Caroline Quarlls April 27, 1880 Letter
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Transcription Courtesy of Civil War Museum, Kenosha, Wisconsin
(Pg 1)
Caroline Watkins
1880
Sandwich April 27
Dear friend
i received your
letter and was glad to
hear from you and your
family and that you was well
and doing well it leaves me in not
very good health I did mary a
man on Col prices farm by
name of Watkins but he was
considerable elder than i was
and had children by his first wife as
old as i was but she was sold
from her children in slavery and
before she got to the end of her journey
she killed herself
I learned to read
and write in canada/ went to school
the first year after i came here to
askin i was here nearly 3 years
(Pg 2)
Before i was married my husbands
occupation is a cook I get a
pretty good living but by working
pretty hard for it but i am
not very happy - I have heard
from St louis several times since
i came by my cousin who served
her time out and got free and
came here my old mistress is dead
and my master is married
again that is charles r hall
I knew about me having property
left me before i came away
perhaps if i had of stayed until
i became of age i could have
got it and perhaps not there was
not but only 2 of us i had
one sister but she died before i
came away I have forgotten
how long i was going from
alton to milwaukee by stage
Mr pots was the name of the minister
that my master and his wife went to
(Pg 3)
and they were presbyterians