This is an undated letter that was not signed, but was most likely written by Eliza Spencer 
Or possibly another sister of Eliza's that I have not been able to identify at the time
that I transcribed this letter.  
I found this stapled to the 1845 letter that was most likely written by Eliza Spencer 
wrote to her mother Elizabeth Greene in the GREEN/GREENE file at the Washington County 
History & Genealogy Library in Marietta, Ohio.  Some of the contents of this letter is also 
discussed in the 1845 letters written by Eliza (Greene) Spencer and her son, Wade Spencer 
in Stephensport, Ky.  This letter can be found at this website:

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/n/i/t/Debra-Nitsche/FILE/0166text.txt


Dear Mother  Sister & Brother    we received your letter the fourth of this month which 
gave us great sattis faction to here that you are all alive    these lines leave us in a 
tollarable state of health    I am qite unwell with a bad cold but I am so    I am a bout 
it is a general time of colds     we have the most sudden changes I ever saw     I am 
verry homesick    I have ben on the point of coming home several times    Mr Swan has 
given up going to Illinois    him & William has ben up to Lewis ville and bought a boat 
ninty feet long or calculate to load with grave stone & filling    he don’t calculate to 
be at home till march(scratched out) May     If I live I shall be at home in March     I 
expect I shall have to came a lone     Mr Swan wants Joel to tell hoop pools on the bank 
we want him to rent (vent?)own big kettles for Molasses     Mother I exepet thinks the 
time long we watchd the post office for four weeks before we got you letter as vina wrot 
   I expect something was the matter     I esspect Mother was dead by my docame     Brother 
Camp red the letter the first vina never sind (find?) her name     Joel I thought you 
would wrote some    they had a protracted meelis in Rome on Christmas     Brother Camp & 
Baptist held it    we was over several times but its is not our meetings    at home on New 
years day I was soing I have made Eliza a dress partley maid(?) & caps besides other soing 
now we have got on the Section quilt & when we get that of I will be reddy to come home   
  we herd of Addisons wedding by way of wm. Owens     I want Joel to be there or be(or?) 
at Cincinnati in march    the Post rider boards here     he is here one knight in a week 
op. on tuesday tell gramma George goes to school the first day    he came home at twelve 
oclock & said he left of head    ma asked him who read with him got enny boddy     Mr Camp 
told him the next day he was to fetch is slate & pencil     I want you to write imediately 
    tell Launa (Laura, Launer) that cure for the croup is a spoonful of Lard  a spoonful of 
Honney  a spoonful of Sulpher    this letter goes out to morrow morning    what would I 
give if  was at home to knight

Transcribed by Debbie Noland Nitsche
Diamonddeb@comcast.net 
August 2005
============================================================================================

 
              MY NOTES AND THEROIES ABOUT THE PEOPLE MENTIONED IN THE ABOVE LETTER


Mr. Swan = Probaby Levi Swan

William = Probably William Spencer, h/o Eliza Greene.

Joel =  Probably Joel Dodge.

Mother = Probably Elizabeth Cole Greene

Vina =  Probably a sister or daughter of  Eliza Greene Spencer.  Possibly married to Mr. Camp.

Brother Camp = (See notes for Mr. Camp.)

Mr. Camp = Probably the same person as Brother Camp or a relation of his.  Take note in 
one part of the letter he is referred to as "Brother"  In another part, referred to as "Mr."

Baptist = ?

Eliza = Probably Eliza Greene Spencer.

Addison = Addison Greene, s/o Willard Greene, Jr. and Anna Uhl.

Wm. Owens = ?

George =  George Spencer, son of Eliza Greene Spencer

Gramma =  Possibly Elizabeth Greene ???

Lauuna, Laura, or Launer = Not sure who this might me.  

Places = Rome & Lewis ville?? Could be Rome, Perry Co., Ohio or Rome, Hancock Co., KY. 
Loisville is in Kentucky.