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Table of Contents
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Introduction (Click to view. Opens new window. Close to return here)
Finding the letters 1
Editing the letters 3
Background of the letters 4
Researching the letters 8
Chronology of Past Events 11 (Click to view. Opens new window. Close to return here)
Chapter 1: Dreams of a New Life 1860
Letter #1 (Joseph Edward Bonney) 23
Letter #2 (Deborah Ann Morey) 26
Chapter 2: A New Life Back Home 1862
Letter #3 (Joseph & Sarah Bonney) 31
Letter #4 (Eunice Miriam Morey) 33
Letter #5 (Perry Works) 34
Letter #6 (Perry Works & Salina Stewart) 36
Letter #7 (George Rockwell) 39
Letter #8 (Joseph Edward Bonney) 41
Letter #9 (George Rockwell) 44
Chapter 3: New Friends, Old Memories 1863 (Click to view. Opens new window. Close to return here)
Letter #10 (Deborah Ann Morey) 47
Letter #11 (Grace Robinson) 50
Letter #12 (Margaret Kennedy) 53
Letter #13 (Angeline Dennis) 55
Letter #14 (Grace Robinson) 57
Letter #15 (Grace Robinson) 59
Letter #16 (Louisa Booth) 63
Letter #17 (Charles Worden) 65
Letter #18 (Olive Booth) 68
Letter #19 (Grace Robinson) 70
Letter #20 (Amulek Boothe) 72
Letter #21 (Margaret Kennedy) 75
Letter #22 (George Rockwell) 76
Letter #23 (Grace Robinson) 78
Letter #24 (Angeline Dennis) 80
Letter #25 (Amulek Boothe) 85
Letter #26 (Eunice Miriam Morey) 87
Chapter 4: Toward Marriage 1864
Letter #27 (George Irvin McNutt) 91
Letter #28 (Charles Worden) 92
Letter #29 (George Rockwell) 94
Letter #30 (Grace Robinson) 96
Letter #31 (Caroline Dennis) 97
Letter #32 (Margaret Kennedy) 99
Letter #33 (James McNutt Field) 101
Letter #34 (Sarah Abigail Bonney) 103
Letter #35 (Sarah Abigail Bonney) 106
Letter #36 (Eunice & Helen Morey) 107
Letter #37 (George Rockwell) 109
Letter #38 (Joseph & Sarah Bonney) 111
Letter #39 (Eunice & Helen Morey) 112
Letter #40 (George Rockwell) 115
Letter #41 (Angeline Dennis) 116
Letter #42 (Grace Robinson) 118
Letter #43 (Sarah Abigail Bonney) 122
Letter #44 (Phebe Louisa Booth) 123
Letter #45 (George Rockwell) 125
Letter #46 (Sarah Abigail Bonney) 126
Letter #47 (Eunice Miriam Morey) 128
Letter #48 (Helen Merah Morey) 131
Letter #49 (Grace Robinson) 132
Letter #50 (Angeline Dennis) 134
Letter #51 (Emma Johnson) 137
Letter #52 (George Rockwell) 139
Letter #53 (Phebe Louisa Booth) 141
Letter #54 (Angeline Dennis) 143
Letter #55 (Grace Robinson) 146
Chapter 5: The LaGrange Folks 1865
Letter #56 (Nancy Alford) 153
Letter #57 (Robert Alford) 155
Letter #58 (Amulek Boothe) 155
Letter #59 (Emma Johnson) 157
Letter #60 (Helen Morey Rockwell) 160
Letter #61 (George Rockwell) 162
Letter #62 (Sarah Abigail Bonney) 164
Letter #63 (Emma Johnson) 165
Letter #64 (Emma Johnson) 168
Letter #65 (Milton Frame) 169
Letter #66 (Emma Johnson) 171
Letter #67 (Emma Johnson) 173
Letter #68 (Eunice Miriam Morey) 176
Chapter 6: All Things Come to Those Who Wait 1866
Letter #69 (Amulek Boothe) 181
Letter #70 (Grace Robinson) 183
Letter #71 (Grace Robinson) 184
Letter #72 (Sarah Abigail Bonney) 187
Letter #73 (Amulek Boothe) 189
Letter #74 (Emma Johnson) 191
Letter #75 (Grace Robinson) 193
Letter #76 (Emma Johnson) 195
Letter #77 (Miriam “Mollie” Works) 197
Chapter 7: Keeping House 1867
Letter #78 (Sarah Abigail Bonney) 201
Letter #79 (Eunice Miriam Morey) 203
Letter #80 (Joseph Edward Bonney) 205
Letter #81 (Emma Johnson) 206
Letter #82 (Grace Robinson) 208
Letter #83 (Joseph Edward Bonney) 211
Chapter 8: Children and Inheritance 1868 & 1869
Letter #84 (Joseph & Sarah Bonney) 215
Letter #85 (Phebe Louisa Booth) 217
Letter #86 (Joseph Edward Bonney) 218
Letter #87 (Grace Robinson) 219
Chapter 9: Old Friends, Settled Lives 1870s
Letter #88 (Francis Dennis) 223
Letter #89 (George Rockwell) 225
Letter #90 (Amulek Boothe) 227
Letter #91 (Amulek Boothe) 229
Letter #92 (Amulek & Maryann Boothe) 231
Letter #93 (Amulek Boothe) 233
Letter #94 (Amulek Boothe) 235
Letter #95 (Amulek Boothe) 236
Letter #96 (Amulek & Maryann Boothe) 238
Chapter 10: Passing of the Older Generation 1880s (Click to view. Opens new window. Close to return here)
Letter #97 (Grace Robinson Gurley 243
Letter #98 (Amulek Boothe) 246
Letter #99 (Deborah Ann Morey) 248
Letter #100 (Deborah Ann Morey) 251
Letter #101 (Amulek Boothe) 254
Letter #102 (Grace Robinson Gurley) 255
Letter #103 (Zenas Hovey Gurley) 258
Letter #104 (Deborah Ann Morey) 262
Letter #105 (Grace Robinson Gurley) 266
Chapter 11: Bless the Children, Bless All 1890s & 1912
Letter #106 (Olive Boothe) 269
Letter #107 (Grace Robinson Gurley) 271
Letter #108 (Emma Johnson Coulten) 274
Letter #109 (Grace Robinson Gurley) 275
Letter #110 (Amulek Boothe) 278
Letter #111 (Amulek Boothe) 280
Epilogue 283
Index 289 (Click to view. Opens new window. Close to return here)
Bibliography 303
Illustrations
Miriam “Mollie” (Works) McNutt iii
Map xiii
Ebenezer and Angeline (Works) Robinson xiv
Main Street of Pleasanton (formerly Pleasant Plains) Iowa, and Letter #17 22
Deborah Ann (Rockwell) and David Butterfield Morey 29
Joseph Edward Bonney and Letter #3 30
Phebe Louisa (Booth) Duel 46
Helen Merah (Morey) Rockwell and Letter #36 90
Letter #58 151
Jessie Katie Belle “Kate” Bonney and Letter #67 152
George Irvin McNutt and Letter #71 180
Richardson Hotel, Pleasant Plains (Pleasanton), Iowa 199
James Alexander and Sarah Bell (Case) McNutt and the farm loghouse 200
Myrtle Dell McNutt and three Morey daughters 214
Zenas Hovey Gurley, Jr. and Grace (Robinson) Gurley 222
Mary Robinson 241
James Marks Works and part of Letter #103 242
James and Julia (Gurley) McNutt 282
Morey Family Tree 286
Works Family Tree 287
McNutt and Gurley Family Trees 288