ESLTRS-1882-05-19-From,AshbyElizabethRebecca(Snow),UtahStGeorge-To,SnowErastus,UtahSaltLakeCity
[Friday 19 May 1882]
My Dear Husband
Yours of the 7th inst [instant – Sunday 7 May 1882] was recieved several days ago and was glad to hear from you for I had felt very anxious about you fearing you would not be sufishently [sufficiently] carefull [careful] and fall into the hands of those wicked men but I am glad you have been preserved thus far and are permitted to travel around among the people all is peace and [?] here at present but do not know how long it will last we hear the Marshals are at Kanab [Kanab, Utah] Jade [Jake - Jacob Gates, b. 1811 ?] will keep you posted if there is anything
Mr Sanders is still here will leave sunday [21 May 1882] George Murdock and Barlow Furgason [Barlow Ferguson] and wives with Julia Farnsworth little daughter left here this morning they were married yesterday [Thursday 18 May 1882] in the temple. Georges [George Murdock] wife is Plilos [?] sister Josephine [Julia Josephine Spencer Snow, b. 1837] starts Forth Monday [22 May 1882] by stage to be gone about two months you must [?] the rest Mahonri [Mahonri Moriacumr Snow, b. 1847 ] just drove up and I have been over with him to unload the things for the house the wether [weather] is very changeble [changeable] windy and threatening rain we are all well Martha [Martha Ellen Snow, b. 1865] is better Murry has been quite sick but is better E B [Erastus Beman Snow, b. 1853] was in today says Elida [Elida Crosby Snow, b. 1854] is sick with bloody flux she was taken last night with a chill and has been in bed all day We had a letter from Flora [Florence Snow Woolley, b. 1856] written the 10th [Wednesday 10 May 1882] Soby? had not arrived we have just learned that there was nobody but men at pipe [Pipe Springs ?] and they took her on to Orderville [Orderville, Utah] and she has been there ever since. Arthur [Arthur Eugene Snow, b. 1870] has been in the field nearly all the time since you left there has been nothing done on the house since you left except some [?] I have been putting in some seed over on the lot Sister Adams died Saturday [13 May 1882] and was buried Sunday [14 May 1882] what a happy release for her Libby [Elizabeth Ashby Snow Ivins, b. 1854] is here with the children they are all well and all send love to you
I will send this letter from Br Smith [Brother Smith] which came last night with much love
I am as ever
your loving wife
E R snow [Elizabeth Rebecca Ashby Snow, b. 1831]