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This
a letter written from Abner Allred (Wm., Patience,Catherine, John) & (Wm,
Wm., Wm., Wm. or Wilhelm, John Dieder) to his aunt & uncle in 1896.
The aunt & uncle may have been Laban & Sarah Allred.
All the rest of his Allred aunts & uncles were dead by this time.
I do not have death dates on all his Coltrain aunts and uncles but the
youngest was about 83 if still living. Words
in brackets I am unsure of or don"t know.
I have kept most of the spelling but added some punctuation to make for
easier reading. Debbie
Montei Dowling I
have a Picture of my Family and my House I would
like to send to you folk if you Think it will go throo to [Rool]* it is
10 in. by 12 and I was a fraid it would get break from [Cuic Spring] to [Rool].
If you think it wilnot I will send it [?][?]
Laban* [?][Indiana]
[?] hear from you all soon tell me if you are all Married and tell me all the
news. I forgot Our County Fair is
from the 8th to the 12 of Sept Come Come Your
Wild Cousin Abner Allred Roanoke
Ind September
6, 1896 Roanoke
Ind. Dear
Uncle and Aunt and Cousins all. It is with pleasure that I take my pen in hand
to wrigh you a few lines in [brief] to you all that we are well and hearty and
glad we in with the living. Well my
folks, we have had a very wet Summer and we raised a good crope of all kind of
Grain here. The [?][ ?] a heape of
oats and wheat roted in the Shock and never was thrashed but we saved plenty I
recken to do up. Wheat is selling
Cheap. Wheat 40 to 55 ct [?] 15 Alpefa 10 to 25 ct Irish Potatoe 20 to [?] hog 3
to 3.12 [$25] On foot. Land is going Down in [Hearsey mar] Down. You can buy a
good [Hog] hear now for 25 and 30 dollar A Meilk Cowe and a good horse is worth
about the same. Many Business of
all kinds is Poar. Everything is on
a stand Still Mills and Factory of all kinds is
Stopt Running and thousand of hands idle.
The Glass Factory is all so shot down Men
running [round] the country hunting work. Now
if the Popocrats and The Silverists elect Bryon in November* I am going to leave
Indiana and go south and [cornupe]
with the Country and then be hapy and Contented with my fate. Now
my good people I want you all to come and se me.
You can come for half fair of the Railroad, Come and I will trye and feed
you well and I will hitch upe my
Horses and I will tak you to se all of folks and I will show you a good time and
it will not cost you one cent while you are hear in the State
I will tak a month time with you. Showing
you your kind folk and I will show you some Good looking Cousins and second
Cousins Yours
Trully Abner Allred
Roanoke Huntington
Co Ind
*Rool.
This referrs to Roul,
Carroll Arkansas according to Abners descendant, John Allred *Laban.
Abner had a son named Laban, who would have been about 35 years old in 1896.
All the penmanship looks the same. Perhaps
Laban wrote the letter for his father and added a note or this is more than one
letter. *Bryon
refers to William Jennings Bryon, who ran on the Democratic ticket in 1896
against William McKinley. He
advocated free silver to increase the money supply and took up many other causes
of the Populist Party. I think this is where Abner is getting the terms, "Popocrats"
and "Silverist". The poor
economic conditions Abner refers do are probably due to the Panic of 1893. |
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