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(Carol)
November the 8th [1857]
I will write you a few lines to let you no
That we ar all well and have had
very little Sickness since we left
This has ben a healthy Season in this
Country and I hope these few lines
Ma find you all enjoweing the best
of health we was twenty three days
on the road and had a fine trip and
found all prety mutch wright hear
we spent fifteen dollars on the
road we found Meat for ten cts per
pound and butter ten cts flower
four four dollars per hundred and
I have rented the Same plase we left
This old Misouri is the plentifulist
Country ["Every" stricken] Ever I was in Wheat
Crops furnished plenty Seed and
I have a prety Crop gowing Corn is wort[h]
twenty cents per bushel pork
will bee about four dollars per
hundred this has ben the best
froot year. peaches apples plums grapes
plenty potates turnips there is evry
thing plenty heare to liv on Mi
Cattle Stood the trip first rate and
Object Description
| Rating | |
| Title | Winfrey Family, Papers, (SUNP6111) |
| Geographic Coverage | Carroll County, Mo.; Grant County, Wisc. |
| Temporal Coverage | 1857-1871 |
| Description | Correspondence between the Winfrey family of Carroll County, Missouri to relatives in Grant County, Wisconsin from immediately preceding the Civil War to 1868. Alson includes limited genealogical material for the Winfrey, Kirkpatrick, and Gagnebin families. |
| Subject.LCSH |
United States � History - Civil War, 1861-1865 � Correspondence United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Atrocities United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Women |
| Keywords | Civil War; Carroll County, Missouri; Carroll County, Illinois; Wisconsin; Winfrey, Nancy; Elder, Nancy; Winfrey, Laura; Kirkpatrick, Caroline; Kirkpatrick, James; Kirkpatrick, Samuel; Bushwhackers; Guerrilla warfare; Correspondence |
| Original Format | Manuscript (document genre) |
| Collection Number | SUNP6111 |
| Collection Name | Winfrey Family, Papers |
| Language | eng |
| Finding Aid | http://shs.umsystem.edu/manuscripts/descriptions/desc-family.html#SUNP6111 |
| Contributing Institution | The State Historical Society of Missouri |
| Publisher | The State Historical Society of Missouri |
| Rights | This material is protected by copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code). It may not be cited without acknowledgment to The State Historical Society of Missouri and the Western Historical Manuscript Collection, a Joint Collection of the University of Missouri and the State Historical Society of Missouri. |
