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- Oriskany Dec 7 1833 Dear Brother I have just perused your letter and learn to my great dissipointment and sorrow that you are bereft of your nearest and dearest friend is it possible she is gone and shall I never behold her who was so dear to you. I have indulged the idea that I should at some future time see you and your wife and children but my hopes are blasted. My dear brother to whom shall we look for comfort and support in the hour of adversity but to him who sustains and keeps us in existence he and he alone can comfort us in the time of greatest trouble we know he does not willingly afflict the children of men but our light afflictions which are but for a moment work out for us a far more exceding and eternal weight of glory no affliction for the present seemeth joyous but grievious nevertheless it afterwards yieldeth the peacible fruits of righteousness to them that are exercised thereby yes if we are rightly excercised by our afflictions they will tend to our everlasting good and we can say with david it was good for me to be afflicted for before I was afflicted I went astray. Dear Brother do not mourn for your wife but consider by your loss is her infinite gain if she trusted in her Savior as I humbly hope she did she is gone to dwell in his presence forever. She is far from the world of sin and sorrow and I am certain you cannot wish her to return again to this troubblesome world. Remember the Seperation is but short you must soon follow her and if you trust in the God who was her support in the hour of death you will then enjoy he society through a blissful Eternity I do take warning by this event to prepare for death. Life is the time to serve the Lord do not procrstinate the day of repentance death may soon come and in an hour that we think Dear brother you may think I am insensible to your sorrow if I refuse to come and help you take care of your babes but I think it is a long journey for a female to undertak to go alone and I think that mother would not consent to have me go so far from home I should be very glad to see you and assist you in your trouble if I could. I wish you could come to this part of the country if you do not I do not know that I shall ever see you I am now at work at the taylors trade in Oriskany and I enjoy good health and that is one of the greatest of blessings Anjelina returned home to Watson in August and I have not heard from her since This from your Sister H Willcox I hope you will not forget to write often
- Date Issued:
- 1833-12-07T00:00:00Z
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- University of Michigan - Flint
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- Lyman George Willcox Papers
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- Oriskany Feb 24th 1833 Dear Brother I received your letter the 11 of this month but I have not had time to answer it. I am still living in Oriskay I left the [Y… last] October and am trying to learn the tailors trade. I have not heard from home Since Now last they were all well at that time. Angelina is living at Mr Babcocks she was here when a few days ago her health is rather better than it has been heretofore Uncle Palmers family are still living in Deerfield they talk of coming here to live but it is uncertain whether they will or not. I am very uch disturbed while I am attempting to write a few lines by people coming in and going out And I must endeavor to be short as possible. Brother it is a lond time since we have seen each other and possibly we may never meet again in this world. Oh let us be prepared to meet in Heaven where parting will be no more Dear Brother I know not the State of your mind whether you are a Christian or not. one thing I know that is you ought to be one And Christ says except ye repent and be converted y can never enter the Kingdom of Heaven. now I do intreat of you that would examine yourself and try yourself by the word of God and see whether you have in interest in Christ or not. Search the Scriptures Says Christ for in them ye think ye have eternal life and they are they which testify of me. As for myself I feel determined to Serve God let others do as they may it is about nine months since I made this resolution. I sought for happiness in every way but the write way but I never found it until I found it in Christ----the Lord has done great things For our family Anjelina Emily and Sarah all profess to have a hope in Christ I do not know that mother is converted as yet but I have faith to believe she will be And I hope the next news I have from you that I shall hear you have becom a child of God. I want to see you and your family very much Now I must bring my letter a close. And now Brother my heart’s desire and prayer to God is that you may be Saved---- Farewell Harriet Willcox
- Date Issued:
- 1833-02-27T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- Lyman George Willcox Papers
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- Oriskany Dec 26th 1830 Dear brother I received your letter the 27 of September. I neglected writing to you because mother said she would write another and Randal came here last Friday to see the Doctor – our brother is no better but I think he is much worse he did not go to the salt watter but only went to Troy and there he met with a doctor who said he could cure him he torried there two weeks and then returned home – he has spent fifty dollars with in four months mother and her family are well Angelina is at home I expect she will stay there this winter you wish’t me to write something about uncle Palmers family but I have not been there but once in two years. They live near the yellow school house. It is two years since I first came to Oriskany and I like living here verry much I never enjoied better health than do now I do not recollect of one day for two years that I have not been able to work. I can . . . Dear brother I set down this evening to finish my letter I have just returned from a prayer meeting it seams as though the Lord was begining to revive his work in this place Some are enquireing what they shall do to be saved. throu the mercy of God I am brought to see the close of the last Sabbath in the year while many are called to try the realites of Eternity – and now dear brother I must bid you Adieu and if we never meet again in this world may we be prepared to meet in Heaven. Give my respects to sister Harriet Willcox
- Date Issued:
- 1830-12-26T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- Lyman George Willcox Papers
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- Oriskany Septbr 6 1830 Dear Brother More than two years have rolled away since I saw your face and O my dear brother I think many things I shall never see you again but if I must not see you I should be happy to hear from you I cannot recollect when I heard from you last but I hope you have not forgotten me. I have been to mothers and have just returned I found them all well except Randal he is very low he has been at mothers about four or five weeks he has been too manny doctors but all too little or no purpose some have advised him to go to the salt watter and he set out this morning for new york he said if it helpt him he should stay some time I think if he does not soon get help he will have the Consumption if he has not got it now I suppose you have not heard the death of Hozea Brown he hung himself on July last Colbe Bacon is married to Mr Allens sister I have not much news to write but if language cannot express ho much we all want to see you and George I hope yo will send me a letter as soon as possible give my respects to your wife this is from your sister Harriet Willcox
- Date Issued:
- 1830-09-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- Lyman George Willcox Papers
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- Oriskany July 14th 1836. Dear Brother I would gladly write you had I any confidence to believe you would receive my letter. I have written to you many times during the past year, but have never received so much as one word. I have called at the office, until I am quite ashamed to inquire for a letter. I think your letters must have been miscarried. I cannot believe that you have so entirely forgotten me as not to write at least once a year. No! It is impossible that nine or ten years absence would make you forget that you have a mother and sisters, a mother who would be willing to make any sacrifice to promote the happiness of her children. Often does she inquire, have you heard any thing from G and L. many a sleepless night has she passed, thinking that you were sick and in trouble, perhaps dead! I hope it may be nothing more than imagination; but I am fearful at times last some serious accident has befallen you. Your silence I think is sufficient to excite alarm in the minds of your friends, but I hope (altho it is but a faint hope) that I shall yet hear from you and learn the cause of your silence. Dear brother when I reflect how our family is scattered over the wald one her and another ther not even two in one place to emoth the path of life, it gives me feelings of sadness and melloncholly. How much more pleasantly we should spend our days could we but egoy each others society, for my part I feel as tho I was alone in the world, without a home or a relative; altho I believe I have manny friends in Oriskany yet they do not fill the place of a brother or sister; but if I am destined to spend my days thus, far from my relation I hope I shall not refir it my lot. Harriet To Lyman J. Willcox
- Date Issued:
- 1836-07-14T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- Lyman George Willcox Papers