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(date given on the envelope "Jan 25, 1861" from "Rockee Bayou Arks") Jan 21 Monday evening all about as usual I think I will stir up Prowland to write Polly little before long that is if I can seehim + I think him + Martha will come to see me before long. They come about once a year it is not because they dont care for Polly for they always equire when you have said any (*) that they dont write Martha cant write * thing about her her self + Prowland has had a good deal to pester him since the old man died the business is wound upat last but I dont believe I can tell exactly how they took it to Chancery court at Batesville to have a final settlement + the old set of children come out worse than they expected James children was not named in the will + the older set has to out of thier saves part make the younger ones equal with themselves + then Jane gets all that was left to her, which was the biggest part, to do as she pleases with I am not much sorry for some of them though there is no Justice in it but some of them would have been glad to took all from her + left her + her children without a home or a cent to go on You know that Jim Lixon Johns son Marr ied Jim Hays daughter well he is his mammy all over not much of old John Brushey in him he soon got Jealousy Martha + cuut up smartly but her said nothing about it + tried to get along with him + treated him as well (on top of the page, upside down) Thursday morning Jan 24th we up a right smart snow on the ground + I have the tooth are J Y Rucker Solomon going to the a foot
Letter from Julia L. Rucker to Charles B. Moore discussing news of family and friends. The letter is dated January 21 and 24. There is an envelope addressed to Mr. Charles Moore in Paris, Lamar County, Texas. There is a note written at the top that says it was sent from Rocky Bayou, Arkansas January 25, 1861.
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