Ella Hall to Annie Carlisle February 15, 1880

Feb 15^th 1880

My dear Cousin,

I am going to write to you again if you do think I have forgotten you I speak about you often enough if I do not write but I am going to disappoint you now and let you see that I can write yet.

Have you heard from Deette yet? If not I suppose you have not heard that she is married and gone away she is at Arlington Columbia Co Wis that is her future home and her name is Mrs. W. R. Bullen. she says

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she likes it there ever so much.

You know I have been up to Uncle Wirts. and only have been home now four (4) months and want to go again. I was there two years. and like it ever so much up where he is and talk some of going back in the spring but I may not until fall. But I think if I wait until then I will not stop in Eau Claire long. but go out to Minnesota.

Uncle Wirt has just the nicest cutest little boy that ever was I think he will be three year old in June next and was sick for the most part of the first 18 months of his life.

Uncle Henry is here at our house now and likes to tease us girls just as well as he ever did. But I do not

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know as you remember him as well as we do.

We are having a real miserable winter here this winter nothing but mud. about Christmas we had a couple of weeks of quite fair sleighing but the Saturday after New Years I rained and it has not been real passable since to go anywhere afoot or in a wagon of any sort. if it was not muddy it was horrid rough so you see how I enjoy my winter at home don’t you I am right at home all the time.

There is nothing here to write about it is dull and if there is anything going on never hear of it until it is all

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over with so what is the use of hearing anything.

Well I will have to let this do for this time. Will try and do better next time.

Ever your cousin,

EL Hall

PS

I am almost ashamed to send this after waiting so long before writing to you

Ella

Lousie DeEtte Hall married William Kelsey Bullen on 3 January 1880 in Waukegan, Lake Co, Illinois.

Uncle Wirt was Marshall Wirt Wisner who lived in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. He married Anna Laura Akin in 1875. Their son, Murray Wirt Wisner was born 16 July 1877.

Uncle Henry was Henry S. Wisner, a life long bachelor. I have not located him on the 1880 census; he was not listed in William Hall's household at the time of the census. I have not followed up with Uncle Henry, I need to find several census records for him. He died 26 May 1907 in Seymour, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin.

For more see:
Carlisle - Wisner Letters
Family of William Wisner
Descendants of Maryetta Wisner
Descendants of Sarah Ann Wisner

Hall, Ella L (Fox Lake, Illinois) to “My dear Cousin” [Sarah Ann Camfield Carlisle]. Letter. 15 February 1880. Digital Images 1-4. Privately held by Apple, [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE,] Snowville, New York. 2008. [Carlisle Family, Box #1, Correspondence, 1880, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan]

DeEtte Hall to Annie Carlisle March 21, 1879

Fox Lake Ills March 21^st

Dear Cousin Annie,

I will now try and answer your letter which I received the next day after I sent one out to you.

We are all well as usual. Uncle Prentice is not expected to live and we don’t know as he is alive now. He is in Chicago at James Holle(?) now. We got a letter from Aunt Fanny last week and she said he had the dropsy now. He is terribly bloated up.

There has been

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a cousin of Herman’s wife down here visiting and we have had a jolly time I tell you. He is a young gentleman from Wisconsin. He was here about five weeks and went too 9 dances. Well Annie I will have to put this off until after church for I must go and get ready for church.

I have been to church and come home and eaten my supper and will now try to finish this letter.

Myrtle came home a week ago and Martha is at home now so we have some grand times now at home. I guess both of them are going to teach school this summer.

I expected to work at the same place as I did last

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summer. I expect to go in about a week but it will be according to whether it is fit weather to go work on the farm.

We got a letter from Ella last night. She is well and says she will have her trade learned in six or seven weeks now and is coming home early in the fall. Did I tell you that Herman had a little boy, his name is Ralph Dayton. He is just beginning to be cuit, he will laugh out loud sometimes. He is nearly fifteen weeks old now.

Well Annie you will excuse this miserable excuse for a letter seeing I wrote so short a time ago won’t you? I will close by saying good night.

I remain as ever your

Loving cousin,

DeEtte

Annie Carlisle

I did not find any more letters from 1877 and none at all from 1878. This is the only letter I've found for 1879 even though DeEtte refers to an earlier letter.

This letter didn't have the year and was in the folder of undated correspondence ca. 1850-1899. It must have been written in 1879 as Prentice Wisner died 30 Apr 1879 and Herman Hall's son, Ralph Dayton Hall was born 11 Dec 1878.

For more see:
Carlisle - Wisner Letters
Family of William Wisner
Descendants of Maryetta Wisner
Descendants of Sarah Ann Wisner


Hall, DeEtte. (Fox Lake, Illinois) to “Dear Cousin Annie” [Pearl Camfield Carlisle]. Letter. 21 March 1879. Digital Image. Privately held by Apple, [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE,] Snowville, New York. 2008. [Carlisle Family, Box #1, Correspondence, Undated c. 1850-1899, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan. 2008.]

DeEtte Hall to Anna Carlisle March 29, 1877

Fox Lake, Ill March 29^th 1877

Dear Cousin Anna,

I will now strive to answer your letter. I meant to of written before but never got time. I have been out to work and there is not much chance to write when I am so busy. I have been to work twelve weeks but I was obliged to come home on account of my having the Rheumatism. I am not not near as bad as I was at Mr Isbester do you remember that day we went over to Mr Wright’s. there was a house way off in the woods between here and Mr Wright’s there is where I worked.

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it is a pleasant place I think.

Emmitt has a little girl it is three weeks old and I have never seen it yet. They have named her Eva May isn’t that a splendid name

Grandma is about the same as she has been all winter. I haven’t been up since I’ve been home this time I have been so lame I couldn’t get up there if I tried.

Haven’t you got one of your pictures for me. I think they are nice you look as natural as can be.

I have got two more letters to write today and it is nearly noon now so I will have to hurry up. Libbie’s baby is six months old and she weighs 15 pounds. There is a baby in our neighborhood that is four or five weeks old that weights 16 Pounds. I think he is a big fellow don’t you.

Eunice was

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down here most all of the afternoon. I guess I forgot to tell we are all well as ever. Eune is getting allmost as fleshy as I am don’t you think she must look odd so Fleshy.

We have had the most sleighing this winter than we have had for a long while and I have enjoyed it too.

I was at a concert a week ago and it was splendid. the man was blind but he could play nicely on an organ it sounded grand beside anyone that plays it any other time.

Well Anna I guess have done as well as you did and as I don’t know any more to write I will draw this to a close by saying good Bye and take care of yourself. Give my best respects to your husband and all the rest of the folks.

Deette

Ella wrote of Eva May's birth in her letter of Oct 17, 1876.

I have no idea who Eunice was.

Edited June 10: Eunice was Eunice Ann Fenlon Wisner, wife if George H Wisner. More details with a future letter.

For more see:
Carlisle - Wisner Letters
Family of William Wisner
Descendants of Maryetta Wisner
Descendants of Sarah Ann Wisner


Hall, Deette (Fox Lake, Illinois) to “Dear Cousin Anna” [Sarah Ann Camfield Carlisle]. Letter. 29 March 1877. Digital Images 1-3. Privately held by Apple, [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE,] Snowville, New York. 2008. [Carlisle Family, Box #1, Correspondence, 1877 - 1879, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan]