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Home Greene Co Ill's Feb 6th.65 Dear Son I take this peice of a sheet of paper to commence a letter on partly because I have no better and partly because I dont think I can find much to write I received a letter from Sister Sarah one week ago last saturday informing us of the melancholy death of Brother William I had thought I would get to see him once more but I am doomed to disappointment and then to think after all his trials and accidents and troubles of different kinds to think that he must be killed at last he was sitting on the side of waggon bed waiting for Smith to get ready to go with him to do some hauling when the horses suddenly