Mrs. Annie Carlisle
Buchanan
Mich
Mapleton Minn
June 5 1907
My dear Cousin
As Belle was writing to Tamerson I thought I would write a few line and put in with hers. I do not know who wrote last but was thinking I did so have been neglecting to write but lately I thought I would soon but I have been so busy and would be so tired I would not feel like doing so. the two oldest girls have been away all winter & the others in school. that is ended now & all at home but Myrtle she will not be home all summer
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I think she don’t intend to at least unless she cannot stand the work she is at.
We have had a very late backward spring the grass has not been so the cattle could get much until now I think they get enough now. I have not been out in the fields this spring yet I generally go before this time but I have been so tired when it came Sunday that I did not feels as if I could walk and any other day I did not have time. we have built a horse barn this spring beside our other work and the men are now at work for the small calves so you see it goes all the time on a farm.
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It was so cold _all not stormy but frosty & the ground kept so cold I did not get my garden in very early so I have not had anything out of it yet it grows so slow since it came up. It is cold tonight for June I should not be surprised if there was a little frost again I hope not we have potatoes & beans up in the garden so if it freeze they might get nipped our potatoes did once a few of them but they have come up all right again & are growing fast.
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I have 26 little turkeys but only 15 little chickens as yet but I have 12 hens setting on hens eggs one on goose eggs + an old turkey on 19 turkey eggs you had better come & see me Thanksgiving and you can have a piece of Turkey
I am not all through with my house cleaning yet because I could not do it alone so I had to wait for some one to help me and we have just got our washing & ironing done for this week so I will try & do some cleaning now & finish next week.
Well I cannot think of any more this time. only give my love to Auntie and tell her I will try and write to her soon
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Love to yourself and write soon
From your loving Cousin Ella
(in ink and a different hand)
ans June 13.
Myrtle and Belle were the two oldest daughters. I wish Ella said where they'd been or what jobs they'd had. I know that Belle did teach school at least for awhile. I have not found either girl on the 1910 census yet. Eldest son Ray was living in Mapleton, MN in 1910.I have not tracked down John Albion McKinnon in the 1910 census as yet either. In looking for him in various records I may have tracked down some of his descendants with the last name Bjorkley and hope they find these letters. I found a seven year old email address for one of them and hope it is still good.
For more see:
Carlisle - Wisner Letters
Family of William Wisner
Descendants of Maryetta Wisner
Descendants of Sarah Ann Wisner
McKinnon, Ella Hall (Mapleton, Minnesota) to “My dear Cousin” [Sarah Ann Camfield Carlisle]. Letter. 5 June 1907. Digital Images 1-4. Privately held by Apple, [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE,] Snowville, New York. 2008. [Carlisle Family, Box #1, Correspondence, 1907, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan. 2008.]
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