Submitted
by: Frances
Limozaine
The below copied "Album" was described as a small book, with a green velvet cover, that David Glosson, great-grandson of Mitchell Glosson discovered among his own families treasures. When reading the very brown paged written in pencil, I recognized many members of our related families. Mitchell Glosson's mother was Porter Christiana Keenan; the twin sister to my great-grandmother Frances Adreana Keenan who married William Alexander Pruett in 1871. The little "book" was apparently a Christmas gift to Myrtle Hamilton, the daughter of William Washington Nelson Hamilton, granddaughter of David Porter Hamilton and Sibella Griffin.
Many in Gibson County will also recognize names of their family members.
Page 1 - Date: Dec 25, 1891
For Myrtle Hamilton
A place for my name in your album
A place for my love in your heart
A place for us both in heaven
Where true friends never part
(signed) Mitchell Glosson
(personal note: they were married in 1894)
Page 2 - Dear Myrtle,
May your future days be bright and happy is the wish of your friend. (signed) N. A. Hamilton
Page 3 - dated 25 Dec 1891
Miss Myrtle Hamilton
My love if you were a turtle dove
a sitting on a tree
I'd make a line of silver twine and
draw up to me.
(signed) your best friend W. W. R.
Page 4 - dated Feb. 25, 1892
Miss Myrlte Hamilton
Dear Cousin,
Night and day's have past
And many hills and valley's part
But the dear affections I hold for you
Shall never leave my heart
Your loving cousin, until death
Stella
Page 5 - Remember me,
When far, far off,.......unreadable....
signed "friend of yours"
Page 6 - July 13
When distant,
When absent,
When a stranger you see
May this little token remind you of me
For the happiest hours I ever knew
Dear Myrtle, I spent them with thee
(signed) your friend, Gus Farmer
Page 7 - Dear Sister,
May you never know a sad tomorrow,
Your loving sister, Tabbie Hamilton
Page 8 - (scribbled in right corner "Miss Myrtle" dated 1-15-1893
Dear friend,
Remember me as one of your best friend.
(signed) M. F. Glosson
(personal note; they were married in 1894)
Page 9 - Cousin Myrtle,
When you get married and live up stairs, don't take
the big head and put on airs!
Your Cousin, Katie S.......(unreadable)
Page 10 - Dear Cousin,
I shall ever remember with much pleasure
the many happy hours spent in your society
Remember me kindly,
(signed) lovingly, Ellen Robert....
Page 11 - Dear Myrtle,
In the golden chain of friendship
Regard me as one substantial link
Your Cousin,
Love Matthews
Dated - December the 25th, 1891
Miss Myrtle Hamilton
Dear Friend, I thank God today for the prospects that I have for
heaven for it is with you today and thank God for the kind
protections that He has placed over you in your affections
Jessie Maupin
(no date)
When distant calls me away and I can.....no longer,
I shall please read these lines and think of me and
in return I shall think of thee. Alice Rawlett (???)
(no date)
May your life be loving and happy, and bee at your
ease and get a good husband and do as you please
Cousin
D.C. Pruett (grandfather of Frances Pruett Limozaine)
(Humboldt, Tennessee)
(no date)
Miss Myrtle,
Dearest one,
some roses are red, some are yellow
you are the girl that stole my fellow
Sallie P.
Dated Jan 2, 1892
Miss Myrtle
Marry for love, not for money
beware of the lad that calls you honey
Yours most sincerly,
Eddie Tonsil (?)
Mt. Pelia, Tenn.
No date - Cousin Myrlte Ha_____
be a good girl
you will make a true woman
Your cousin,
C. P. K.
No date - Dear Myrtle,
If ever you marry,
A broom to you I will send
In Sunny weather use the brushy part
And in the stormy, use the other end,
Your cousin
No date, heading or signature
While sailing down the stream of life in yur little
fast cannoe, may you have a pleasant trip for just room
enough for you and me
Newton, Tenn.
Dear Cousin,
(message unreadable)
signed: Your cousin, Becky Fulghum
Miss Myrtle,
When on this page you chance to look, think of me
and close the book,
Your cousin'
Gracie Pruett ( there is no date on this; appears to have been written by someone holding one's hand; Gracie Puett was b. 1893)
next page unreadable
signature Tom DeBerry
Dear Cousin -
May the white hands of angels
ever guide and protect thee
is the wish of your loving cousin
Melia Warmath (June 26th 1892)
Dear Cousin Myrtle,
I dip my pin into the ink and I grasp your album bright
but for my life I cannot think one single word to rite,
Millard Keenan
Written on inside of "Album Cover"
Dear Sister,
When on this page you chance to look
just think of me and close the book
May God Bless you