A Mother's Letter to Son - 1926

MURPHY, KING, COX

Posted By: LuRee Runnells (email)
Date: 7/21/2005 at 15:49:17

A letter post-marked Keosauqua Iowa Oct 20, 1926 addressed to "Mr. Charlie Murphy, Pulaski, Iowa.
His mother is Jalina M. (King) Murphy. Postage: 2 cent stamp.

"Dear Children

Carrie, what are you doing these blue days. We have not got our heating stove up yet. Fred has his winter underwear on.

They are trying to thresh in this neighborhood but we are not adjoing his. Tell Weldon I have been making him some pear honey. How was Raymond when you heard from him?

Fred has quit cutting corn he said it keeps him busy getting corn for the geese.

Mother" [End of letter written in pencil].

This hand-written letter by Jalina M. (King) Murphy to her son Charlie Murphy is in my possession, and Charlie Murphy is my grandfather, married to Carrie C. Cox and Jalina my great grandmother, married to Frederick Murphy; I submitted to show what "everyday life was like living on a farm in Van Buren Cty. back in 1926 and their methods of communicating to each other, since one lived in Van Buren Cty. and the other in Davis Cty.