some day and take you all on a surprize. I wish
I was up there now but cant get off just yet. I may come along about
Christmas. But a not sure I will get off. Tell Asaph that I would be
very glad to come up and go hunting with him during the holidays. I
hope old Santa clause will come to see you all asspeccially the little
folks. I wish I could be up there to act as Santa clause for them. I
hope that your mother will get a good little pile of money out of the
mines that are being worked . How are they getting on with your new
house We have a nice little home. I wish you would visit us we would
be the gladest in the wourld to see you and all your family. I have
not heard anything from Grand Pas folks in some time. But I guess they
are all well I have not been well for a long time I have the catarrh
of the stomache. I have a cold all the time and sneeze a lot. I don't
cough any to amount to anything. I weigh 170 lbs. and am 35 years old.
Don't look like I ought to complain does it? Mary weighs about ten lbs
more than I do. Fred weigh 75 lbs. We are all good size. Fred is going
to school and is learning fast, and he is a right good boy sometimes
when he wants to be. He is only seven years old. Write soon and all
the news I am,
Yours Lovingly,
John
