Letter to Mr. Fleak,
States he is now the mail agent in the Keokuck Tuckers ?  (see photo of writing below)
Thinks son has the consumption and is determined to go to California.   Desires he should winter at Salt Lake for his health. 

LETTERS & MEMOS:

Date: 6 August 1864.

Might be employed, as a Scout to report from Salt Lake or Laramie, what now  he discovered in route in this way he could know transportation with troops or train. 

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Date: 11 August 1864. (See enclosed letter dated August 6, 1864)

Aug 6^th 1864

Mr. Dear Fleak,

                                I wrote pen is few days since last I do not recollect think I wrote open of a matter that I intended to write about.

Son's name post office

                                My son (ref. Wm ?)  who is mail agent in the ( Keokuck Tuckers ? ) thinks that he is consumption and as his sister and brother have both died with those disease-it claims him.  We have determined to go to California. I think that I shall try  and get him to Winter in Salt Lake.  That is undoubtedly one of the most healthy climates in the world. 

 It is hard work for  him to earn the money to pay his expenses out.  I thought that Mr. Curtis might have something for him to do as might be able to give him a passage (?) with horse train.  If he could it would be of great service in this emergency _______ _______  and let  me know.

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                                                                                              Hawkins Taylor

Hawkins Taylor - genealogy
Pedigree Resource File No. 458442-073199022051, Lola Withrow, Maysville, California.

1. Hawkins Taylor, b. 15 Nov 1808, Kentucky, d. 30 December 1893, Washington, District of Columbia
    Spouse No. 1: Melinda Walker, (1810-1862)
    Married ca. 1834, Cuyahoga County, IL or OH?
    Children:

1. Catherine Esther Taylor, b. 1835, Barren KY; d. 1862, St. Charles Co.,  MO
    Died of Consumption
2. Mary J. Taylor, b. 1837 Kentucky
3. James Taylor, b. 1839, d. 1839
4. Annie E. Taylor, b. 1840, Kentucky
5. Samuel David Taylor, b. ca. 1842, d. 1863. Died of Consumption.
6. William H. G. Taylor, b. ca 1844, d. 1870

   Spouse No. 2. Elizabeth Delameter Johnson, b. ca. 1831, New York
   Married: July 23, 1863, Cuyahoga Marriage Records 1810-1941 LDS Film 0877915
   Children:

7. Hawkins Taylor, b. ca. 1865 Ohio.
 

1880 Federal Census: Washington, District of Columbia
Hawkins Taylor, age 66, born Kentucky. Mail Contractor.  Father b. Ireland, Mother b. Virginia
Elizabeth, wife, age 49, born New York. Keeping house.  Father born CT; Mother born Rhode Island
Hawkins, son, age 15, born Ohio.  Student. Father. born Kentucky; Mother born New York