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Chase County Kansas Historical Sketches
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Channell, G M Letter of 1929 Postmarked:
4 PM Eureka KANS.
JUN 22 1929
Return Address:
125 South Dale St.
Eureka, Kansas
Addressed to:
Mr. G.M. Channell
Batavia, Ohio
Eureka Kansas,
6 - 21 - 29
Dear Cousin.
Your and my cousin Vi wrote me of her mother and your Father. You wonder now why I have waited so long. You[r] letter come while I was away, as I am most of the time nursing. [T]oday I found it in the writing desk and I am answering [awkwardly] I am sorry, for I thought one of your boys would write; and had just about [decided] you wasn't going to.
Yes I am the youngest, But I must be older than you, for my youngest child Raymond was 16 years yesterday. My daughter Mae, was married this month. [S]he is 21 years.
I should love to see you I am not good at letter writing. But [we] could talk and talk. I was married in 1899 to Mr. Jordan we had five children, a baby boy died at birth in 1903, a girl born in 1904 died in 1913. How ever our oldest child Harry dis[appeared] after the war. Raymond lives with me part of the time, and with his father the rest of the time. Mae lives in Witchita, so that's my family. My mother lives in Colo., is 74 years is well and strong. My oldest sister lives there. [One sister lives in Elmdale Kans, and a Bro in Denver Colo. Then of course you know Emma, Jessie and Bruce aer still with us. Emma is in Kansas clo[s]e to Clements where our Father lived. Jessie in Okla near Lawton, and Bruce in Kansas City.
I am glad I found your letter. Mae has put it away and forgot it, or thought I found it, when I come home.
I hope you can forget such carelessness and write again. I loved to hear from your Father he wrote nice letters. Give your Bro, and Family my best wishes. It was lovely of you to write to me, write again when you can.
Your cousin Zoe.
COMPILER'S NOTES:
I have tried to transcribe the letter as completely as possible, with spelling and punctuation errors intact. Where necessary, I have transcribed inside [ brackets ] so the reader may better understand the intent of the writer.
Zoe Channell Jordan is the youngest daughter of Marshall William Channell and Mae Barnes Channell. Born in 1882, Zoe Channell was just three months old when her father died of an accidental gunshot wound.
Several important family references are made in this letter, in particular, the status of all five of Zoe Jordan's children. Additionally, the location's of the surviving children Zoe's father Marshall William Channell's first marriage to Eliza Evans is mentioned. Until this letter was obtained, nothing was known of what happened to these children after their father's death.
Channell Letters submitted by Michael Matthews
by Lorna Marvin
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