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I felt very hard to think we had to pay fifteen dollars and they ten that they must have two trunks carried and we but one for the man who brought us could not bring but three so we left our small one because the others had our under garments in and we lost all our roots our apples and quinces were all froze and rotten and as expected my things would all be spoiled but were not Ruick's folks would not ( one word) our having two trunks but they must for the silk dresses must go whether they had anything else or not and we had to furnish Ruick a shirt to change into which was one of Denmons fine ones and then he wore it a week and tore it and it was left for me to mend and do up, it was four weeks before we got our other trunks and things and (could not read) and leak soiled their best clothes so that they are old ones now and we have nothing to spare to get any more with, it makes me feel bad I tell you when I think how unjust we were treated, but for all that we took as much comfort as they did, Mrs Ruick was not very well pleased about going west and she was cross and peevish pretty much all the time I never saw any one act so I was heartily sick and ashamed of my company, As to our Ruick he was not very well before he started and on the road here, and then he went to Rock Island for his freight at the time Thomas went for ours the going was so bad they were gone twelve days and he was exposed more than he ought have as people from the east have to be rather careful until they get a little used to the climate, he had an affection of the liver and then the typhoid fever set in his wife is dead also she was in a family way (4 months) and miscarried after she was taken sick with the fever she had been sick some days before he died but would not take any medicine till the day he died which was the 14th of January and she the 26th their little boy is here and has been since before his father died he will
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