<< Back to Stories 1913 Love LetterCurtis at about 16 years oldGertrude Truett Hogsett A love letter to Gertrude Truett Hogsett (great grandmother) from Curtis Hogsett (great grandfather) dated 1913. It reads: In two years I have loved you so awful much and because you’re just nineteen I have just lots more years to love the sweetest girl in the world. I send these little gifts with the assurance that you will never have enough birthdays for me to love you all I want to. Your own, Curtis