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a very cleaver and pious lady any person that has become acqua inted with her is pleased, I saw Mrs. Allen she inquired after you all and in fact all the folks did. and well they may for I am always speaking of you and my dearest darling little Shep so they can't even forget you, you know my dear [?] that out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh and there is not a day a place or any thing but reminds me of and brings to mind the happy moments I have spent with you and my baby boy and then the reality stares me in the face that we are seperated so many miles and Oh my God perhaps forever
My dear child when anyone has loved as I have and always shall you [?] it's like a fond mother's being seperated from an only child nothing can fill the aking void that this most can give, and I must confess to you that those that ought to of been kindest and done the most to of made me happy have been most unkind but I am done [this?] much has never escaped my lips before, Uncle William Jones is only my mother's half Brother and she seams more like a relation than any of the rest he is not a man of not many words but he acts kindly and his wife is very kind in her way, Aunt [Fanie?] poor thing has managed very badly and I fear all of her propperty will be sold and then I don't know what she will do for I can't help her without injuring myself and I can't do that for they dress better and have more things than I do and beside she has three grown sons and a daughter to help her and I have no one to help me and my Negroes increase so rapidly that most of them are getting expensive, well I suppose I must say something about my health I am fat and look better than I ever did so everyone says but I am very easy to become hoarse and always have
some cough but I believe I should never [? missing piece of paper] you all more with me, I heard from Mrs [? missing piece of paper] [?] he was very well and will be in [? missing piece of paper] Father's the last of this month he always asks [? missing piece of paper] he says if his life is spared he is comingto see [? missing piece of paper] and I look forward with pleaseure for the time to come for then it will look a little like old times. I had liked to forgotten to tell you Lena has a Daughter and is very well cousin Susan [Mclin?] is with her cousin [?] [?] [?] quite delicate tell Mr. [?Cab?] Mrs McHenry has been [?] a school [?] and been discarded and Mr. Noble is just like he was and where he was when he left & so is Betsy Baskerville and J [?] Belches as much as ever,I expect of course you have heard that Dick [?] spent all his money on [?] himself poor fellow, and [?] my dear Sue you must write to me very soon and say something more about my dear baby [?] [?] when you see Mrs Cabona give my love to her and Jule and Mrs Charles, do if even you hear fromMrs [Cheatas?] tell me how they are and what has become of the Watsons, has Jules and Mr Landford ever got married yet you must kiss Shep all the time for me and tell him how much I love him, and to your good kind neighbors [?] for me that although I have never seen her still I love her because she is kind to you, when you see Mary & Julia tell them howdy for me, and now my dear children I must stop after beging our kind heavenly [parent ?] to [?] [?] [?] and [?] [?] all for his [?] sake and Oh may you be abundently blessed in the sincere [?] [?] that love you most dearly [?][?] my child your [?] Mary [?] Walker
June 21
To Mrs Susan [P?] Cabonne Belleville Illinois Via Washington City
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