Newsletter 2 1978.pdf - The Grayson Family

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began to talk of going to Pike's peak4
where the great esciternent for gold
had beco~ne the cry of the day.
"Through November and
Decernber 1 did as I had intended. I
thought hlollie began to love rnp. She
knew better than to try to coquette
me. She would kiss m &rs Bthn rind
&kJ%t I should%nve resented any
of her fondling kindness if it had been
extended and she knetv it. 1 did not
intend to be led on and she kne\r9 it.
About the first of 1)ccenlber'. I cannot
state the day of the ivcck but think it
was Monday. I proposed to go into a
law partnership. g~ving her half the
profits arid I doing tne work. She
made me no reply..
"I thcn thought she \t40uld refuse
me, and was preparing for it. I called
at the time fixed for 3 reply, and she
never mentioned the suhject to me in
any manner whatsoever. I went away
with a sad heart. She treated me very
kindly. 1 thought she rather pitied
me. Of course, I shunned pity and her
kindr]ess to me I was in my mind
preparing to turn into mockcry. when
on thc 14th of Ilecember. 1858, I
received her polite note stating that
she knew 1 could niakc her happy and
she thot~ght she could make mc happy
- all she asked was for me to obta~n
her father's consent.
"1 received the note from my clerk
my dear Alollie
"I had used no endearing terms to
hrr. I had never given her good cause
to tliink I loved her until I had boltfly
spoken to her in plain English. I then
lovcd her as 1 had ne\'er lovcd her
before. I had not cooixd her w~tlr i
flo\vers and orcsents. 1 had acted
manly, exccpi by the weakness of
loi0e I had been held to her like the
needle to the polc. or magnet. .
"Such was the history of my
courtship witti my dear !tlollie, whom
I expect to be my wife, to share my
joys and for a.hom mag I ialtvays hive
a thousand good thoughts lor her
irclfare to one for myself ... for whom
may I redouble my exertion to be
grcat and good. wise and true and by ,
God's blessing if ice will hear the
prayer of a wicked man. I pray that I
may bc to her an ever faithful friend.
guarding I1er as a tender flo\ver from
the frosts of .life, a loving kind
hnsbnnd and one worthy 01 her brave
heart. vivid, ch;istc love and true
spirit. God help her and me for her.
"1 have written by the foregoing
chapter in my life for the eyes of no
one ... for myselfonly. 1 have on:^ two
fears iri this life. One is that hlollie
will be but short lived, as she is a
summer blossorn and another is thal I
shall not willfully - l~urt her
dccply, neglect to do my duty and .
that some silent hour she will weep
over my hard heart. God is my judge
that I do not rear that L sh:111 do this
intentionally - no. never! I only fear
nly thoughtless nature.
"I believe that my dear Mollie will
try to please me. ant1 look to our
mutual interests. I havc no doubt of
this. tler temper is quick and I have
o~ily lo guard my okn, as I am ocfrom
the P.O. from W.W. White
casionally fool enough to get mad,
(publisher of the Sentinel). Several
which is simply a kind of insanity or
persons were in the office at thc time
lun;~cy, just as fatal as any other. Not
1 read the note. I had too much
that persons should ncver have
discretion to let any of them skc my
f~leling but that they should never
feelings. I put the notc in my pocket
havc anything like madness, as
and as soon as possible called to see
, .
dangerous in mankind as in the
canine spccies. wherq it generally
.One of the sons of Andrew Jackson proves quite fatal."
Azcltine was William Wallace, born Five months later on May 11,'
Sept. 1.5, lll(i8. in Crundy County, 1859, John F. Uuncombe and Mary A.
Iowa. He married Ella Spry- \i'illi;!rns wprr niarrir '(, !!!r ~.~ZOI!
Hathaway March 6, 1895.
were born seven children: William
Ohe ol" the dkljidlbrs m' .tb E.:' Charles F., publisher of the
marriage was Clara E:lizahcth born. Chron~k~l~ and a onetime mayor of
Jan. '22; 1'308. Clara married John Fort Dodge; Mary J., wril. crrcJ!.S
Hardcastle in 1!J27 and their children Sen. \V. S. Kenyon; Gertrude; and
are Jack W.. born Dcc. 28. 1939, and John A.
Barbara Kay. born Oct. 6. 19:Ia.
Duncombe died Aug. 2,1902.
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1860 Census; Fort Dodge, .*
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