TX418

CSA #12 (AD) (4-Margin) tied by the Palestine, Tex (Anderson County) CDS 18 MAY. Cover is from the well-known Word Correspondence addressed to Miss Jetty Word Care of Hon Wm M. Taylor, Crockett, Houston Co., Texas. The Word Correspondence contains covers from Mesilla, New Mexico, from the Sibley Expedition. Jetty Word had a brother, Pvt John Jackson Word of Capt Gardner's Company of Steele's Regiment of the Sibley New Mexico Expedition, who wrote letters home to Palestine from the Expedition. This cover is well after the New Mexico expedition and is not from the addressee's brother. Jetty Word's father was Thomas Jefferson Word (1805-1890), a lawyer, a politician, and a signer of the Texas Articles of Secession. The sender of this cover to Miss Word is not identified but could be her father. William A. Taylor was a respected judge in Crockett, Texas. His relationship to the Word family is not known. Sealed tears at the upper left but still  a very clean appearing cover.

$450.00

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