Letter sent by A. Elena Cogdell - ecogdell@sbcglobal.net

Faloma, Oregon

Mar 2, [19]28

Dear Grandson & Daughter

Received your letter and was glad to hear from you I quit taking them treatments and went to a doctor in Portland have been down there for 2 weeks just got home yesterday cnnot say that I am much better yet but still able to be around think it is my old stomach trouble with gas can hardly eat enough to keep me alive and am very shaky and nervous all time don't think I had better come up there until I get better am glad your snow is most all gone so it will not be so disagreeable for you you must have a hard time this winter

I dont know who Anna Good McNeal was without it might be my fathers mother her name was Anne I went back east in the fall of 1916 in September in the spring 1917 was when we that is Oertel Bayliss and I removed my sister from the Sonora Graveyard to Hamburg, Iowa it was then that I looked for other graves but they are hard to find the Grave stones have most all fell down and are buried with sand blown from the Missouri River will draw you a plat of graveyard as near as I can if Anna Good McNeal was my fathers mother she is buried in that graveyard near uncle Thomas McAdams & his wife Betsy we always called her I found them when I was there

with love to all , W.E. McNeal

[plat] shows Uncle James McNeal - Thomas McAdams - my sister Nettie along west edge of cemetery

no there was not a McNeal plot so they are buried just anywhere the graveyard has not been kept up for 35 or 40 years just grown up with shoemaks, elderberry bushes and weeds you can hardly get through them that graveyard is not used any more for burying they bury now at either High creek or Hamburg, Iowa.