TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1860-1916
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No. 284 LET'J'ER F!WM R. D. RICHARDSON TO P. A. YOUNGBLOOD Egan, Texas Aug. the 3, 1916
Mr. P. A. Youngblood, Mineral Wells, Texas
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My Dear & much appreciated friend. If my old shaky hand will allow me ile try to ans. your good letters that I rec'd only a few minutes ago. & will say they was certainly appreciated, as I have often thought of you dear people since I was at the burying of your dear uncle [William Youngblood] and remem- ber very well seeing your little sister as she was there at the burying & your uncle that was killed what became of his wife & children as I think they had two little boys & some little girls. Yes I knew your father and both of your uncles as we was often together in trying to protect our Dear mothers sisters & friends from the cacual [savage] Indians scalping knife. & now my dear friends ile try to give you a short sketch of my long life, as I am now 80 years & 3 days old. & have lived in this great state since 1845 & have never been sued or arested in my long life & if I have an enemy in the state I don't know it. So I am indeed proud of my good name as an old pioneer. I served as a guard 4 years on the frontier line and in the civil war for 4 years & have seen many things I hope our dear chil- dren & grand children will never see. I mairried a war widow in Nov. 1866 & she had a little confederate boy 3 years old that never saw his father & with him to comence w1th we raised 9 children all grown mairried & good respectful people & this step son of mine lives in Loss Valley Jack County & is well to do & I haven't a child in this world that thinks more of me than he does. & if any of you good people go up there inquire for John Carter of Jermyn, Texas & tell him who you are an old friend of mine and you are sure of a hasty welcome, but I am making my letter too long & will now give you the Indian fight. It happened in Feb. 1861, & my parrns [parents] at that time lived in this Co. Johnson. & us boys was up there looking after our cattle. & Miss Barthena Pammer and Ples Price was to marry that night & in the evening about 3: o'clock, 4 men
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