To Mattie
Chelsea, Iowa
April 1, 1885
I wish you health,
I wish you wealth,
I wish you golden store,
I wish you heaven after death,
I cannot wish you more,
From your old friend
C. Covell
Age 70

"From the autograph album of Martha M. "Mattie" Roach of Chelsea, daughter of Fred and Eliza J. (Hutchins) Roach. She married Samuel T. May in Toledo, Tama County, in 1891."

Submitted by: Bob Hutchins tecxas@earthlink.net