Copy of a copy of a letter from Abraham Hunsaker to his cousin, Harrison Hunsaker, in Portland, Oregon.

Honeyville, Box Elder Co., Utah
Nov. 26, 1886

Cousin Harrison,

It is with pleasure that I pen you a few lines. We are all well at present. Hope this will find you all the same.

I was delayed at the Yaquina Bay, waiting for the ship to leave. Well, when I got on the ship and went out to sea, I was very sick. Did not get well when we landed in Frisco. I thought I wasn't able to go down to visit your father and uncle, as I did not have their full address. I felt quite disappointed.

The persecution is still going on against us, thicker and faster. We expect it will continue for three or four years yet. By that time we as a people will likely be stripped of most all our property. But this is God's Kingdom, and He will send a deliverer and will redeem us out of the hands of our enemies, when we are humbled enough. I humbly pray that God will enable you to see the right way of life and that you may escape the judgment that God is beginnin to pour out on the nations of the earth, for great pestilence, earthquakes, cyclones, wars, and bloodshed. The time is truly close at hand, when he that will not take up the sword to fight against his neighbor, will have to flee here to Zion for safety. The United States is trying to destroy us as a people, or the Holy Priesthood, but they will never succeed, for this Kingdom will stand whilst all others will crumble and fall, for we will never give up our religion, though we may have to go to the pen with thieves and murderers, as our Saviour was crucified between two thieves, also by law, as "Uncle Sam" is serving us.

My son that was on a mission in Switzerland [Joseph] has come home. He has got some four or five thousand names of projenitors and connections. We find that our second great grandfather, Hartmann Hunsaker, left Switzerland in 1730, with his wife, Barbara Miller, and his son, John, our great grandfather. Our first great grandmother's name is Magdaline Biry. I have given you the geneaology of the children on another sheet. Your grandfather, Joseph, and my grandfather, Jacob, are two of their children. I will give you the name of my second great grandfather and his wife, children's names and who each one married. John married Magdalena Biry.

Elizabeth Hunsaker married Jacob Gath, Vienna married John Rolph, Orscal Hunsaker married a man by the name of Landers, Mary married Casper Rowland, Any married Lewis Molar, Catherine Hunsaker married John Biry. Those were married in Pennsylvania. I have not got any of the girl's geneaologies in the U, S. My son has five or six thousand names which he got in Switzerland and he did not get perhaps one quarter as he might. But his way was hedged up for the present so he came home, being quite tired, having been on a mission some two years before he went to Switzerland, but I hope he will be able to go again so I can get a tollerable full history of our family. I think some of publishing a book if I am able to do so. My brother Jacob write to me telling me that he had a letter from your folks in California, saying that they had information from the East saying there was a large Estate in Switzerland for the Hunsakers in America. I think its all a hoax. I think it all started through jealousy by some of them who said that I had perhaps heard there was something comming to the Hunsakers and I am working to get it, having my son in the old country working at it. But I place no such good, more I haven't any idea.

May God bless you all
From your cousin
ABRAHAM HUNSAKER