The Peratt and Houchen Families
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I’ve now come to the small box that contained some very flashy and beautiful pieces of jewelry. I have no delusion of thinking that these are anything other than costume jewelry (except one small earring that I will get to in a later post) but they are exceptional just the same. I’m making an assumption…Read more
Austin’s brother, Luther, writes about the details of his mother’s funeral and how their father, Silas, would go into her room time after time and weep. The inconsistency in the color of the pages is due to having to adjust the contrast and color in order to make these letters as legible as possible.
Oh boy. In trying to find some background to this postcard, I managed to find that there are many versions of postcards with this saying on it and, also, at least one song with those lyrics. Not sure how Laura felt about this when she received it from “C.S.” back in 1910.
Nurse Leva or Lena Enke writes again to the Peratts, a few months after the death of Vernard.
Emma writes Austin regarding their brother, Luther’s, expected death. I believe that I read in another letter that he was eaten up with cancer but I can’t be certain. I will update this if I am able to specifically track that information down.
This is a letter from one of Vernard’s nurses from the Boulder Colorado Sanitarium. The Peratts seemed to have made an impression on Miss Lena Enke as she writes to them a few weeks after Vernard’s passing. She also wrote again in July. The notes in the last picture on this page are from Lula,…Read more
Emma, Austin’s sister, writes about a wedding in 1938. She has included a newspaper clipping which includes the names of the wedding party and family. The coloring is due to my attempt to make these as legible as possible.
Throughout this site there will be many references to Vernard Austin Peratt, the youngest child of Flavious Austin and Mary Lula Belle Peratt. Vernard was born in 1906 with Type I Diabetes. He was a good student and seemingly well liked but was often sickly. In April of 1921 his parents took him by train…Read more
A relative from Kentucky writes in November of 1939
A letter from Emma, Austin’s sister, describing the circumstances surrounding the events prior to and after the death of their mother in 1915.