Cinthia Sumner [4944], daughter of Samuel Sumner [86], was born before 1815 in , Buncombe Co, NC, died after 24 Nov 1885, and was buried in Williams Cemetery, Bat Cave, NC.
General Notes: The following is a letter Cynthia wrote to her sister.
Batcave
Henderson County, N.C.
November 24, 1885
Mrs. Margaret Williams
My dear and only sister,
Your kind and more than welcome letter came to hand in due time and found all as we11 as usual. As for myself; I am never well. I do not know what it is to feel well one day I am troubled with heart disease all the time and seldom clear of headaches. I can neither knit nor sew. It gives me a such a headache. I have not cooked a meal of victuals in over five years. I seldom go out of the house unless it is very Pleasant weather. I have my meals carried to me in cold weather/ and you are able to do your own work. What a difference. If I was that stout; I would visit you right away. As it is; I can't visit my children. I have not been to see Martha in over a year. She lives in Rutherford. The rest all live near enough to visit them occasionally. I have not walked a mile in over five years. The children are all tolerably stout but Martha. She is weak but hardly able to do her work and has six children. And the oldest one is down now with his leg broken. Lou. has but one child.. and she is grown. Mark is living with me. He has five children.. the rudest ever was. Two of the first wife and three of the last. We are getting along tolerably well considering everything. His wife lost her right hand four years ago.. but she can do a good deal of work yet. She can do most anything but sew by hand. Can sew on the machine. Mark is gone to Asheville with a load of tobacco. This is the first tobacco farming that has been done in this vicinity. There will be more raised another year. There has been considerable improvement since you. left here. The country is becoming very thickly settled. There is a small town at the bridge; two stores and a Post office/ a merchant mill and a carding factory. Bill R. Conner is badly deranged. He wants to Preach all the time and says the People won't hear him. Brother Jesse and Uncle Dempsey have been dead some time. Perhaps you heard it. Mat Ledbetter's oldest daughter Sarah Ann also Katy Lyda's daughter Rachel Ann.. They were taken to be confined and died. They both left little children. Katy lives with her son-in-law and takes care of the children, Mat comes over occasionally to see us. He is quite a different man to what he use to be. He is a very moral fellow. Joshua Whitaker is in very Poor health. He has almost come to Poverty.
John Casey is dead and Peggy is married again. Jesse Nilliams married David Halker^s widow of Rutherford.. a very respectable old lady. I seldom see Lizzie. I suppose she is getting along very well. She is married and has three children.
A similar circumstance recently occured in this country. A girl by the name of Bradley was taken to be confined and went to the woods and laid her baby between two logs and broke a few weeds and laid over it and left it there to die. Next day it was found dead. She is now in Asheville Jail. She is a grand-daughter of Michael Sumner.
We get letters from Mary Annn sometimes. Why is it she always writes so sad? Hoping you are well. I will close for the Present. Write soon and let me hear from you all.
Your affectionate sister until death;
Cynthia Williams
P.S. Please excuse my left hand writing.
Cinthia married David Williams [4945] [MRIN: 1783], son of John Williams [4946] and Mary/Polly Ashworth [4947]. David was born on 11 May 1807, died about 1880 about age 73, and was buried in Williams Cemetery, Bat Cave, NC.
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