Letter from George Ashdown, March 1895
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Excerpt:Recd April 1st Cedar City March 1895 President Woodruff Dear Brother I received a notification for me to go on a mission to the Sou- thern States dated Feb 14th I beg to state that my age is forty nine last October and I have had very poor health for the last four year's I have had three attacks of La Grippe dur- ing that time the last at- tack was in Nov- 1893 I was very sick and it has affected my heart and have not been able to do a ...
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Excerpt:I have a family of seven children five boys and wish- ing to bring them up in- dustrous, with help from my relatives in England one year ago I bought a saw mill and put it up in the mountains thinking also it would be a benefit to us as a community but I was at a great expence and run behind considerable al- though I have paid all I can I am still quite a sum in debt my mach- inery broke down last fall and I had to quit ...