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Notes for Jesse HOCKENBERRY

Jessie Hockenberry

Letter to Nephew Charles

I'm so glad that you both made it home safe and sound. We too have been having some bad storms here, most always July, August and September are dry months but not this year. It just seemed to rain so easy and they were heavy ones too.

Your letter really saw a lot of Illinois as over the back of the envelope, there were plenty of postal stamps of where it had been. The two places that you wrote about but could not find, one exists, one does not. The one that does is Washington C.H. (Washington Court House), Ohio. Look on your map and you will find it about 30 miles south, south west of Columbus, not too much south west. On my map from Stubenville, you pass over Zanesville, Lancaster, the next is Washington C.H. (Fayette Co.) by following the highway. It's almost a straight line and leads to Cincinnati. This route would be south west out of Stubenville the highway is not numbered.

On my map, Campbell Station (Ohio) (Butler Co.) does not exist, as it was burned during the Civil War and never rebuilt. From what I remember (I have to go back 67 years) as I have to pick up the pieces of what he told me. Uncle William took the horses what few they had and led them in the hills. After Morgan's Raiders were driven out, he brought the horses back, then as there was nothing left they migrated to Oakwood, Illinois evidently by way of Morgan Town, Ohio, through Indiana on West Main Street here in Danville (IL), which what he said had very few houses at that time. As I remember, the grand parents only lived just a few years after settling in Illinois. There was an epidemic struck Oakwood, and about cleaned out the population there, from then on it's blank to me. This one sister, Nellie is buried in Ohio. I don't suppose to far from where they lived while there, who knows, she may not even have a grave today, I don't know other than she was my father's pick of the girls. This would be like looking for a needle in a haystack, to find her grave.

As of now, I'm an out patient at the Veterans Hospital. Will return out of there on October 8th at 1 p.m. As far as I know, as of now and according to the check up, I'll be back here the same day. I have the Vermilion County Nursing Care giving me the irrigation's the doctor ordered but so far we are not getting too far with it. Those tubes are well hidden and hard to find the right one as they are both together.

About all my news, and am really looking forward to be meeting you both again.

Your Uncle Jessie

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