📄 Letter, Fred Bunting to Sumner LaRue Tone, Sep 5 1936
Wellsville O
9-5-36Mr. S. La Rue Tone
Dear Mr. Tone
Just got back from the cemetery where I inspected the job as you requested and found all the head stones in first class order.
Mr. Baker called me the day he was ready to pour the foundation - there never had been anything under Margret Tunreadable Williams grave stones, the foundation now is concrete five feet deep-- he also put concrete foundations under the children of Oliver Torrance and Amanda's headstones three feet deep-- it being not necessary to go deeper as that depth reached rock. After setting the stones it made the lot looked bad [?] and I agreed to pay him five dollars to fill in the lot-- fertilize and plant seed at the extra cost as I have mentioned above.
Mr. Tone I feel that if you are ever able to come down or any one you might send will be satisfied with the work, and I want you to feel free to ask me to do any little favor here you are unable to take care of yourself.
You probably will be getting a bill in a few days from Mr. Baker - I have paid him the check $28.00.
Resp. Yours
Fred C. BuntingP.S.
I want to thank you and Cousin Helen on your kind letters - my Mother to me was the biggest inspiration in the world. I am terribly lonesome and I know it will take a long time to over come it.
Notes:
- Fred C. Bunting (1883-1945) was the son of William Allison Bunting (1852-1920) and Sue Conn (1854-1936). William Allison was the son of Elizabeth Torrence (1835-1907) and Alexander Bunting (1827-1908).
- Fred's mother had died about a month before this letter was written.
- "Oliver Torrence" is Oliver Perry Torrence (1835-1871)
- "Amanda" is probably Amanda M. Torrence (1826-1907). Amanda "Melvina" Torrence (1855-1934) does not seem to have lived or died in Ohio. Also see the receipt below.
- "Cousin Helen" is probably Helen B. Torrance (1875-1958)
Probably related to this letter is a receipt for a cemetery lot in Wellsville:
October 10, 1905
Received of Amanda M. Torrence, Thirty Dollars in payment for thee-fourths of Cemetery Lot, owned by Oliver P. Torrence in Cemetery at Wellsville Ohio. The remaining one-fourth containing the graves of Marvin C. and Margaret L. Torrence, children of Oliver P. and Elizabeth Torrence to be held by Oliver Torrence Heirs.
Kate A. Torrence
Notes:
- As mentioned above, this is about Amanda M. Torrence (1826-1907).
- The plot was sold by Katharine A. Torrence (1860-1922)
- Also mentioned: Marvin C. Torrence (1853-1854) and Margaret L. Torrance (1865-1866), children of Oliver Perry Torrence (1835-1871) and Elizabeth Edwards (1838-1891).