General Notes

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Father: George Washington BUMGARDNER b: ABT. 1819 in Rutherford Co., TN
Mother: Millie HOPPER b: 14 JAN 1820 in Alabama
Dallas,Tex. Aug. 9, 1929
Mr. G. B. Bumgardner
Taylors, MISS
Dear Brother and Family I thaught after so long a time I would try to
write you again to let you know that I was still a live and hobling
around my health is some better than it was when I wrote you last but not
well by any means my family is verry well at this time so far as I know
and I trust when you get this letter you will be feeling better that you
was when I last herd from you Fady and some of her famly was here the
last of june and she told me she was planing to go to Miss the first of
this month but I got a letter from her a bout two weeks a go and she said
she did not know then wheather she would go before the weather got cooler
or not she got sick on her return trip home and was under the treatment
of a Doctor when she wrote her letter I answered her letter but have
received no answer yet However I thaught it posable she had got better
and had all ready gone out there
Well George I havent got any news to write you that would interrest you
verry much I had a letter from Dr. Paul Bumgardner a few months a go he
had moved from Winn field L A to Oakgrove, L A just a bove and west of
Vicksburge Miss and Joe Bumgardner Lives near Jackson, Miss the rest of
Bro Harrisons Children is seated a round north L A
Well George I had the pleashure of meeting some old Missippians here in
May thay were here at th National Rotarians Convention one Mr. Will Louis
of Oxford he is with the Nelson Drygoods, CO at Oxford and I met a Mr.
Hale and his wife from Water Valley he said he knowed Boots [George
Thomas Bumgardner, the son of George Bradford Bumgardner. DH] as well as
he did any body Young Lewis told me a hole lot a bout old Oxford and the
people there he seemed like a real nice young man when you go to Oxford
call and see him well I wanted to go back to Miss mighty bad this summer
but it turned out next to imposible for me to do it and I could not help
from looking for you I thaught shure you would come it onely takes 2 days
to drive it in a car Milton Jones went over there a bout a Month ago he
went down to Batesville to Joe Varners and was at Taylors and taken some
Codack Pictures of the town I havent seen them Dora was Down there a bout
a week ago and saw then our youngest Daughter and Children and Dora went
on a two weeks Jant or Vacation the first of July they Drove from here to
Shreneport L A 220 miles our Youngist Boy lives there and from there they
drove to Galveston, Texas and spent a couple of Days and from there back
a long east to Neworleans and stayed about 2 days and from there back to
Shreveport and then back home
And don't you know the old lady went in a bathing in the gulf and taken
there Codack a long and did take a lot of Pictures but did not have the
nerve to take her picture while she was in the Gulf and bring me one I
know she was a Beauty don't you
Well george I do hope you will come to see me you and Monty could take
one little Vacation in your life I know
Well George I havent herd from Mayryetta or any of them in over two years
have you.
Is your grand son still in west texas. [Earl Howard Deckard]
Are you still runing your Dairy Cowes we have got a fine Jersey cow right
here in the hart of the big City and she Gives us more than 4 galons of
the richest milk you ever saw
The old saying that you can get the farmer out of the country But you
just caint get the Country out of the Farmer and I belive it
Well George, I was 71 yars old last Monday the 5 and I feel better than I
have in 7 years on that date from some cose I don't know why
Is Moss still living in Memphis {Lillie Moss Bumgardner Deckard] and how
is she getting a long
How is your Rheumatism I am sending you a remady that has proved its to
be mighty fine wit