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it 3 miles from the state line the country is not as fertile nor the villages as flourishing this side of Buffalo as on the other in some places vegetation is quite backward after crossing the state line had a very bad road hilly and rough we stopped 4 miles this side of the road for the night public house by Tavern? good accommodations. I forgot to mentions in yesterdays remarks the phenomena of seeing a starusun? a half an hour high it is something neve(r) observed before it was very brilliant and near the moon. Thursday the 14th I begin now to realize that I am going from home it has seemed until now as if I was going to return soon. I have felt worse this morning than I have since I come from home. Oh how much I want to see my dear Brothers and Sisters I have felt as if I could not reconcile myself to the idea of leaving them for so long a time everything that could add to the anguish of my heart has crowded itself upon my agonized mind to loss of my beloved parents the forlorn situation of my beloved Br & Sisters our separation and the loss of other friends all came to my mind and overwhelmed it in anguish. I refused consolation the kind attention of my beloved husband were for a long time ineffectual to console me I could not drive the distracting thoughts from my breast I felt as if my heart would burst and when fatigues with weeping and my mind became more calm still painful as the recollections were I continued to cherish them such a contrariety of papious agitate the human heart when I could not