EDGOOSE, Elizabeth

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• Name	EDGOOSE, Elizabeth
  Gender	Female
  Death	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I4303	Edgoose
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2026

  
  

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  EDGOOSE, Elizabeth now STROHMEIER (1858-1944). A Letter from Aberdeen, South Dakota, USA, to her sister Harriet RIGGALL late COCKER born EDGOOSE dated 30 January 1898: "My Dear Sister I recived your very kind letter on Sunday 14th thank you for the recipts. I made a Plum Pudding for Xmas day JIM and ALFRED was here all thaught it very good I have not tried the Cake yet hope to do so soon. We are all well the weather is lovly day after for weeks the bright sun shine there is not a sign of snow or dampness but the nights are cold the children are out playing without wraps on this continued weeks of beautiefull weather suppasses anything I have seen at this time of the year in any place in November and the early part of december we had some cold weather it was from 14 to 24 below zero for that time it was colder than usual Janury and Febury the mercury is 30 to 45 below zero at thimes nearly allways very cold weather so that people scurcly know what to hink of such a snap as this to shorten the winter. Well it seems as if nearly half the people have got the Alaske fever there are hundreds of people going from all parts of the country JIM and ALFRED are talking of going if they do not change their plans thay expect to leave hear a bout March first as there is a number of them going from Aberdeen Dr Mc NUTT is talking of going many very well to do men are going in one party thay are going to the Copper River Country yjay say it is not so cold there the price or cost of out fit is a bout 300 hundred dollars the boys will take a bout four hundred dollars each. I do not blame the boys as (2) if it was 13 years ago when I came to Aberdeen with one thousand dollars all my own and looking for a place to go to if it was then the time to go to then would not be any thing that I would have liked so well as to have gon to that countrtry but it is to late for me I have other Treasures that are more precious than gold to me, well if thay go I hope thay will strike it rich and go to the Paris in 2 years from now as the boys Expect to do, it will be a great pitty if DAVID should Come to this Country and not see ALFRED, but there is JOHN WILLIE and his Father then I think the trip would do them much good as every one fels better for a stay in Dakota except it is in the very hot weather that does not last long, Well My dear Sister I started to write to you same days ago I did not finish it, to day is the 25th of Janury I recived your very welcome letter to day I am so thankfull you are so far over your great trial thank God, it neads strength and currage, Now HARRIET you say you swet you remember Mrs. JOHN ARMSTRONG when she had her first baby Mother was with her part of the time and at the ende of two weeks she swet and was so weak that she would faint as soon as she tried to sit up and mother said she neaded a stimulant she gave her egg and sherry wine a little very 2 or three howers that was the only thing that gave her strength and if you dont take that you aught to take wine and iron you know it was a stimulant that saved mothers valvaluable lif I can rember when you were a baby brother JOHN got her somthing it was called daffres I think it was a kind of a brandy Dr. ROBERTS told her she must tak stimulant and the best nurishing food if she expect to get her strength she wa wawas a very poor Creature for nearly 2 years after she had her finger taken off, I do not belive in saloons(?) but I do belive in stimulants in some cases of sickness the Dr in St. Paul told me to take at times a mild stimulant he said it woulould i it would (sic) help me to get back my strength R. got me half galon of Catawba wine I t..ok a little when I could not sleep it would sooth me and I would go to sleep, in a few weeks weeks (sic) I did not need it after my nerves were resteed I did not wait it and have not had any since I know there are hundreds of lives saved in this Country by the use of whiskey by bathing or rubbing the skin Evry 2 howers, When R. had the Typhoid Pneumonia the Dr told me to put ... ffingers ends in thhe poltice then fill these dents or holes then pour all the whiskey in the poultice I could get on and put the Poultice on as hot as it could be borne then when the worst cane Just before the Change cane the Dr said to get som Whiskey down him if possible it was hard to get any thing down him as was struggling for breath three(?) could not keep him in bed I do belive liquer is good in some cases I belive it is good in the right place and I do think you aught to take ten drops (3) of tincture of iron in half a glass of wine filde up with water this would give you strength, it is a wrong Idea that the the (sic) Child will hav a desire for what the mother Craved or would best a gree with her at such a time I have hard M Mother say she was so sick to her stomach the only thing that she could keep on her stomach was a crust of bread and ber that was all the food of any kind that she could eat and keep it Now you would think that I should be fond of it but I nnevever cared for it and to this day when I go past a saloon in warm weather and the door is open the smell of the beer makes a chil go over me it is very sickining to me you would think that I would hav an apatite for it it is not so, I do thinink the bad appetites for drink or or (sic) any other bad desire is cultivated and practiced untill all the good is gon if it not ovr come by a higher principle, I think it is the right kind of a brining up and many hardships that brings the best faulults out and gives them the best way of seeing life as it is, well I shall be very anxious to here from you so ps write soon we recived the book also the almanack thank you thay are very nice I am keeping thm for the children untill thay are able to take care of them thay are so pretty and I hope thay will a precate them we have a Christmas Tree evry year so far Mrs BURGGETT sent the first one with candles and some pretty things I should not have got one that year I thaught R. was to young to notice it CLARA was over one year but she did not seem to be deligthed with the pretty sight R. was so supprised for som seconds he did not move or say a word after a little while he asked his Papa all kinds o questions a bout it thay ddo look for Santy Claws evry year I got a pine tree about seven or eight foot high for 15 cents the thngs(?) most of them are left so it is not much expence, I think I never saw two children that are moor a like than Clara is she is just the sam same as you where when you where her age she is just like you only that she is darker and has a larger mouth when she first came her eyes was blue and her hair as black as it could be and long enough to brush .....(?) the finger, now her hair is a pretty brown her eyes ar brown Cheeks as round and red, if she dos not get what she wants she will scream and fight she will yell for the least thng if she is hurt or if she canot have her own way R. has to give up to her for picees sake nearrly evry time I have to make her go in the bed room for yelling and wanting every thng she is scarcly in ther when she will say (if) I am good can I come out she is so strong and quick, RICHARD is so very queit and his skin is getting more yellow I think it is the dry climate. I hink if your little PAULE was here he would be better I never felt so well in a damp climate this is a little to dry for it semes that people seem to faid wrinkle and get so gray in a few years girls (of) 20 are faded and shriveled well I think the longer people live here the more thay get like the Indians I think your little FRANCIS EDWARD will be very dark (4) these little ones do change so when thay are little it dos not make much difference a bout the looks if thay have the right principles I hope thay may be a great comfort to you Now R says you seem to be in a great hurry, I think you aught tt to quit now you have got such a nice family, for me I might try it once more so as to keep posted on the business, I have juts been picking up paper I give them old catalogues for thay cut out the pictures for howers 2 of them can make a lot oof p picking up I dont know how it would be with four. I am sure thay will keep you bussy do you hear from Mrs W(?). Miss C. dose she have any family I heard that LIZZIE had a little girl two boys she did not want a little girl I am glad thay haav onne ALFRED said she was som months old when he was ther last summer I do not write so I do not hear much a bout them, we do not have the greenhouse going this winter R. started the hot beds the first of this month that is a bout eight eariler theen other years we shall try to have a great lot more cellery this year if it does as well as it did last year we canot rais plants with the water that gets in to the well from the surface we expect to curb the well so as to keep it out, there are several things that is lettuice cellery and other thngs that pays well and there is good sale for them as much more as could be rased it has taken years to know how to or what would do the best some thngs do so well with the water and other thngs do wel for a time then die off as if thay were scalded, many people say our celery was the finest thay ever had it has such a peasant flavour and so ...st(?) but very small I think we shall know better how to rais it if we are spaired this coming year, I must close with my best wishes kind regards from R. I hope and trust you are gaining be sure not to go into your new house before it is perfectly dry I must say good by this time I remain your ever loving sister BETSY