18 November 1912

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

 

Postmarked: P______ VA, Nov 18, 1912
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.

November 1912

How are you getting

on with your

school? fine I hope

I am stripping tobacco, Miss

Hattie and Ila don’t

help me a bit. Bye bye

will see you again some day Edgar

Postmarked:  (Faded)  Probably Sutherlin, VA, 1912
Addressed:  Miss Cordelia Aherron
                    Ringgold   Va
                    R.F. D. # 2 
                c/o D.T. Richardson

Cordelia Aherron (b. 1895) was Esther's first cousin and the daughter of Lucy Richardson and Thomas Aherron.  By all accounts, they were very close. Cordelia (Cordie) appears to have been visiting with her cousins.  Edgar seems to have been an ardent admirer of Cordie's.  I am unsure of his surnamen.  Ila was Ila Aherron, Cordie's sister.  Hattie was most likely Hattie Yeaman, also a first cousin to Esther.

Cordelia was staying with Esther's family that November.  Esther's father D.T. Richardson died 18 Nov 1912.  Indications from previous correspondence shows that he had been ill at least for several months.  Perhaps Cordelia was visiting to console her cousin or assist the family is some way.