Letter from Sarah Maria Barteau Cook to William Barteau: Byrne and Asimov Genealogy and Family Histories

Title	Letter from Sarah Maria Barteau Cook to William Barteau
Date	3 Feb 1867
Locality	Personal collection of Hugh Byrne
Source Type	Letter
Source ID	S523
Text	February 3, 1867 Dear Brother, I will now write you a few lines to inform you how we are all getting along. Cecil and myself were both very sick last fall, for my part I never expected to be any better. I went in the country on a visit and took the children. Cecil and I were both taken with typhoid fever. Mine ran seventeen days and Cecil's fifteen, and a short time after mine was broken up I had a pair of little twins, both girls. They came before the time and one died on the first day. The other lived two days. I have never felt well since. I have been troubled with lameness and weakness every way. I have had everything - M.D. was called called medicine to take and I am just able to enjoy myself. I cannot stand any exposure or to work much, but I am not obliged to for I have a black woman. Charles has bought a house on the west end of Galveston Island and we are living in it. It is a house with eight rooms and very comfortable. He still holds his office in the customs house. I wish you would make up your mind to afford to come out here and make me a visit. I think you can if you only think so. I wish for you and your family could have been here the first day of this month. It was Cecil's birthday. Her father gave here a birthday dinner - we had everything nice. It cost between thirty and forty dollars. Cecil is situated so now that she cannot go to school. I regret that very much. I hear you have moved to Patchogue. I hope you will write and tell me all the news, how your family are getting along, (and) if you all enjoy good health. Tell Frank and Ethie [assume this is Francis and Henrietta, William's children from his first marriage to Harriet Newell Chase, who died in 1853] to write to me. I suppose Frank is at work with you. I want to hear from Shermy and Sadie [William's children from his second marriage to Martha Matthews, who had just died a year earlier], and let me know who is keeping house for you now. Charley is quite well. He is wearing pants and jackets this winter. They make him feel quite like a man. Well, as I have written all I can think of I will bid you goodbye. From your sister, Sarah Maria Cook
Linked to (3)	COOK COOK COOK, Cecilla

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Sarah Maria Barteau Cook Letter to William Barteau, Feb 3 1867

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