Augusta County: George W. Imboden to John McCue,
April 12, 1860
Summary:
Imboden relates ongoings in Staunton and warns McCue "to pay up or the lodge will
expell you for non payment of dues.
April 12 1860
Staunton
Dear John
I have been wanting to write you for several weeks but have putting it off from
time to time and now I will drop you a few lines, we are all well, and I hope
you all are the same, John left for Richmond yesterday to meet his wife,
& they will be at home today. I am anxious to see sister mary and her
big boy. I have but little news to write, poor Sallie
Douglase was buried on last Sunday at Tinkling Spring. I wanted to go down, but
George McPhail came over from Greenwood and I could not go, all the people are
well on the meadows, I have purchased a lot. and am engaged in building a house,
I bot from Mrs. Warden just above the Academy lot, and
will put up a small house three rooms below & two above with a Kitchen
in the basement, I will build it of brick, as it will make a warmer house and
cost but
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little more than frame, and when I get it finished you
& coz. Liz & family must not treat
me the way I have treated you, but must come and see me, though our house will
be small, I hope it will contain large hearts. that will ever be glad to receive
a friend.
John we received your letter addressed to our commitee, and in reply will say
that you are laboring under some misapprehensions in regard to the order, "You
say that you do not think it fair for you to pay after leaving" but you forgot
that you could not have entered any other lodge, or become a member, without
having a visiting card from this lodge, or having taken a withdrawal card, for
one year and renewed the same at the expiration of the year. So you see that you
will have to pay up or the lodge will expell you for non
payment of dues. Mr Patterson tells me that in January before you left
you gave him two dollars, all that you ever paid, Your case will be disposed of
at the next Lodge night, Thursday next, and I wish you to inform me what to
do
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for you, in the premises.
Mr Bill Crawford has spoken to me concerning a claim he has on you, for the hire of a negro and requested me to write to you concerning it. I hope you will come over with your family this Spring to see us all as it seems I will not be able to come to see you as I have often promised.
Give my love to all
In haste Yours Truly
GW. Imboden
