1860-10-13 BEDFORD MICH-----CALHOUN CO-----BROWN *MANUSCRIPT CANCEL MISSING STAMP-----TO HERBERT M. ANTHONY ( CIVIL WAR, PRIVATE, COMPANY G, 39TH REGIMENT, ILLINOIS INFANTRY), BLUE ISLAND, COOK CO, ILL----FROM HIS BROTHER, HENRY LEE BYRON ANTHONY (B. 1844-11-09, D. 1912)---HENRY WRITES, "ARE YOU GOING SOUTH THIS WINTER IF YOU DO YOU BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU SAY FOR YOU KNOW IF YOU SAY THAT WHICH THEY DON'T LIKE TO HEAR THEY WILL JUG YOU UP OR SEND YOU OUT TO THE COUNTRY OR PERHAPS HANG YOU ON THE NEAREST TREE. SO TAKE MY ADVICE AND KEEP SILENT."----HERBERT'S 10 YEAR OLD SISTER EMMA ANTHONY (B. 1850) WRITES, UNCLE ANTHONY AND AUNT AND TWO AUNTIES BROTHERS AND THEIR WIVES CAME TO VISIT ON THEIR WAY BACK FROM GRAND RAPIDS TO VISIT THEIR MOTHER.---"WE HAD A PARING BEE HERE A FEW NIGHTS AGO AND PARED BETWEEN 8 AND 9 BUSHELS AND THEN DANCED TILL ABOUT 2 O'CLOCK.----JOEL CRANDELL CIDER PRESS HAS MADE ONE BARREL OF CIDER AND PA IS GOING TO MAKE ANOTHER BEFORE LONG. ELBERT IS GOING TO THE UNION TO SCHOOL NOW BUT THIS WINTER HE IS A GOING TO TRY HIS LUCK IN TEACHING HE HAS TAKEN A SCHOOL BETWEEN BATTLE CREEK AND MARSHALL IN A STONE SCHOOL HOUSE IF I RECALLECT WHERE MA TAUGHT ONE SEASON. PA IS TO WORK ON STANLEY MEACHUM ON HIS NEW HOUSE.---BYRON HAS BEEN TO WORK FOR MR. POORMAN BUT HAS LEFT THERE NOW AND HAS GONE TO A MR. PACKER TO WORK FOR 10__ A MONTH---YOU SPOKE ABOUT GOING COONING IN AUNT GETMAN PEACH ORCHARD, VERY FEW PEACHES YOU WOULD GET THERE APPLES ARE VERY PLENTY AROUND HERE."----EDGAR AND HIS FATHER HAD A FUSS AND HE HAS LEFT HOME. EDGAR HAS GONE TO WORK FOR MR. EVANS, AND IS GOING TO BOARD WITH AUNT GETMAN---MR BUCK IS GOING TO TEACH OUR SCHOOL AGAIN THIS WINTER, ---EM (EMELINE SHAW, B. 1841, D. 1921-02-04) HAS BEEN SICK WITH THE AGUE---MR NYE IS ABOUT FINISHED WITH HIS HOUSE---WE(HENRY ANTHONY) ARE GOING TO HAVE OUR HOUSE PLASTERED THIS FALL---EMMA STARTED FOR YPSILANTI AND WILL GRADUATE----WE SOWED ABOUT 10 ACRES OF WHEAT AND DUG 90 BUSHELS OF POTATOES---GENEALOGY---6PGS----COURTESY OF A MICHIGAN 2 COLLECTOR P ID 45796

Year: 1860
Date: 1860-10-13
County: Calhoun
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Category: 19th Century Michigan Letters , Manuscripts , Stamps , Privately Owned , Crops/ Agriculture Econ , Horticulture/ Fruit
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