Chelsea, Iowa 7-14-89
Mattie Roach,
Esteemed Friend
Those best loved on earth have no friends
to spare. Friendship, hope and love are
the most pleasurable boons in memory's
store. Friendship's ties ever binding.
Hopes longings ever consoling.
Love's motives ever bright
Take these away from human life and
what have we worth living for?
Yours Very Kindly
S. T. May

"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