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Letter from TG Wallingford to his daughter Eliza Moore, 1891 Fields Store Oct 18th 1891
Mrs. Eliza Moore
My Dear Daughter I recd your kind and welcome letter of 4th inst (mailed the 6th) in due time indeed I was glad to here from you, but sorry to learn that you was not enjoying good health but hope the pain in your side has left you and that you are now in good health, we cannot be happy without health, this has been a vary healthy year here no sickness of any kind since you left my children are vary healthy and grow vary fast, Minnie has been walking for several Months and learning to talk some, Alvin is by me and says tell Sister Lide to come back he wants to see you all, he came near getting killed a few days ago his little mare run away with Uncle Jimmys buggy he was the only one in it, she ran from my yard gate to the corner of my pasture, the right fore) wheel struck the post, & smashed it into pieces tore the harness all from her & left the Buggy at the post in the road Alvin still in it, and only slitely hurt, it was a terable fright to us, his mother was dressing to take him and the rest of the children with her to the Grange Store, I had hitched the mare to the fence, Tid Denham came running two horses with gears on them Annie saw the mare was frightened told Tid to stop but he paid no attention to her run his horses up close to mine & she broke the lines and darted off full speed, Annie had just told the Boys to get out and John obeyed her had just got out a moment before she started, I beat the brains of Waller County at his game having me arrested, I appeared three times and demanded a trial and smart Jim Brown would not try me nor dismiss the case I told him and the little rooster John Mahan that I would not appear any more and Mahan came out next Court day and dismissed the case so none of them made any thing out of me, Tommy, & old dog Denham has compromised Tommy gave him $20 and Denham pays all costs, They have three of the lads in Jail at Conro, Rheuben, Van, Tops, Chisen, & Vol, Attaway for steeling Swifts horses and some hopes of getting little pretty Callie, Md we have the gang in hot water they are vary uneasy I do hope we will yet be able to send the most or all of them to the Penitentiary, we had a shower last night but a Norther has blowed up and it will do but little good grass is dried up and cattle getting thin some are already poor we drive all our dry cattle to the creek near Jo, Woods and the water will soon all be gone there, if it keeps dry much longer we will have to drive our cattle lower down on spring creek I hope we will never witness another drought like this, I think you had better come back & live here or at the place you left one more year and Melvin run for some County office I am almost certain he can be Elected County Clerk I have talked to several prominent men and they want Mel to come back and run for office John, Pinckney Larry, Mannax and others will do all in their power for him, John told me that he will raise $100 for me to pay Jo w if so I will get along some way and not be sold out, Tommy is going to moove to the Fisher place in Harris County, Thad & his Mother are well, he has little over a bale of cotton, he nor I have gined yet I made 1300 and got 970 lbs rent from Mathews Annie joines me in love to you & the children, tell them that Grand Pa wants to see them all write at once & tell me all you can your father.
T. G. WallingfordPS If Melvin will send his accts to me, I will try to collect them I made Charley, Yance pay me I am offered one dollar for you and you must take it I will sell the other things if I can but there is no moneyT. G. W. |