Viewing page 78 of 241

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

NARA 557

Fernandina March 27, 1868

Mrs Hannah Nixon

I have just received your letter enquiring after Lucy, your sister was going to the country to live sometime last year and said she was not able to take care of Lucy, and said if my family would take her & feed & clothe her well & learn her to read & write she would be glad for us to take her, we did take her, & gave her a good supply of clothes, treated her kindly in every way, my daughter was teaching her & she was learning very fast & every body here would tell you there was a great improvement in Lucy, she was a very decent girl, but your brother Bill came to me and said he was her guardian & friend & that her aunt had sent him word to send Lucy to her at Gainesville & he took her off & instead of sending her to her aunt as he promised I heard he put her with one of his Lady friends in town here & I saw her this morning and if I were to judge by her