Dearest Mattie
May blessings on your pathway shine.
When drifting down the sands of time
and when your course in life is done
Others may look back and say: Well done.
Your Loving friend
Alpha Hulse
Chelsea, Jan2, 1885

"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