To: Almira (Peoples) McKean From: Effie (Peoples) Boyd (niece, daughter of Robert Peoples, Almira’s brother)
Grove City, Ohio,
January 4, 1914
Dear Aunt,
Received your letter some time ago and was glad to hear from you. We are all well except mother she is just about the same she don’t get any better or any worse. I hope you enjoyed your self Christmas with your children. Mother had two children by Jack Martino a boy and a girl. The girl died about six years ago and the boy died the day before New Years. He was twenty nine years old. He died at the State Institution.
Mothers oldest brother, John Orders, I expect you knew him, died in Illinois just before the holidays. I am sending you my dauhgters picture, she is going on seventeen years of age. She is the baby, the boy is older than she is.
We are having very snowy weather out here now. There has been snow on the ground since Christmas. You ask me if I knew that you were crippled I didn’t know if Uncle never wrote and told me. Where is your husband living at now? How long have you and him been seperated? I saw Catherine Martino the other day she is all crippled up with the rheumitism. She is very poor and looks awfully bad. Well I guess this is for this time.
Answer soon and tell me how you are
goodbye from you niece Effie Boyd
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