Mittie Bulah Coleman

     Mittie Bulah Coleman, daughter of William Wallace Coleman and Elizabeth E. (Strange) Coleman, was born 18 December 1871 in Lamar County, Texas.^1,2 Mittie Bulah Coleman was the daughter of William Wallace Coleman and Elizabeth E. (Strange) Coleman. Mittie Bulah Coleman married Leonidas Craft Lawhorn, son of Joshua D. Lowhorn and Louisa Stockton, about 1890 in Texas..^1,2 This is a letter from my mother written to my grandmother (her mother) and to her sister Ora Darnell and her stepsister Maud Pearson in 1892
Willie Self

     White Wright Texas
Feb the 6th, 1892
     Dear Mother
After so long a time I will try to ans your letter I would have written before now but I have had the grip and have not been able to write for several weeks We are all up but every one of us have a cold.
     Well Ana(?) we have moved on our place it is not a large farm but it is as good as it can be I am very well satisfied although we have not got much room but when we get our land paid for we can have more room
     We have been having some very nice weather till to day it is raining and that is just what we need is a good rain I think we have had the coldest weather this winter that we have had for a long time
     Some of you wrote that alvin was talking of going to paris has he gone yet and what is he going to do?
     Ma, I got a letter from Milton Mullins last week he never writes a word about his home folks at all but Wilsons folk has moved to paris and ????? is clerking. Well I will just send you the letter if I can find it Whenever you write to John again send him and his wife my best respects
     Tell Mr Pearson that Mr. Lawhorn said tell him that he had two big black mares that would just make his eyes water if he could just see them they are about as large as the carol boys ponies
     Well I guess I will have to write some to the girls or they will fall out with me write soon to your loving daughter
     Bulah

     Maud Dear Sister
I have got the headache very bad but I will try to write you a few lines I want you and Ora to save me up a few pieces of your calico dresses; I am piecing me a baskit quilt tell Mamie and della to save me some to
     Maud I have got the prettiest baby you most ever saw tell Ma that I for got to tell her that the baby looks just like her
     Dear Sister. Bulah

     Well Ora Dear Sister
I will write you a few lines but I haven't much news to write there is a great deal of illness here there is one family here in White Wright that there was four of them died in side of two Weeks Well I will close for this time for the baby is fretting and I can't half write I want you all to write soon and mail it ?????? Your loving sister. Bulah

     PS Maud I will send you a lock of the baby hair² The census of 1 June 1900 enumerated on 22 June 1900 in Precinct 3, Fannin County, Texas, listed Beulah "Lawhorn", who had been married 10 years, with 3 children all of whom were still living, as the 28-year-old wife of Craft Lawhorn.³ Having never recovered from the birth of Palmer Coleman in 1903, Beulah died about three days after the birth. At this time the sickly baby and his sister Willie went to live with their Grandmother, Elizabeth Strange Coleman Pearson. Two months later, little Palmer Coleman also died. Life must have been difficult at best for L. C. Lawhorn and his family. It seems that this family moved frequently and never really had a stable home after the death of Beulah. Some of the older children, from L. C.'s first marriage had settled in North Central Texas in Wilbarger County. At that time, L. C. lived for a period of time in each of the homes of his children² Mittie Bulah Lawhorn died on 23 August 1903 in Whitewright, Grayson County, Texas.^2,4 She was buried in the Blanton Cemetery a few miles NE of Whitewright in Fannin County, Texas.^2,5