{"id":877,"date":"2022-12-06T20:30:42","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T01:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/?p=877"},"modified":"2022-12-06T20:30:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T01:30:42","slug":"samuel-w-anderson-to-walter-anderson-1811","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/samuel-w-anderson-to-walter-anderson-1811\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel W. Anderson to Walter Anderson, 1811"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Courtesy of SteveLewisCA@aol.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A very interesting letter written to Walter Anderson by his father, Samuel, has been preserved. It is printed in its entirety:

Addressed to:
Mr. Walter Anderson
near Lincoln County
c\/o John Blaine
Stanford, Lincoln Co., Kentucky
William A. Luckie Post Office

Lyon\u2019s Post Office 17th of August
Paid 25 cents with dispatch

Rich Cove
Aug. 17, 1811

Dear Son:

I wrote you by Mr. Anderson in June, but I have had no answer. I wrote again by post hoping this letter would find you & all your family in good health both body & mind. My family & your brothers are middling well, at present. But John has cut his foot, I understand. I am but poorly myself at present, but praise God for his great mercy to me. I am pressing forward to mark the high calling of Christ my Lord and Savor (sic), hoping you & yours are doing the same. Thru grace we seem to have a revival of religion. Your sister Jane has gained in religion & your cousin Jane Bailey has joined the Baptists & has been baptized & much more. All your friends are well, I believe. Old George Blaine is deceased. I expect John Blaine will move this fall or in the spring for he has sold his land to his bro. Alexander.

Dear Son, I want your brother William to come here this fall for I am no abel(sic) to do my business. I want him to go to school this winter so that he can do my riding for I can\u2019t ride much as I am very weakly. I long to hear from your all. I long to hear from your all.

We have likely crops of corn, at present. I made a medling(sic) good crop of wheat. I hope you will send a good gentil(sic) horse by William since it will be for him at my death. Don\u2019t fail to send him for I want to see him very much. I have sent him five dollars in silver. Make up what is necessary to send him & I will send the difference by George Blaine. I don\u2019t want a very large horse \u2013 about four feet nine inches \u2013 well made, easy pace & gentil(sic) geared kind. Love to you & family, I still remain, your loving father.

till death fare well

Samuel W. Anderson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Courtesy of SteveLewisCA@aol.com A very interesting letter written to Walter Anderson by his father, Samuel, has been preserved. It is printed in its entirety: Addressed to:Mr. Walter Andersonnear Lincoln Countyc\/o John BlaineStanford, Lincoln Co., KentuckyWilliam A. Luckie Post Office Lyon\u2019s Post … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[46,45,157,48,47,156,50],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy","tag-albemarle-county","tag-anderson","tag-blaine","tag-genealogy","tag-history","tag-kentucky","tag-virginia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":879,"href":"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}