Just a few months before her death, Nancy Virilla penned the following words (with "original" spelling, grammar, punctuation) to one of her granddaughters in Texas:
Spruce Pine, Alabama -- 28 April 1930. Mrs. Minnie Fretwell. Dear granddaughter and family how are you all by now fine I hope we are all as well as common hope those few lines will find you all the same well you ask me if Ruff and wife lived with me yes they live with me, well I sure did hate to here of Odell's death but that is something that we all half to do some day I thank sometimes it will be me next well I have 12 little chickes one hen setting will hatch in a few days, Minnie wish you would come to see me I would like to see a lot of my kindred once more in life I am getting pretty old not got long here on earth now, Ruff has got corn up he hasent planted any cotton yet it is so dry my garden looks very well for the weather to be so dry well I will close as I can't think of anything worth writing so ans real soon and all the news as ever your grandma N V POUNDERS
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*Note that there is a daughter named Annie who is said to have been born ca. 1880-1882 who is NOT listed on the 1880 census.
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Siblings --
:: Benjamin Edmund Quinn
:: Etta McQueen
:: James W. Quinn
:: Josephine Jarnagin
:: Lydia Alexander
:: Mattie Etu
:: Susie Kimbrough
:: William Thomas Quinn
. . . . . . . . . .
Spruce Pine, Alabama -- 28 April 1930. Mrs. Minnie Fretwell. Dear granddaughter and family how are you all by now fine I hope we are all as well as common hope those few lines will find you all the same well you ask me if Ruff and wife lived with me yes they live with me, well I sure did hate to here of Odell's death but that is something that we all half to do some day I thank sometimes it will be me next well I have 12 little chickes one hen setting will hatch in a few days, Minnie wish you would come to see me I would like to see a lot of my kindred once more in life I am getting pretty old not got long here on earth now, Ruff has got corn up he hasent planted any cotton yet it is so dry my garden looks very well for the weather to be so dry well I will close as I can't think of anything worth writing so ans real soon and all the news as ever your grandma N V POUNDERS
. . . . . . . . . .
*Note that there is a daughter named Annie who is said to have been born ca. 1880-1882 who is NOT listed on the 1880 census.
. . . . . . . . . .
Siblings --
:: Benjamin Edmund Quinn
:: Etta McQueen
:: James W. Quinn
:: Josephine Jarnagin
:: Lydia Alexander
:: Mattie Etu
:: Susie Kimbrough
:: William Thomas Quinn
. . . . . . . . . .
Just a few months before her death, Nancy Virilla penned the following words (with "original" spelling, grammar, punctuation) to one of her granddaughters in Texas:
Spruce Pine, Alabama -- 28 April 1930. Mrs. Minnie Fretwell. Dear granddaughter and family how are you all by now fine I hope we are all as well as common hope those few lines will find you all the same well you ask me if Ruff and wife lived with me yes they live with me, well I sure did hate to here of Odell's death but that is something that we all half to do some day I thank sometimes it will be me next well I have 12 little chickes one hen setting will hatch in a few days, Minnie wish you would come to see me I would like to see a lot of my kindred once more in life I am getting pretty old not got long here on earth now, Ruff has got corn up he hasent planted any cotton yet it is so dry my garden looks very well for the weather to be so dry well I will close as I can't think of anything worth writing so ans real soon and all the news as ever your grandma N V POUNDERS
. . . . . . . . . .
*Note that there is a daughter named Annie who is said to have been born ca. 1880-1882 who is NOT listed on the 1880 census.
. . . . . . . . . .
Siblings --
:: Benjamin Edmund Quinn
:: Etta McQueen
:: James W. Quinn
:: Josephine Jarnagin
:: Lydia Alexander
:: Mattie Etu
:: Susie Kimbrough
:: William Thomas Quinn
. . . . . . . . . .
Spruce Pine, Alabama -- 28 April 1930. Mrs. Minnie Fretwell. Dear granddaughter and family how are you all by now fine I hope we are all as well as common hope those few lines will find you all the same well you ask me if Ruff and wife lived with me yes they live with me, well I sure did hate to here of Odell's death but that is something that we all half to do some day I thank sometimes it will be me next well I have 12 little chickes one hen setting will hatch in a few days, Minnie wish you would come to see me I would like to see a lot of my kindred once more in life I am getting pretty old not got long here on earth now, Ruff has got corn up he hasent planted any cotton yet it is so dry my garden looks very well for the weather to be so dry well I will close as I can't think of anything worth writing so ans real soon and all the news as ever your grandma N V POUNDERS
. . . . . . . . . .
*Note that there is a daughter named Annie who is said to have been born ca. 1880-1882 who is NOT listed on the 1880 census.
. . . . . . . . . .
Siblings --
:: Benjamin Edmund Quinn
:: Etta McQueen
:: James W. Quinn
:: Josephine Jarnagin
:: Lydia Alexander
:: Mattie Etu
:: Susie Kimbrough
:: William Thomas Quinn
. . . . . . . . . .
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