Hibernia Hughes to Susan Miller 26 Sep 1833: "Mr. McKey's family has been very sick-himself, Sister Jane, John, Clarinda, and Felix, have all been sick and nearly all their negroes. Sister Jane came down last week to see mother. She left her baby at home and only stayed three or four hours."
Hibernia Hughes to Ebenezer Miller, August 20, 1835: "Sister Jane McKey was married the other day (against the will of every friend she had) to a school master by the name of McCormick, who has been boarding at her house for some time. I hope we may all be deceived in him, but I believe him to be a great scamp."136
Hibernia Hughes letter dated September 1836 to Sarah Miller
Since your long looked for & almost despaired of letter reached me, you have had time to forget there was such a person living, for it was on the ever memorable 30th of July last while I was lying in bed with a high fever & my poor unfortunate Sister Jane lying a corpse in the house at the same time33 . I say unfortunate, Cousin Sarah, because happy She was living with a charming little family where she had plenty of friends & a plenty to live upon when she was blinded and married a cosmopolite yankee who after spending her part of the property in gold watches, fine clothes & horses, & moving into three different counties in the course of 8 months brought his wife & her little children to Mother's & his wife not in a situation to be taken from one place to another & with out a pair of shoes or the means of getting them; & there she was confined & delivered of a stillborn son--which caused her death--& my husband who is their half-brother34 has taken the three youngest boys. The oldest boy is away at school & Mother has the girl she is not quite twelve years old--
Rebecca B. Ballard to Susan Miller 20 Sep 1836:". Cousin Jane McKey, it was, is dead. I suppose you herd she married after McKey died. I forget the man's name whom she maried. And, Cousin Hibernia has a fine daughter. Edwin McKey and Philip Ervin has gon to Texes." |