The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 69, July 1965 - April, 1966 Page: 358
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
ing voluntarily, but if I am called upon, I am ready at a moment's
warning.
Direct your letter to Leona, Leon County, Texas.
Tom's Crick, Leon County, Texas, April 15, 1855
I have been living in the above county for the last eight years. I
have been very unfortunate since you heard from me in one respect
and that is I have lost all,9 but happy to say I am still able to live. I
promised you in the last lines received from me that I would not
marry until I could come and see you, but to show you that man does
not know himself, I am married and the father of four children-
Ione Ann, Texanna Givva, Christopher Columbus, James Richard.
The last only one month old, the oldest six years old on June 16th.
My wife, Perriller, was born in the State of Arkansas but mostly
raised in Texas.1o
My family are all well, and at this time Texanna is sitting with a
pipe in her mouth and a foot on the cradle rocking little Jim to sleep
and Perriller scolding me because I don't saddle her horse so that
she can go and see her mother. She lives about five miles off.
Our country, Texas, is settling up very fast, society good, though
we lack one or two things in my part of the country, preaching and
schools. Both are scarce, though we have a little of both. The preach-
ing is generally by men who seldom follow the rules they set forth
themselves. Though I don't belong to any church myself, I think
by taking my Bible, I can gain as much information as I could by
hearing them that are not competent to explain what they read.
It would be a great satisfaction to me if you would send me by mail
a daguerreotype likeness of yourselves, which I intend to do the first
opportunity for there is one living twenty-five miles from me who
follows this business.
Direct your letter to me at Magnolia, Anderson County, Texas, as
this is my nearest post office.
Leon County, Texas, June 8, 1855
Brother, I forgot to tell you in my last letter of the 24th of May
9On February 6, 1855, John H. Potts, clerk of the County Court of Leon County,
certified that Betsy Radford, assignee of C. C. Goodman, had resided upon and
cultivated 32o acres in Leon County for the space of three years and had fully
complied with the provisions of an act granting to settlers land in the public
domain. The Preemption Certificate was filed on July 18, 1854.
10Perriller Marrida Wychard was born on December 4, 1827, in Arkansas, one
of eleven children born to Samuel and Sarah Wychard. Of the eleven children only
two lived, Perriller and Texanna. Sarah Wychard, according to the Federal Census
of 186o, was fifty-four at that time, a widow, and was born in Georgia. A great-
granddaughter of Perriller, recalls her grandmother, Mrs. Ben Beavers, saying that
Perriller could not read or write, but could figure in her head, was left-handed, and
smoked a pipe.358
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 69, July 1965 - April, 1966, periodical, 1966; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth117144/m1/418/: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.