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Mr Ambrose Durbin (address to recipient)
Iowa
Wappelo County
Abingdon Post Office
Knox County Ohio
Dec 25 1853
Dear Sir
I with pleasure embrace this opportunity of writing a few lines to you. Not with as much pleasure as it would be to sit face to face and talk as we have done here to fore. But as circumstances will not permit us to talk as we have done we will have to be content with the way of writing to each other. We are well at present and hope these few lines may find you andyours enjoying the blessings. Your Mother and the rest of the folks are well. I have run the gidy (giddy) rounds of a single life until last February the fourth on which Catharin Edrion and I was married. We are living in the Ashburn (log) cabin at present. I will now let you know something about our crops. Wheat last harvest, two thirds of it was not worth cutting - the weevil killed it just before harvest when it was in the milk (stage). Corn crops was very good the best that it has been for some years. Corn in worth from thirty to thirty five cents per bushel. Oats is worth twenty five cents per bushel. Wheat is worth from one dollar ten cents to one dollar twenty cents per bushel. We have had a very beautiful fall. This fall there has not been no cold weather until the fifteenth of the present month December. Last Monday we had a small skiff of snow for the first (time). It begins to feel like winter now.
Death has visited our neighborhood and call(ed) of some of your old acquaintances. Prudence Horn was buried last Thursday the twenty second of December. Joseph Horn Senior is dead He died on the twenty first of November. His sale was on the fifteenth of December. He died with out (a) will and the land (and) property is not settled yet. The boys are all married but Solomon and Joseph. There is talk of Joseph and Catharin Haweet (sp)getting married. I suppose if the old man had not been sick that the wedding would have went off before now. He got the wedding suit while the old man was sick for I see them with my own eyes. There is talk of Peter Lsepley (sp..looks like Tsepley to me...Diana) and Hannah Bebout getting married. He has been going there for more than one year. Yes this two year. Josephes Strong and Mary has move(d) to Iowa last fall. Old William Bebout was very much rejoiced that his daughter and son-in-law left here. Father haul(ed) them as far as Mount Vernon (Ohio) and there they took the (railroad) cars and away they went. Bebout said that he would always repect ?Pop? (I give it as it appears..DCFM) for hauling off. George Wolf has sold his farm and has move(d) to Illinois. John Baxter sold out and went along with him. They started about the middle of September. John Baxter, he did not like it and he has moved back to Harrison Township. He thinks that here is the place for him yet. Benjaman Horn has married on eof Samuel Kemry girls, he lives in the house where David Horn lived. Peter Veach is dead. Michel Herrod and the old lady is both dead. They died about a year ago. Grand father and Grand mother Burkholder is both dead. They died last winter. Martin Bowman and Mary Porter was married this fall, they live three miels north of Danville. Joining farms with her father, her and her folks are Catholicks. Joshua Tracy and Mary Rightmire is married. Nelson Tracy and one of Lewis Whites girls is married. Pierce Tracy is in California. Charles Elliott came back from California last spring, he fetch(ed) back a little more money than he took with him to California. Enos Wolf and one of Henry Libarger girls was married last spring. Mary Ann Elliot and Isaac Bell is married. Rubin Elliot and Pheby Bell was married last spring. Rube Elliot and Isaac Bell swap sister only old John Schooler is dead. I suppose that you have heard that Moses Schooler and Mary Duggeon married. I shall close. I have written to you and received no letter. I would like to hear from you very much. Write and let me know all about you and your affairs, whether you are married or not.
Ambrose Durbin David Rolston
I have a copy of the original letter sent me by someone years ago, I guess to prove that there was a Joseph Horn, possibly from Madison Co, because the name Ambrose Durbin goes hand in hand with the Madison Co & Estill Co area. I don't have anything more on this person, but thought someone might like to see this. Diana
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