Friend Mattie
Do eight and fear not
God will reward you
From your Friends
H. E. Covell
Chelsea Iowa
May 22nd 1884
"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."