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this letter]
MRS. CAROLINE J. PETERSON
R.F.D. ROUTE 2
LOGAN, UTAH
Dec
11—1926
My dearest folks at Petaluma Calif We are expeckting to
hear from you to day I am sorry I could not write last Wednesday I guess you
get dissapointed I guess you can well remember how wrong it just to be for me
to sit and write when there were a lot of work to do and every body were buissy
and it is just the same now that is the reason why I am late
I hope
you are well and every thing is alrigth with you. your Dad do not feel as well
it been and is stormy weather I guess that is why he feels worst I feel the
same as usual only I get awfully tired at times I have done nearly all the
outdoor choers for the last 5 days I am thankful I can do them when your Dad is
not able to Grace came down last Monday evening her & Irene took the buss
from Preston to the main road going or comming up here they walked all the way
up from the mainroad quite a walk as it been raining and the road were muddy.
Grace and I made two quilts while she were here we intended to make 3 quilts
but the days are so short now and I helped with the choers so we did not get
time to do any more before Gus came for Grace.
I wished
I could of sent you something for Thankgiven but I know if been spoiled before
it got to you on the account of the mild weather, The Primary here in our Ward
sent two and two children around to the aged with a pis [piece] of cake and a
pie Orion Follett Sen took them around in his car little Lapryel and one of
Orions boys came in here to Pa and I and left a whole pie and a nice pis of
fruitcake, it made me feel so poor and little still I felt humble and thankful
Orion Follett said it is done to teach the children to remember the aged, as I
told him that we were not destituted so we needed it, the pie and the cake were
good who ever made it last year the Primary came also and they left me a pretty
Flower plant but it died during the winter.
I have
recived 6 letters this last week, one from Auntie Lovis one from Isabell two
from Abie one from Joe and one from Sophie Peterson it was bad news in the half
of them Edward Johnson been sick his hart bother him he been oblige to lay on
his back with ice packs on his hart and he had his tonsils removed and then he got
the hemorage he had to be taken back to
the hospital Auntie Lovis he looks awful bad. I bet he does look bad. Isabell
is and been in Cedar City been through an serious oparation the way she says
every organ in her body was deasieased [diseased] but her hart she had the
Pendic [appendix?] removed well her letter made me sick when I read it she is
still in the Drs care as theere is some thing still the matter with her stomack
Isabell went to Cedar City with the intension of going to school and then she got
sick down there I knew the way she looked when she was here that she did not
looked rigth O yeas you saw her It is funny she is alive now the Dr will not
tell her what is the matter with her stomack, I bet it is ulcerated.
Sophie
Peterson is the same calamyty hauler and beside it she said Joe Edwalls died
the same day she wrote to me he leaves a young vife and 5 little children it
must be hard on the old Parents to pass through such ordial in their old days
you know Joe is their youngest son and have lived with the old folks all his
life he died from Pheumonia. Sopie says that them Peterson boys David and
Leonad have not got any thing to live on they got to live off the old folks she
says among a whole lot of other things that it is funny that 3 familys shall
have their support from their farm and the old folks does the hard work O dear
I would never tell any body but be glad I had it to help them I know the boys
does lots of work and helps them work but Sopie wants to keep it all, well this
is not my buisness I just tell you how she writes, I get out of patience with
her complaining, and to top it of[f] she wants me to send her a meal of lutfish
for x mas but as we are not to have any this year I can not give any
Joe he
is fine he been boxking and knocked some Chapion [champion] down in the second
round he says for me to addrass he letters now to San Fransisco I guess they
are soon on their way to Washington Abie he is well with the exeption of his
ear he says he gets compliments every day for keeping his stable the cleanest
of all and then for the horse he uses he keeps him fat and brushed so he
shines, he ask for me to send him your addrass but mebe you have done that
yourself I guess you have wrote to him yourself by now. Andrew B. Nymans 3 year old child got
buried a week ago to morrow the meeting house was crowded with people their
were not room to stand up and I have never seen so many floral ofrings
[offerings] at a burial of a child, I dont know exacktly why but I could not
feel a very good spiriti in that funeral I guess I had evil thaugths and I sat
way back in the meeting house and so I
could not hear one forth of what was said, last week while Loue Wilhelm and his
son Edmund were sawing wood Edmund got his rigth arm brok sqwatt of[f] F.O. was
with them and saw it happen and he told Pa and I it was a pity full sigth
Edmund fainted dead away when he noticed how his arm got useless, the[y] drove
in to the hospital as fast as their car could go, well I must now tell a little
good news Carl M Nelson and his vife of course have celebrated their Golden
wedding on the 29 of October they been married 50 years I been told that the[y]
had a feast and a big crowd of people were present the[y]came from Ogden and
Brigham and then as you know half of the Greenvilles are ralated Old man
Charlie Nyman passed here at 2 p m going over there.
Well, I
guess this is all, O I forgot F.O. and family are all well now Annie have had a
cold but she feels better I knew all the time she acted to good and I told her
so to they did not get the baby blest last fast day the fast meeting were
postponed untill I do not know when on the account of the funeral, some more
porsality. [?]
Dearest
folks plaese do not judge me hard as I am no more than human but I should be
able not to see and not see and to hear and not hear and I am sorrow I am so
mean and not able to be good.
your Dad
sends his love to you he is now sitting by the fire, I shall now close with
ever so much love to you my dear ones
your
Ma Peterson.
P.S. Plaese coreckt the misstakes as the mailman is at
Maughns gates and I want this to go with him by by Loves.
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