JOHNS, Florence to Minna W. Gauss - 1961-04-30
From Gauss and his Children
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Letter
Envelope
From:
- 524 W. Elsmere Place
- San Antonio 12, Texas
To:
- Mrs. Fred L. Reeves
- 212 W. Walnut
- Brinkley. Arkansas
Body
524 W. Elsmere Place
San Antonio 12, Texas
30 April 1961
Dear Minna:
I am sending this letter and should have written before even though you are not allowed to read. I feel badly about it but certainly hope the operation is a big relief to you and that everything goes well. You write so beautifully that now one would ever suspect that you had trouble seeing. Glover keeps talking about an operation but the Doctor says he is not ready yet. The reason I had not written is because I went down with an attack of intestinal flue and a bladder infection. How they both arrived at once is more than I know. but it has been very weakening and even hard for me to keep up with my part time job. Perhaps Fred will read this letter to you. I am also sending a paper that perhaps you all do not get in Arkansas, it states it is a Texas paper. However, we have two and this paper has a lot of information in it that I enjoyed reading. Do not bother about returning it or even disturb yourself about writing until everything is right for it.
I am also sending a bulletin from my church where I managed to creep in today after being so weak. Also a bulletin from the First Presbyterian Church where Glover goes every Sunday that he can. He joined that church many years ago but lost contact, being in the service, now wonders why he does not know more people. One day it so happened that he got to shake hands with the preacher and the preacher said he had not seen him there very often. He told him he had belonged to that church for sixty years. The preacher told him to sign one of those fellowship cards they have in the pews and someone would call on him. Well, Glover said if he cant bear to call somebody's attention to it, let it go. We had to tell Glover that people are dropped from the rolls of the church after a yar or so. Anyway I guess it does him no harm to go to church. Arthur and Sister belong to First Church, Sister is not able to go often and Arthur is too lazy but he does go now and then just to see how many of the old members are there and if someone speaks to him he says I have belonged to this church a long time and challenges them. I go to church regularly. Another thing, the members of the Johns family, this part, that still belong or I should say, go to the Presbyterian church are this family, Jack and his wife, and Herndon Durfee Johns, Warren's son, and his wife. At least they were the last time I heard. Every other person, in-laws, nieces and nephews and their children are Episcopalians. It all seems so very strange when I read Grandpa Johns' diary and his devotion to the Presbyterian Church. However, it appears to me that the Presbyterians are running a close second to the Episcopalians in form of worship.
Must stop and rest a little and am keeping my fingers crossed. Maybe when Mrs. Leathers gets hold of some information that is in the diary and which I am copying parts of it for her she may turn up with something else. She told me she is returning to Virginia this summer for more searching. Phooee on Winston. She has not heard from him. I will just keep a searching but guess it is tough going. I cannot even locate my own mother's father's family and have had the census' checked on that. The reason for this is that we know only his name and to get his father's name he would have to be listed with him and none of them give James Warren Tutt, many James' but that is not conclusive.
With love,
Florence
Source
Typewritten original in the private collection of the Chambless family. Transcribed to softcopy by Susan D. Chambless, 1999.
