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2 Phillips with Joanna his health is good but very lame indeed, being quite unable to walk accross a room without his crutches
They were quite anxious to have me move to Phillips too but for the last nine years I have lived in a brick house near the
High School and it seems so like home to me illegible that I decided to remain in Portage during the winter you know I always
feel inclined to be stationary wherever my lot may be cast so Annie will remain with me for the present as she is the only
one left to me now I think it rather 3 -amusing that Mary should think of naming her boy after his two grand mothers which
is Wheller Gilrye? Hand John Reid is at present at Crete Neb. but is expected home soon for the purpose of taking the family
to a home there I feel very sorry indeed to think of them all leaving Portage Margt. is sarcely able to talk about it but
some think that the change might benefit her health Lately I had a letter from Emma from Lincoln Neb. she says they have a
very pleasant home there, but Daniel had been a good deal of the summer at his farm some miles distant