Mr. Watson Caufield,
Robertson County, Texas. Jan. lst, 1872
Dear Sir:
I received a note on last Saturday from Wiley Jones, stating that he and
Henry Caufield wished to send their girls back to Nashville to go to
school. Since getting this note, I have decided on going and will take a
great pleasure in taking charge of the girls and seeing them properly
situated and cared for at school and will give all
needful attention and care during the trip and hope it will prove one of
pleasure and gratification to the girls and hope they will be greatly
benefited and prove to be a blessing to their parents.
They can come down any time between the reception of this and the 15th,
or if that is not time enough to get ready, write or telegraph me when
they will be here.
I want you to come down and stay here while I am gone and take charge of
things and merely overlook therm. I have no work particularly on hand.
My land all rented out except a few acres which probably I will have
worked. I have all my matters pretty well arranged thus far. I expect
you to come down and bring me some money that Henry spoke of. Tell Henry
Miller will go up to his ranch and take charge of our horses at any time
he wishes to take them on Elm, so if he concludes to take them down, he
had better write down here to J. W. Miller in my care and he will go up.
I think I will get me a jack while I am gone if they are not too high in
price.
Nothing more of interest to write, we are all well and hope this will
find you all in good health. P. S. Missouri (or Ruffian) (Dunn) that is
Jimmy Dunn's widow is dead. I know nothing of the particulars more than
she had the measles and took a back set or cold.
J. C.
Josephus Cavitt
Volney and Josephus Cavitt were hospitable, in the fashion of the day,
taking to live with their families, many kinspeople, orphans and ones in
need because of economic tragedy.
Volney reared his two nieces, Fanny Cavitt, later Trigg, daughter of
James Alexander and Isabella Jane Lawrence Cavitt, and Lizzie Ann
Cavitt, daughter of Andrew Franklin and Louisa Love Cavitt. Frank had
died in 1863, age 33, and James Alexander had died in 1860, age 28.
Lengthy obituaries, considered by editors necessary and worth the
reader's while in the 1800's, shed some light on the person eulogized.
They were often signed "a dear friend" or "one who knew him well", or
simply an initial.
This tells of the untimely death of the seventeen year old niece Volney
and Clara Cavitt had reared. This truly tragic story was told and
re-told to our generation by James Volney Cavitt's wife, Annie Taylor
Cavitt. With Lizzie's death, one entire family ceased to be a part of
Cavitt future.
OBITUARY
MISS LIZZIE ANNA CAVITT, daughter of Frank and Louisa Cavitt, was born
in Wheelock, Texas, November 30th, 1862, and died in Nashville,
Tennessee, September 28th, 1879. She was on her way to attend school in
Virginia. By the advice of physicians she had stopped in Nashville to
have an operation performed for
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