TELEGRAMS : 'WILLIAMSON, AHOREY, RICHHILL."
Demorandum.
From
Date, nov 10th 1903
W. P. WILLIAMSON,
mud.
CORN & SAW MILLS.
To Hugh Williamsm, Eng.
PACKING CASE MANUFACTURER,
Backage Shasta Co
AHOREY, PORTADOWN. IRELAND.
California
Dear Hugh If is now a good while service theara
you and I am not sure which of us corote last but think
was I. but no matter.
on Oct. 29, about /
why gnow write is to tell you that and sally dud
A.M. the was quite Concious to
the last The doctors certificate was "senile decay ii. old age.
the had been failing this good while, when the took
like a cold, We did not apprehend anything serious
but as the was not apparently getting butter we ient
for a doctor. He had good hopes one would mull through
and visited hu almost daily for some days when the
suddenly took a turn for worse about noon in the 28 air
and passed away about / Octock A m in the 29th
the was 85 in December to the was a good old age. Hers
has been a any useful life, and inderd we miss her much
aunt asten had come down to May us a visit and stay a
few days first the day after and lay down so the was with
glad the was her.
her all the time (about 10 days) till the ma. We were my
They are all well at astems. I took acent home a few
R anthis letter to the mother lately, and life are glad to
days ago and Jaw them all, we heard about you through
know you an all will. The miss Climent even here for a
day or tur, they aid quite well, and live a any quit life together
William P. (W. P.) Williamson, Ahorey, County Armagh, to Hugh Williamson, Buckeye, Shasta Co., California, 10 November 1903
Description
W. P. Williamson, reports the death of Aunt Sally, age 85, on 29 October 1903. Weather has been very wet, compounding Irish farmers' economic problems : declares that farming "does not pay", because prices are depressed by international competition. He extolls the new Wyndham Land Act, and reports that he and the other tenants are meeting soon to consider the law and choose a deputation to meet with the estate agent. Reports on his prosperous sawmill operations; he has a turbine water wheel, and a new shingle sawing machine from America, which is a "splendid machine." (Dr. Arthur P. Williamson, Coleraine, also has a copy of this letter.)
Date
10/11/1903
Date Issued
27/03/2023
Resource Type
Text
Archival Record Id
p155/4/1/2
Publisher
University of Galway
Extent
4pp
Topic
Williamson Letters
Geographic
Aghory (townland),Armagh (county),Ireland,Buckeye,Shasta (county),California,United States
Temporal
Twentieth century,Nineteen hundreds (Decade)
Genre
Letter,Transcription,Reproduction
Note
Title and description by Professor Kerby Miller. Transcript text by letter donor.
