Document #24

Mr. A. W. Falkenthal                                                                     Ellisville, Fulton Co.

Macomb, Warren Co., Ill.                                                            Illinois

Feb. 16^th 1875

Sir,

            You wrote two letters to my son Robert with reference to that foreign claim.  As Robert is now lying very sick and unable to write he handed me the letters desiring me to answer them.  After examining your letters I found that you asked questions which could not be satisfactorily answered by us.  It being so long since anything has been done or said about the claim; my memory does not serve me to answer your questions correctly.  As respects the estate the last report stated that the estate was in England to which my mother fell heir at my grandmother’s death.  About (75) sevety-five years have elapsed since my grandmother’s death and there having been no correspondence carried on since then causes us to know little of the claim except by report.

            We know not whether the estate was in land or money.  I think it is folly for us to try to pursue it any further and I will take no part in any such effort.

                                                                                    Yours Respectfully,

Transcribed by Andy Miller August 2004