My Darling Emma 1857

Welcome to... My Darling Emma 1857 If you are NEW HERE be sure to read the beginning of the journey I am on transcribing my family's 19th century letter collection!   Lieutenant Griffin Chiles Jr.  (1829-1864)  💙💔🤍 The war hero...  By the age of 30, Griffin Jr. had found himself all the way from the green lush beauty of the Shenandoah Valley to the dry lands of Texas ! He strayed the furthest from home out of all Emma's siblings ...  T exas is where  Griffin Jr.  met and married Prussian native Pauline Julia Bohne  (1836-1898.) She had immigrated to Texas with her family around the age of 9. The couple had three children (one surviving son) and  lived in Huntsville, Texas where  Griffin Jr.   was a carpenter and cabinet maker by trade.    *Interesting note written in the 1960s stated "the late cousin Drury Clevenger who was a nephew of Griffin Jr. of Winchester, VA. owned a small table or stand in which is written...