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| Rosena Rominger Letter |
The following letter was written by Rosena Rominger to her brother, John, in Indiana (also sister of Joseph) :
State of North Carolina
Stokes County
March the 14th, 1841
Dear brother and Friends:- Having a good opportunity to write you all to let you known of the present state of
health. We have had sickness in the family. From January until now I am not well. Yet I am about again but yet I
am not well as we have had a month of wet cold weather and a rainy season the latter part of the winter [.] I hope
these few lines will find you and the rest of the family well. Please remember my love to Frederick and Phoebe
Gambold [sister] and sister Betsy and George and Christina Rominger [two sisters] and Francis Rominger and
family and Jacob Clouse and his family and in particular George Clouse whose letter was received dated Oct. 8th
1840 [George was her nephew] which gave us much joy to hear from you all and that you had plenty of everything
to live on and was doing well [they had been in Indiana just a year]. But George I must write to you and allow that I
wrote the last letter that mother wrote to you all. And you were sorry to hear that any of your relatives were
Democrats and would not go for Harrison. You hope they would repent and have their sins forgiven but it was not
for me but Emanuel Fisher who wrote that letter. Times are dull with us and money is scarce. Now I will mention
the market, corn is 371/2 cents a bushel, wheat 75 cents and oats 25 cents, whisky 37 1/2 per gallon and brandy
40 to 45. Bacon is 7 1/2 cents a pound and coffee six pounds to the dollar. But the South Carolina banks are
extending their loans which will of course make times better. But as for the Broadbay settlement we can any say
little as none of us have been there lately. But I expect that none of them are dead or we would have heard of it.
Joseph Clouse’s family are all well at present [great grandfather]. Mr. and Mrs. Ruebner[?] [pastor] remembers
their best regards to you. Now I must come to a close. When you write again I want you to let me know whether
sister Phoebe Gambold has gotten well of her fainting spells or not. I have thought of her often and wish to know.
So no more at present but still we remain you sister and friend until death.
Rosena Rominger to John Clouse and friends.
(Source: From the Clauss/Clouss family file at MESDA, Winston-Salem, NC.)
Also noted in the family history sketch was the description, in general, of the Clouse families. They were
described as having “good strong features with prominent noses and square chins. The one feature above all
which marked the family and still does insofar as the Indiana branch is concerned, is the large mouth. It was so
prominent a feature that a hundred years ago in North Carolina they were commonly called the ‘big mouthed
Clouses’. Whether light or dark of complextion, this one mark of the family was a rule pronouced.”
State of North Carolina
Stokes County
March the 14th, 1841
Dear brother and Friends:- Having a good opportunity to write you all to let you known of the present state of
health. We have had sickness in the family. From January until now I am not well. Yet I am about again but yet I
am not well as we have had a month of wet cold weather and a rainy season the latter part of the winter [.] I hope
these few lines will find you and the rest of the family well. Please remember my love to Frederick and Phoebe
Gambold [sister] and sister Betsy and George and Christina Rominger [two sisters] and Francis Rominger and
family and Jacob Clouse and his family and in particular George Clouse whose letter was received dated Oct. 8th
1840 [George was her nephew] which gave us much joy to hear from you all and that you had plenty of everything
to live on and was doing well [they had been in Indiana just a year]. But George I must write to you and allow that I
wrote the last letter that mother wrote to you all. And you were sorry to hear that any of your relatives were
Democrats and would not go for Harrison. You hope they would repent and have their sins forgiven but it was not
for me but Emanuel Fisher who wrote that letter. Times are dull with us and money is scarce. Now I will mention
the market, corn is 371/2 cents a bushel, wheat 75 cents and oats 25 cents, whisky 37 1/2 per gallon and brandy
40 to 45. Bacon is 7 1/2 cents a pound and coffee six pounds to the dollar. But the South Carolina banks are
extending their loans which will of course make times better. But as for the Broadbay settlement we can any say
little as none of us have been there lately. But I expect that none of them are dead or we would have heard of it.
Joseph Clouse’s family are all well at present [great grandfather]. Mr. and Mrs. Ruebner[?] [pastor] remembers
their best regards to you. Now I must come to a close. When you write again I want you to let me know whether
sister Phoebe Gambold has gotten well of her fainting spells or not. I have thought of her often and wish to know.
So no more at present but still we remain you sister and friend until death.
Rosena Rominger to John Clouse and friends.
(Source: From the Clauss/Clouss family file at MESDA, Winston-Salem, NC.)
Also noted in the family history sketch was the description, in general, of the Clouse families. They were
described as having “good strong features with prominent noses and square chins. The one feature above all
which marked the family and still does insofar as the Indiana branch is concerned, is the large mouth. It was so
prominent a feature that a hundred years ago in North Carolina they were commonly called the ‘big mouthed
Clouses’. Whether light or dark of complextion, this one mark of the family was a rule pronouced.”