Amanuensis Monday: Letter from Daisy Ford Green 1993

This weekly blog post was inspired by Amanuensis Monday, created by John Newmark of the Transylvanian Dutch blog. The word amanuensis means "A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another."  

Why transcribe? Genealogists transcribe letters, postcards, and documents to focus on slowing down and noticing those hidden details, to create a readable backup for fragile records, and to share the evidence with others.                                                                                 --------------------------------

This is a 2-page letter from my Aunt Daisy (Auntie) to me dated January 29, 1993. She is giving me information on where my great-grandmother is reported to be buried. 

Physical Description
Document Type: Handwritten personal letter (2 pages)
Condition:

• Two handwritten pages written in dark ink.
• Paper is aged with overall yellowing and discoloration consistent with age.
• Numerous creases and fold marks are present.
• Small stain on page 1 about mid-way of the page. Minor staining throughout.
• Page 1 has a folded lower-left corner resulting in obscuring a word.
• Page 2 has a folded lower-right corner resulting in some loss of paper.
• Several words are difficult to read because of handwriting rather than damage.
• Some letters or words have been marked through and illegible and have been marked with [crossed out: illegible].
• Original spelling, capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and line breaks have been preserved.

The transcription:

                1-29-93
     Dear Renita I talked to Lola
and to your daddy today about
were Grand Paws Mother was
buried Clay sad it was in the

one going toward Grinville I thonk it was called the lantom Cemetry I not sure but Lola sad she was out at the some one that Grand Mother Ford and Claton and aunt Lela. just so you well no were I am talking about Lola sad she was eather put on aunt Addie’s and [crossed out: illegible] Uncle Will. Allgood’s lot that is Grand Paws sister Addie that was her first husbon. or on Uncle John Wickliffe lot whoe was Grandpaw’s Brother Clay sad him and Moma went to this other Cemetary while they lived at Quinlon but he sad the graves was hard to find that they were not marked good so I still don’t no for sure [I] belive Aunt Jonnie is buried in that

[Page 2] one Clay was talking about you no she [crossed out: illegible] was Grand Maws sister and her first husbon name was Arnold Joe Arnold you rember [crossed out: illegible] Verda [crossed out: illegible] Nixon that big moma used to talk to that lived in Dallas, well Joe and Jonnie was her Mother ond dad and she has a brother Jessie that lives in Quinlon if he is still living [crossed out: illegible] he lives on out that road were the Cemetry is werer Aunt Lela s’ buried you mite see if he has a phone. and see if he could till you were the Cemetry is that is on between Quinlon ond Grenville I don't no if any of this will help you are not hope it will.   just thought I would rite it down     love you Aunte.

The source citation for this letter is as follows:

Daisy Ruth (Ford) Green (Corpus Christi, Texas) to "Dear Renita" [Renita Ford Collier], letter, 29 January 1993; privately held by Renita Ford Collier, [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE,] Terrell, Texas, 1993.