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Morgan City [Ille?] June
27th
Dear friend
We are in good circumstances as to our health buisness and &c but our country is suffering the ravages of war. the indians have desolated the frontiers by massacaring the inhabitants and our country men have taken up their arms and marched [against] the savages. a body of men under capt Stedman was attacted at a considerable distance from the main army, by a body of indians about dusk. the whites retreated after having 11 killed including one of the officers we do not know how many indians, 5000 more soldiers have just marched out with the intention of making a treaty on their own terms or destroying the whole tribe which is the fox indians. our country is not in so prosperous a state as it has been but is still the Eden which it has been
Miss Sarah McCurdy
Rusells Ville,
Kentucky
represented to be. there has been a great may staw berries this spring anther wild fruit mother is still pleasead with the country. Eliza Ann has a daughter and call it Elennora Virginia, Aunt Betsey Burton is about the same as she used to be but more disadisfied Jane is living at Mr Stacy's in Jacksonville and professes to be much pleased with her [?] The widow Burtons family live six or eight miles from us on a farm of a hundred and sixty acres but we have no correspondence with them, Religion is in a prosperous state in Jacksonville the Methodists are building a fine meeting house conference will be held in it next fall. Mother has [?] very fine garden the most of the s[?] lived which she braught with her. I will give you a brief account of dear sisters death which hapend last August she died after an illness of fourteen days of a
fever she appeared perfectly willing to submitt to her fate and said she could not live a few days before her death. she died perfectly in her senses to the great distress of us all. I must draw to a close, give our love to your brothers family and to your sister
Miranda H. Rucker
Pleas Excuse this scribble as written in haste with bad pen
Where faithful love unites the heart
No time can change nor distance part
