This is the writing:
Your friend L. M. May-6-1912.
Dear Friend. – am my busy now
Will drop you a line tonight as it has been some time since I heard from you. How is your health now. There are going to be lots of cherries this summer. Hope you will get up to get some of them. Write sometime soon. How is Mr. K. and Ruth. Would like to come down.
Mailed to:
Mrs Grace Kemp.-
713 Church St.
Hampden.-
Baltimore
Md.
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This is the writing:
This is a picture where Myrl Douglas goes to school he is 6 yrs old. Well Horace what are you doing. Today is Saturday we will be in Girard Tuesday or Wed. We were out to the mines yesterday & to the cemetery. The mines are a dangerous place. When you are walking along you come to big holes you can-not see the bottom of them. Some of them have water in them. It is a noisy place. They are mining between the stores on main street. There is large brick buildings where the ground is all dug out in under it. I should be afraid they would fall in. Well good by for this time.
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This is a picture where Myrl Douglas goes to school he is 6 yrs old. Well Horace what are you doing. Today is Saturday we will be in Girard Tuesday or Wed. We were out to the mines yesterday & to the cemetery. The mines are a dangerous place. When you are walking along you come to big holes you can-not see the bottom of them. Some of them have water in them. It is a noisy place. They are mining between the stores on main street. There is large brick buildings where the ground is all dug out in under it. I should be afraid they would fall in. Well good by for this time.
This was in my birthplace hometown Girard, Kansas, USA where I lived for the first 35 years of my life. This school was long gone before I came along. J. T.
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I own this old Girard map. Wish I had a better copy but it is too big for the average scanner. This is a photograph taken by my Son Dr. Jeremy Tewell that has it with him in Stillwater, OK, USA.
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Towards the end of the American Civil War (1864) Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's men of the Union Army sacked the large main house of this plantation and it was never lived in again. Many of the freed Negro slaves and their descendents continued to live in the gray brick homes they had built themselves when they were captive slaves. They lived in the small brick homes for many years after the war into the 1900s as a freed people.
13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Abolition of Slavery
Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States and provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.".
www.archives.gov/historical-docs/document.html?doc=9&...
US Library of Congress
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