Summerset Nov 3^rd 1864

                                                                                               

Father & Mother

We are all well as usal with the exception of my ancle which I got straned yesterday so I concluded that I would write a few lines to you to let you no that we had about concluded not to comback Hariet thinks we could never be able to one a farme thair and we had better stay here on this Provisions is not mutch dearer here than thay are their and it would be all braking up again to move back Land is easer tilled here than it is there but it does not produce very mutch better here than it does in Ohio forty bushels of sheld corn per acre is counted a very good everage crop the soil is very light and easy tended one man can plow plant and tend from thirty to forty acres shugar cain does well the soil is warmer here and it is a pretty shure thing we made fifty galons of molases from one acre they raised wheet here six or seven years ago people think think the chintz bug will leave here soon so we can rase wheet again if I could own that farm that Hariet wrote about I think icould be contted to live in this world for this is agrate grasing country I think I could make money here rasing stock and this farm is the most suitable for raising stock than any one i know of it has a spring of never faling watter in a very convenient place I think Father if you could let me have five hundred dolars with what is coming from Rose we could by it what time in the spring could you let me have it Old Price has ben invading Missouri again / they called out every man that was able to cary a gunn I went down to Chilicothe about 75 miles from here and stade one week Old Price has left Missouri and is now in Kansas the report is that our men have taking all of his cannon and his supply traines and had killed some eight thousand of his men and he had disbanded the rest of them I have thought I would come out there and stay this winter but it would leve to meny choars for Harriet and the children Mother you must not wery about my poor health I think I am about as well as when i was back there Hariet rather thinks not but i am knocking around about the same I like corn bred first rate and we can have as mutch flower as we are amind to buy at twelve dolars & 50 cts per barrell we have generaly kept alittle for viserters and sickness I have got two coalts two cows ten sheep one pig and keeping anuff to keep them we have had no rain since harriet wrote its verry dry here I cleaned out my well and it affords watter enuff for house use I am a going to kill three hogs and they will weigh eight hundred I shall have to buy my bread stuff and corn is a dollar a bushel no more at present you must write as often as you can

 

From Austin E Tyrell

To Asahel and Lucretia Tyrell

 

Lucretia could not find her leter when I sent mine

 

So she has put it in to her fathers letter          harriet

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