Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1901-01-26
A Unique Will
The following is Of record IN the
rbancery clerks Office at Okolona:
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI,


My Dear Niece and Nephew just
now did receifed your dear letters, and
| tell you it does me good to know that
| have such kin folks somewhere whom
always remember us and try their best n
please me, now last Monday ! did receive
a nice letter from you both, Henry besides
his nice picture, tell you he is nice look,
ing man, He looks like a English Lord J
also did receive a letter the day before
yesterday from Uiutoo that sweet yearland
from my dear Sister Moore oh she Is
deerlng, also a letter from her DauhteI
Pauline, now | tell what sorter man am
this young lady she wrote me for the las,
1918 years letters, and | never did take
time to answer her letters aint | great
charmer, well you see when write to her
Ma it takes me day or a / night to
write a letter, and when am done withtlt,
then | ought to write Pauline also that is
too much then promise her | write to her
extra, but the extra never come yet, but
she is a darling, she don't get mad no way
now, Dear Nephew you ask me in your
L :
last letter, must confess to my shame ]
don't know what to say, you think getting
lacey, but it is not that, somedays have to
write from 3-4 letters and then | have to
work at the bench, yet then | put it off.
and some day | am not in a humor to write
a nice letter and so happens, | regret IL,
but | wrote your brother Henry that J
would write you for sure next week as
was afraid Dear Sweet Sabylla would get
mad and that wouldn't do, | don't want dis
poll my friendship with her but as ! got
such letters now from you, SO thought !
would write to you wright Off, your brother
Emil who is now about months in this
country, how does he like the change
They tell me in the old Country be was a
little wild order leight you, Wy well, that
the way was a good deal | am getting
along well, my health is good yet for man
of my age some days | have to grumble
like a old Bat, can tell 2 days before the
wetter changes, but APPETITE is good yet,
about trade would say it could be good
deal better, they only made crop
cotton, and first itn brought $40, now
Christmas it was down at 30 dollars bale,
the d digger did not had any money to
spend well get alongvery well, wife and
children don't boddcr me, that is the main
thing | see you doing very we'll as going
to take your vacation, thought the Lord
that you take your Sibilla to Switland and
any where, show her every thing, make her
feel good, Sister Moore me she got her part
iNheritage at last, after all, have been
pushing for it, she did not need it for her
daughters which married off not long ago.
Sister write that man has nothing to do
with it, that everything lays in the hands
Of brother, Joseph Vollmatch, my dear
Louis, and when you are wit her and see
you that you cant, it in a good way then
YOU hire loer on my expenses and then
Tame Sister write me, | would be settled
in a few months and when you bring it
along I'll pay you for your trouble, and
then you must know when you work for
me- you work for your own interest, some
of these days | dropoR, 60 to the Hum
mel, and then what is left that is all fOI
you and your folks | leaf everything here
Weather here is cool, but not so like in
| n. York or Chicago, we have had no snow
yet, if we do get any we generally get it
| in February or March, we folks here we
suffer worse when it is right cold then you
do, as you get more use to it your blood is
thicker than ours and cant stand much,
send your darling Sibilla a little Christmas
| present, and | hope she will like it, | did
send it by register mail you ask me l want
some duve fish or something, | will say no,
you have been 50 kind to me don't want to
take shnorer, always for the last year or
so, got me cunsher meat knobling wurssh
and brisket meat from Chicago, it only
cost me when | orde - 90 worth about 90
or 80 cts from N,York, i would cost too
much express about February | will send
you some present to your folks in Swift
land, also to my folks with you viii take
along il you please, please tell your darling
| will wright soon again, and not let her
wait so long again, yhis is all at present
and hope You will enjoy New Year and
when you drink some good Rhine Wine the
say hoorah for Dreyfoos too, and then you
must know with good news from this place,
| will not bodder youn, one Old batchelor
Of about As years married girl of - years
hour before train time, they married
and then they took the train for N,York.
Well close now and give you
all my best regard from your uncle,
NJ, DREYFoos,
After the death of Mr. Dreyfoos, the
foregoing was probated as his last will
and testament, and considerable sum
of money was sent to Switzerland.