Person:Drucilla Tharp (2)

1875 March 14, Troy, Iowa. Samantha "Mattie" Vorhis Crumrine wrote her cousin Jane Love: "you wanted to know if Adas Ma was living / is not / she will be dead three year the last of this month / ada was only three weeks old / she is a twin / her mate died at Six months old / they were boath little girls"

1877 Dec. 10, Troy, Iowa. Martha Melvina Vorhis wrote her cousin Jane Love: "adda is her yet that is Jakes litel girl / we haf her every Sence her mother died and will so long as we live"

1890 Oct. 23, Troy, Iowa. Ada Tharp wrote her cousin Jane Love: "Aunt went up home with my Sisters"

1890 Dec. 25, Troy, Iowa. Ada Tharp wrote her cousin Jane Love: "They are only Grandma Wm Reece & Martha Melvina at home and I have always lived here since Mother died. My father lives about 2 1/2 miles from here / I have three Sisters living and my mate that died / three brothers. one Married and one Sister married. Two of my brothers were away all summer. They came home a few weeks ago."

1891 March 24, Troy, Iowa. Ada Tharp wrote her cousin Jane Love: "Aunt will send you a quilt patter by the next time I write / She has pieced three quilts like it. One for my Sister and one for my cousin Aunt Janes boy. And one for her self. It is called the drooping Lilly / it makes a very pretty quilt."

1892 April 16, Troy, Iowa. Ada Tharp wrote her cousin Jane Love: "We have been very busy this Spring / we have quilted three quilts / two for our selves and one for my Sister. We will quilt one for Mrs Taylor and soon as we can."

1892 Oct. 20, Troy, Iowa. Ada Tharp wrote her cousin Jane Love: "We are bery busy this fall and I am going to school so our time is occupied. Aunt is quilting a quilt and it keeps us busy to do the work. She will weave a carpet for my Sister as soon as she gets the quilt out."

1893 Feb. 13, Troy, Iowa. Ada Tharp wrote her cousin Jane Love: "My Sister is down in Missouri doctering / is some better. Her hip and ankle was partly out of place, she can walk now. One of her feet had been hurt six years. The Drs around here could not do her any good. I am glad she can get help fro health is a blessing." Correspondence from the family letters and papers of Jane Love and her cousin, Lillice Jones Harper, courtesy John, Danny, and Dave Harper in 2001 and 2004, transcribed by Brenda Boyer

A photograph of Ada Tharp at http://hometown.aol.com/chloeqcumber/Jones-Love3.html

1. ↑ LDS IGI (International Genealogical Index)
   Batch 7834201, sheet 27.

   Drueillo Adaline THARP, b. February 28, 1872, Bloomfield, Davis Co., IA, dau. of Jacob THARP and Arthitia Adaline VORHIS