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File: 1832-05 Schoonover, Mary and Deborah Deeds to John Deeds
Addressed to John Deeds, Portersville Post Off, butler County, Pennsylvania State. Marys grandfather is probably the John Deeds (b. 1750) listed in the Deeds Genealogy (Book 1). I have not been able to identify a daughter born in 1832, but she would have to have been Johns firstborn, since he married in July, August or September of 1831 (see Mary Schoonovers letters of August and October, 1831). It may be that "Asenath" did not survive infancy. (PS 1999)
May the 13 in 1832
Dear brother,
I embrace this opportunity to gratify your request. We are all well. I understand you want me to name your young daughter, and I will call her name Asenath. You may find it in Genesis, the forty-first chapter and fiftieth verse, and if you call her that name, dont nickname her or mis-call her.
I received your letter dated the twenty-fourth of April, and I received it sixth of May. I have nothing very particular to write you, only I have been to see grandfather in March, and he was well and smart as ever and said he said [?] he wants to come and see me, and he want to see father before he dies.
My little daughter is [a] very womanly child, and she thinks a great deal of her needle case, and says her Uncle John made it, and my little Sam is very smart and spunkery, and he could talk against he was fifteen months old.
From Mary Schoonover to John Deeds
In Mary Schoonovers handwriting:
Dear son,
I desire to let you know that I am as well as common and I intend to go down the canal thirty of forty miles to see my sister and then intend on coming back as soon as I can get back, but I am very weakly and I cant tell how I will ever get home.
From Debery Deeds to John Deeds
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