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Note: There is a book THE DUNBAR FAMILY OF BARNWELL COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA writen by Elizabeth Willis DeHuff 1908-1954*****Revised 1969 - 1970 "Beach Island South Carolina Aug. 8 1839 My Dear Brother, It is with great pleasure I now take my seat to write you a few lines hoping they may find you and your family as they leaves mine enjoying good health. As to myself I have scarcely seen a well day for the last sixteen years for I have been trouble a great deal with the Rheumatism. I can well say that I know no end to there pains but I am thankful to the Almighty that he has been pleased to spare me this longe and to hear from you once more for I had almost given all hopes of ever hearing from you again. You wrote that you wish to know something about you old school mates. If you were here you could asked the question of Blackwood,'friends of my youth, where are they, echo would answer where are they.' They are gone to the place that is appointed for all living. There are few very few that is now alive that were children with us. Lake Hope, that gay and cheerful place, is all dull and cheerless now. The last time I was there I saw no vestage of former happiness the place is like its owners gone nearly to decay. There was but one of the old China trees that stood in the yard alive. You asked me have I forgotten your Poney. To forget, never, no never while alive. Last oh how often have I told my children about our school adventures on that same little Poney and thought on the joys of childhood. Happy hours, for that was the time I saw my best days. Ever since you have been gone from the Country I have had not onely sickness but had to encounter with a great many trouble and trials of this world. Sometimes I have been almost tempted to wish that I had never been born. I hope my great and good God will forgive me fore repineing at his decrees. If it pleases him to lay his afflicting hand upon us it is all we can to submit to his will. You wrote to know of Mrs. David Bowers. She is yet alive and doing very well. All her children are married and she lives all alone to the exception of one her grandaughters. Mrs. Mary McMurry she is been dead a long time. Her infant that she left is grown and been married two or three years and Mr. A. McMurry he has another wife, one of the daughters of Mr. John Newman. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hankinson, they are both dead. They left their children a great deal of wealth but some of them don't know how to take care of it. Mr. John Collins is yet alive and has made a fortune. He looks very much broken and complains a good deal of that same ugly pain in his head. I believe I have wrote to you nearly all of the old citizens. I had nearly forgotten that Mrs. Rodrick Rowel begs to be remembered to you. She says she has not forgot how many pleasant hours we all spent in my ------- hall. I must conclude my laconic letter in hoping if we are not allowed to meet on this earth we will see each other in a world never more to be seperated and where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary rest. My family join me in sending my love to you and my sister and to all your children. Adue my Dear brother until the next time. Mary Bowers N.B. ****************************************** U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules Index U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules Index Surname: Martha Bowers Year: 1850 County: Edgefield Dist. State: SC Age: 64 Gender: F (Female) Month of Death: Mar State of Birth: SC ID#: MRT50_258 Occupation: NONE LISTED Cause Of Death: PNEUMONIA Source Information: Jackson, Ron V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp.. U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules Index [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999. Original data: Compiled and digitized by Mr. Jackson and AIS from microfilmed schedules of the U.S. Federal Decennial Census, territorial/state censuses, and/or census substitutes. Description: Included in the 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880 U.S. censuses were mortality schedules that asked questions regarding those who died in the twelve months prior to the enumeration. This database is an index to several of these schedules. The schedule lists the deceased name, sex, age, color, whether widowed or not, place of birth, month of death, occupation, and cause of death. In 1870 the parents' birthplaces were added. � 2010, The Generations Network, Inc ***********************************************
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