Morristown, Tennessee July 14, 1925 Dear Mother & all: Will write you a few words to tell you I am still living but my head is still bothering me. It hurt me most all day yesterday and hurt a while last night till I got doped up. I feel pretty bad and am weak I reckon from so much suffering. The rest are well. Hope everybody is as well as common. Guess the children are all right and having a good time. Hope they're not giving so much trouble. Would like mighty well to see them. Ethel & family are well. We had a little rain last night but not much storm. Tell Mrs. Bryan I'll try to write her soon. I don't feel like doing anything. Will get some postals and write every day or two so don't worry about me
This letter was from Ruby Priscilla Cox to her mother Clarissa Loretta (Rett) Nichols and family. Ruby's father was George Jackson Cox. Ruby and her husband Emmert Oral Bryan were my grandparents.
The letter was dated July 14, 1925. Ruby gave birth on July 23, and she died from a mastoid infection (behind her inner ear) on August 9. She was already very sick from the infection when this letter was written.
The references to "the children" were references to Ruby's children Jack and Lena Maude who were being taken care of by Ruby's parents because she was so sick.
Ethel was Ruby's sister Mary Emily Ethel (Ethel) Cox who married Daniel Harrison (Uncle Dan Harrison). Uncle Dan was the brother of Emmert's mother Nannie Virginia (Nannie) Harrison.
Mrs. Bryan was Ruby's mother-in-law Nancy Virginia (Nannie) Harrison who married William Harley (Harley) Bryan. Harley had died in 1915.
Dan Harrison and Nannie Harrison were brother and sister. So Ethel Cox married Dan Harrison and Ethel's sister Ruby married Dan's nephew Emmert Bryan. Dan was 11 years older than his wife Ethel, and Ethel was 11 years older than her sister Ruby.
