March 25 1888

Fords Ferry Ky

deal of business going on in the

County corn is worth 50 cts a bu

Wheat is worth 90 cts per bu bacon

(10) cts per lb horses and good mules

is good price common stock is low

write and tell me what good mules

is worth maby I will bring some one

there if they are better prices than they

are here Harlow family is all well

and getting ---- along very well

an he has got a good start. I have got

only – four children with me now

two girls and two boys Georgia

is 20 and Laura 16 and the boys are

12 and 9 –years old write to the girls

and they will write to you I hardly

ever write any I cant see how to write much

Where is my stepmother and John Hamilton

And Gale walker what has become

Of Claibourn and William Robeson

Write and tell --- John and Will

to write to me and give me there

post office and tell me how they

like and you tell me where about

you was and how you liked down

there one of my boys talks of going

to texas and he wants to no where is

the best place to go  J W Robeson

Dear sister and Brother I will

Write to you to I would like to see

You both and talk with you about

old times I was glad to hear from

you and to hear that you was well

I don’t know whether I can come

To see you or not I will come

if I  --  can leave home this

Summer or fall  J W ROBESON

                        Crittenden Ky

Dear cousin I will write you a few lines   

To let you no that you have got a cousin

I will write to you if you will write

To me and if you don’t write to me and

Direct your letters to me when you write

I will not answer them I want you to

Come out to see us this summer the

Railroad comes in 7 miles of us you

Can come to Marion papa can meet youthere

   Cousin George I want you to send me

your picture and I will send you mine

if you write to me direct your letter

to Georgia B Robeson Marion

write soon if you pleas