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letter 1903 Maggie Bell to Orilla Hall02 (800x612)

I've tried to keep to the actual text in transcribing this letter, received from uncle John Howard Spring several years ago. I hope neither Maggie (Margetta? Bell Reed?) nor Aunt Orilla would mind sharing this now.
Posted 10 April 2017 on FaceBook in the SPRING-SNYDER-HALL et al Family Group

Letter from Maggie Bell to Orilla Elizabeth Hall, written 15 Nov 1903 from Vineland, NJ.:

post: Nov 16, 1903 to: Miss Orilla E. Hall
Vineland, NJ Allegany, New York

Vineland, N.J.
Nov. 15, 1903-

My dear Orilla,
I have just recovered from the shock your letter gave me. Why didn't you send me word it was coming! I have been thinking of you for some time, wishing I could see you. Why don't you come down? Ruth went up to Lucy's Friday after noon. She wanted me to go with her and Lucy wrote for me to come, too, but as
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Ruth says, I was too stingy with my money. I am going up during Christmas vacation and that isn't so very far away. I really didn't care to hurry around Friday after noon to get here in time. And then as I told Ruth, Alfred takes my money. To-morrow night we're going down town to a lecture by Gen. Gordon. The subject is, The Last Days of the Confederacy. I know it will be fine. Uncle George, Aunt Mary & Lewis have gone to church. They'll soon be be back, as it
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is 1.35 and Aunt Mary said for me to have dinner ready by 2.00. I will have to play in Sunday School this afternoon as Ruth isn't here. I have a fine class of little boys.
They have just got back from church and dinner is all ready, so good bye for a time.
How are the babies? Dorothea must look real cute doddling all around. I bet Papa John
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is proud of her.
How do Uncle Alvah and Aunt Hat feel this fall? Have you had much snow and has it been very cold? We've not had snow but once a little bit of a storm which lasted only two minutes. It snowed just enough to make me home sick. We've not had any cold weather as yet, that is not very cold. Some days have been cool, but not cold. I've had all the windows and doors open in school all the week.
I have thirty youngsters
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right along now and they are quite hard to get along with, too, especially the bigger ones.
The work is very hard, too, and I am ready to go home. I had rather teach in York State, even if I wouldn't get as much. Joe got Lewis a little bicycle the other day. He can't ride it yet.
Well We've had our dinner and it is nearly time to go to S.S. I must comb my hair and put a ribbon around my neck.
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Will write some more when I get back if I have time. I think perhaps I'll go down for Ruth, about five.
What are you going to do Thanksgiving? Are you planning to go any where? All of Aunt Mary's children and grand children will be here, 37 in all. I will make the number 38 and Aunt Mary & Uncle George will make 42. There will be a house ful(sic) won't there? Grace gave a party for Sidney yesterday. His birth day was Tuesday but she had the party Saturday on account of
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school. Sidney is as cute as he can be. He can't talk plain yet and calls me Aunt Mikey. He is a great fellow.
Levi has gone and left us. He went back to Virginia where he worked last winter. Ruth can't be comforted. Walter is a great one he is always writing some thing funney(sic). There is a fellow here they call Penny Dodge, another one by the name of Gale. Once Walter wrote to
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Aunt Mary that he had heard that Ruth and I were Dodging around after Parrots, then he said "Perhaps a Gale will blow one their way before Spring comes. When he heard that Levi had gone he wrote "I am sorry Ruth's Parrot has migrated south. Did you see any thing of a Bell hanging around his neck when he left? Perhaps he will come back before Spring comes." Did I tell you about
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Walter's getting me to bite into a green persimmon! My but he was tickled! There is no way of getting ahead of him. Herbert came out Thursday night. He comes out real often. Homer has just come. Well I must go to S.S. now.
Good-bye my dear cousin.
With much love as ever,
your cousin,
Maggie

the 'Players'- help?-
- Maggie- Margetta Elizabeth Bell (Reed?) 1880-1957 my 1st cousin 3x removed
From the letter we know that-
- - She is a school teacher.
- - She teaches Sunday School.
- - She plays the piano, possibly the organ, too.

- Orilla Elizabeth Hall- (gr)Aunt Orilla
- Ruth- Hall?
- Lucy- Anna Lucille Benson Hitchcock? [1885-1971, married W.O.Hitchcock]
1st cousin 3x, or
Lucy Mariah Hall Bennett? 1847-? 2nd cousin 3x
Actually, I just came across 'Lucy' in the 1880 census, Louise's nickname:
Louise Maria "Lucy" Hall Laubenthal, 1875-1919, 2nd great aunt.
- Alfred- [I remember hearing 'Alfred' as a kid, but I do not know who he was.]
- Aunt Mary- Harriett's sister, 3rd great aunt, 1841-1926, married:
- Uncle George- George Washington Lewis, 1838-1909
- Lewis-
- Uncle Alvah- Alvah HALL 2nd gr grandfather 1828-1909
- Aunt Hat- Harriet BENSON HALL 2nd gr grandmother 1849-1915
- Grace-
- Sidney-
- Herbert- Herbert K. SPRING 1874-1950 gr grandfather
- Homer- Homer E. Hall? 1st cousin 3x
- Walter-

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