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LETTER FROM ANDREW DORSEY TO HIS
BROTHER, HILLIARD DORSEY, WHO WAS AWAY FROM HOME FIGHTING
IN THE WAR WITH MEXICO. ANDREW & HILLIARD WERE THE
SONS OF ANDREW & NANCY (SMITH) DORSEY OF MOSSY CREEK (WHITE
CO) GA & THE BROTHERS OF MY MARY SALENA (DORSEY) JARRARD.
THIS ANDREW WAS LATER KILLED BY INDIANS IN MISSISSIPPI.
December
20, 1847
My dear brother,
It is with pleasure that I sit down
this evening. We have received a letter from you dated 6th
March & also one to J.M. (note: John Magers Dorsey, another
brother). We have not heard anything from you since
last spring until now. I am glad to hear from you. I
should of wrote to you long ago. I did not think it worth
while for I thought you were gone to Mexico from what you wrote
to J. H. Starr, Father, J.M. & Salena. She is going to
write to night. Eliza (note: a sister) is not here to
write. Dan Pitchford has got her at last. They
were married some time in Sept and he took off from Mossy Creek
Church in open day light. We don't grieve about her.
Hilliard you don't know how they were married at old Mrs.
Pitchfords and they are living there yet with the old lady.
She has been back since after her clothes and kick up some dust
and went back. The connections are all well and doing
about like they were when you lived here. We are all well.
The people are quarreling yet. Anderson has been here
since you left and he was here last Feb. He took the pig
Sampson home with him. Father gave him to him. Oh
how lonesome I feel. I have no person to converse with.
My asoiates (associates ?) are but few and seldom at home.
Most of the time there is something coming on to try me and put
me past going. I have not ploughed any this summer.
I am going to school at old Mossy Creek Church to old man Grahl
(sp?), father of Abraham Grahl. They have all wrote to you
this summer. Charlotte says she has wrote and several of
the rest & from what you wrote to Wm, you have never
received any of them. I entend to write to you regular and
I expect the rest will too. Oliver doing about like he was
when you were here. He is living on the Gainesville Rd.
I work below Clarksville together with Griggs in a sawmill.
Erwin Griggs is going to run for clerk of the inferior court
against Peter B. Loggins.
Wiley H. Quillian has a store at W.
G. Pitchfords. A very small store. Bill Pitchford is
as mean as ever he goes about licking his lip yet.
Old Gen. Warford is to be baptised next Sunday and I expect
to go. Thos I. Hughes is to be baptised at the same time.
Father & J.M. will give you all the particulars. Ed
Ferguson has joined the church and all of that gang.
Hilliard I think of you often. I want to see you very bad.
I hardly could keep from shedding tears when I read your letter.
It is the most satisfaction to me to read your letters than
anything else. You must write certain I entend to write to
you. I expect you would like to hear about everything but
you see my pen is failing. Father, J.M., Salena &
myself are all writing around one candle, three of us on the
little walnut table and the other on the ledger book.
Mother says she wants me to write a
great deal. I may never write much more to you. We
are trying to get them wrote tonight to send them to post office
tomorrow. Father rec yours this morning. We are
afraid they will not get there on time. I would like to
say more but the rest say enough. I will try and write
more next time.
Your
lovely brother,
Andrew Dorsey
Submitted by: Diane Ethridge
Conroe, TX
GG granddaughter of Mary Salena
(Dorsey) Jarrard
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