Re: David Maroni Cheney. b 1842 Lake Co., MI
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Re: David Maroni Cheney. b 1842 Lake Co., MI
1/11/99
This is a letter that my gggrandfather wrote to his cousin Olive McBride daughter of Aaron Cheney and Meh. Wells.This letter is dated Kent, Ill. Dec. 15, 1890.
Dear Cousin Olive McBride, I have not had a letter from you in along time and I thought I would write you one and see if I could not get one from you once more.I would like to have you write to me and tell me all about your foalks how many are living and their adress and how many are dead and wheir they died and all about them and if you can tell me about the Huntsmans and the Burgesses and Robert and Margaret Johnson where they were the last you knew of them and how they were getting along.When I went to California I stoped and seen Robert and Margaret at Council Bluffs and I have not hurd from them since.When I was at Green River on my way to California I saw a man that run the ferry and he said he knew Elam (Cheney) and Ezekiel(Cheney) and he said that the one of them had gone into polygama and I hurd lately that the boyes were nearly all dead and that some of them went crazy.Wil you pleas to tel me all about them and about all the foalks that we used to know down at Nauvoo.I was at Nauvoo about twenty years ago and it is a desolate place.I wanted to go out where we and your foalks used to live but I could not go.I often think of the good times we used to have there but they are past and gon never to return. I will now try to tell you about our familey.Father died at Holden Johnson Co., Mo. and then I baught out the heirs and Mother came to live with me and she lived with me until she died about three years ago.Lyman died in Colorado and so did Lewis.Mancil was killed by the plains going to Montana and they tried to kill Lewis at the same time.They were either road agents or Indians that killed Mancil.I think they were road agents.Mathew, Chester and Wesley live near Sac City, Sac County, Iowa and Semantha died at Holden, Mo. about two years ago and Richard started for Dead Wood City, Dakota and that was the last I hurd of him and I am living here on the old homestead with poor health I dont suffer much pain but am weak and poor appitite at times.I have a good home and a good wife and two good little girls the oldest ten years old. When I was practicing medicine down in Iowa at Farmington at a conference of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints I got acquainted with an old lady by the name of McBride she said she was some connection of James your husband (it was Elizabeth McBride McMillen, sister of James).Her father was the one killed in Mo. with the corn cutter.I will have to close I had to go lie down before I could finish this.Write soon our love to all LEVI CHENEY.
P.S. When you write wil you pleas to tel me the name and adress of your general church recorder I would like to write to him and if you can I would like to have you send me a small peace of the Salt Lake temple. Yours in love. L.C.
I copied this "letter for letter", leaving in all of the spelling errors for your enjoyment.
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