Letter: Henry J. Ulsh to James Smith, Nov 1, 1854

SMITH, ULSH, KLINE, SCHERER, BURNHAM, HARBER

Posted By: Beth Johnston (email)
Date: 11/18/2001 at 09:47:39

This is one of several letters to James Smith and his wife Rebecca "Jane" Mathew Smith. James moved from Fountain Co., IN to Marion Co., IA in 1854. On 4 Jul 1854 James married Jane, who was a daughter of John Mathew and Lucinda Moorman or Morman Mathew. The Mathews had moved to Marion Co. from Ohio.

Ely __________ Paid 3
Iowa

Mr. James Smith
Wheeling P.O.
Marion County
Iowa

Letter:

Ely P.O. Iowa Nov 1th 1854

Mr. James Smith

Dear Friend and Brother
I now take the opportunity to write you a small letter. I begin by telling you that we are all well at present and our neighbors are all well as far as I know, except Father Kline He is not very well neither is he much sick but he is unwell at present I will also let you know that we had a Three Day Meeting last week it was a very good one Mr. Scherer preached at eleven.O.clock after which he administered the Lords Supper Mr. Burnham preached at 3 o clock and Mr. Scheerer preached at night we had avery good meeting the members was very much livened up at that time there was some people down from Hamilton and we had very good singing I think better than we ever had before at least I thought so [end of page 1

Mr. Scherer preaches every 2 weeks Mr. Burnham preaches every 2 weeks we still keep up our sabath school and Thursday evening Prayer meeting and I expect it will always be cept up at least I hope it will for a better habit was never invented than the habit of going to Prayer meeting the people are very much interested in it too the meeting is very well attended too now days:

no more about that I will now give you the price of produce we sell our Wheat at $1.00 Corn 40 cts per bushel Oats 25 cts some people sell corn at 25 and 30 cts per bushel our corn is very good we will have about as much again as we had last year we have the crib filled and four loads on the hog bin two loads on the hog trough right over the crib this is a hard place to put corn and we have only about half of it husked out [end of page 2] the ears are very large it is the big yellow corn this is a very good fall for us but I am afraid it will not last long enough for us we have our house to plaster yet that is the old stairs 8 acrs of breaking to doo and the rest of our corn to husk out if it would last 6 weeks yet it would not be to long that is the weather keeps nice we have 20 hogs up too fatten just put them up yesterday we sold Buch and Broad to John Harber for $60 cash down

I believe this is the news at present next time I can tell you something else I hope so at least I must close So fare well but not for ever write soon and don’t forget tell me how you are getting along and write me a good long letter So no more

Yours truly Henry J. Ulsh on to James Smith