13 January 1912
Letter from Ed and Emily Banner to their Banner niece
Miss. Alta May Rector of 2215 Pickney Street, Omaha Nebraska:
Winston – Salem
Route 3, N. Carolina
January 13, 1912
Dear Niece,
I received your letter some day’s ago. Was glad to hear from you. We have
had a very big sleet on the ground now for about a week. We heard that Bro.
Josh was kicked by horse and didn’t live long. We had not heard that Carl was
dead untill we received your letter. Neither about John Rector . Wish that you and
Carl could have come. Sam has five children, and his wife has been dead about
one year. Bettie has nine children. Amy seven. Mary seven and Emma eight
those are all my grandchildren. Uncle John Ogburn’s daughter, Hattie was in
here from California this last summer visiting all our people are as well as common
so far as we know. We are staying with our son in law, Allen Yarbrough who married
the youngest child Emma. Answer soon. This leaves us well as we generally are.
Your loving,
Uncle & Aunt
Ed and Emily Banner
In the same letter is a note from Maggie Yarbrough:
Dear Cousin,
I will write you a few lines as I have wrote for Grandpa and Grandma. Wish you would come some time would be glad to have
you. We all live here together. The weather is very ruff here for me to go to school but though it is not very far. Well I am getting
along fine these day’s hope you the same. Write to me soon.
Yours truly,
Maggie Yarbrough
Letter from Ed and Emily Banner to their Banner niece
Miss. Alta May Rector of 2215 Pickney Street, Omaha Nebraska:
Winston – Salem
Route 3, N. Carolina
January 13, 1912
Dear Niece,
I received your letter some day’s ago. Was glad to hear from you. We have
had a very big sleet on the ground now for about a week. We heard that Bro.
Josh was kicked by horse and didn’t live long. We had not heard that Carl was
dead untill we received your letter. Neither about John Rector . Wish that you and
Carl could have come. Sam has five children, and his wife has been dead about
one year. Bettie has nine children. Amy seven. Mary seven and Emma eight
those are all my grandchildren. Uncle John Ogburn’s daughter, Hattie was in
here from California this last summer visiting all our people are as well as common
so far as we know. We are staying with our son in law, Allen Yarbrough who married
the youngest child Emma. Answer soon. This leaves us well as we generally are.
Your loving,
Uncle & Aunt
Ed and Emily Banner
In the same letter is a note from Maggie Yarbrough:
Dear Cousin,
I will write you a few lines as I have wrote for Grandpa and Grandma. Wish you would come some time would be glad to have
you. We all live here together. The weather is very ruff here for me to go to school but though it is not very far. Well I am getting
along fine these day’s hope you the same. Write to me soon.
Yours truly,
Maggie Yarbrough
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23 Dec 1893 - From Moser, NC - this is Copeland Community (Surry Co., NC)
today: A Letter from Sam Banner to his mother Emily Parish Banner in
Winston-Salem, NC:
Samuel Edward Banner (1870-1959) is the son of Edward James Banner and Emily
Parrish Banner
Dear Ma:
I will try to
write you a few lines to
let you here from yours
we are will at this time
and hop when these few
lines to come to hand
they will find you all
the same Miss Moser*
is ded she died the next
morning after I got home
she was buried at
James Briggs** I got
that money last sunday
morning it was al wright[right]
I went to Mt. Airy last
Monday and got me a
new soat[suit] of clothe[clothes]
We are going to have
a rye[right] bige time at the
Chrisms[Christmas] tree I will close
for this time write soon
tell Jack*** and Mary***
to come as soon as they
can. S. E. Banner"
*Miss Moser is Martha Whitt Carmichael Moser, wife of Israel Moser. Martha was born
22 Apr 1822 in Stokes Co., NC and died 11 Dec 1893 in Surry Co, NC.
** James Briggs - James Briggs, b. 2 Feb 1855 in Forsyth Co., NC married Israel and
Martha Moser's daughter, Florence Ellen Moser, b. 18 Feb 1855, Forsyth Co., NC.
*** Jack and Mary are Napoleon Jackson "Jack" Reich (1872-1974)who married
Samuel's sister, Mary Moir Banner(1875-1952) on 22 Jan 1892 in Forsyth Co., NC.
Transcribed by Judy S. Cardwell. Brackets belong to transcriber.
today: A Letter from Sam Banner to his mother Emily Parish Banner in
Winston-Salem, NC:
Samuel Edward Banner (1870-1959) is the son of Edward James Banner and Emily
Parrish Banner
Dear Ma:
I will try to
write you a few lines to
let you here from yours
we are will at this time
and hop when these few
lines to come to hand
they will find you all
the same Miss Moser*
is ded she died the next
morning after I got home
she was buried at
James Briggs** I got
that money last sunday
morning it was al wright[right]
I went to Mt. Airy last
Monday and got me a
new soat[suit] of clothe[clothes]
We are going to have
a rye[right] bige time at the
Chrisms[Christmas] tree I will close
for this time write soon
tell Jack*** and Mary***
to come as soon as they
can. S. E. Banner"
*Miss Moser is Martha Whitt Carmichael Moser, wife of Israel Moser. Martha was born
22 Apr 1822 in Stokes Co., NC and died 11 Dec 1893 in Surry Co, NC.
** James Briggs - James Briggs, b. 2 Feb 1855 in Forsyth Co., NC married Israel and
Martha Moser's daughter, Florence Ellen Moser, b. 18 Feb 1855, Forsyth Co., NC.
*** Jack and Mary are Napoleon Jackson "Jack" Reich (1872-1974)who married
Samuel's sister, Mary Moir Banner(1875-1952) on 22 Jan 1892 in Forsyth Co., NC.
Transcribed by Judy S. Cardwell. Brackets belong to transcriber.
Samuel E. Banner and Milly Ada
BRINKLEY Banner.
BRINKLEY Banner.
Ed and Emily Banner
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