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Sissy was Mabel WILLIAMS's nickname all her life. Clarence was Clarence Roland Williams, her brother. He was always known as C.R. It sounds as if he has been exiled by his father for some misdeed.
(This was my Uncle C.R., who always wore cowboy clothes, boots, and cowboy hat. and I don't think he ever did a day's work in his life. He had been in the Cavalry (at one time I had his saber.) He showed me papers one time where he had been court martialed for hitting an officer. He also told me that he had been a stagecoach shotgun guard at one time. He lived with Mom and Dad from the day they got married - for several years. He never married. He lived with Mabel in Palestine, Texas, in her house after she was widowed. After she died, he would stay with us for a few months at a time, but mostly lived in a VA home in Mountain Hame, Dakota (North, I think) He always complained about Franklin Roosevelt and his programs, yet he lived on the government most of his life.) I have pictures of him with his cavalry unit in the Panama Canal.
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Athens Texas
Feb 24 1904
Dear Sissy I will be up to see you Sat. Uncle Clarence told me to let you know I don't know what for. Do you want to give me a lecture. I am just as good as I know how to be. I want to go home soon I am just dying to go and see the folks. Have you had the measles yet.
Bertha has them has she. Roy was down to see me Sat. Sure was glad to see him. How are you getting along teaching music. How on earth came you to send me $5 as my eyes liked to bulged out of my head to see that $5.00 gold piece. You must have all sorts of money. Will be glad when I get to making some. It is a good thing to have. There was a crowd of negroes serenaded his last night was the prettiest music I ever heard. 3 guitars and 1 mandolin. Margaret three them a sack of apples and they tore out. Uncle Clarence & Aunt Jude planted garden today. Is grandma still at Mabank. Tell her I am going to write to her. I write to many letters Uncle Clarence thinks.
Does papa ever say anything about how long I am going to stay down here.
Well I will close.
Your Bro
Clarence
Kisses
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