Chelsea, Jan 2, 1885
Dear Mattie
Long may you live
Beloved by all
But most by him
Who died for all
Your Sincere Friend
Mrs. M. E. Putnam

"From the autograph album of Martha M. "Mattie" Roach of Chelsea, daughter of Fred and Eliza J. (Hutchins) Roach. She married Samuel T. May in Toledo, Tama County, in 1891."

Submitted by: Bob Hutchins tecxas@earthlink.net