February 6th 1918
Dear Uncle Tom
We received your card yesterday. I had mailed you a note yesterday too. I intended to write you this morning but I had head-ache and was unable to write.
Mama says she don’t remember the year that Pa joined the church but he joined the same year that you did.
He was born July the 23rd 1851.
Married May 14th 1874.
Died November 28th 1917.
Hope you and Aunt Laura are feeling better by this time.
Albert was here today and said Little Rupert was better.
Alma’s folks are all well of the measles at last.
Come to see use when you can. We are so lonely.
But I am so glad that we have someone to stay with us and can stay at home.
Tulette Bryan
Tulette Bryan wrote this a few months after her father, Augustus Reddick "Bud" Bryan, died. It is presumed that she was living with her mother, Erie Ontario Nix, and her younger sister, Alice. Her sister, Alma, was married to Andrew Wimberly Lawson and had seven children. Sadly, Alma died soon after this letter was written, on March 23, 1918.
Albert Bryan and his son Rupert were also mentioned in this letter. Albert was raised by Tulette's parents as his parents died when he was only two-years-old.
Tulette wrote the letter to Thomas Jefferson Martin who was married to Laura Frances Bryan, sister of Tulette's father.
Diana
Sources
Family photographs and documents from the collection of Marguerite Cook Clark. Accessed April 28, 2014, September 14, 2014, and November 9 to 11, 2016. Used with permission.
Wimberly, Vera. Wimberly Family History: Ancestors, Relatives, and Descendants of William Wimberly, Pioneer from Georgia to Louisiana, 1837. Houston, Tex.: D. Armstrong, 1979. Print.
