Letters from LaBelle

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Documenting my discoveries in family history as I read through 885 letters hand-written by my long deceased great-grandmother between 1961-1975. Click to read Letters from LaBelle, by Helene, a Substack publication. Launched 2 months ago.

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In 2021 I was gifted with an unexpected treasure trove of family memorabilia in the form of nine shoeboxes worth of hand-written letters penned by my great-grandmother between 1961-1975. When I added this gift to the letters I had discovered a few years earlier when my mother had passed away, I found that had over 885 weekly family letters written by my great-grandmother. This site is setup to record the insights, discoveries, and even a few personal memories that I am gleaming in the process of reading through her letters in chronological order. My great-grandmother was May Emma Northcutt Hinkson (1880-1975). She lived in the small farming community of LaBelle, MO.