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The
letter to the left was
typed on an old antique mechanical typewriter by Henry T. Rundle to
an unknown reader. It is was apparently never finished and a re-typed
duplicate of it goes something like this:
I, Henry Thomas Rundle, was born june 26 1862 at six oclock in the
morning at Pond eddy in Pike County Penn. on the Delawar River and
the first thing that i remember of was two rafts of lumber going
down the river runing in the ice in pond eddy and breaking up. the
next distinct thing in my memory was when my father came home from
the cival war. shortly after his retur n home he moved on a farm
near Hugenot in orang County N.Y. state i was a fiew months past
three years of age, we lived there two years, then moved to a farm
at port clinton, and resided there for about seven years, then
father got the western feaver and moved west ariving at Newcatle
november the fourth 1874. whare we lived the winter of 74 &75 then
we moved from newcasle in the spring of 1875 seven miles west of
waupun where we lived two years, while living there i went to school
winters and worked on farms in the summer the fall of 1876 father
and i came up in clark county and went in the woods for D. J.
Spaulding on the popel river above GreenWood, father as a cook and
my selfe as cooke but as father was not a compatent woods cook we
had to abond that job so we walked all the way back to Black River
falls and i went to school most of that winter and canvased for a
music book and made a sucess of it, father went back to wedges crick
and worked in the woods for Fred French the rest of that winter and
came home in the spring broke as that was an o7en winter and lots of
the logers went broke, so we got a job grubing wood for a man by the
name of camorn and got a few dollars saved ahead for a new home in
clark county. had to tramp with my father as we did not have enough
money to all come on the cars, so father and i started out to walk
the hunred and sixty or seventy miles and the rest of the family was
to start a fiew days after we had left and come to wrightvill on the
train,
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