Lizella, Georgia

Jan 5, 1925

 

Dear Cawley will write you a few lines to let you hear from us we are not well Cawley we got your letter to day was glad to hear from you but Cawley Cawley if you knew my feelings to day I am so wek & nurvis till it hurt me mity bad when you know that there is no end to my love for you all I feel like sume times no body in the world didn't care for me but I know all do.

Why I write to carrie more than any of you is because she writs every week & you all are close together & I think you read the letters.  I cant see why you feel so jelus but I recken you get that from me & can't help it but Cawley quit that if you can fore its a misiberl life to live and you know I love you as my own life.

I love to get a letter from you but that hurt me so bad.

Burtha is hear now irning. She washed yesterday.  Said she was going back to her Mama's tomorrow.  Clinton said tell you he was a pretty boy.

Your Pa pa is building a stall he has built a room & porch to the house.  I think we have got a pretty place now.  We have got plenty good nabors.  We hated to leave Jety & Mamie but we have found plenty just as good.  Jet and his folks spent the day with us sun.

Burtha said tell you she wanted sume of that suggar you had but the wather had bine so bad she hadn't looked after your things but was coming home as soon as she could look after them.

Cawley was so glad to hear Xmas had passed and you all was together.  Cawley you know that does me lots of good to know you all can be together if I can't be with you.

Little old Clinton has growed so much & don't criye at all since hes bine hear.

Well Cawley I will close be a good boy if i never see you again good.

from a loveing Mother

 

This was written from my great, great grandmother Anise Delilah "Lila" BECHAM HUDSON (1861-1954) to her son Cawley Clinton HUDSON (1895/1896?-1974).  At the time Cawley's wife Bertha Mae AULTMAN HUDSON (1894-1974) & Cawley's & Bertha's son James Clinton HUDSON (1920-1935) were staying behind in Bibb & Crawford Counties with  both of their families while Cawley was working down in Dania, Broward County, Florida.  Cawley's sister, Corrye Dalton HUDSON RUCKS (1898-1926) was my great grandmother.  Lila would write to Corrye more than Cawley and he would be jealous!  During this time Cawley also had his sister Alma Estelle HUDSON SMITH (1888-1975), his brother Emery Grady HUDSON (1891-?) and their families down in Dania.  This is who Lila is refering to. 

Lila & eight of her children are buried at Society Hill Cemetery in Crawford County.  By the time Lila died at 93 years, 2 months, and 2 days her only known living children were Cawley & Alma. Her son Grady caught a train one day and was never heard from again.  Her children Corrye, Jimmy, Johnnie, Ivy, the twins and the baby all died before her, several of them in tragic accidents.  Cawley & Bertha's only child Clinton died from pneumonia in 1935.