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Letter, Loulie Feemster to Alex W. Feemster; 3/10/1863

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Bigbee Bottom, March 10th

Mr. A.W. Feemster

My dearest Alex,

Another gloomy rainy day: we have had so many of them recently. Charlie & I left home Sunday evening the first of March in a slight sprinkle of rain & we could not get back until the Wednesday evening following. The next day he took the buggy to town for Lee Oden who was at home for a few days and didn't get back until last Saturday evening the 7th instant. He brought me a letter from Aunt Eliza & one from you dated Feb. 17th also $67.75 from Samil McWitherspoon. I believe I told you in my last that I had sent him another dues. Woodson Kennon (nephew of Witherspoon's) told Pa a few days afterwards that if I would send in my note he would pay it that he had had the money for sometime. I only called for $62.05 a few days after Kennon came to Chas. & gave him five dollars more for interest said his uncle sent it. I wanted some money very badly when I was in town sent to John Garvin but did not get it until the evening I got home: but just as I was starting Charlie handed me a sealed envelope containing our account to Dr. Jno. T. McCune $17.50 so the money for the house rent & a little more just paid & left me .60 cents and I owed Aunt Bettie $1.25 so you better believe I was glad to get Mr. Witherspoon money. We all went in town to church and heard an excellent sermon from bro Stainback "a sound mind", Pa & Emma took dinner at Bro. G.T.S's Ma Nannie & Lelia at Bro Jefferson Garvins I at Emma Henry's while Charl came home. After dinner went up to Bro Garvin's (at Pa's house) where I staid until Monday morning when Julia & I went uptown from which place I came back as usual penniless. I met Mr. Witherspoon & family they treated me very cordially. I told him of the mistake & gave him back .75 cents. They insisted on my coming & spending sometime with them. Julia & I took dinner at Aunt Bettie's so did Pa at the table he handed me two letters one from Willie & the other from the one I love best.

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Title	Letter, Loulie Feemster to Alex W. Feemster 3/10/1863
Description	Letter, Loulie Feemster, Bigbee Bottom, Mississippi, to her husband, Alex W. Feemster, in Selma, Alabama, opening with news of church and business. She lists the fabrics she bought for clothes and includes a humorous limerick about wives spending their husbands' money. Her Uncle Dave visited and told them that Yankees in Tennessee were stealing fences and other farm supplies so that local farmers had no way to make a living; when the families got hungry, the Yankees would give them supplies if they took the oath of allegiance. The Yankees stole wood that Dave had cut, but they treated his wife, Annie, with respect and never came in the house. Dave also reported that 'the negroes are as free as the white people,' and 'if you want one to do anything you have to ask them very kindly.' Loulie lists some supplies she needs if Alex can spare the money and tells him about her sadness when she thinks of their young son, Henry, who died the year before. She closes by quoting from a letter from a courtship letter from Willie to her sister, Emma. 1863.
Creator	Feemster, Mary Louise (Loulie), 1838-1867
Physical ID	235-3
Date (original)	1863-03-10
Date	March 10, 1863
Digital Collection Title	ASERL
Rights	Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required.
Subject	Business Feemster family Gaston family Sewing Fabric Clothing and dress Poetry Civil war United States Oaths Race relations African-Americans Tennessee Courtship Lowndes County (Miss.) Stainback, George Tucker, 1829-1902 Feemster, Alexander Whitfield, 1827-1911
Original collection	Oakley papers
Object type	text
Format (original)	correspondence: 2 p. 21 X 13 cm.
Format (digital)	JPEG
Digital publisher	Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version).
Related materials	http://www.american-south.org/
Language	en
Repository	Manuscripts Division, Special Collections Department, Mississippi State University Libraries.
Contact information	For more information send email to sp_coll@library.msstate.edu or call 662-325-7679.

Title	C_ASERL_2010_0052a
Digital Collection Title	ASERL
Rights	Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required.
Digital publisher	Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version).
Related materials	http://www.american-south.org/
Repository	Manuscripts Division, Special Collections Department, Mississippi State University Libraries.
Contact information	For more information send email to sp_coll@library.msstate.edu or call 662-325-7679.
Transcript	Bigbee Bottom, March 10th Mr. A.W. Feemster My dearest Alex, Another gloomy rainy day: we have had so many of them recently. Charlie & I left home Sunday evening the first of March in a slight sprinkle of rain & we could not get back until the Wednesday evening following. The next day he took the buggy to town for Lee Oden who was at home for a few days and didn't get back until last Saturday evening the 7th instant. He brought me a letter from Aunt Eliza & one from you dated Feb. 17th also $67.75 from Samil McWitherspoon. I believe I told you in my last that I had sent him another dues. Woodson Kennon (nephew of Witherspoon's) told Pa a few days afterwards that if I would send in my note he would pay it that he had had the money for sometime. I only called for $62.05 a few days after Kennon came to Chas. & gave him five dollars more for interest said his uncle sent it. I wanted some money very badly when I was in town sent to John Garvin but did not get it until the evening I got home: but just as I was starting Charlie handed me a sealed envelope containing our account to Dr. Jno. T. McCune $17.50 so the money for the house rent & a little more just paid & left me.60 cents and I owed Aunt Bettie $1.25 so you better believe I was glad to get Mr. Witherspoon money. We all went in town to church and heard an excellent sermon from bro Stainback "a sound mind", Pa & Emma took dinner at Bro. G.T.S's Ma Nannie & Lelia at Bro Jefferson Garvins I at Emma Henry's while Charl came home. After dinner went up to Bro Garvin's (at Pa's house) where I staid until Monday morning when Julia & I went uptown from which place I came back as usual penniless. I met Mr. Witherspoon & family they treated me very cordially. I told him of the mistake & gave him back.75 cents. They insisted on my coming & spending sometime with them. Julia & I took dinner at Aunt Bettie's so did Pa at the table he handed me two letters one from Willie & the other from the one I love best.

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