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Woodburn Macoupin Co Ills Dec 19th 1865 Dear Son it is one week last saturday since I wrote to you we are all about as usual except Eugean he got badly burned last friday I guess it is an unlucky month as it come in on friday we lost our old pete horse and Eugean got burned in the first week of it. it seems unlucky for us at least John had put pete in a stable and tied him and he got loose and got out of the stable and fell into an old well near by the well was quite narrow and there were some board in it that prevented his going into the water and he burst in falling so he only lived about an hour after he fell in so ends the last one of the four and it seems hard that