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Alabama, Blount County, August the 1^st 1856

Father and mother, I received a letter from you the
Other day bearing date the 18^th of May 1856 and
While it give me Satisfaction on the one hand it tro
bled me on the other, I will not inform you that
I am not in good health at this time. I was taken sick on the
9th day of last September and had a long and Sev
vere Spell of the fever. I have not been able to
do much work since, the balance of my family is in
tolerable health excepting youngest child it and
my self is considerable unwell with Something like
the flue, a pardon is granted for not writing sooner
to me I was glad to hear that you was both in tolerable health
and also a great deal better Satisfied to hear that you had
made a deed of your land to Westly and gone to live with him
Where you can and will be taken care of, but I had
Rather if it could been so that you had lived with me
So that when the red dirt shall be dug up out
Yonder in the old field in the old peach orchard
That I could be there for you and the laying of both your old
Gray heads in there graves and both side and side for
I know this earth which once your Substance gave
Will very quickly be your grave.   our relations
In this country is well as far as I know at this time. ____
is 40 or 50 cts per bushel, wheat 400 cts per bushel, bacon were 12 cts
per lb, the wheat crop was tight, oats very good, corn
looks miserable on account of a 7 weeks drouth and
no bright prospects for rain yet. Jonathan returned
home on the 25 day of April last and is with me
at this present time and said he is tired of hunting
of hunting new countries. So I must close my short
letter by assigning my Self your unworthy Son until death
Solomon Allred            }            Andrew Allred
Mary Allred                  }

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