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Note: Camp near Camden Ark. Jan 10th, 1864 Dear Wife, I take this opportunity of writing a few lines to you to let you know I am well at present, and to let you know where I am. I am now with my old company "K" Shanks Regiment Shelby's Brigade. When I got to Shreveport Jarrett had left and gone to Mississippi and I have since heard, he has gone to Kentucky. A good many of his boys went to the army, and the rest went with him to Kentucky. I have heard since I got back to the army that your brother, William, is east of the Mississippi. I would like to know how William Boudon is? Try and make all the clothes you can, as it is going to be a hard matter to buy any. Be saving with your money. I have good luck with pay your board twelve months. You need not be uneasy for as long as I live you shall not suffer. Try and keep in good spirits. I think peace will be made before a great while. Write soon and let me know if you got the letter I wrote to you at Shreveport. Write often, I will send you an envelope with the proper address in which to enclose your letter so it will reach me. Write as often as you can _____ a week and I will write as often as I can. Take good care of Willie and yourself. Let me know how Mr. Boudons folks are, also, Mr. Bray's; be sure and write often your letters may not all get through and I want to hear from you as often as I can. I have no more to write at present but remain, Your affectionare husband, A. Jackson 1844 -- MRS. G. G. ALDERSON --1918 By Rev. T. C. Brammer Rachel A. Young was born in Kansas City, Mo., on January 8th, 1844, and came with her parents to the farm two miles south of Belton, when only five years old and has lived since then in and around Belton excepting two years spent in Texas about the close of the war. She was married to Abe Jackson in 1858. To this union one child was born and it died when about three years old, while Mrs. Jackson was in Texas. Mr. Jackson was killed in one of the last battles of the Civil War while serving under the Confederate flag. Mrs. Jackson was married to G. G. Alderson in 1873. To this union was born four children, one dying in infancy; Ruth, who married Ferd Martin, died 13 years ago; while Chester and Naomi, now Mrs. Wm. Jackson, remain. Two brothers, G. W. Young of Gunn City and J. H. Young of Belton; two half-brothers and two half-sisters, J. E. Mullen of Belton, Mrs. Jas Brown of Kansas City, Mrs. Susan Lewis and Frank Mullen of Belton; her husband; two children and eight grandchildren are left to mourn her loss. With the passing of aunt Rachel, as she was familiarly known, passes a member of one of our oldest families. She knew the rough side of frontier and civil war life. Often she rode eight and ten miles to Sunday School and if a circuit rider came across the sparsely settled prairie they would have church. She joined the church soon after the civil war and was a member of the Presbyterian church at the time of her death. Mrs. Alderson was not a woman easily excited, but two weeks ago she had her teeth extracted and said to her husband, "George, I believe this will kill me." And, although she has been in poor health for sometime, there is no doubt the gas administered and the shock of the extraction was the cause of her death at about 12:30 a.m. on Sunday, July 21. Funeral services were held at the Presbyterian church Monday morning, conducted by Rev. T. C. Brammer and burial was in Belton cemetery. Cause of death: Septicemia
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