Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Letter From Samuel Archibald Scott Aug. 31st 1918

On August 31st Samuel A. Scott wrote a letter in reply to one written by his niece, Charlotte GIBBS Fry to Samuel's daughter Zela FRY Railsback.




 Grangeville, Calif
Aug. 31st 1918

Mrs. Lottie Fry

  My dear niece.
      Your very welcome letter of Aug. 16th to Zela was received several days ago, and as Zela has been quite busy and the weather so hot she don't seem able to get to writing to any one.  We were quite surprised to learn that your son Erle was at Camp Fremont and as your aunt Ninas daughter, Mrs. J.C. Mitchell and her daughter, Mrs. Thomas Patterson of Hamilton City, Cali. were in Oakland at the time we got your letter.  I wrote to them and asked them to go down to the camp and find the boy and let him know that he had some one near him who was related to him altho they had never seen him.  But when my letter arrived in Oakland they had gone to their home in Hamilton City which is about 299 miles north of Oakland and on the Sacramento river



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in Glenn county.  I have not had a letter from them but a neighbor of ours was in Oakland last Sunday and called up their hotel and was told they had gone to Hamilton.  I would like to make the trip to the camp and see the boy but it is so far and I am really not equal to the effort as the distance the way we have to go would be nearly 300 miles.  Zela will write him and will also answer your letter in a short tim.  W have had a week of very hot weather, the mercury rising everyday to 98º to 100º.  We usually have a good breeze every afternoon but since this hot spell set in we have had no wind and the nights have been hot which is something very unusual.  Yesterday I had a letter from your aunt Nina Coder of Ashland, Oregon and one from your aunt Rosa Remington of Ocean Park, 20 miles from Los Angeles and on the sea coast.  They are strangers to you and of course you can feel but small interest in them.  They are the



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two girls younger than your mother.  Nina was 73 yrs. old on Aug 19th and Rosa was 70 on Feb 2nd last.  Your aunt Eliza would have been 78 and I claim the palm so far at 82 on Feb 24th if I live to get there.  You did not tell us in your letter, the name of your mothers post office, whether in city, town or country and what kind of alliance she formed.  Please let me know her address and I will write to her, she may be interested to hear from some of the family.  The Ricketts tribe has utterly ignored me since your aunt Carrie passed away as I have not had a line from any of them.  They were never charable with the crime of letter writing unless they had an axe to grind or a favor to ask.  But you are not interested in this.  I was down south to Ocean Park and spent most of the month of August with your aunt Rosa, her daughter Daisy Sterrett was there for two weeks and then she returned to her home and husband at Jerome Junction, Arizona, Sterrett is engaged with an oil co. there.


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Zela will write some and include with this.  My health is good but I am troubled with dizziness which unfils me from any steady employment.  I make my home with Zila and husband.  I take but little interest in life since your auntie departed this life and am unable to see what purpose I am kept here. altho I should be and am blessed with good health and have not an ache or a pain and can and do read ordinary book print without the aid of glasses.
 We regret that your cor crop seems doomed to failure as what is a great dependence throughout all the middle west. California is blessed with abundant crops of all kinds raised here and prices are good.  Now if you will forgive this rambling missive I will not affhe?? you any further.  With best love I am affectionately your Uncle S.A. Scott


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