H. Lawson W. Hill, Lawrence Co., MO
letter to
B.T. Mason, Warren Co., TN

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Mr. B.T. Mason      Dear friend. I am glad to here from you once moore. I thought that you had forgotten all of us So i rote to give you ample time to answer. This leaves us all in usual good healt at present. Times is good in this Country at present and money plenty and the Best prospects for a wheat crop that I Eaver seen in Southwest Missouri. If nothing happends to the Growing crop of wheat it will make 25 or 30 bushel per achor. I have about 60 achors of wheat sowed. Wheat is worth $1.10, corn 25 cts, bacon 19 cts, hogs $??, grase beef cattle $2.75 to 3.00 per hundred lbs. horses 75.00 to 100 dollars, mules from 65.00 to 135.00 and some have sold as high as 150.00, cows and calve 25 dollars. Eaverthing bars [bears] a good price.      They are now at work on a Rail Road that runs 5 miles north of me [evidently the present Frisco line through Everton and on west]. It is at present ten miles from my house to a depo. We have as fine a contary as i eaver saw taken eaverthin in consideration. Water good health good range good, land good, timber noot so good as you have got [in TN] but a nuff to make out with.      That boy that i named after you is all rite [here he spoke of Thomas Benjamin Leonadulus (Lon) Hill]. he went to school last faul and lurnt to read a little. He thinks a great deal of that picture you sent him and wants to no when Unkle Ben is comeing to see us. He ses to tell you that he gose to Sunday School eaver Sunday.      A.O. Miller and famley is all well and doing tolible well. W.A. Miller is selling goods at Lawrenceburg and by the way making money. W.C. Miller is in Yoming Territory, several hundred miles west of MO. We can't tell from his riteting wheather he is doing any good or not. James Miller is in Douglass Co. Texas and is marid and is a Free Will Baptist preacher of the gospel. Don't kno what or how he is getting along. Martha [known as Mattie] lives close by me and is in varry por helth. Hur and Mr. Edington [Hezzie] have plenty of eaverything about them.      We have bilt a new Methodist church house 1 ¼ miles north of me sence i rote to you last [Here he speaks of the brick structure replaced the Shiloh Church. The present one he mentions in 1910. The old building stood a distance east of the present location about the southwest corner of the old east portion of the cemetery]. Myself and wife both belong to the M.E. Church South. The Lord give me a hundred dollars and I givet back to the Lord to bild a house for Gods people to worship him and when you, if living, here that Hill is lade under the sod say that he has allwayes tried to live rite in the site of my God.      And when I put of this tabernickle of clay i expect to meet friends and relatives around the thron of God. And among others that sister of yours Winney Miller and my mother. Yes a mother to al intense and purposes as to the cear of the infant child is concerned. And i have no doubt in my mind that the seed that she sowed in my youthful hart reposed and brought fourth its fruit in due time. Wood to God the world was full of such wimen to day-What a Glorius Camp meeting we wood have. I wish I could talk to you a week for I have to prase God.Good by rite and I will rite soon and rite moore. H.W.L. Hill to B.T. Mason.

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