1942 - A Year End Letter from Nellie (Ellen) Carter Upton - Part 1

At the end of November, Nellie Carter Upton sent a newsy letter to her grand-daughter, Margaret Upton Waning.   Nellie's loving and caring personality shine through her writing.  I have transcribed the letter keeping the original spelling and punctuation intact.

Envelope

Letter - Page 1

"Nov 30 - 1942

R#1 Spring Creek Pa

Dear Margart & Jim & Family

I have been Trying to get time to Write to you for a long time but it seems as though Something Just Steps in the Way but it is Snowing Rill hard it is Just Geting Ready far the people that Hunting deer The deer Season comes in tomorrow they can track the deer Jimmy is planing on going the School gives the Boys leaves to go Hunting the first day to Hunt deer & not Miss School it is Just Warm Enough to Snow Rill hard Well Thanksgiveing is over Ross1 & Jennie & Girls came down & We had dinner toGather & Ross Wired the Silo & chicken coop2 So We could have a light in them..." 

Letter - Page 2

"...it is Very handy Just press a button & you have a Good light We do Apreciate Electric & our hard surface Road but it seems to go to be true to be so blessed  Well you can See By the date how long it has been Since I Started this letter it Snowed us in So I couldn't Get this Mailed the Mail dident go through for nearly a Week the Snow plows Was So buisy they Went through one Way Saturday Night & Just after they got by our place they broke down & couldent Get through untill Monday night they came up Monday & fixed it So they could come back Monday night isent it terrable So Much Rational Bussiess3 Sugar Coffee Gasolene & they are going to Butter & Meat & ties & I dont Know What Next & a Farmer cant get Machenry nor..."  



Letter - Page 3

"..help So I dont know What the people are going to do for Something to Eat  Very soon for it takes a year to grow Most of the Stuff Well Ellen4 Wrote to me & told me Jim had come out the hospital & they had brought him home I bet you Were so Glad you just could hardly believe it was true I know you Were So Worried & So long it made you allmost sick  I felt So Sorry for you but Now I am So glad he is able to come home  Oh how I do hope he gaines Very Rapidly untill he is in his Good health again  Well We have been Very buisy With the Farm Work all this year   We Built a Very Big Silo & We had More corn that Would fill it..."

Letter to be continued... 

1 - Ross Upton born 1893 - 4th child of James Monroe Upton and Nellie (Ellen) Carter Upton. 

2 - Rural Electrification was a slow business during the War - Ross was an electrician so he was able to hook up elements of his mother's farm. 

3 - Rationing of food and gas and clothing became a reality as the War continued on.

4 - Margaret Upton Waning's youngest sister, Ellen Upton Hall