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Dear Nina. Dear Sis. I will take you on surprise, by dggies. You thought I wasnot goin to write, didn't you. well here I come. well the first thing is to tell you about is about the rain. it started raining night before last, and rained all nigt that night and all day yesterday all night last nigh and untill one o clock to day. and I'll be doggon, if I don't believe it is going to set in again. and what I mean it rained. just like pouring it out of a tub. Well there is one God's blessing the drought is broke up, we haven't got that to worry about. Well that is all about the rain. Son and Cliff are still working but Aubrey got lyed off. the 1 of may. but he has his aplication at several places. James C. and Morgan is as wild as a rabbit, absolutely can't do a thing them. May got them a little baby chick and white rabbit for Easter, Well I think the little chicken perhaps survived two days and Morgan got so rugh on it, that he broke it down in its trotters and it finally churped its last, then Morgan said, gon dead. then we throwd it in the alley for the cats to eat up. well that wound up the chicken. And the little white rabbit. I think perhaps mannaged to get by about three or four days and James C. got to rough for it, and broke it down in the back so I had to kill it and that wound up the little rabbit. May said she was going to get them a dog. I told her she had better bet an iron one. Berties and Busters house burned. was caused by gas explosion. they had two rooms rented out to a young couple. that had just been married one month. he got up about 6 oclock and struck a match to light a cigarett. Boom went the gas. it blew Bertie and Buster out of one room into another. set the house on fire. and the boy was so badly burned that he died the next day. I think they have just about built back and ready to move in. Madison was by a while ago. he told us that Roberts wife was in hospital and had been operated for apendcitas. she is not getting along so good this morning. how is dad getting along, and how is his foot getting. has it heeled up yet. I want to come down this summer if can get off, things sure are tight with us now it is about all we can do to get something to eat. My business is awful dull. we havent had any hot weather yet, and here it is almost June. and untill it gets hot I can't do any good, because Ice bread and Milk and cold drink is about all that I depend on. Maybe I will come in winter. Every thing looking mighty good here now, gardens all growing and doing fine. I have got beans planted around my back fence and they have almost covered it. and my onions are fine, we have been eating onions out of the garden all spring. and my tomatoes are blooming. I have a little Peach tree in the back yard that came up volunteer, last year, it had only two Peaches on it. and they were Albertas. they sure were fine. Effie has gone over to Mrs Coffeys she has been in bed for about a month and she going to have her teeth pulled to day. Well I gess I had better Close. just about run out of any thing to say. Your Bud, Milton. |
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posted by me. milt is my great-grandfather. i ran across the letter, in an old shoe-box, a little while ago. i remembered that i had written it down here. i found it by doing a word search for "dggies". milt would die fifteen years later, at age 66. nina would live to be 95; old enough that i actually met her when i was very young. giving me the distinction, to some people's mind, of having "touched the hand" of someone from the 19th, 20th, and 21st century. the people mentioned in the second paragraph are his children. in order of birth: may, milton jr. (son), cliff and aubrey. they were all in there 20s at the time. cliff is my grandfather. at this time, all the boys were traveling the length and breadth of america looking for any job they could find. aunt may was married to a football player (for what that was worth in 1935). i still haven't figured out who bertie and buster are, but i'm pretty sure they're related to us somehow. there's a bertie buried at oliver's cemetery with the rest of my family by the old farmhouse. "how is dad getting along, and how is his foot getting." an entry from nina's diary, january 15, 1935: "Dee started to break garden. Sug & I went to Hopkins to club meeting. Dad cut toe off while chopping wood in p.m." i think great-great grandfather samuel septimus was already having health problems, but cutting off his toe was the beginning of the end. he would die two years later. when i was not able to post on here anymore, i was positive that sorabji was going to disappear. so i started to scramble to save stuff like this. there are boxes and boxes of letters like this. if i can do nothing else in this world (and i won't) i could at least collect the oral history of my family. i know the rest of my family couldn't give a rat's ass. |
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great-great-great aunt nina. |
Posted: Friday, May 19, 2000 Judge Samuel Asa Leland "S.A.L." Morgan was born in 1885 in central Texas, the son of John R. Morgan, a pioneer ranchman, and Narcissus Evelyn Lewis Morgan. He graduated from a one-room country school in Cedar Valley. He started teaching school when he was 16 at Round Mountain. At that time, he rented living quarters from the grandmother of former president Lyndon B. Johnson. Schoolmates at the University of Texas called him "Sal" because of his initials, and the nickname stuck through the years. In 1904, Morgan went to the Philippines, where he worked as superintendent of country schools for two years. He returned to the United States and worked as a principal in Atlanta, Texas, while pursuing a law degree. He married Verna Johnson in 1913 in Atlanta. They had four children. He first practiced law in Vernon with W.D. Berry and W.N. Stokes. They formed the firm of Berry, Stokes and Morgan. While in Vernon, he served as county attorney for Wilbarger County. In 1926, he moved to Amarillo, which was booming from nearby discoveries of oil. In January 1930, he formed the firm Morgan, Morgan and Britain. Morgan retained his association with the firm - known as Morgan, Culton, Morgan, Britain and White - until 1951. During the 1930s, he argued several cases before the Supreme Court. In 1937, he became a special attorney for the Texas Co. participating in litigation involving hundreds of millions of dollars. Morgan gained national recognition in antitrust litigation between the federal government and the oil and gas industry. In 1949, he went to Chicago to serve as vice president and general counsel for Natural Gas Pipeline Corp., the parent company of Texhoma Natural Gas Co., for which he had done much legal work. A hallmark of Morgan's career was his drafting of the legislation that gave jurisdiction on the conservation of Texas oil and gas resources to the Texas Railroad Commission. He initiated litigation to prohibit the flaring of natural gas, thus introducing pipelines for the commercial development and sale of natural gas in the Texas Panhandle. Morgan served as president of the Amarillo School Board, was on the founding board of Amarillo College and was a member of Polk Street United Methodist Church. He also supported many community organizations. He died in 1954. His wife died in 1969. The Morgans' children are Mary Tom Rasco Crain of Amarillo, a former Globe-News reporter who has been extensively involved in and recognized for her volunteerism and humanitarian efforts; Sally Fitzgerald of Boston, a noted author and editor; S.A.L. Morgan Jr., a retired advertising executive of Los Angeles, Calif; and the late John C. "Red" Morgan, who received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his service during World War II. |
When I read your last posting; I am comparing your story as to obituary and The Huckleberry Finn. I find the narrative of your story very interesting. I have a doctor appointment tomorrow, and my vacation time being in less two week, I will be flying down to Nashville. Just to give you guy a head up: we will be going to Jack Daniels distillery. And other few places to go. A friend of mine said that he wanted a moonshine, but told him that I couldn't take it with me on the airplane. |
paranoid and always expect the worst. it's the only sure thing in my life. the s.a.l. morgan in the last post was the nephew of my great-grandfather, the author of the letter in the first post. today i found out that his (s.a.l.'s) daughter sarah evelyn (married name sally fitzgerald) was a lifelong friend and editor of the writer flannery o'conner. i was psyched. pity spider is no longer around. have fun in nashville. i remember once a friend of mine and his mother traveled to south carolina to visit family. this is back in the 80s. they (the family in carolina) actually had a still and made moonshine, and on the return home my friend and his mother brought a mason jar of corn whisky with them. the airport inspectors found it and confiscated it. it pissed off my friend's mother, who accused them of taking it to drink themselves. |
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christ" with mel gibson. |
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lethal weapon movies back in the day. who know he'd go off the deep end. |
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remember of john candy is sctv, which i really liked. |
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XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Oct. 2, 1924 Mr. Dee Morgan. My dearest Friend as you don't intend to write i am going to just keep on writing Say boy your promises ar like like right britle pie crust aurent they you know how Britle pie crust is don't you right easy broke you promised me you was going to write to me last friday dident you well you dident do it or at least I dident get no letter from you and I have heard from the p.o. twice this week and still dident get any letter from you now listen don't Say you dident have time to write. Are you going to the fair? I am going if I get a way and if I don't get a way I am going any way if I have to walk all the way on my Knees Oh listen Kido we are not going to move to town are you sorry of it. I am not. I saw your dad Saturday Bessie and the car every thing but you and I guess you gave me the dauge dident you? uncle Fred told me you dident do me any good did it. Say I got lots to tell you when I see you it seems like it has been 10 years since I last saw you. Uh yes you know over there where you and daddy went Rabbit hunting that morning well daddy and Carl went back the next morning to have a Cat race they had the race all right but it wasent a cat race it was they Rabbits over there three jumped the fence right in head of papa he could have got up there in time to see them if he would have tried but he would have killed one if he would have got a shot and he was afraid to kill one and Carl along he was afraid of Carls wifey see that is the reason why he dident try to get in sight of them! Well it is about 9:30 oclock I am going to stop for tonight will finish some times between now and Saturday. ________________Friday night Well I will finish this mess of a letter tonight. you know I almost wish I was sick tonight for if I was sick I wouldent have to go to town but I am not sick so I suppose I will have to go to town tomorrow on the old--Truck. Oh my lands no one but just my self knows how bad I hate to go I would hate to any way if I dident have any Date with the best boy in the world but just think I have got that Date if I only new I would get to see you any way would mind it so bad but not knowing that make it just awful listen bab are you getting anxious to see me or not I would certainly like to see you tonight it really seems like 3 months since I saw my Darling (you) listen if I go to which I guess I will if nothing happens are you coming down there or not well any way if you do I will be at Norman Crumley's we will stay all night in town unless the folks in town are fixing to come out here and if they are we will all come home pretty late Saturday evening if you come to town I guess we will either meet you or you will get down there before we leave I am going down to Penny's to get me a pair of slippers the first thing I do when I get to town and if I am not at Norman's when you that there you wait there for me will you I'll be just as soon as I get me some slippers! (sweetie) Oh I may ring you when I get to the store if I feel just right about it I will and if I don't I won't I am goint to stay all night at Norman's but I don't know where papa and Mother is going to stay they don't know their selves but any way if you don't come to town we will home Saturday evening you know about what time about like we always come home on Sunday evenings maybe a little early listen I sure do want to see you before the fair Oh yes daddy went hunting this evening I got some thing to tell you when I see you again (dear) Say this little Knife of ours is laying on the table here I can just look at the little fellows and wish time and time again it you oh if it just only was wouldent that be grand. Your picture of you on your bike is in my lap but that still isent you is it Dearie you don't half as much of me as I do you and I know it it never was or never will be another girl think as much of you hon as I do. did you know that Miss Harris might have thought she did but she dident for she couldent well I guess I had better close excepting to see you tomorrow listen if you come to town before 5 oclock you come around there and ask Kilburn if we are coming home and I will leave word with him what to tell you to do or where to find me! is that all right Kilburn dont get off his joy untill 5 oclock and if you are later than that well you watch every car that passes you and if we dont meet you I'll be at Norman's! so you come down there I am just simply crazy to see you so by by if I don't see you tomorrow I am going to look for you Sunday evening at home! I still remain yours with bushels of love and oodle of XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXX R.C. [written on the inside of the envelope] you dont love me no more do you Dearie I dont care if you dont love me I still love you more every breath I draw you love Rosie now don't you Dear now and always did dident you I never loved no one but you [written on fold, torn] if I don't get you I will be an old Maid _Ha Ha_ Cedar Valley and old maids goes together any way |
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from them so I know when they have their $2.00 pint sales.The raspberry cheesecake is soo good, I can knock off a pint in one sitting, needless to say I'm not thin anymore but I don't care. |
I would really feel sad about that. Mark has already removed the payphone project from the boards. I feel that in the not to distant future these boards will go the way of the payphone. |
hard drive. |
discombobulated for me lately I'm not going to leave sorabji land.It really cramped my style when my husband retired last year. |
alive. My best to you all . Glad y all still here |