Spring 2021 Letters from Telecommuting

Tx Henderson July the 13 1888

dear Lydia

you have ben looking for a letter i no you said Sally was commen and said would send for us i hav waited til i thought I would write we are well getten along tolerbel well John and I will go to meting to morrow if nothing prevents

parker and family come last Saturday me Bert wife and too daughters mr doman and daughter mr wommack Jo Jo englelord and granson mr castelbery lydia i am trying to quilt i dont have much time to work mrs rice is well John rice has bin sick is up now mrs rogers and mrs varney good friends yet will bee tell mrs rogers gits milk at home i want to tell you so many things John is most don work bob has movd he would not work as he ought John has got a white family in the house the porest aperenst i every saw dont no how this will do I will

Get my bonnet Spring is so nice woz words my head do write a sexten or you can it is so much pleasure to read your letter have you heard from mat let me no how the children is i was glad all was rite at home my love to you and children all dayton friends peruse all wk. takes he was in s a hurryto get it to the office

your mother

T Nancy Bridges

mrs varneys best respects & to you and children

Of course we do not know exactly how we stand - probably little or nothing more than the house will remain when all is settled but the Lord will provide - Ben Charleston Oct 16th - 1856 left us last Friday to finish the term in College, then expects to return & find employment here so as to remain with

My dear dear Sister,

This Isee by the above date, is the anniversary of our beloved Mother's removal to a better world & now I am called to write about the departure to that same bright happy glorious home, of him who was nearer & dearer still the beloved partner of my joys & sorrows - with whom for thirty years I have loved as I never loved another & with whom for twenty seven years In so much peace & harmony & love I have journeyed through this vale of tears. I fear you have been very anxious to hear again, since the first sad tidings reached you, have been anxious to hear how your poor widowed stricken sister has been supported, under such a crushing blow; & you ought to have heard, but the poor children have had as much as they could do, to write to each member of the family, to prepare their mourning for the last Sabbath, receive the sympathizing calls of friends, besides their other [word torn away] Ben being compelled to return to his duties [word torn away] -ter a fortnight absence, the boys, [words torn away] Father's will were left exeuctors [words torn away] obliged to qualify last [with?] & l[words torn away] so as to put them in a train [words torn away]

[written crosswise on page:] us. Bagele Edward expects to remain until his return. [?] sten has returned but is at the island & I have not seen him. The fever now seems to be decreasing I hope you will be able to come now I long to see you. I thought your feasting that morning was very tender & had misgivings myself about your meeting again on earth. Much love to All & [?] for his Aunt Saint Uncle Bagile loved him very much. I hope he will [early?] lose the [Savior?] & meet him in heaven. Write soon to

Your deeply affected sister

Sarah

The Republic of Texas - In the name of the authority of the same

To the Sheriff of San Augustin County, Greeting:

You are hereby commanded to summon George Teal to be and appear at the next term of the District Court to be holden at the Court House in thr & for the County of San Augustine on the Fourth Monday in March next, to answer the complaint of Aaron Coe of the heirs of William R. Johnson deceased, who are William Johnson the Father of the said William R. & Mary, late wife of the latter, now the wife of Robert [?] the said Robert here joining & authorising this suit; & the heirs of James Davidson deceased, who are his sons, William Davidson & Francis Davidson, & his daughters, who are [?], the wife of William B. Gill / the said William B. here joining with his wife & authorising this suit, -- Elizabeth wife of John Davidson -- the said John here joining & authorising this suit - Mary the wife of Alfred Blud =worth, who here joines his said wife, & authorises this suit. And Grand son of the said James Davidson James S. Cartwright, a minor under the age of twenty one years, being the only son & heir at law of Palsey a daughter of the said James Davison, who died -- the wife of Thomas Cartwright, who is the father of the said James S. Cartwright & his Guardian by whom the said James S. Cartwright brings suit & prosecutes this suit, - in an action of trespass as well to try title as to recover damages, & to their damage twenty five thousand dollars, & cost of suit, & to show cause, if any he can, why judgment shall not be rendered against him as prayed for in plaintiff's petition. - Herein fail not, & are return make of writ. - Witness J. B. Johnson clerk of the District Court of San Augustine County, this 21^st day of December A.D. One thousand, eight hundred & Forty one, & of the Independence of the sixth year - Given under my hand & seal of the Court. [signed] J. B. Johnson Clerk.

(L. S.)

but chaier, being by [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] of that holiness [illegible] by the Law of god, pasitiarly melina to evial [evil?] and therefore under your condemnation to eternal ruin, without defenes or [illegible] 4 of the way of salvation we believe then the salvations of sinners is wholly [holy] of graer, through the mediatonal offier of the son of god, who by the appointment of the [illegible] [illegible] took upon him our [illegible] yet without sins, honored the [illegible] law by his perdanol obediene [obedience] and by his death made a full alonement for our sins, that having risen from the dead he is now enthroned in heaven; and [illegible] in his wonderful person the tenderest sympathies with dioim perfections he is laery way grolified to be a suitable a compassionate, and an all sufficient saviour, 5th of justification we believe that the gratr gospel blessing whioh christ secures to Such as [illegible] him is Justification, that justification includes the ponder of sins, and the promise of eternal life on principles of righteousness, that it is [illegible] not in candiderbation of any words of righteousness which we have dove but solely through

Faith in the Ridgmont blood by virtue of which faith his perfect righteousness is freely miputed to us of Gads, thats is brings us into a stah of mast blessedpeaer and favor with Gad, and secures every other blessing herdful for him and eternity 6 of the freeness of salvation We believe that the blessings of Salvations are made free to all by the Gospel; that it is the [illegible] duty of all to accept them by a cordial penitent and obedience faith, and that nothing prevents the salvation of The Grates sinner on earth but this [illegible] [illegible] depravity and [illegible] rejection of the Gospel, which rejection of the Gospel, invalues him in an aggravated condemnation 7 of [illegible] regeneration We believe that in order to be saved Sinners must be regenerated or born again that regeneration can [illegible] in a holy disposition to the mind, that it is effected in a manner above our comprehension by The power of the Holy spirit in connection with [illegible] truth, so as to secure our valentory obedience to the gospel, and That its proper evidence appears in the Holy spirit of repentanes [repentance], and faith and Newness of life

5 of Repentance and faith WE believe that repentence and faith are sacred duties and also inseparable graces, wrought in our soules [souls?] by then regenerating spirits of God, where by being deeply convinced of our guilty danger and helplessness, and of the way of salvation by christ, we turn to god with [illegible] Contrition, confession and supplication for mercy, or the same time Heartly receiving the lord jesus christ [our] prophet priest and king and [illegible] on Him alow as the only and all sufficiant Savior 9 of god purpose of Grace WE believe that election is the eternal purpose of God according to whice [which] he graciously regenerats [regenerates] sanctifies and sow sinners; ther [there] being perfectly consistant with the free agency of man is comprehend all the means in connection with the end, thath it is a mast glorious display of god, savering [savoring] goodness, being infinitely free wise Holy and unchangeable that is utterly excludes boasting and promotes humility love prayer praise truth in god and action [illegible] of his free mercy, that is encourages the [illegible] of means in the higher degree, that it may be [illegible] by its effect in all who truly believe the gospel, that it is the foundation of christian [illeglible] and that to accertion it with regard to

ourselves demands and [illegible] the [illegible] deligence, 10 of sanctification WE believe that sanctification is the process by which according to the will of God, were made partakers of this holiness that it is a progression work that it is begun in regeneration, and that it is carried on in the heart of believers by the presence and [illegible] of the Holy Spirit the sealer and comforter in the continual use of the appointed means especially the word of God, self examenation [examination], self denial watchfulness and prayer 11 the perseverane [perseverance] of Saints We believe that such only are real believers as endure unto the end, that their persevering attachment to christ is the grand work which distinguishes them from superficial professors, that a special provider watches over their welfer [welfare], and they are kept by the power of god through faith unto [to] salvation. 12 of the Harmony of the law and the Gospel We believe that the law of god is the eternal and unchangeable rul of his word Government that it is holy just and good, and that the mobility which the scriptures ascribe to fallen men to fulfill its precepts arises entirely from their love of sin, to deliver them from which and to restore them through a mediator to unfeigned

obedience to the Holy law is one great endd of the gospel and of the means of grace connected with the establishment of the visible Church. 13 of a gospel church we believe that a visible church of christ is a congregation of baptized believers associated by coverment in the faith and fellowship of the gospel, observing the ordinances of choice, governed by his laws, and [illegible] gifts rights and privilges invested in them by his words, that is only scriptual officers are Bishop or pastors and [illegible] whose qualification claims and duties are defind in the epistles to limothy and Litus 14 of Baptism and the Lords Supper We believe that christian Baptism is the immersion in water of a believer in to the home of the father and son and holy ghost, to shiw forth in the solemn and butiful [beautiful] Emblem our faith in the crucified buried and risen savior. with its effect in our death to sin and resurrection to a new life that it is prerequisite to the privileges of a church relalion [relation], and to the Lord, Supper, in which the members of the church by the sacred use of bread and wine are to commemorate to gather the dying love of christ [illegible] always by solemn self examination

15 of the Christian Sabbath We believe that the first of the week is the Lords day or christian sabbath, and is to be kept sacred to religions purposes, by abstaning [abstaining] from all seculor labor and sinful recreation by the [illegible] observance of all the means of grace bath private and public and by preperation for that rest that [illegible] for the pople [people] of God 16 of bivial government We believe that civial [civil] government is of Divine appoinment for the intrust and good order of human sacity, and that magistrales [magistrates] one to be prayed for conscientiously honored and obeyed, execpt only in things opposed to the will of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the only Lord of the concience [conscience] and the prince of the Kings of the Earth 17 of the rightous and the wicked We believe thath there is a radical and essential difference between the righteous and the wicked; that such only a through faith are justified in the home of the Lord Jesus and Sanctified by the Spirit of our god, are truly righteous in his [illegible], While all such as continue in imperitence [impertinence] and unbefeif [unbelief] are in his Sight wicked, and under the curse, this distinction held among men both in and after death