Person:Jasper Jones (2)

1854-1855-1856. Lizzie Mercer wrote her niece Jane Love from Delaware City, New Castle Co., DE, May 6, 1877: "you wanted to know how manny children thare were of [u]s when we lived in jasper county / thare was 6 / brother Thomas was in his 19 year when we left thare / Jasper was a bout 16 and sister Leydia was in her 14th year and your humble servant was in my 12th year and Sidny was in her 10th year and Ella was between four and five years old when we moved a way" 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