June 23nd 1941
Dear Cousin Edgar.--
Your Mother taught
school and was tutor for the children of
Horace Greeley at his New York home
and also at his country place Chappaqua
New York, which has recently been made
a public monument. Your mother and mine
were twins, born in New Haven, Conn
and spent most of their young days there,
and your Mother and Father first met and
were friends there. -- Many years after
when your Mother was a widow she
and her three children were living
with her sister Martha at No 50 West 16th St.
New York City. -- Just by chance she and
your Father met on Broadway
N.Y. - He had come across the continent
when the through railway had been
operating only three weeks. I recall
they were married in a church on 47th St
or 49th St west in the month of April 1869
I think just around the Easter season
and my mother and Mr. And Mrs. Shea were
witnesses.
In the Fall of 1869 your Father was
called to California to take charge of
the Sierra Buttes Mine near Sierra Buttes
City California – The following summer
as the weather was very hot in New York
City your Mother with her twin sister,
her daughter May King and her neice
Georgia Loomis went to Saratoga Springs
New York where you were born July 18th
1870 and where with much pride I
wheeled you about in your Baby Carriage.
Sincerely Your Cousin
Georgiana Augusta Sprague
Transcription by:
Mary Harrell-Sesniak
Historic letter
from the Edgar Hanks Evans,
nee Edmund Hanks Collection
It may not be reproduced or published
without permission of the family.
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