Blountsville

The State of Alabama, Blount County this the 19th of April 1847

John and Isaac Key, Dear Cousins, while having the opportunity I will write a few lines to you to let you know that we are all well at the present and all of our relations are well at the present. So far as I know I will inform you that old Uncle Thomas Allred’s son, James, is dead and we can not account for his death unless he took a fit and fell on the end of a log that lay near him and I suppose that he went out and staid so long that his wife became so uneasy that she went out to hunt for him and I suppose that she found him lying on his breast dead and I desire to know how you got a long as you went home last fall and write to me how gran father and gran mother is giting on and all of our relations was the last time you heard from them. I did not come up to Tennessee as I thought I woulded done but I think that I will come up to see you all if I live near fall and I want you to write to me whether Isaac went to Elinoise (Illinois) last fall or not and I want you all to come down next fall we are all well at the present and you must look over my misstakes as I wrote it all in the knight the Solomon Allred and his hand and pen this the 19th of April 1847. So nothing more at present.

Solomon Allred