I Receivied your kind & Most Welcome
Letter2 A Short time A go
And I Have Received 22 News Pappers And It
is Hard For me to tell you How thankful I am to you for them. I Wonder
How you Could think what was So Gratifying to us. Well My Health I But Verry
little Better But If I Had Stayed In W Va
I dont Suppose I would Have Been Liveing
Now. I am Sorry to know your Health is So Poor3
But I whish you would come to Minnesota and I do think
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you would get your Health Better. their
is People comeing From Almost Every State to Howard
Lake For their Health. Dear Friend
you Said In your Letter Prehaps We Would
Meet know more In this world But I Do feel As this
Pleashure
will Come to me Before I Leave this world A Pleashure
I do So Mutch Desire For I think My Joy
would Bee unspeakable
to Meet a Friend that was So good & kind to me As you was when I was In Washington.
But I Hope If We Do Not Meet In this world we will meet In Heaven.
Being In the army & Loosing My Health So I am Not Able to work of Corse we are Poor But when I went In the army I had a Comfortable Home Was a good Lover
My Mother Leives In W Va My Father Is Dead Tongue Can Not Express How Much I think of My Mother And well I would Like to See Her I Have Not Seen Her For 8 year My Brothers & Sisters Lives their too
I Will Close My letter By Saying I Hope you will get your Health
My Wife Sends Her Best Respects to you And Says tell you She thanks you for your kindness And Care to me
My Children Sends their Love to you Now My Dear Friend I Hope you will write Soon
Good Bye William StansberryMy Parents Came From New Jersey Not Far From Camden they was Born their
Correspondent:
William Stansberry (1837–1906), a native of West Virginia,
was a Sergeant in Company A of the Third West Virginia Cavalry during the American Civil War. He later
moved to Wright County, Minnesota, where he and his wife, Jane Drusilla Cochran Stansberry (1837–1920) settled on a farm.
The couple had at least twelve children, and the family was living in Howard Lake, Minnesota, a few years before William's death.