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11904 Tuscora ave. N.E. Cleveland, O. Feb. 22, 1917
Dear Sister Edith: We received your good & interesting letter of 10th & it was such a surprise to get one of your old fashioned letters again. It has been a good many years since you have wrote me such a nice long letter, so let's hope you will keep it up now since you have started. I hardly know where to begin to answer as I have so much I would like to say. Well, we are all well for the first thing. Geo has had a touch of grip, but is better now. Has not been to school all wk. John & Ava & Lawreys are all well. Sorry to hear of Ella getting hurt, but hope she will soon be all right again. I didn't know Ellie Alaback, but it is very sad. Yes, you have Frank & Enoch's ages all right. We were down to see them last summer on our vacation & found them all well, as usual,
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2 & busy as ever but of course they are aging & look much older than when you last seen them, if you & your children will come & see us this summer I will drive you down to see all of our relations & it wont cost you a cent while here. what would RR cost you to come? & Sarah joins me in saying the same. She often says that she doesnt know of anybody that she would like to see as much as you. Last night she was saying that she would like for you & your children to come & spend the summer with us & I will go her one better & bring Bro. Geo. along to. & we will get him a job if he wants to work for there is lots of it here & good pay.
Ava was saying that her mother was sick. You know her & John live next st. to us & our Helen is over there every day with their baby she is bugs over it. O yes that family group I promised you seems if we never get time to have it taken, but we havent forgotten it & the promise still
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3 holds good. Yes, I look some older & getting quite gray, but feel fine. Tell me if your hair is turning any yet? Sam Colias will be 16 on March 17 & he is now 6 ft. taller than his dad. No, I can't promise you anything for your Church, as we are in the same boat ourselves. The church we used to go to before we moved burnt down & you know what that means. & out here in this new neighborhood there is no church handy, so they have bought a lot & are getting ready to build a Baptist Church next corner to us so you see we have all of that stuff we can take care of here. Edith, I don't know what the law is in Ohio for settling a will but Uncle L. C. wrote & told me there is nothing for us in the Elizabeth Bushing estate. That was just a legal form that they had to go
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4 through to settle that estate, so there is nothing to that. If there was, I would of heard from other sources. I am afraid the Pike settlement is going to make hard feelings with some of our uncles & aunts & cousins. You know when they started out with that case, a paper was sent around for all of us heirs to sign, giving our consent for them to go ahead with the case. I refused to sign it & returned the paper to them. Now that they have lost the case, the lawyers are trying to make me pay my share. Also, Uncle L. C is added on as they can't collect nothing from him, & I don't know about yours & Ks. share, but they have me down for around $90.00. So I turned it over to my lawyer to settle for me & he told me I would not have to pay it if I didn't sign for it, but he was going to write them about it & I haven't heard from him since so I don't know how I will come out.
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5 Edith, that big water color picture of you, I had forgotten all about, but since you have spoken about it, I have been working my brains trying to see if I can't remember it, & I think I have a reconciliation of see it hanging on our Mother's wall, but that is a long time ago. & that brings back to my memory of one time K. destroyed a picture that she took out of a frame at "our house" or Mother's in Hadley Mass, the time we were there packing up her belongings to bring back. I have forgotten, but I do remember, at the time, wherever it was, I had words with her for doing it. & wanted her to give it to me, rather than destroy it, but she wouldn't do it, & ripped it up. Edith K. very seldom writes to me, not near as often as you do, so you know how often you write & it is very seldom I write to her &, when I do, I am careful what I say, & I never mention your name as I know you two don't like each other.