Helo:
How are you all
getting
on and how is Uncle Daniel
Better I hope. I got here all
right only I had another
slight chill after I got here
I didn’ go to school this morn
Don’t you know Daisy drowned
dead in the shafts yesterday
evening right at Mr Watt[‘s] home.
Tell Atwood Pop said as now
he didn’ have any way to
[On front]
come and that he had work that he was just
obliged to look after that he didn’t recon he
could come up ther today _____ ans soon
____sister
Ila
Addressed: Miss Cordelia Aherron
Ringgold
R.F.D. #2 Virginia
This letter is another sent to Cordelia Aherron while she was visiting her first cousin, Esther. Ila is Cordie's sister. Ila asked about Uncle Daniel [Daniel Richardson] unaware that he died the day she mailed the postcard. I'm not sure who Daisy is. She could actually be a farm animal based on the newsy way Ila tells of her drowning in a shaft. Pop is Thomas Aherron, Cordie's father. Atwood is likely Atwood Gosney, first cousin to both Cordie and Esther.
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