And We think We have it Bad - Part II

Pages 4-6 from Letter dated 13 Nov.1920

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got to die & leave his family. I have had to go ^through[carroted in] with another sad occasion ^lately[carroted in] [.] poor Gordons[sic] remains was burried[sic] here yester-day two weeks ago, we had reg-ular funeral services in the church & it was awfully sad to me but I feel lots better[.] satisfied to know he is burried here at home in our own cemetery & I can visit his grave & plant flowers on it[.] we have a new one started here only about eight or nine graves there. The Government wrote to ^us[carroted in] about two months ago to know if we wanted his body brought home & we decided we would have it brought. you[sic] asked me about Hemans[sic] neck. well

The location of the 'new' cemetery. Now called Rose Dhu Cemetery where Ida Benton Lester, her husband E.E. Ponder, Ruth Ponder Cates (their daughter), Heman Cates (her husband) and Gordon Ponder (all mentioned in this letter) are now buried as well. Scary what you can do w/ technology these days.

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I will tell you just how it started. A while after last Christmas a bump commenced growing kinder on the side of his neck it was under the skin[.] it looked just like a wenn[?] just a bumg under the skin he went on & did’t pay much attention to it but in March it commence forming & hurting so bad he went to the hospital in Augusta & had it taken out & the place all cured up nicely but it wasnt long before a notti-er bump came on his neck and far from where the other one was. So he decided he would go to a specialist in Atlanta[.]

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He went & he told him it was a cancer of the worst type & advised him to go to John[sic] Hopkins hospital in Baltimore as thee best cancer Dr that is known lives there. Well he went & Ruth went with him & the other bump was taken off his neck & it cured up, then in two or three weeks another one came kinder on his side[.] he went back to Baltimore to be treated again[.] they examined him good his stomache & all & found that it was in his stomache & was incurable but they didnt tell him so he was getting so then that every thing he ate disagreed

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22 December 2008