Author: Eaton Branch
Title: Letter to “Son” [Elam Branch Sr]
Date: 16 October [illegible; perhaps 1870]
Curator: Christine Fisher
Note:
Lawrence, MI
16 October –70 [1870]
[difficult to read]
Dear Son, I will attempt to write again. We are now all on foot. Mother has just got up again. She has been as sick a person as ? generally life. She had as ? the collary as could be. She was taken vomiting and purging clear blood if we had not had the doctor near and ? or at least help ? I think she would not had lived. But she is up again. Frank called for help yesterday morning a little before sunlight and we cared him to the gates in a chair. Bell gave birth to a fine girl weight is 6 lb, 10 oz. Bell is quite smart and if nothing sets in will soon git up again. My health is not very good, but so I am to work the most of the time. We are gathering apples. I have but a few to spare. Less than I have had in my years and that with all other disappointments it makes me hand up I can’t pay my debts at present. Now in the mater in hand I was a delegate to the call at your place and was again to take Mr …