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Letter to JOHN SHORE of Habersham County, Georgia, Dawson Post Office
From: Michael Garmon Dear Uncle and Aunt, Through the mercies of the good lord I am permitted for the first time to rite a few lines to you desiring that you should no how we are geting along both temporal and spiritual. We are all in tolliable good helth at present except myself. I am not well. I have ben labouring under a diseas from the first of April and until the present. Tho I am mending gradual, the complaint is in my breast. I was confined to my bed for several months. I am now up and about, though not able to perform labour. What my complaint is I no not. The doctors all differ. One says the liver complaint, another the lungs is affected, another the stomic is only out of order. The fact is, I cannot rely upon any of them for they all differ and its reasonable for me to suppose that they are all wrong. But trusting god, that great fersition (physician) that understands all diseases, and if its his will, he can cure all, and if its his will to remove me from time to eternity, I have a hope that cheers my breast, for I think I will find a home amongst the blest. Hoping when these lines come to hand, they will find you and family all enjoying good health, if its consistent to the will of the good lord who is the giver of every good and perfect gift. My mother was well a few days back. She was on her way to the place called Gold Hill between this place and Forsyth County. Gold Hill is 20 miles from where I live, Hartsell (or Hartsville).
S. Love, my brother-in-law, lives at Gold Hill. So turn over and I will give you the names of mother's children:
7. Margaret 9. Jefferson, he is deceased, died in his infancy and are amongst the blest. The children are all married. I read a letter that mother received from her people in Forsyth stating that they were all well at that time except Aunt Patience. She had slipped and broke her leg close to the ankle. She happened with this misfortune some time in December 1853. I have been up in Forsyth since I have been labouring with this lingering disease. I was advised to go and stay up there a while for my health by the doctors, but it did me no good. But I do love my mother's people better than any of my relations and I do think they love me and I so believe my mother is a good Christian and on the way to the better world and thanks be to my blesed lord for that hope which I have that reaches beyond this vail of tears. And now my dear uncle and aunt and cousins, if we should never meet on this side of eternity, let us meet in the better world where there is no parting. Where the wicked shall cease from troubling and the weary shall be forever at rest. Where congregations never break and sabbath has no end. We have eight in our family at this time. I married a Little and her name is Jincy. She has been delivered of eight children -- 2 died six living. I am setting by the fire writing this letter on my knee for the weather is cold and the snow is about ten inches deep. I was small the time you came to my father's and I went with you to Jacob Petry's, and that was the first and last time I ever saw you. Crops of corn with us last year was very light, wheat crops pretty good, oats quite light, cotton crops very indifferent. Corn is worth 62 1/2 cents per bushel, wheat is one dollar, oats 50 cents, cotton from 8 and 9 dollars per hundred. I am now going to bring my letter to a close for I have nothing more worth your attention as I know of more than I want you to answer me and direct your letters to NC Cabarras County, Garman's Mill post office. So I will close saying I am your affectionate nephew until death.
Here is my ?? that are living:
To John Shore Michael & Jincy Garmon
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