Gibisonville June the 2nd A.D /64
Dear father & Brother it is with great
pleasure that i set down to infrorm
you that i am we are all well and
hoping these fiew lines may find you
[???????????????????] received [1]
both of your letters and Frealins
we was glad to hear that you were welle
But sorrow to heare that you did not like
it we are done planting corn we finished
planting in may. i was pealing tan bark
yesterday and to day. i want to go to logan to
morrow to pay the taxes and get a barrel of
Salt and take the wool to the carden machine
mother had a wool picking this after noon and
got her wool all picked [?????????????] kitchen to shear
our sheap i am getting a long fustrate with the work
so far. i am a going to get Steward har to peal tan bark
2 days next week. he said he could help me some in
harvest and i saw miles vhoorhes to day and he said
he could help me all i wanted him to and take
flower or the money for it when you write tell me
what to do. tan bark is $8.cd corn $1 per bl
The draft has went off i will name some of them
[??????] he paid $300 [hundred?] dollars.
John [????] he [paid?] [??????????] they paid
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A mistake a writing on both halves
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Josh gibson he got cleare T heldinger he got clear
Z. Brown & george handson & Jacob Creshbaum
david fofe they hafta go the trip John reynolds
he was drafted. John Cook he paid that is all
that i can think of at this time. the most of the
people is done planting corn. C. Cupp hant
done yet i want to begin to plow next week
no more on that subject
Eliza Armstrong came home last Saturday to see hur
folks and just got in the house and was pulling
off her gloves and fell over dead they lowed she had
a aplexity fit we were all down at the other place
a planting corn and Joes Colt got sick and died
all the rest of the horses looks fine mother wants to
now how Frealin likes soldiering
I will hafto Close for this time it is 10 oclock P M
now and i am a geting sleepy and cant see very good
write as soon as this comes to hand no more this
time mother wants to know what you are a garding
thare & please excuse my Bad writing and poor
writing
Yours Very Truly From
Edward Franklin Hood
To Rev F.R. Hood & Frealin Hood
Good night for this time