Documentation:
* Found on Genealogy.com on Jan. 15, 2002 posted by Barry Lee Roach at
http://genforum.genealogy.com/roach/messages/2219.html
Pannell's District, Tippah Co., MS 1856 Tax List
H.O. Roach
Berry Roach
W.E. Roach
T.H. Roach
* Susan Solomon was also married to Reason D. TEAGUE.
* Transcription of a letter
written 21 June 1891 by Henry Oliver Roach of Union Co., MS to his widowed
daughter-in-law Mattie Potter Roach, the latter of whom was then living in or
around Van Buren Co., AR; original spelling is preserved:
"June the 21, 1891 "Keownesville, Union County, Miss.
"Dear Mattie, "I this evening seat my self to write you
another letter. I wrote you a letter on the 3rd day of May 1891 and have ben
waiting to hear from you before I wrote agane. I have got tired waiting and I
thought mabey you never got the letter that I sent you. Those lines leaves us
well and hoping when those few lines comes to hand they will find you all
enjoying the same blessing. I heard that you was going to brake up house
keeping. "I will just say if you want to come out here to live I will come after
you any time. All you have to do is to write me word that you will come. I got a
letter from Joe yesterday theay was all well at the time of writing. We went
down to Hendersons and stayed nearly two weeks and thay was all well when we
left thare. We have had find rains out here for the last two weeks and the
cropes looks find. We are at my mothers to day and thay are all well. Mother
will be 81 years old if she lives to see the 26th day of July. "We would like to
see you varry much. You must write to us all the news that you can get and we
want to know wheather you have broke up house keeping or not. We mooved a way
from Wallerville last spring and we are living on Coad Teague land. We have some
crope corn and potatos and tobacco. Your Mas health is better than it was when
we left thare. I will not write much this time for fear you do not get this. You
must write sune as you get and let us know how "you are getting a long. Tell the
children that Gran Pa & Gran Ma wants to see them vary bad. Tell them to be good
children. As I can not think of any thing else that will interest you much I
will bring my letter to a close for this time. Hopeing hear from you sune. We
remane as ever. Father & Mother "H.O. (&) S.C. Roach "Direct your letter to me
at Keownesville, Union County, Miss.