Golead, Golead County, Texas to A.G. Lafferty
Dear son
through the mercy of a kind providence I am still living and would like to hear from you one time more in this life, I have not written to you in over one year owning to having traveled nearly all that time have had no settled post office.
I have stopped here now and am farming my prospects now is fine but it looks like this draught is setting in and I may not make anything at last, my corn is about head hight and looks well-
Texas is a deplorable condition at this time bloodshed and murder has become so common that the laws of the land cannot put a stop to it-it looks like the country is bound to be lost -if this comes to hand please answer at once we have no lease on our lives and let us corespond while we live.
I have not heard from Arkansas in over a year- the report is in circulation that Burwell is killed by one of his brother in law I have written to him and also Margaret his sister but I can not get a line from them
hoping to hear from you soon I will close –my health is good for a man of my age. do not neglect to write at once write long letters- so my son I now subscribe myself as your effectionate father until death.
L.D.Lafferty
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