Addie Boyd Wagner's Letters

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Transcribed by Debby Dyer Neves © 1999, all rights reserved
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Addie Boyd Wagner's Diary

Mountain City
Mar 1. 1893.

My Dear Hugh:
Mamma received your letter and says for me to write to you tonight as she has a headache. I suppose that Charlie is in Athens by this time. I hurt my leg today and cannot go to school.  *Faw  was riding me in the wagon and turned it over and stuck a nail in my leg it went in about a half an inch, and I tell you it hurt.
Faw has been over here ever since Sunday and went home this evening. It snowed here all day Monday and is cold today though it is bright.  King and James have gone to bed and Papa has not come from the store yet. How is Mr. Rambo getting along is he much homesick?  I will have to close as it is getting late.  Write soon.

Aff your sister
Addie Wagner

Footnotes:  
1. Addie's brother Hugh is business school in Poughkeepsie, NY. 
2. Addie will be 10 years old on the 21st of March,1893.
3. Charlie, King and James are also Addie's brothers.
4. Athens is probably Athens Tennessee.  Addie's mother Nellie is from Athens.
The Wagners have also had a business connection with Athens, TN for several
generations.
5. Faw is Addie's cousin, Walter Wagner Faw.
6. Mr. Rambo is Sam Rambo who later worked in the Wagner's store.

** When Addie was an adult she always referred to her cousin Walter Wagner Faw as Walter.  She used Faw for Carrie's grandson, Walter Faw Broyles, the son of Carrie's daughter Hattie Alzenia Faw and Charles Joseph Broyles, MD, was born 1/27/1888.  Walter Faw was much older than Addie.   This is confusing in these letters, especially the one regarding the Wagon accident.  Walter Wagner Faw seems too old for this but Walter Faw Broyles is much too young.