Letter from Lucy Sartain to her niece and nephews Mandy, John and Henry Sartain
circa 1880

 A few lines to Mandy and John and Henry to tel you all now that I hant for got you yet. I am well as to health but my dear children you don’t now [know] how I feel nor I cant tell you. I stay in hear [here] in the day and in Wesley’s house every night. I cook and eat in my house and I have to by every bite I eat. James Bray is mairred [sic]. He mairred Nealy Bond, Dock Bonds girl. Willis Scarber [Scarborough] is mairred. Tildy Smith. Thare hase been a heep of sickness in this country. Thare has been thirty death in 8 or 10 miles of us in fourteen mounth. Jo Brewers has lot [lost] his fourth wife and Rady Bray is ded.

Mandy how meny children you got and what thare names and write all the newes you now [know] of and write how many children your maw has got and there name too. I will close for this time. Write soon as you git this and not do like me. I remain your Ant un tel death.
Good By

Lucy Sartain           To
       Mandy Sartain John Sartain
                   Henry Sartain

Base handly [Hanley] and newt teate is ded

When Martha Beard Sartain married her first husband, Lewis Sartain’s double first cousin, Russell Sartain, they moved to Yalobusha, Mississippi. This letter was written by Lucy Scarborough Sartain, wife of Guilford Sartain, the brother who had informed Martha of Lewis’s death due to complications from measles while in Richmond, Va during the Civil War. The children [now grown] she was writing to were the three children born to Lewis & Martha Sartain. From the marriage & death reports Lucy gave indicates that she was then living in Franklin Co., Ga.  There is no date on the letter, but she mentioned that Newton Teate was dead; he was my great grandfather and he died in 1880.

Transcribed and contributed by Charlotte Collins Bond

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