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Dear Cousins:
I found this very interesting letter in my great grandmother's(Sarah Haworth Roseman)bible. I have attempted to identify the people mentioned in the letter and would appreciate any help in identifiying the other individuals.
West Milton Ohio
Sunday December 20th /(18)63
Dear Aunt(1)
It is with Pleasure that I seak the opportunity of writing to you. As I have not heard from you very often since you was here. I thought perhaps a simple letter would send me back a reply.
This is a beautiful but verry cold day. I heard that Allen(2) was in but I did not see him. Tell him that I think he might have called around if it had been but a minute.
Father(3) is not very well. They are all invited to a Quaker meeting next Wednesday. I expect they will all go or break a link. Sarah(4) is up at times she and her baby is both sick. Grandma(5) has gone for a visit with her children on the crick.
Aunt I wish you could come in. I think you would have a pleasant visit. If it were not for the war I would think about giving you a visit next summer. There is to be a draft here the fifth of next January and then some unlucky fellow will have to go. I hope that Thomas’s(6) ticket will not be drawn in that lotterry. If he should be drafted I don’t know how I could see him go.
I am ashamed of this blotted letter and am almost tempted to burn it. But I will send it hoping that it will do you no harm. If it should just inform me and I will try and do better in the future.
P___ write soon and tell me the news. How ___ gets along. Oh yes and that baby(7) of yours I would like to know its name. I expect Anna(8) is a great big girl by this time.
I send you my best respects Aunt if they be worth receiving. Write soon, from your affectionate niece. Jane M. Coppock(9)
1)Margaret Ogden Haworth wife of Wade H. Haworth
2)Allen Unknown
3)Father was Benjamin Coate
4)Sarah Unknown
5)Grandma ?? Anna Emily Coppock wife of James Haworth or Elizabeth Coppock wife of Moses Coate
6)Jane’s husbandThomas Coppock
7)This baby is probably Sarah Haworth
8)Anna Haworth sister to Sarah
9)Jane M. Coate married to Thomas Coppock
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