she  seems   perfectly   happy ,

       said   she  would  come   down

       sometimes soon , she is a sweet  

       good    1cousin  ,  reminds    me  

       of  Cousin  2Fanny  &  you know

              I   loved  her  so   much.

       Now   Pernia    if    you    have

       not   time   to   write  get  May

       Belle  ,  tell   3Mary  Ann    that

       her   sister   4Sally,   &    Mable

       Harrison    spent    the     day

       with    us   yesterday  ,  &   on

       Friday    5Lee  Bell   &   6Wife  ,

       7Lee  Shank's   Wife ,     8Annie

       Jones, 9Ella Biedler, 10Mrs. Pitman

       &  Katie,  Mrs. Tommie Aldman

       &   Amanda  Aldman   &  Sallie

       Colwell   11   in   all ,     also

       Mrs.  Bell,  ( Aunt  Sallie ).

       We   Enjoyed   having    them

       Very    much   in  and  I  Love

       all   of   your  Cousin   George's

       relations very  much,  do  hope

End Notes of  Page Two

1. Elizabeth Watts Lee, sister of Jane C. Lee Markham.  First married to Allie Hatcher of Bedford County, Virginia, second marriage  to Robert Foggy.

2. Frances Susan Jane Hardy Lee,  first wife of Thomas Newell Lee of Bedford County, Virginia.  Mother of Jane Calpurnia Lee Markham, and Elizabeth Watts Lee Foggy.  Daughter of Capt. William Austin Hardy,  and  Jane Hord Watts of Bedford County, Virginia.  Frances died in 1863 when her husband was away in the Civil War.  She is buried in the old Lee Family Cemetery at Otterville, Virginia.

3. Mary Ann Jones, sister of George Morgan Jones, and wife of Ambrose Booton Shank, who was killed at the battle of Kearnstown,  March 23, 1863, while serving as captain of Company H, of the Thirty- third Virginia Infantry,  Stonewall Brigade. Her son William Herbert Shank,  married Lillian Lowry,  my fraternal grandmother Bessie Lillian Lowry Markham's  aunt.

4. Sarah Catherine Jones, sister of George Morgan Jones, and wife of Reuben Pendleton Bell, of the Rappahannock County family of that name.  She died September 27, 1901 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. McKay, in Augusta County.

5. Erasmus Lee Bell, of Lynchburg, Virginia, and son of Sarah Catherine Jones, and Reuben Pendleton Bell.  

6. Barbara Spitler Bell, wife if Erasmus Lee Bell, and daughter of Colonel Mann Spitler, of Whitehall, Page County, Virginia.

7. Alice Spitler Shank, wife of Ambrose Lee Shank, the son of Mary Ann Jones, and Ambrose Booton Shank, and the sister of Barbara Spitler Bell.

8. Anna Laura Jones, of Lynchburg, Virginia, daughter of Harrison Booton Jones, and Laura Asenath Starbuck, of Nantucket and Massachusetts ancestry

9. Mary Ella Bell Biedler, wife of Charles E. Biedler, of Luray, Page County, Virginia, and daughter of Sarah Catherine Jones, and Reuben Pendleton Bell.

10. Martha Virginia Bell Pitman, wife of Dr. William E. Pitman of Page County, Virginia, and daughter Sarah Catherine Jones and Reuben Pendleton Bell.