Read about this series of posts, regarding items in a box originally owned by Belle (Lamunion) Fellows Tinker here. The cast of characters is located here. And, there is an accounting of people about whom I have little information here.
Postmark: Mesick, Mich Oct 2, 1908?
Addressed to:
Mrs. Bell Fellows
Manton
RfD No 1
Bell george aint bin seen
here since him
& hazel was here
yours respet
George w Jones
Belle must have been looking for her brother George Lamunion. Hard to tell why, or where else she inquired about him. George lived at Belle’s home according to the 1920 census. At the time of the 1910 census he was living and working in a lumber camp in Boardman Township, Kalkaska County, Michigan.
In this day of instant communication it’s hard to comprehend. It must have been very frustrating to have to wait for mail and have relatives that didn’t send word of their movements!
Apple’s last blog post..Tombstone Tuesday – John Earle
My daughters, ages 33, 35 and 38, found the delay in communication hard to imagine. We do know all, instantly these days.