LETTERS OF JOHN D. MOLER, Letter to his sister Hannah (Moler) Anderson, dated 10 June 1866 Transcribed and submitted by Marysue Eulitz, (c) 1999 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- KSGENWEB INTERNET GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY COPYRIGHT NOTICE: In keeping with the KSGenWeb policy of providing free information on the Internet, this data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other gain. Copying of the files within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Cresco, Anderson Co. Kansas, June 10, 1866 Sister Hannah Received you letter in due season and will now proceed to answer. Last season and this has been quite wet. Crops are all good. Times are hard rather. Quite healthy is this part of the State. County settling up quite fast, and if it continues to settle as fast as it has in the past year the whole State will be ocupied in the course of half a century. Railroads are bing built now and they are --- in the direction of the gold regions or rick mountains. Wild straberrys are abundant on the Prairies and are becoming more so every year. We are not farming any ourselves but rent out our farm land. I furnish land, team, feed for horses and tools and get one half the crop harvested. I am still engaged in building and taking care of our stock. I hear from Ohio occasionally, not often. Maria Walton (Armistead) is dead. I considered her as mutch of a lady in every sense as I was acquainted with. The old Mill property was sold by order of court as it could not be divided, and of course it was not required to have any of the heirs to sign the deed. I sold my interest in the old Mill property more than two years since to Wm. House, and bought eighty acres of land adjoining our house in this State. Wm. House wrote me some time since that he thought he might sell a little piece of land near Wm. Merions next fall. Am glad to hear that Griff's children are doing well, but the time will come when their Grandfather will be called away and then the poor fellows will again __ left without a home but Scripture says "the Righteus shall not be forsaken, nor their seed beg bread . . ." I wish it was so they could have their home with us here in Kansas. Henry is getting along about as usual. The people in this country ruined Henry in loaning him money, they had too mutch confidence in him. I am fearful he never will be worth mutch property, extravagance is his great fault. You requested last summer to give you the names of some of the kind people who attended on our Brothers and sisters during their long and tedious sickness. Mr. Page and his kind lady done every thing they could do. Mr. Page is a lawyer. Then there is Mr. Baylis and lady (Hotelkeepers), done more than any others if possible, and Mr. Osbourn and wife were as kind and attentive as any one could desire. Mrs. Osbourn took charge of little Minnie and kept her for many weeks in order that Hannah should not be bothered with her. Then Mrs. Walker, even if she does wear the Bloomer costume has a heart in the right place. And Mrs. Devey (?) and Mrs. Owens and Mrs. Robinson the Methodist preachers wife done all that women could do for Han and Cornelia and there was many others, indeed I can not say who deserve the most credit when nearly all done more far more than any one could ask of them. I thought at the mime that Mrs. Baylis and her Mother done most. I have no doubt but Han might have been liveing now if she had not done so mutch for Grif. She hardly laid down during his sickness, but when he was gone she took her bed, and I dont believe she was ever up afterwards. She appeared cheerful afterwards and told me it would not do to give way to her feelings, for said she, my children look to me for protection and a liveing. She said she would return to her fathers and her and Duddy as she called her would work and make a liveing some way. She said she would not die for she had been weaker frequently and recovered. The last time I saw her she told me to be sure and bring her some wild grapes when I come again. Poor thing, she told me she felt justified in the sight of God. I recollect everything as if it had occured yesterday and when anyone speaks of them and their sufferings and requests I am so overcome with emotion I cannot control myself. Truly your brother, John Moler.