Letter to: Sophronia Troupe – Fostoria, Ohio
From: Anna Liza Hutchins –[Lydia Ann Eliza Hutchins]
No envelope
Feb 1, no year
Dear Cousin,
It is with the greatest of pleasure that I now can sit down to drop you a few lines to let you know that we are all well at present and hoping that these pen lines may find you the same.
Well Fronie [Sophronia Troupe], I must tell you that our school is out. It was out 2 weeks ago last Friday. We got nice cards. Jerome [Jerome Douglas Hutchins] got the prize. It was a little Bible.
Well Fronie [Sophronia Troupe], I must tell you that we have got two bossies and one lamb. We milk three cows.
Well Pa [Roscoe Gustavis Hutchins] and Harry [Harrison Hutchins ?] and Jonas [Jonas Michael Hutchins] are chopping our summer wood. And Louisa [Louisa Shipe] and Cena [Sarah Delcena Hutchins] and I are piecing quilts and Mother [Susannah Hutchins] is sewing carpet rags, and Jerome [Jerome Douglas Hutchins] is riding his colt. Mother [Susannah Hutchins] traded a cow on off on a colt and then give it to Jerome [Jerome Douglas Hutchins].
Uncle Lewis folks are well when Lois came here. Then Francis went to Lois. I don’t know how long she will stay there.
Well Fronie [Sophronia Troupe], I want you to come and see us. It is quite cold today and Henry [Henry Hutchins] and Louisa [Louisa Shipe] and Cena [Sarah Delcena Hutchins] is going to town and I must quit for I want to send it with them.
Grandma [Sarah Stahl – Fostoria, OH] I hope you are well. I wish you would come and see us. Mother [Susannah Hutchins] thinks we will come in there this fall if Henry and Louisa will stay here. Jonas [Jonas Michael Hutchins] says he is going out there this fall and stay til spring and go to school out there.
Write soon. I must quit now.
From Anna Liza Hutchins [Lydia Ann Eliza Hutchins] to Fronie Troupe [Sophronia Troupe] Write soon.
[NOTE: Jerome Douglas Hutchins died 7 Feb 1881, so this letter had to be written before that date. R.G. Hutchins owned land in Wayne Township according to the 1874 Atlas of Noble County. Sophronia Troupe married William Henry Beuchat in 1884 and they lived at Indian Lake in DeKalb County north of Corunna.]