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
April 11. 1894.

Dear Mary,
I received your letter several days ago and was very glad to hear from you. I have gotten so that I don't like to write at all I guess I have gotten lazy don't you?  It has been snowing here all day, but it is not very cold.  I received a letter from Mama the other day.  She said she would tell us the first of this week when she would come home.  We are getting awful tired of staying way from her and Papa so long. Cousin Sallie, Cousin Mary and Nellie Rhea & Nellie and Faw all spent the day here last Thursday and in the evening cousin Callie, cousin Mary & Julia went up in town and Lucille McLanglin came down here and George Wagner and with James, Eugene, King, and I there were eight of us and you know we had a grand time. Wilia went home day before yesterday and Julia and I liked to worked ourselves to death cleaning up her messes.

How many people did you April fool on April Fool Day?  I wrote Julia's name on a piece of paper and put inside of it "April Fool" And Joe went a wrung the door bell and I went to the door and gave the note to Julia and made her think it was from one of the young men to take her to prayer meeting.   And when she opened it and saw "April Fool" on it she looked as funny.   Yes we put an empty dish on the table and it fooled Charlie. Yes I get pretty tired of hearing Julia and cousin Titia talking about training Lyons and cultivating Newberrys.   But I don't hear much of it now for cousin Titia went home about a week ago. Yes Julia got the silk thread you sent her.  Cousin Titia and Frannie Grant were up here day before yesterday evening and also Annie Murphy and we played croquet nearly all evening. I don't know if I will come to commencement with Julia or not but I hope I will.  

Eugene stayed all night with us last night it rained all evening yesterday evening. It snowed one minute and rained the next and sun shined the next don't you think that is funny weather.  Write soon.
Addie Wagner

Footnotes:
1. Mary, to whom the letter is written was a 1st cousin of Addie's. She graduated from Shorter College with her sisters Carrie and Julia.  She was Joe and Sallie Wagner's daughter.
2. Cousin Sallie is Sarah Faw
3. Cousin Nellie is Nellie Rhea sister to Mary Rhea. This Mary is refered to later as Cousin Mary.
4. Nellie and Faw were brother and sister Nellie and Walter Wagner Faw.
5. George Wagner is a brother to the Mary to whom the letter is sent.
6. James and King are Addie's brothers.
7. Eugene is Eugene Donnelly.
8. Charlie is another of Addie's brothers.
9. Titia is Titia Rhea sister to Nellie and Mary in #3.
10.Titia must be dating a Lyons, and Addie's sister Julia is dating a Newberry whom she later marries.  Do you get the pun of training Lyons and cultivating
Newberrys?