Letter from Florence Kile to Zella Landes April 13, 1905 Return in Five Days to E. H. Kile, Physician and Surgeon, Upper Tract, W.VA. Miss Zella Landes Box Pendleton Co W[Va] E. H. Kile, Physician and Surgeon. Upper Tract, W. VA, April 13, 1903 Dear Zella and all the rest I will write you to night I am well and hope you are all I will put your collars in this letter Oh I just thought of it today if only I had thought and sent the Bonnets by Mr. Holliday Well Zella it almost me [sic] heart sick to tell you about The old Scarletina to think you may be affraid [sic] to come to see me. For there is nothing I enjoy as well as for some of you all to come to see me. Baxter Harper has got now [sic] Scott Cooks baby & John Kimbles baby May Harper was at Church and all the children on the hill [2] and me too was there it was 8 days after she took it and I realy dont believe I will take it from her for she had just washed and put on clean clothes and I didnt set near her I had started to go home when I seen her and I just thought if the hole hill git it it was no use to run for I hate to go to the store and post office and they both have children in most every time grown people is not apt to take it I feel so sad to think when will some of you come to see me I have this skirt patern [sic] If you or Jennie wants it I put ten yds in Mables brot [thot?] it was as narrow as Callies and the ruffles set on the skirt I send you a piece of her dress and the white is of her waist I made Nerva Raders is of the blue trico(?) [3] I have turned off more people sewing that I have done they all want it at once in a hurry Beckies tomatoes is big enough to set out I have 7 or nine little chickens I am ancious [sic] to next week to come Holliday promised that him and Carrie will stop with me when he goes back if you girls finds out the day they start Please tell me on the phone soes i can have supper ready and can sit down and talk when they get here Oh How I wish some of you all would come to see me Hugh says when you come over dont forget to bring a medical book he loaned you Pa and if [4] you have Pecks bad boy he wants you to mail it to him. Hugh said them was not [underlined twice] liver Pills I sent you I thought they was I still take them It is a shame I dont write to Minnie I hope the time will soon come that some of you will come to see me for that is my greatest enjoyment to be with you all and that so seldom is that you come Florence [PS] Barbeann is washing up the bottles cleaning up the office all over. She makes me laugh if I wanto or not -------------------- Florence Dolly Kile was America R. Landes' sister. Florence and Becca also had a brother -- Wilson Dolly. Job Dolly was their father. Florence Kile married Dr. Hugh Kile in 1895. Florence died of diphtheria on September 3, 1907 and is buried in the Bowers Cemetery #12 on Jake Hill Rd. near Brushy Run. There was evidently an epidemic of diphtheria in 1907. In addition to Florence, Minnie's little girl died on September 2, 1907 of diphtheria only one day before Florence. It was so bad that mail service was stopped between Box and Riverton for a while. See Daniel's diary entries on these dates in 1907: Aug. 19, 30; Sept. 1, 2, 6; Dec. 13; Feb. 3 1908. Hugh Kile remarried in 1910 to Mary Armentrout. Hugh Kile was born about 1871 and was the son of Andrew and Ann Kile.