To:  Joshua Young (living in then Burnsville, Yancey 
           County, NC)  now, Madison county, NC
From: Elizabeth Barnard Love 
           (Living in Henry County, West Tennessee)
Date Written:  June 05, 1836
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Dear Brother and sister
        I have taken my pen in hand to write you a few lines to let you 
know we are all reasonable well at present. Your friends in this 
country are all enjoying good health except Nancy Carn She 
has been poorly ever since March but she is on the mend at 
this time but she has not been so but could be about most of 
her time I have nothing particular to write you but I know it will 
give you a great deal of satisfaction to hear that our dear old 
farther and mother are well they arrived at this place on the 
last day of october last in company with Andrew Barnard and 
family all in safety and good health except Mother She was 
taken very unwell in a few days after she left Macon and 
continued poorly all the way on the road but she soon recovered 
her health after the fatigue of her journey was over and says she 
as felt as stout ever since or more so than she did for some time 
before she left Macon Farther stood his rout extremely well and 
has been quite well ever since they came him and John Barnard 
live together about two miles from us farther appears to be much 
unsettled in his notions about this country. I saw mother the other 
day she was reflecting on farther, that she could not prevail on 
him to write I told her I would write you soon. She told me to 
remember her to you all we had a very hard winter in this country 
and a remarkable backward spring with a great deal of rain but 
crops look tolerable well when I wrote you last I told you I should 
shortly be confined on the 9th of September I had a fine daughter 
born I call her dorcas She is a fine thrifty child Johns wife will be 
confined in a short time Nancy is in that way but I cannot tell how 
long it will be before she will be confined Andrew lives about ten 
miles from us   I know you would like to hear how and what we are 
all doing but it would far exceed the bounds of a letter to tell you 
half you would wish to hear do write to us I have never received a 
line from you since I left Macon I know it is our duty as Brothers 
and Sisters to write to each other as there is no probability at this 
time of our meeting this side of the eternal world give my best 
respects to all my old friends and please accept of them yourselves 
                          farewell  Affectionately yours

                                         Elizabeth Love