To: Almira (Peoples) McKean From: Effie (Peoples) Boyd (niece, daughter of Robert Peoples, Almira’s brother)
Mar. 13, 1914
Dear Aunt Miley:
Mother is about the same she doesn’t get any worse or any better. We have had bad luck since we got you letter and I suppose you thought I forgot to answer your letter. My husband had a stroke of paralises since I wrote to you. He is getting better now but he can’t talk very much. His right arm is paralized some but he can use it a little bit. The rest of folks are all well.
You think my girl is lots of help to me. She goes to high school and starts in the morning at halp past seven and comes home at five so you see she doesn’t do very much to help me. It is no wonder you are crippled up all the things you have went through with. I think you have almost went through the flint mill.
Sherman Martino and his wife were down the other day and he said they had been getting letters from you. Mother was seventy years old the tenth of this month. She wants to know if you still smoke. She does. She sits up in a chair about an hour every morning and smokes her pipe. She only wants to sit up long enough to have her bed made. There is a woman who lives clost to us who comes over every morning to help me lift her up in a chair.
We have been have cold weather here. Last week there were snow drift as high as the fences. I will try to write more to you next time so answere soon.
Goodby.
From your niece.
Mrs Effie Boyd
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