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New Year’s Day 1914: a letter written that day

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my grandmother, Florrie Thomas Martin, when she was a schoolteacher, before she married my grandfather

My grandmother, Florrie THOMAS MARTIN saved all the letters she and my grandfather, Joel Daniel MARTIN, sent to each other. After my grandma died in 1979, my mom gave some of the letters to her own siblings who asked for them, but I have the lion’s share.

 

 

 

Below is the letter Grandma wrote to Grandpop on New Year’s Day 1914. She talks about a vacation. She was a schoolteacher so she must have been on Christmas break.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then she talks about what she did on New Year’s Eve. It hard for me to imagine my old grandma doing that!  She talks about the Jeffords boys being there. (Her sister, Aggie, would marry one of the Jeffords boys, Charles Michael JEFFORDS, in 1915.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At the end of the letter Grandma says she has something to talk to Grandpop about the following Sunday.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sound important? It is. Below is a page from Daniel’s letter to Florrie on December 14th.

 

There must have been talk of married sometime before the December 14th letter. Florrie and Daniel married June 15th, 1914 In Richland County, South Carolina.

 

 

Joel Daniel Martin, my grandfather, as a young man

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  1. Michael says

    January 1, 2017 at 9:26 am

    Great post, Nancy. There’s a lot of endearing affection in the letters, particularly from your grandfather. Family letters make for good treasures (and blogging material!).

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