3 inquire went west..following mothers death in 1968 or 9. for 20 years we lost track of him but finaly got trace of him
in Cortez, Colo. a correspondence was established. He has accumulated considerable property wrote me in 1907 that on account
of failing health he had been advised to visit Mexico. Three months after I received a letter from a married daughter living
there. that her father was dead. It was a most pathetic story, dying among strangers. Among a a people whose language. habits.
customs was entirely foreign they encountered difficulty expense in securing for him a Christian burial and a resting place
for his remains in a ruinous forsaken Protestant cemetey. You book My First Summer in the Sierra is in the hospital library
is read with interest by many. I regret not having received your first letter. I expect to remain here until April 16 .
Yours Sincerely James Whitehead. 05392