Dear loving Ella & family (underlined)

I am feeling fine today hope you all are well too the rest of the folks are well.
I had the nicest time yesterday. We went and spent the day and dinner furnished
there were singers there from seven counties and it was in the school building
and not room in the house for all that were there.  I couldn't sing, but enjoy it
all the same. I wished for all my absent ones to be there to help me enjoy it.
I have lost my voice till I can't sing any more not wen at home.

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We has a right good rain last week, and crops and gardins doing fine. Carl, Nola
&  their two children are visiting here, they have two children a boy going to
school and a two year old girl, they all don't want me to go to Ft. Worth till the
weather gets cooler.  Vivian has a school near Cleburne, but, has not started
yet. My eyes have failed of late till I can't hardly see my way. My health is
very good though I've not seen Lina in sometime, they said she was at the ......
yesterday but I didn't see her, there was so many there. I wish you could visit
me once more, but I know times are hard, write often to your loving mother.

M.E. Burdette
 

The "Carl and Nora" mentioned are Carl and Nora Mc Neil. Nora was her
granddaughter. Nora's mother was Susan Elizabeth (Betty) Burdette Jordan.
The Jordan's had seven children and lived in Meridian, Texas.

"Vivian" is also her granddaughter, a sister to Nora. The Mc Neil and the  Jordan
families are buried in the Meridian Cemetery, as are grandma and grandpa Burdette.
(M.E. and B. A. Burdette)  "Lina" is a daughter to great grandmother. She was
married to Frank C. Gandy and they had twelve children.

Interesting to note this letter was written on her 85th birthday. I have a copy of the
transcribed newspaper article about her daughter Betty Jordan throwing her a
surprise birthday party that day. When this letter was written, she was a widow,
grandpa B.A. Burdette died in 1921.