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- Watson September the 22 Dear brother I now imbrace the oppertunity To write to you once more although it has been some Time since I have written to you I have not Forgotten you in your afflictions but have prayed That they might be sanctified to your good for the Lord directed willingly afflict the children of men but Tis for their [ ] take as it such I do not know Certainly whether you have the witness of forgiven And your reception in to the family if but I have Had by that you felt these was kneed Of being professed to meet the great judge of quick and dead And although you have been bereaved of a bosom companion That was near and dear to you by the ties of nature yet Remember there is a friend that even will stand by us And although we are called to pass through deep waters Of afflictions yet they shall not harm us know this friend Will stand by us on six troubles and in the seventh will Not forsake us I was glad to learn that Sister died happy In the lord and dear brother if your treasure is in heaven your Seperation will be but short at the longest before you Will hail such thing happy spirits are the fair banks of Deliverance where parting never more shall come For my part I feel as if any face was set concerned And I am endeavoring by the grace of god to make anyway To heaven where I hope to meet with friends that Have gone before us and those that are now upon the shores of time where we can praise the Lord through the ____less Dye of eternity and with those that have gone through much Tribulation and have washed their robes white in the blood Of the lamb and as for father and mother they remain unconverted but I hope the time is not far distant when They will embrace religion and come over on the side of The lord Mother wants I should refer her to you And tell you she has not forgotten you but should be Glad if you was where she could help you take care of your Children she thinks she should been willing to had harriet Gone and taken care of your children if she had felt Willing to we shoul be glad if it was so that you could come out and live near as so that we could enjoy each other company The rest of our day we want you should write if you Know anything about George and we want you shuld Write to him and let him we are all alive and should Very glad to see him and his family Emily and Sarah are both married and gone to keeping House Sarah in Martingsburg village ten miles from here And Emily a mile and a half Emily has been sick Ever since she was married and has not been able to Do her work but I think she is rather upon the Gain so she does some of her light work Lucinda has Been sick but has got better and the rest of us are in Tolerable good health harriet still lives at Oriskany I am now at home This from your affectionate Sister Angelina Willcox DIret your letter to Dayensville Office
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- 1833-09-22T00:00:00Z
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- University of Michigan - Flint
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- Lyman George Willcox Papers
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- Oriskany May the 31 I take my pen in hand to answer your letter sister harriet received and to inform you of my health it is not very good but it is so I am to work to uncle palmers in oriskany doing house work harriet is as well as useal she is to work in the factory now till she can get sewing harriet receive a letter from sister Emily some time ago I do not know justly how long it is since she did not write but that they were all well she wrote she calculated to teach school this summer I suppose in Watson not far from our folks sister sarah is learning the tailors trade in Lowville vilge eight miles from home mother lives on the land that belonged to dear brother randal there is about fifty acres in the whole and fifteen paid for a comfortable log house on it Mr C last season let out some of the ground upon shares and some he worked himself but I do not know how they will work it this season it is a knew place and they have not things so comfortable as they had before they moved out there yet they have so they can get along until they can do better they have neighbours nearby they have a store about mile from there where they can get things likewise they have meetings the same distance Mr C does not drink as much as he did before he left Deerfield but he remains pretty much the same as he use to be We have not heard any thing from brother George since he left us only what you have wrote you write you have given up the idea of comeing to see us this season I am very sory to hear it we should be very glad to see you your wife and children if it was so that we could you do not write how your family is aunt Diana lives in Deerfield yet they are well they have a young daughter Hannah is near and yet a son aunt palmer sends her respects to you and says she has not forgotten you she should be glad to see you tis not but a few nights since she dreamed of seeing you and running after you I want you should write whether you have embraced religion or not by your writing some times it seems as if you had an was quite thoughtful if you have not I advise you as one that knows by experience that there is no other enjoyment to be compared to that of love and presence of god in the soul it prepares us for usefulness in life it prepares us for a happy and triumphant death although we are parted in life I hope we all shall be so happy as to meet in that bright world above parting never more shall come I must bid you adieu this from your affectionate sister Angeline Wilcox Lyman J Willcox
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- University of Michigan - Flint
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- Lyman George Willcox Papers