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Missouri St Clar Cty March 9m 1847

Dear Modier and friends I again take my pen to write a few lines for transportation to my Modier County.
I have die satisfaction to say to yon that we are all as well as we could resonaMy expect-Since I saw yon I
married Margaret Wilson on die 4th of April 1844 and on the 3rd of Feb. 1845 she had a Daughter and
calk die name Margaret Frances and die 7th Instant she had a son and die name is Moses W.
EHza is married and has a son the name will be George I expect her husbands name is Andrew E. Strain I
could tell yon much about high water and overflows of our Rivers from which we have suffcrred
considerable bat as it will not be interesting to yon I'll omit it - Moses and myself is still living at die same
places and no likelihood of our moving there has been no serious sickness nor any deaths in our families
since I saw you Moses is doing much better than he was done then and I am getting along as usual I
offered my name as a candidate for die office of Assessor last August in opposition to six others and was
elected by a lage majority I have been attending to mat business for die last two weeks and will not get
through under a month longer we received a letterfromWlBfaun Bogart and E. Turner a few weeks ago
thattoldus something of ourfriendsin tehnessee except that we have not heard anything since I saw Mr.
Stegafl at Erie last summer a year ago they informed us mat Jesse Bogart wasdead and George married
the letter is at Moses and I dont remember her name they informed us of the death of A. V. Farmer and
his wife and also of the Providential Stroke in E. Farmers family Dear Mother it has been some time since
I wrote to that country for which 1 offer no excuse only that I have written three letters back since I left
there and have not received one scratch of a penfromany of you but if it is so that some of myfriendsfed
indifferent about writing I have some experimental knowledge of thefeelingsof a parenttowardstheir
child and supposed it would be some satisfaction to yon to see marks that I had made on paper once more
and further being surefromdie coarse of nature that the time is notfardistant when all communication by
letter or otherwise must cese between us these thoughts has induced me this day to write I have made a
calculation of your age andfindit to be 75 year 10 months and 19 days. I have nothing new to say of
myself as to future prospects I am die same George I endeaver to hold op the name of an honest man and
believe I have the confience of my acquaintances as such but if a change if necessary to make a nuin happy
after death I have no such thing to say of myself may the Lord prepare me for that end I want you to write
to us as often as convenient let us know how all is going I had expected some of you to move here but I
suppose you have heard bad accounts of mis country. I was well pleased when WUKam and Polly came
here dunking that I would have the company of some oldfriendsthat I liked well but such hopes was soon
blasted I have nothing new to say about mis country if it was entirely healthy I could encourage my people
to come but Ifindit is very hard for people that coniesfrommat country to become reconciled to tins
particulalrly some of them. Win. Bogart thought if he stayed here they would all die but he has been
visited with death where he went while we have escaped if I was to give any opinion bout the health of this
country it would be about what we always said. I do not believe there is as helthy a spot west of the
Mississippi as E. tetmessee was in my raising - 1 need not mention the name of all my connection on tins
sheet I have not forgotten any of them I wish yon to remember me to all without reserve tell them I wish
them to write - 1 hadforgottentosay as much about my new wife as yon aught wish to hear I will just add
that we have tins far lived agreeable and her treatment to my children is fully satisfactory - you may tell
Peggy Kitchen that Solomon has been working at the waggon makers trade about a year but still has his
making and washing with us he is called a verry steady young man - tell Kore that Gab and Kate is well
Gabe is a large stout man Kate has been married near two year she has no child but we look for an
increase from her in a short time.
remember me to all my old acquaintance that ask after me and accept yourself my best wishes I remain
your affectionate son
George Preston
TO: Mrs. Jane Bogart
Kingston E. Tennessee (this fa written by Geo. Preston, Jr. to his mother)

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