Hurley Family Tree

Middleport Ohio April 12th 1854 Mr Robert Hurley Dear son it is with pleasure that I acknowledge the receipt of your letter of March 31, I was very much rejoiced to know that you were well and doing well. For my part my health has not been very god ------ back and I am now just able to be about a little, perhaps I can sit up half the time during each day by taking turns at sitting up and lying down. I should like very much to see you and Martha, if it was possible, but I could not stand the fatigue of travel, so for if I had so good a chance to do so. I think that William has about as much to do as he can well ----- as to make a living these times without going a traveling.I am still staying with Mary Ann at Hartford, she is well ad sends her best wishes to you. She is making money by keeping boarders,but it is a hard way to make a living. I have not heard from Jane since I wrote to you before, she does not write to me nor does she visit me, the reasons I suppose are best kown to herself. Lampsons were all well the last I heard from them, I have not heard from Cynthia for more than a year, the last that I heard from them they were about to start for -------- Some letters sent to Monticello Indiana but no answer haseen received---------- it is therefor probable that they have left that part but where they have gone I do not know. I remain your affectionate mother Susannah Hurley to Robert Hurley Indian Prairie Wayne County Illinois Robert you will perceive tat it is your Big Brother that wrote the forgoing lines by request of mother who is entirely too ill to write herself and I think if you want to see mother in this world you had better come tolerably soon as I do not believe that she will get throgh the summer, she is subject ------ attack------ very weak and she does not gather strenth after such attacks for a long time. I do not believe that she can walk twenty steps at this time if it was to save her life. I do not wish to give you any---- but I want you to know just how matters stand. yours W. W. Hurley ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------