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  My dear Walt

you think strange of my not writing before and it is strange i have not but i have wrote to hannah and George both and should have written to you but was out of ink and neglected to get any till late in the evening so the time went Jeffy is not at home he went last week to springfeeld Mas to doo some leveling and went again on monday morning will get done this week we have been real lonesome so soon after poor Andrew s death but he had to go and matty goes to bed half past eight oclock so we are quite lonely) i have got A letter from George to day come with yours i was very glad to hear from him very indeed they have moved from Crab Orchard to Camp Pittman 38 miles from Crab Orchard in the direction of cumberlund gap i will send the letter Walt as soon as Jeffy comes home as i think he will want to read it he sent me 150 dollars last week but i dident get the letter till to day i was very glad he sent it as i had much to pay i dont think it was one hour after i received it that the undertaker came for his mony i was rather surprised at his   presenting the bill so soon Jeffy told him we wanted A little time but i paid it) it was 52 dollars every thing about it was conducted with the utmost quietness and respect with no bussell nor confusion if i could have had it any different i would have preferd it just as it was i had three carriages but there were ten altogether Cornell had two one for nancy and one for himself and Andrews friends procured the rest cornell and a leiutenant behaved with great respect altogether it was as far as respectability is) well conducted poor fellow it done him no good i know but it was the last office we could perform he was laid out in A black frock coat of Georges and vest and shirt looked as if he was asleep i never in all my life saw any person look so beautifull with his high forehead mary said he looked too pretty to be put in the ground after he died Jefy went down to the undertaker Oaks and he said he would come up in an hour it was late in the afternoon when he came and i gave him the directions he said it was so near night   that he would wait till evening and bring the coffin and all up and bring him around here all [illegible] i said well perhaps it would be best) but in the mean time some of nances acquaintences came there and made a great time said they would go and get frank stryker and have him laid out he was laid on the bed after he died the bed was out in the room and covered over so she came round with a great adue so i got Jeffy to go down again and he came up and was brought round and put in mrs brown s room and the doors locked only when some one came to see him nancy dident behave as i could have wished her too the next morning she went up to J Cornells and made a great adieu said we had taken him away from her and so that evening cornell came down here but in the mean time i had the children here 2 days and her too after he died) i happened to be upstairs when cornell came   i told him we had no idea of taking him away from her and i said it was his wish to be buried from here Jeffy says she has been here all or nearly all the time) he was buried as near your father as could be got not far from it she said if she could have buried him she would have him buried in greenwood i paid little attention to her fault finding but done what i thought was my duty little Jim is quite sick i went to see him yesterday the first time since poor Andrew died i have to give her money i gave her a dollar yesterday she has been in the street almost ever since Andrew died going some where or other she says she cant make any thing by sewing Jeff or matty gave her 2 dollars she got a notion of mooving and keeping a candy store i told her she better stay where she was for the present if she could better herself to move) so there let her go Jeffie has got a letter from hanna i sent the letter to georg it was short but very good she has received your letter and Jeffys it made her feel very sad about her brother but she was in hopes she should come home) i cant put much of Georges mony in the bank this time i had a very larg grocery bill to pay

  good bie Walt your mother LW