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Letter Written in 1898 by Amanda Melvina Thomas Bevill to Dr. Richard Thomas Martin Dr. Richard Thomas Martin married Martha Ann Thomas, a sister of Kit Thomas. Kit or C. C. Thomas' other sister, Amanda Melvina married Dr. Bevill. The Dr. Bevill died in 1896 and Amanda died June 30, 1899. The Bevill's had a daughter, named Manavey Elizabeth. She married a Henry Miller and they had an only child named.....LEO!!! So, here is a letter written by a THOMAS! Copied as written. Did not make changes is spelling or way sentences were formed. This letter was submitted by: Aug. the 11th 1898 Dr R. T. Martin My Dear Brother in law I have wanting to write to you for two months, but could not use my hands to write lots of the time could not from last Friday untill today (the next Thursday) did not think I ever could again, but Thank God I can now & will commence if I never finish it. Wanted to write for many reasons, First bcause I love you & would give so much to be with you now next I thought maby you could tell me something that would relieve some of my many afflictions. .& Third I wanted your advise in regard to what little money I have. Please answer this & quick, as i feel like each week perhaps is my last. I have willed it to Leo. & It is the second National Bank at Jackson drawing 3 per. cts. interest. & Marion Bartholesmew is the executor. Now what I want to know is the, do you know of a place you think is a more safe place, or better investment to put it in if I can while I am living? If you do let me know at once. I want it where it will be the most safe, even if it does not man as much. Leo is not permeited to draw the princpal untill he is twenty five (25) years of age. the will says to be kept in some solvent Instution, but if He is in need for School purpoes, or sickness He is to be permiteed to draw on the Interest. If I was able I could write fifty pages & not say all I want to but i have to be very brief. If my health had not give way so fast after Pa's death I intended to go to see you all, but I expect I have made my last visit. I am at Kits, he brought a wagon after me nearly two weeks ago. & was laid on a wire cot & went so easy it did not hurt me although I was so sore. I wanted to get better so had, I thought I did for a few days. but It couldn't last, & I have had the highest fever & been the nearest helpless the last week than I have been yet. I expect I will be carried home in a few days. I will try to tell you just a few of my suffering, & if know one thing which would be likely to give me the least bit of ease, do for pity sake tell me. I am not at this time suffering as sharp neuralgiee in my limbs as I was a month ago, but just all of a sudden a burning pain in the middle of my arm or leg & a numbness rum to my fingers & toes, & I cant move a finger, lift my foot, step or anything. Every spell get worse, & last longer, the last one it was in my head, could not lift ...........(words may have been lost at this point). Here starts front and back of a half page........ stoped many move. My kidneys, bladder, womb & those fishers or piles are all in an awful fix. I suffer more than words can tell & long to be free from it. My lungs are full, & seemes loose, but I cant cough it up when I dont take anything to act on my Kidneys I dont mak more than a 1/2 tea cup full of urin in 15 or 20 & at a bout 10 trials, & it is almost thick, limy & red...................again part of letter lost Last half of page................... Decturville, & I fill up of bile about every day, I do my own doctering, I do lots on the out side, blister poultice, hot ashes & so on. I am taking Armistead's Chill tonic, Ferwein. ( might be a t in stead of f so, would read Terwein) and Morphine to ease me when I can't bear the pains with out. My bowels are to loose of late. My head hurts all the time & feels so foolish I will quit telling for 100 pages would not tell half. I want to write to Mattie if...... Rest of letter is lost........ |