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I hope this letter will be of interest of LCT researchers. My cousin Phil Phillips and I have transcribed, as best we could, the names and handwriting and I have added genealogy notes and comments. If you can identify any of the people Francis mentions, I'd be glad to hear from you with any corrections. And I have no idea who John's father was, or what Francis' maiden name was or anything about Jane. John Dickey and Jane King are very common names in the LCT area and I haven't made any progress on my research.
Happy Hunting and Best Wishes, Becky Sager Guess
Lincoln Cty Tennessee, December 6, 1857
Dear son and daughter
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It is with pleasure that I am permitted to address you a few line to inform you that we are all well at this time and hope that these few lines may find you enjoying the same blessing when they come to hand. I have nothing of much importance to rite to you. George received a letter from you a few days ago, he is gone to the south with Mr. Calvin (Myers?) hogs, he did not have time to answer your letter and I don't expect he will get back before the middle of January and I thought I would rite to you and let you know that he was gone. It has been raining all day and you can't imagine how lonesome we are. You don't know how glad we would be if you and Jane lived close by us, for we have got to be very few in number. I will rite you old news, but I recon you have heard it. Mary is mared to Mr. Thomas Mitchael. She was mared the 8 day of last September, he was a widower, he has three children. There has been good crops around here this year, a great deal better than there was last [year]. Corn is worth one dollar and a half per barrell, wheat 8 cts per bushel, pork 5 cts per pound and cotton is worth 13 cts per pound and (greens?) is not as high as they was last year. It is [not] very healthy in this neighborhood at present.
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There has been a great deal of sickness and a good many deaths. I will state some of them, Mr. John Cole and Mr. Dannel Pharrough and old Mr. (Ghood?), old Mrs. (Sherrell?) and Old Mrs. (Crook?). I will tell you of some of the weddings, Mr. James Braden and Miss Sarah Gill, Mr. Mathew Story [and] Miss Lucinda Braden, Mr. John Alsop [and] Miss Elizabeth Wright, Mr. Wright Tooley and Louisa J. Collins, Miss Mary (Simpson?) and Mr. (Stone?), Mr. Pleasant McGuire and Miss Rachael Alsop. I have hired a negro boy for next year and give 125 dollar for him and George is a going to live at home next year. He has made a splendid crop this year, he has made over two hundred barrells of corn, he has not made much cotton on account of the late frost in the spring, it killed all the peaches, I haven't saw but one peach this year. George has bought him a fine mare and a sadle and a cow and he says all he lacks now is a wife. Give my respects to O. P. Bruce and tell him that his fathers family is all well, that Thomas is gone with Mr. Myers to the south. I wold be glad if you woul rite to me if you have any chance to get your things that is here, for you don't know how glad I would be if you had them, if you want me too sell them I will try and send you the money for I want you to have them. We haven't had a letter from your Uncle Andrew Robberts and I expects they are all sick. Your Uncle Joseph McCoys family is all well and sends their
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best love to you and Jane and your Uncle Joseph says you must be sure to rite to him, John and William is gone with Mr. Myers and Thomas is (clerking?) for Mrs. Simpson and Samuel is living with Mr. (Hunt?). Taylor sends her love to you. Mr. William Young has took (_____) and babe to raise them. Miss Franklins and Mr. Curtis family are all well and send their love to you & Jane. Sharon wants you to rite if you have ever heard from Jackey(?) since he left for the west. She has never heard from him and she is uneasy about him. Give my love to Uncle Rubin and Aunt Sarah Ann and to all their children and tell them they don't know how glad I would be to see them. Give my love to Mr. William Jackson and family, to Mr. Fletcher King and family. Tell Jane that her connection is all well and that her cousin George Myers wife is dead and that the Myers has went and brought his children out here. They are a going to raise them. Tell Jane that she must rite to me for I would be glad to hear from her every week. Tell her she don't know half how bad I want to see her for I think that I could spend a week with her and hardly ever think of eating or sleeping. Tell her that she must rite to me about her new home and how she likes to live there. I would be glad if I could come and see you in a house of your own. You and Jane must come and see me if you can for you don't know how
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glad I would be to see you. Charlotte sends her best love to you and Jane and wants you to rite to her. She has rote to you time and gain and never received and answer. She says that she can almost see Jane very time she goes to (Emory?) and looks up the lane the way she always come to preaching. Brother Sherrell and Brother Brown is our sircuit preachers this year and Logan Haswell is our stationed preacher. Francis sends her best love to you and Jane [and] wants you to rite to her for she says that she thinks that you have forgotten her, but she has not forgot you. I want you to rite to me and rite all of your joys and sorrows. I want you to rite to me as soon as you get this letter, for I wold be glad to hear from you every week or month at least for nothing is more pleasure to me than it is to receive a letter from you, so nothing more at present but remains your effectionate Mother until death so farwell.
Francis Grant
To J. W. and *Jane Dickey
[John Wesley Dickey and
*Mary Jane King, John's 1st wife]
[Fayette County, Texas]
December 6, 1857
Additional notes in parentheses by:
Becky Sager Guess
152 Bradley 34 Rd.
Warren, AR 71671
bsguess@juno.com
870-463-8700
Descendant of Francis, John and Jane
My line of descent is:
John Dickey m Mary Jane King
Sterling Dickey m Beatrice Williams
John Dickey II m Madrey Favor
Dorothy Dickey m George Sager
Becky Sager m Carl Guess
Notes for 1857 Lincoln County Tennessee Letter
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Frances mentions:
George--(George Harrison Grant, s/o Francis and Thomas Grant, m Mary Jane Brooks, February 10, 1868, d/o John Brooks and Parilee Holt)
Mary--who got married (Elizabeth Mary Jane Grant, d/o Francis and Thomas Grant, m Thomas Mitchell, September 8, 1857, LCT, I think her 2nd husband was A. W. Davis)
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Frances mentions:
Deaths:
John Cole--husband of Nancy Cole
Dannell Pharrough--(possibly Daniel Farrar, d October 26, 1857, s/o John William Farrar and Elizabeth Williams)
Old Mr. Ghood
Old Mrs. Sherrell
Old Mr. Crook
Weddings:
Mr. James Braden and Miss Sarrah Gill--m September 10, 1857, LCT (I think I found them in 1880 census in Black River, Independence, Arkansas on familysearch.org)
Mr. Matthew Storry [and] Miss Lucinda Braden--m October 29, 1857, LCT
Mr. John Alsop [and] Miss Elizabeth Wright--m August 2, 1857, LCT (names on familysearch.org were John Van Allsup and Mary Elizabeth Wright)
Mr. Wright Tooley and Louisa J. Collins--m August 25, 1857, LCT
Miss Mary (Simpson?) and Mr. (Stone?)
Mr. Pleasant McGuire and Miss Rachael Alsop--m November 12, 1857, LCT (names on familysearch.org were J. T. McGuire and Rachel J. Allsup)
Mentions:
O. P. Bruce--(may be s/o Wormley Bruce)
Uncle Andrew Robberts--(m Elizabeth Dickey d/o Ephraim and Elizabeth Dickey December 19, 1842)
Uncle Joseph McCoy--(m Jane Dickey--also witness to Thomas Grant's will)
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Mentions:
Thomas and Samuel--may be s/o Joseph and Jane (Dickey) McCoy-(I have death certificates for Thomas and Samuel McCoy which list Joseph and Jane as parents)
Uncle Ruben and Aunt Sarah Ann--Ruben and Sarah [Speed] Stramler m in Williamson(?) County TN in 1819. Jane d in 1862 and in 1863 John m 2nd wife Ellinor Woodward Stramler, widow of Harris P. Stramler, s/o Ruben and Sarah
Francis seemed very fond of Jane
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Mentions:
Charlotte--(Charlotte Catherine Grant, d/o Francis and Thomas Grant--m James Harrison, 1865)
Francis--(Virginia Francis Grant, d/o Francis and Thomas Grant)
Emory--(could be Emory Richland Circuit Church. I have a copy of a handwritten note that says Jane was a member in good standing of Emory Richland Circuit Church according to her pastor [whose name I forget])
Brother Sherrell--circuit preacher
Brother Brown--circuit preacher
Logan Haswell--stationed preacher
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