Mary Lynch Currie was the third child of Howard Cromartie Currie and Lucy Jane Lynch Currie. She was born 1/16/1878 and died (?) 1900. She is buried in the Lynch burial plot in Lonetree Cemetery, Stuttgart, AK.
Mary Currie's 1890 letter to her Aunt Annie Currie
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(This letter is written by Mary Lynch Currie to her grandmother, Hester Ann
Selser Richards Currie. She was 14 years old at this time. Her father, Howard Cromartie Currie, had died 5 years before and her mother, Lucy Jane Lynch Currie, just one week before. It sounds as though she herself is very sick; but, she lives for another 8 years.)
The original page size of this letter is 7 1/2 inches by 10 inches.
Goldman Ark
Jan 29th 1892
Mrs. H. A. Currie
Dear Grandma
I am in
the bed this morning but my fever is
nearly off today. I want to see you as
bad but know it would be your
death to come now,� � Uncle wants to get
the dining room & kitchen built so you
and I can have a fire place in our
room in winter, & he is going to put a door
at the stairs & one in the hall so we will
have quite a nice room. � � We want to
move home tomorrow or next day� � if we
don't Auntie May will have to go from
here to the school house � � she will have
to begin Monday or her license would
give out before the school is out.
Auntie May is about done Bill a pair
of pants so you can imagine how
fidgety he is. � � Seems like I have been
and hour writing this page so I will
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stop & drink my butter milk. � � I
can't eat any thing just have to
drink milk and tea. � � You just ought to
see my hands & feet � � they are nothing but
old hard dead skin. � � I wrote to Cousin
Ada & Bud yesterday, and I am go-
ing to try to write to you and Aunt
Tee today. � � Grandma that Mrs Smith you
got acquainted at Mrs Greens went to
New York � � she took the Grip and she
died a few weeks after.� � The mules got
in the garden and eat the tops off of all
the pear trees. � � Uncle Lee is better today I
believe. � � I take 20 grains of Quinine every
12 hours. � � Auntie May got Cousin Ada
picture yesterday. � � Oh how I wish I was
well � � I never was so tired of the
bed in my life. � � I don't know whether
I will feel like writing to Aunt Tee
today or not. � � Well I hope you can
make out to read this � � I will close
Your loving Granddaughter
Mary L C
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(Aunt Tee is Huldah A. Devine Currie.� � Bill was probably my grandfather, William Cromartie Currie, Sr., her little brother. � � He would have been 7 years old at this time and "fidgety". � � I don't know the others mentioned.
Perhaps in time, I'll find out. Hester had been there in Goldman with her son,Howard, his wife and family; but at this time, she may have been at Neely with Aunts Tee, Annie and Kate.)
(One thing that struck me in this letter is Mary's saying, "I want to see you as bad but know it would be your death to come now ..."� � She must have meant that literally, because just about all of her family were dead. Just my grandfather, William Cromartie Currie, Sr. and my great uncle, Gardner David Currie, were left. I wonder what the illness was??)
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