Name/Title
Keen Letter, 1867Entry/Object ID
2021.16.78Tags
1860s, PostageScope and Content
Letter addressed to Aaron and Eleanor Keen from John P. Dewarnt
LaFayette Sussex Co (?) Oct 29, 1867
My Dear brother and sister I now sit down to writ
you a few lines to let you no that I am will at present
and hope these few lines will find you all in good health
you said you wanted my card and I waited a great wile
and to get them but departed so that I haven't got yet but wen
I get them I will send you one and perhaps 2 I am ashamed
that I have not written sooner but so it is I have had
many afflictions the past year and last of all I cut my
foot last June 11th & for 2 or 3 months not able to do
mutch but thanks be to god that has Delivered me out
of them all. the lord is my helper and protector in well put (?)
my I trust I have great confidence in the lord he is my helper
and protector who then shall I fear and care (?) but god
We have had many deaths and changes hear since I wrote
Peter Laundry(?) wife died last Spring our sister Abby
Durrant (?) died the first of last year sick about 3 weeks
and many more have died around us young and old
Kindred and strangers and you have said, he ye ready
for in such and our as we think not the son of will come
we have had the greater reveal here that we ever had
in this place about 80 converts at Lafayette at the
M.E. church and I am told about 170 at the (?)
church and hope that many more will come and give
themselves to god and christ this place has been very wicked
When you get this letter don't do as I have don but write
soon and let me know how you all are I intended to come
out to see you but I have had so many troubles that it seemed
almost imposible but if my life and health is spared and I sell
out between now and next spring I intent to come out to you
Gabriel, Taby Suttore (?) and her family I believe are well
as for c(?) So good by may god bless you all now and forever
Amen thi sis my sincere (?) of my hearth &
John D. Durrant your brotherAcquisition
Accession
2021.16Source or Donor
Cover, Dave, Luoma, LeonardLocation
Location
Container
Civil WarRoom
ArchivesBuilding
Morgan History CenterDate
January 6, 2022Notes
Folder: Post Civil War Letters 2Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Keen, Aaron, Keen, Eleanor, Durrant, John P.Related Places
Place
* Untyped Place
Brookfield Township, Ohio