A Tree Grew in Oakland

Wishing you a Merry Christmas.  Series 347 D.

Post marked Detroit, Mich.  Dec. 20, 1918.  Addressed to Private Lee G Weaver, Quartermaster Office, Fort Terry, New York.  [the address was crossed out and 91 Tireman, Detroit, Mich. was written]

“Trust you are enjoying good health and trust you will be home for Xmas.  Many of the soldiers are attending the church this Sabbath.  500 at Ford Hospital.  Wishing you a Merry Happy Xmas.    A. V. Vondermels”

A Chirstmas card from a friend to Grandpa Lee  while Grandpa was serving in World War I — It appears he was home for Christmas since the card was forwarded there.

I’ve been thinking very hard what to write upon this card, I’m weary of the same old rhyme one always sees at Christmas time; You’ll know I love you just the same, if I simply sign my name.    Whitney Made.  Worcester, Mass.   

No post mark [not mailed].  No addressee [message written across both sides of the card]

“Dear Lella M Weaver [Leila Marie Weaver].  We are so disappointed by not seeing you.  If you don’t need any close [sic.] or anything put this one D. in the Bank.  It would not buy very much anyway.   I am feeling some better today,   I have not been able to see Aunt Rose [Roseanah Weaver Fisher] for 4 weeks, she is not well at all.  Good by.  Be a good girl.”

Leila was born in 1919, so this card is probably from that year or 1920 at the latest.  Aunt Rose recovered and lived until 1931.   Leila was the daughter of Lee G and Florence Koontz Weaver.   Even though the front of the card said “You’ll know I love you just the same, if I simply sign my name. ”  the sender did not.   I suspect it was from Aunt Teen [Christiana Weaver Rinehart Schwartz]

A Merry Christmas

No post mark [not mailed].  No addressee [message written across both sides of card]

“Dear Sister, will send you a dollar for to buy yourself a Christmas present.  I did not know what to get, now you get whatever you like.  Hope this will find you well and able to eat a big dinner.  I have had the gripa for a week – don’t feel very well yet.  Rose A Fisher [Roseanah Weaver Fisher]”

Aunt Rose, Great Grandfather Lemuel Weaver’s sister, and Aunt Teen seem to have gotten their cards from the same source.  This one was sent to Great Grandmother Effie Lee Weaver.  It also appears to be in the pre-1913 era.   The $1 in 1913 would be the equivalent of about $25 today.    It would also seem the two sisters, Christiana and Roseanah both had the same health issue this year.

A Merry Christmas.

No post mark [not mailed].  No addressee [message written across both sides of card]

“Dear Brother, I am sending you a little prize of money to buy yourself a little something for Christmas as I did not know what you might like.  So now you get just what you want and I will be pleased with it.  So be shure [sp.] to not eat so much turkey as to make yourself sick.  Your sister, Christeen [Chirstiana Weaver Rinehart]”

The card is from the same line as the one posted yesterday so I am guessing it was from the same Christmas that Aunt Teen sent cash.  This was a gift to Great Grandfather Lemuel Weaver.

A Merry Christmas.  

No post mark [not mailed].  No addressee.

“Hellow Lee [Lee G Weaver],  Now when you get this dollar, don’t you go and get that girl of yours something with it.  You put it in the bank or get something you need with it.  I would if I got something and sent it but I have been sick with the gripa for two weeks and did not get any shopping done.  Love to all.  Auntie Rinehart [Christiana Weaver Rinehart].  Come down when you can.”

Aunt Teen, Great Grandfather Lemuel Weaver’s sister, married Uncle Charlie Schwartz in 1913, so this Christmas Greeting predates 1913.

Why Christmas Cards in May?  Simple.  This is the end of Grandpa Lee’s Post Card Collection.  I have posted all but these last few on this blog.  I will complete the collection in the next couple of weeks, send it off to be printed, and pick a new topic to blog in early June.  But until then, Merry Christmas!