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Source
- Original: Two Hand written letters
- Intermediate:Ancestry
Related
- Person:Stephen Willis (5)
Background
On her 100th birthday, presented her grandson, James O. Terrill with a copy of the "Westminster Confession of Faith" and on the fly-leaf wrote with her own hand, "Presented by me to my grandson, James O. Terrill, Feb. 14, 1833. On this day I am one hundred years old. Anna Willis."
Transcript
Dear brothers and sistors I will give you my first name Anna Lewis I was
born in virginia in hanovour county near the court house in the year--1733
on the 14 [looks like 4] day of febuary and now it is 1834 and now I call
myself a hundred and one year old from your loveing sistor
Anna Willis
Dear brother and sistors I am yet on the land of the living and injoys common health hoping you and yours inJoys the same veluble blessing may we improve
it to the glory of the lord--all thou I injoy health yet I have other
complants to let me know that I am a dying creature I have had a great
disire to see you all once more but it is out of my power for I have no horse that I can ride and I am not able to walk. I am just a going to move to my
grand sons William greffeth whear I expect to spend what few days my kind
perserver hath alotted me my Dear brothers and sistors my prayer is that
when Ever it is the lords will to remove us from this world that he may tak
us to himself that where he is there we may be also to set in my preasence
and see his face in glory and shout his prayers to the endless agees of
attarnity-is the sincear prayer of your affactunate Sistor Anna Willis--my
Dear brothers and sistors remember me in your prayers while you hear that I
am alive--I should be gld to have a letter from you
Febuary 14, 1834
A second page reads pray read my letter before and after sarmon and that
all my brothers and sistors may hear it --- To Mr Alford Webb
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