Letter:                  October 30, 1915

From:                    Aunt Gertie; R. R No. 35; Sand Lake, Michigan

To:                          Mrs. Martha Johnston; 1351 Nordyke Avenue; Indianapolis, Indiana

                                                                                                                                Sand Lake, Mich.

                                                                                                                                        Oct 30: 15

Dear Loving Martha: I was so glad to get a card from you. glad yours are well so are we at present. Well your children are all big and full growing I suppose bij this time. so are mine. Mij smallest is bigger than Im myself he is going to be 17 years the 14th of December and Johanna bin 18 in the spring thats all I got to home. Cora bin home with her babij for a week and a half. she left her other two children with her husbands folks. Jennie got four children and Martha got two. Where is Joe now. I heard she was not living with her husband. how manij children has she got. Well it certainlij was hard for you people to lose your Mother, but O thank the Lord: that yours all have a home. There are so manij children that lose their father and Mother and that aint got no house and no place to staij and yours all got a good home Well let me hear soon of you and write me a long letter how big a family that Albert got now. Now I hope you will excuse me for not writing before. When I got your card. we where busy digging potatoes and Cora came. so I wrote a letter to you and it got lost We got almost a thousand bushels potatoes, and about 85 bushels beans and 150 bushels of wheat. Now let me hear of you again soon. So have the best regards from us all to you all

                                                                                                                                Your Aunt Gertie

                                                                                                                                Sand Lake, Mich

                                                                                                                                R. R. No: 35