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Joseph Crumb Letter 1837, to daughter Amy
Contributed By William Fackrell · 2013-08-16 22:35:23 GMT+0000 (UTC) · 0 Comments
Amy's father, Joseph Crumb, felt their absence very keenly and was distressed that they were moving further and further West. He had his daughter, Eunice Sanders Crumb (Goodness), write a letter for him in 1837 from Grafton, Vermont as follows.
Dear Children, Once more I have the opportunity to write to you, hoping these lines may find you in good health, would inform you that your Father's health is poor, tho rather better than it has been in the time past. The Lord has spared our unprofitable life whilst many of our friends are sent away to the world of spirits. It has been a dying time in Grafton this winter and spring. I will mention some of them. Father Rhod and Aunt Nabby, Brother Cais and wife, John Parkers wife, Samuel Walker's wife, William Harris wife, old Mis Tuell, old Mrs Dutten, old Mr. Abil Gooden and a number more have died the winter past and soon it will be said of us that we are dead too and what shall we say.
Oh that we were all prepared for that better and brighter world. When I take a retrospective view of my life it is a vapor. It has flown away swiftly and is all most gone. Oh that I might live the few days as redeeming the time. Yes, may we all live so that we may enter in to that Blessed Cannon of Rest where Jesus is gone to prepare mansions for all that love him. Oh shall we vile creatures ever be permitted to enter that happy place. Can it be that such sinners as we can be pardoned? Yes, we are great sinners, but Jesus is a great Savior. He can save to the utmost all that come to him and may that hand that has led us so far threw this vail of tears still be our guide.
Father says he wants to give you the advice that his old aunt give him when he must move back from york state and that was to stick down a stake and work around it and not keep moving about from place to place and never get any home or any thing against old age for that will soon be here, very soon at the longest. I have a kind of secret hope of seeing you once more in this world but now despair of it if you go so far off, and would say to you live near the feet of your Savior. May we all meet in a happy Eternity is my desire and prayer.
Submitted by William Lloyd Fackrell, 5th great grandson, given to him by Alice J Walker
