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Title: 1862-12-15 POKAGON MICH****W---SCOTT #65---DATELINED 1862-12-15-----TO MISS MOLLIE LYBROOK (MARY JANE LYBROOK THORP--1860,70,80,1900 US CENSUS, B. MICHIGAN AUG 1846, D. 26 NOV 1907, FATHER, HENLEY C LYBROOK, MOTHER, LOVISA LYBROOK, SPOUSE, M. AARON THORP 12 NOV 1868{B. OHIO 9 NOV 1844, D. 31 AUG 1928, DRY GOODS MERCHANT, FATHER, EDMOND THORP, MOTHER, MARTHA ANN GARRISON THORP, SIBLINGS, ALMA THORP, ELBRIDGE THORP}, CHILDREN, HENLEY LYBROOK THORP, AUNT-IN-LAW, LUCETTA LOFLAND, SERVANT, LULU B CLYBORNE-B. MICHIGAN 1878) AT DOWAGIAC FROM HER COUSIN JAMES AT POKAGON MICH---TELLS OF HIS TRIP OUT WEST---MENTIONS MR. CAHEY; ADDIE, WILS AND FRANK; MR. McCOOL HAS GONE TO WAR; MISS BETTER WHITMAN; MOTHER P.; LIZZIE EDWARDS, ALLA MENDENHALL, MRS. McALLISTER, MAGGIE, UNCLE BYMES, JO. EDWARDS, MRS. GEORGE AND COL. MOSHER, UNCLE JIM, EMMA DAY, IKE, MR. SMITH, SALLIE E. ---"I MUST TELL YOU SOME HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE NEWS - IT SEEMS THAT WHEN ALLA MENDENHALL WAS AT DANVILLE THERE WAS A YOUNG MAN BY THE NAME OF CRANE, WHOM SHE SUPPOSED TO BE A GENTLEMAN, WHO PAYED (SIC) HER CONSIDERABLE ATTENTION, WELL, ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO IN THE EVENING AT ABOUT HALF PAST EIGHT O'CLOCK, WHEN ALL WAS STILL AS THE GRAVE AND THE ROOM BLACK AS MIDNIGHT AIR, SAVE, PERCHANCE THE FLICKERING LIGHT OF AN OLD TALLOW CANDLE THERE IN JOHN MENDENHALL'S PARLOR - UNDER THESE UNPLEASANT AUSPICES AND IN THE PRESENCE OF A FEW WITNESSES, ALLA COMMITTED THE AWFUL CRIME OF MATRIMONY...SHE LEAVES MANY ACQUAINTANCES WHO SYMPATHIZE WITH HER HUSBAND DEEPLY"---"ALSO BY THE REV. MR. EDMUNDS THE FATAL NOOSE WAS ADJUSTED AROUND THE NECKS OF MR. ALBERT CURTISS AND MISS ADDIE BROWNELL AGED ABOUT 15 YEARS"---FROM THE LYBROOK/THORP FAMILY LETTERS---4PGS---ERNIE'S COLLECTION - N Item ID: E0-22035 View Map
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