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Chase County Kansas Historical Sketches
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Postmarked:
2 PM Cedar Point KANS.
MAR 16 1929
Addressed to:
Mr. G.M. Channell
Route 2
Batavia, Ohio
March 14,1929
Dear cousin & family
I am the oldest of your uncle Marshall[s] children. Emma is my name. [T]hen there is Jessie & Bruce living. 1 sister Lou died. [T]hat is the first family. [T]he [other] ones are Edgar Channell & Sadie & Eunice & Zoe. 1 boy 3 girls the second wife[s] children. [T]hey are all married [and] have family. Bruce has no children. [H]e lives in Kansas City MO. [W]e are all scattered about now. Eunice live[s] near me is all. [unreadable portion]. ... the letter [to] you was from my youngest sons wife. Clintons wife she wrote to your father for me when I was sick. I am just up again I have a bad limb & ulcer on my ankle got inflammation in my knee. [It] is better. I have kidney trouble & heart trouble. I guess your Fathers is the last uncle I had. [H]e was the one I always thought the most of. Aunt Lydia is gone on to. I have a daughter Christine, a son Marshall, he will be 30 years old 14 of April. He is not married. He is a big man, [weighs] 260 pounds. Clinton is large, not so large as Marshall. I can't see very good. [Y]ou can tell I've forgot so many words it is awful hard for me to write. Irene will write you sometime. I am 65 years old. [W]rite to me at:
Mrs. Emma E. Baker, Cedar Point Kans Rout[e] 1 Box 45.
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. By the writer's own admission, she does not see well and has difficulty with her spelling.
This letter was written to G.M. Channell, Emma's father Marshall William Channell's nephew. G.M. (George Marshall) is the son of Samuel Nutt Channell, Marshall's younger brother. Emma Eliza Baker is the oldest daughter of Marshall William Channell's first marriage to Eliza Evans. (Eliza died in Ohio ca. 1871) Emma was born in Ohio in 1862.
Several important family references are made in this letter, in particular, the naming of Emma's children, as well as her yongest son's (Clinton) wife's name, Irene. Additionally, we learn from this letter that all of her "uncles", meaning her father Marshall William Channell's brothers have passed on, as well as her Aunt Lydia being "gone on to".
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