CAMPBELL COUSINS CORRESPONDENCE
"Roselawn Farm"
Nelson Pa.,
June 12, 1923.
Dear Cousins, Individually and Collectively:-
It is
indeed a pleasure to write to you on this beautiful June Day.
First, I move we extend to Cousin Will Selph a vote of thanks for the
interest he has taken, and the time and work to make this our first
"Campbell Cousins Correspondence" letter a success. We all appreciate
it, I am sure, and personally, William, I thank you.
Farming has been a little slow owing to the cold
Spring. Just at present, everything here looks very well. In addition
to the farm work,
William has a milk route,-two trips a day from Nelson and one from
Tioga, all of which goes to the Elkland Condensery. He tries to be home
by noon. It is rather a long day,-before daylight and after dark.
It was necessary to have a heavy truck, so we
have a "Reo"1 which is not a woman’s car, nor a real
"limousine"; however William finds time to take me for a good many nice
rides.
My nieces, Joe’s
three daughters are some what scattered.
Jessie, the eldest, who on December 2, 1922, added a little son to
her family, named
Henry Gray Thompson2. She now has three children:-
Walter Frederick Thompson, 3rd,
Anne Elizabeth , and now Henry. Her
husband is a machinist for the Endicott-Johnson Shoe Company at
Binghamton, N.Y. They live at #16 College Street.
Elizabeth
has one little son, who has her father’s name,
Joseph Hoyt Walker. Her
husband works for the D.L.& W.R.R. Company and has the station
at North Brookfield, N.Y., where they reside.
Isabelle
is a teacher of physical education in the Elmira3 City
Schools, where she and her mother live. She will attend summer
school at Harvard University.
I am great aunt you see and "Granny" to
Jessie’s children. I remember my mother speaking of Uncle Enoch Blackwell as a great uncle and
thought one must be very aged to acquire that title. I never expected
to be a great aunt.
How I wish this Correspondence Organization
might have started while the Cousins were all here to enjoy it.
Sincerely hope we may all meet at the "Cousins
Reunion" this year.
Kindest love to all.
1. It was a flatbed with stake sides. - wbt
2. He later changed his middle name to 'Goodrich'. - wbt
3. NY
- Report No. 1 - Page 17
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(Phoebe Campbell
Family)
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