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Jan 30, 2022 Carolebar May 19, 2020 vant May 18, 2020 shashathree May 05, 2020 Kentucky Historical Society Digital Collections	SC1768_FF1_007_001 Lexington Dec 2 1833 My dear boy Your long looked for has come to hand at last, and I now sit me down to address you with feelings some what goomy [gloomy] as I have just witnessed the execution of an negro man, he was hang'd on a tree in the streete before my window. He was condemned to death and hun for killing his wife. I epect you have not heard of the death of your cousin Fanny, and her sister-Sarah, and your Uncle-- Guerin. All departed this life with in the space of a month. Fanny was the first that died. She was sick-- eleven days with an inflamation of the brain. But, str -ang [strange] to say, she was senseble when she was dying.-- Her poore afflicted Father asked her if she was affaid to die. She sayed, no, she was not, but she had ant -icipated to live to be an ornament to society. Sarah dyed of fever, and Mr Guerin of consumption. Your Aunt Fanny apears (to judge from her letters) to be in great distress. She sayes your Uncle Thomas must take her from that pace [place], or she will die with uarief [grief]. He has not concluded yet what he will do but he will I expect have to go down there to ar- ange her business. Doc Ray speaks of moving from that contery.	SC1768_FF1_007_001 Lexington Dec 2 1833 My dear boy Your long looked for has come to hand at last, and I now sit me down to address you with feelings some what goomy [gloomy] as I have just witnessed the execution of an negro man, he was hang'd on a tree in the streete before my window. He was condemned to death and hun for killing his wife. I epect you have not heard of the death of your cousin Fanny, and her sister-Sarah, and your Uncle-- Guerin. Fanny was the first that died. She was sick-- eleven days with an inflamation of the brain. But, str -ang [strange] to say, she was senseble when she was dying.-- Her poore afflicted Father asked her if she was affaid to die. She sayed, no, she was not, but she had ant -icipated to live to be an ornament to society. Sarah dyed of fever, and Mr Guerin of consumption. Your Aunt Fanny apears (to judge from her letters) to be in great distress. She sayes your Uncle Thomas must take her from that pace [place], or she will die with uarief [grief]. He has not concluded yet what he will do but he will I expect have to go down there to ar- ange her business. Doc Ray speaks of moving from that contery.