Family History by Robert Monroe Fleming (Sr.)

Part of a Grandma Causey Letter

Transcribed by Robert M. Fleming Jr.


Part of a Grandma Causey letter - pg 3,4,5,6,7,8 on note paper, with a scrap piece of paper note - Nance and Jennings data.

I got my Nance H out this morning & showed Guy & H the names of Bonafiel. in two places my Mothers Mother was a Nance Elizabeth Nance. & her son James Richardson was my Mothers half Bros. & his oldest daughter Elizabeth married James Madison Jennings. My Father Bos. & their oldest son is named James Samuel Bonifiel. & I have written him to see if he can tell me any thing about the ancestors. he is almost as old as I am. but maby has forgotten every thing. like so many of them have. I dont see how people can forget things. I can remember my Grandpa J. I was 5 & we lived 15 miles from them. he with Aunt Jame & Uncle Franklin & Uncle Henry lived at this place. & we all went there visiting. & we was in a wagon. when we drove up to the gate Pa helped me out first. & Grandpa came out of the kitchen door & ran to him. & he grabbed me up & went on out to the rest. & when we all went in the house he have me a little basket he had made. & I went with him to hunt eggs. & carried some in my basket. & I kept it for years. he died about a year after tha. & the next year Uncle Franklin died. he was 27. such a handsome man. he expected to be married Xrmas. & he died in Sept. & his girl was 18 Rebeca Handly. & she almost died. she had brain fever. & they shaved her hair all off. & blistered her head. it all over. & saved her. & when she was able to sit up in bed pa took me to see her. & I was standing by the bed & she took her cap off & nearly scared me to death. I screamed & ran to pa. & they all nearly died laughing. Becawent to teaching school as soon as she got well. & didnt marry untill she was 33. & taught at our school house several times. & boarded at our home. had her Rans with her. she taught me more than any one else. Ma use to tell us to look at her eat & eat like she did. but I dont think we ever had as nice manners as she had. but we went among the highest people. we went to quincey Ill on time. & staid a week. had so many relations there. we called cousins Clem Nance. he was a Dr & cousin Jim Horne Richardson. was a Senator. his picture is in the Nance book. & we were invited to his house for dinner. & when we went out to eat he took Mama by the arm & Frank (his bro) took me & his wife my sister Artila. & he seated me at his right. & I found out afterwards that cousin Olive his wife said Aunt Martha can take her girls any place. & have just as good manners as any one. even if they were raised on a farm. & cousin JimHorne & cousin Olive was to come to our house with their child. & stay 3 or 4 days at a time. Grandma lived there. & she was his Grandma too. we all loved him. he was a lawyer Judge & Senator. & just fine in every way. I dont think men are made like that now. if my Mother had been a queen he couldnt have treated her better. I never did think that woman in Portland would work. one of them was in that ad. they are all going to monkey around & be so slow we will loose it all. ---- all of these notes. no dates

Scrap piece of note paper: I have a great deal more hopes of getting the estate over here than that one over in Eng. for that will be hard to hard tor us to get at. & this one will be so we can go right there. & fight for it. & thats just what we will do. If we prove that we are some of the heirs. ---- all of that on one side. ---- the other side.---- suffer a lot to, when the bone knits if F had a car I guess they would go over. but I dont think they will try it with this one. --- that is all.


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