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A letter was written to Miss Annette Bassett by the
gentleman that visited the grave & reported to
the Col. asking her to let Mr Boyd in Richmond
know of it, & as we had no communication, to
beg the grave might be marked for us until
we can claim the precious dust, which lies on the
right hand side of the road going from Appomattox
C.H. to Campbell C.H. about a mile & three quarters or
two miles from the former place, at the foot of a
small oak about a foot in diameter, on which
he said he nailed a board as well as he could
with name & date in pencil mark.
As yet we have been unable to make satisfactory
arrangements, both of my Sons are seperated
from us here, one in Cola the other in Newberry
& both afflicted, one sick himself, the other has
been called to yield up two lovely children, one
was dead, the other just alive, when he wrote six
weeks since & the letters are sometimes weeks coming
& she had lain so many weeks with Typhoid fever
all hope had fled, & we count the dear little one in
the company of those who have passed from earth,
'its very sad to be so anxious about absent ones