FORDS CHAPEL CEMETERY,
Stovall/Yarbrough Rd., MADISON COUNTY, ALABAMA
"A letter written by our Father C. C. Carroll to Johnnie, Martha, and Sammie."
June 11, 1864
My Dear Little Children;
I now take up my pen for the first time in my life to write you a few lines to
let you know that your Pa dearly loves you and to let you know that I am well at
this time and hope these few lines will reach you in due time and find you and
your dear Mother enjoying the best of health and all the blessing of an all wise
and all merciful God or Father and I pray for you as one that loves you dearly
that the great God of mercy may throw the mantle of his redeeming love around
you and shield and protect you from all harm and danger and that He may imprint
in your hearts while yet young and tender to love and fear him, our great and
blessed Savior and I ask you as a Father that loves his children to remember,
(when you grow old enough) that you have a blessed Savior in Heaven, that he has
protected from birth down to the present time and I ask you to give him thanks
for his kind blessings and tender mercies that he has already bestowed upon you
dear children. Again I ask you to respect and obey your Ma and Grandpa and
Grandma, and all your Aunts who are with you for I am satisfied that they will
teach you nothing contrary to the worship and will of God.
Amanda I ask you as a kind and obedient and dearest of all this world to me, to
keep this letter and read it to your little children often when they grow old
enough to know what it means, and teach them to pray, and I ask you all to pray
and pray with out ceasing for it the righteous scarcley is saved where will the
unholy sinners appear.
Dear Children if I never see your faces again you will know my fealing toward
you, though I trust in the Almighty God, His will be done not mine. May God
bless and save you all is my prayer for Christ sake.
I remain you loving Father till death.
C. C. Carroll
Copy - May 5th, 1935 by Julia Carroll Vessels
Copy - August 25, 1960 by Ardenia Wilbourn"
As compiled again by: Cathy Harrison 22 Oct 2015
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Streets 2004, modified for this site by Wayne Austin 6 Aug 2017.