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    "title": "Letter from Mary Jane Truman to Harry S. Truman",
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        "Bess W. Truman Papers",
        "Family Correspondence Files"
    ],
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        "Truman, Margaret (Mary Margaret), 1924-2008",
        "Hornbuckle, Myra Colgan, 1881-1975",
        "Truman, Bess Wallace, 1885-1982",
        "Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962",
        "Truman, Luella, 1887-1978",
        "Truman, J. C. (John Curtis), 1912-1989",
        "Swoyer, Martha Ann, 1919-2008",
        "Truman, Martha Ellen, 1852-1947",
        "Andrews, Charles Oscar, 1877-1946",
        "Truman, J. Vivian (John Vivian), 1886-1965"
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    "ocrText": "last mights paper that Dn. Pickard died rather my\nthe pagsin said he was seventy ight or nine, I've Ingotten\npictedly. However he has been pretty feeble you same time\nwhich hat Ireally thought he was lots older than that He\nlooked a lot older than Mama. Ans. M.M. Vincent did\nTuesday or Widnesday, you remember used to be Mrs. Eaton\nthe paper said the was seventy night. I thought she\nwas nearer Mame's age hut Mama sand she Know she was\nqmite a lot younger. Her funnal was at PAS. Hagerman's\nyesterday morning; she had Rem rick several months ago\nht they thought The was lots better and w it was rather\nSunday morning and had placed flowers an the mignt\nimpossected. This Campbell said she was at church last\nin memory of his son busswill\nIntended to go to White Shine last night as I have it been\nlike going to the Dwalls and waiting for me so Intayed home. you\nall year hit did nt have anyone to go with and Thama chd it ful\nsee An and Mrs. Wagner used to take the all the time but Mrs. Wagner\nand Ans. Makin has had seme dental work dune that made hu rich\ndid this past and no as thadge and Ruby are both away\nthere was no and else left who belongs to the Shine\nI I must close and try to get some other letters off I have\nbeen awing In too long now.\nWith lots of love ham\nMama and Many Jam."
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