John M. Barhan Diary, 1866
Rockford Ill
Tucker Omaha
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1866.
Monday, January 4.
this morning found me at Uncle Johns at the ushering in of the new year the onley new years that I have spent at home or on my native soil for four years I am having a good time her the wind is very raw and cold all day I left there at 3 PM and went down to Cousin Stephen and stade thare til after super then I started to the oister super at Mr John Fosters ariving thare in good time we had a good time thare thare was som sixty that ate super thar we cep it up til after midnight a having a good time till one oclock when we ajourned for this time have to meat again some place elce how difernt to me to what I am youst to
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1866.
Tuesday, January 2.
this morning I dident gow to school in the four knoon I went over to Uncle Jesse Axtells and colected one doler in money for my sister then after diner I helped Uncl Chris git up wood and git redy to butcher and in the evening went with my sister down to Mr John Milers She is a gow gowing to work thare. I then come back home and had a good chil caut at night all goes well with me the wether is cold this morning I got very cold a coming home
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1866.
Wednesday, January 3.
this morning I got up very erly and helped dew up the choers and then helped Uncle butcher in the four knoon after diner I got redy and went to town of K a foot and alone thare I went to the barber shop and got fixed up then I went to Mr N Bixlers whare I got super and had an interduction to Mrs J W Bixler Miss Hatta and Walas Bixler after super we went to the Mite societ thar I had a good time thare is a great deal of amusement thare it was thare that I met one of my army corespondence I think she is a very nice young young Lady. at 11 PM I went to the Depot and took the 12 oclock train a gowing west
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1866.
Thursday, January 4.
I arived at Legonier at 1 AM all safe and sound I then went to a Hotel to stay the rest of the night but couldent git a bed so I layed my fraim down in the bar room and slep til morn. I then got my breckfast and then started out in the country to Mr S M Redmans 5 miles from town ariving thare at 8 AM. it has been a trying to snow all day & night but it is to cold to [faded] it tride to snow all day but it was to cold to make mutch out I went to meting at night at the hen peck School house Mr Carter pretended to preach
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1866.
Friday, January 5.
I staid all night at Mr S M Redmans and started to Legonier at half past 9 AM ariving at the depot in time to take the 11 oclock and 37 minets train agowing east ariving at Wawaka at 12M whare I stoped at Mr Andrew Curry that after knoon I also viseted Ben Currys School I think he keepes a good school and tries to lern his scholers after school I went home with the teacher to Springfield whare I stade all night with William Curry I had a very good time a viseting my old friends how diferent I am engaged a great deal diferent it was it is to day to what I have been youst to for the last four years
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1866.
Saturday, January 6.
this morning I left Springfield and went to Wawaka for the 12 oclock train a gowing east I got on the train and arived at Kendallville all right I thare got oisters and crackers for an oister super then I come out home with Davis Black to his house then I had to cary my things home from thare at home at 4 PM then I don up the feeding and at night went down to Hills School house to a lectur on helth it was very good the wether raw and cold
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1866.
Sunday, January 7.
this morning finds me at home all right I got redy and went with the girles over prair meeting after meeting Alven Foster come home with us he staid till 3 oclock then we went over to Blacks I then went over to Christian Fosters a while but come home at 7 PM to find a number of young people hear just enjoying them selvs the best they know how the wether cold and raw
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1866.
Monday, January 8.
this morning it is the cold coldest wether we have had I went to school to day but sufered with cold all day things past off all right at school at night I went over to Blacks and went with them and got a load of young folks and took to spelling school we had a good time to day has been the coldest day we have had
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1866.
Tuesday, January 9.
this morning the air is very sharp I went to town to git some more things for the super and got home from town at 3 PM then I choped som wood and don the choers and at night went with the girles to spelling school to Waltman School how they had a good spelling when I come home it began to look as if we was a going to have snow
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1866.
Wednesday, January 10.
this morning when I got upp it had been a snowing it was a snowing all four knoon but is most to dry I went to school to day things past smothley
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1866.
Thursday, January 11.
this morning it is a trying to rain and sleet but cant quite make it out I helped do the feeding then I fixed the box on the bob sled and git redy to gow a sleying this evening. I went to school this four knoon and staid till after arithmatick clas had recited ther lesen then I got excused and went home it comensed raining this after knoon but I got redy and went to Kendallville with the team after Miss Sarah and Gussie Meck Miss Hatte Bixler and Mr Walas Bixler to take them to my oister super I got back home in good time with them but it rained all the way thare and back thare was 45 here for super we had a good time if the wether is bad without
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1866.
Friday, January 12.
I started to take my friends home at half past 12M. we had cept the party up till that time I took the spring wagon to take them home in it rained all the way on us but we had the umberelias with us. it was half past 4 when I got home and the horses put away and atended to I got upp about 8 oclock and ate my breckfast and helped do the feeding and then went to school but I dident lern mutch thare school houers past very well onley that I wanted to sleep it keep thawing and raining all day. at night thare was meeting at Mt Plesent and the girles wanted I should gow with them of corse I went with them but sleep a part of the time
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1866.
Saturday, January 13.
this morning it is froze and the road is a glair of ice so that it is hard giting around. Aunt wanted me to gow over to Mr Bells with her tharefore I went and then from thare I went to Mr Ogels to see them the first time in almost five years. I was back to Mr Bells in time to gow home with Aunt we got home at 4 oclock I helped do the feeding and then went to meeting they had a good time
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1866.
Sunday, January 14.
this morning thare is a cold raw wind but the ground is bare of snow but thare is a good deal of ice. I went to meeting in the morning at 10 AM and we was adresed by the revern Mr Foss he preached a very good sermon he also took upp a colection then I come home and stade around til night then went to Church again the Rev Mr Barnet adresed the congregation from these words, what have I don. it was a very good sermon {May God grant that I may do all that is in my power for his caus}
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1866.
Monday, January 15.
this morning it is a snowing the hardest cind it keep it up til 10 oclock when it turned into a sleet or rain and keep it up all the rest of the day I went to school to day and fell down twist on the road I got along very well with my studies on the road a gowing home it rained and sleeted on us so that we was all wet I went to meeting again they had a good time the members is giting revived upp so that they will do somthing
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1866.
Tuesday, January 16.
this morning thare was quite a crust on the snow so that it is slavish walking and it will cut out all the shoo lether I went to school as I ought to and got along good with my lesons thare is a cold rain wind all day from the west. I went to meeting to night they got the thing members a little closer together thare was to morners forward a seaking a pardon of ther sines the Rev Wm Waltman adrest the congregation from the book of amos the Prophet Amos
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1866.
Wednesday, January 17.
to day I went to school and got along very well with my lesons the wether is more plesent to day we are having good sleighing now so that if it wasent for the meeting I would have a good time every thing goes well I went to meeting at night and they had a good meeting and all things goes well thare was a good sermon preached by the Rev Mr Foss from the 16th chapter of the Acts and 31st verce
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1866.
Thursday, January 18.
to day I am at school a studing hard all day and made some advancement the wether is warm and plesent evry thing goes well with us and things looks as if we was a gowing to have a thaw I tended meeting again to night they had a good meeting we was adresed by Mr Foss a good sermon my sister went forward to night to seak her soles salvation may she prove faithful and set such examp exampels as it becomes her
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1866.
Friday, January 19.
this morning I went to school as usuel and got along very well it comensed thawing to day so that our sleighing is a leaving us it is a thawing very fast we spelt down before school was out thare is to bee preeching at the school house by by a baptis preacher from ohio I and John and Peter Black went to hear him he don very well and ral rather raked them old hard shel after meeting was out thare we went to the Church and they had a good time it had thawen so till we come home that we got all mud but it is a thundering so that we are gowing to have cold wether
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1866.
Saturday, January 20.
this morning when I got upp I found it had growen very cold I helped dow the feeding and then got redy and started to Albion on buisnes I found that it was colder than I thought it was erley this morning I had to face the wind all the way thare and when I got thare boat of my my ears was frose as stiff as they could be I sufered with them while thare I thought that the wind would blow me away some times when on the road. I got my first three years discharge that I had left thare and then saw Mr Tousley about som land I got home at 5 oclock in the evening I then got redy and went to Church they had a good meeting I have forgoten the text al Foster come home with us
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1866.
Sunday, January 21.
this morning we went to Church church as usial in good time thare was a cold raw wind all day brother Foss preached a good sermon from the sixth chapt and 9 verse of Galations at half past ten oclock this AM. after meeting I went home to set around thare until night and then gow to church again all past off smothley thare the church was crouded brother Foss adresed the congregation again from the tenth chapter and 42nd verse it was a good sermon well do I remember the 1st time that I heard this text preached from it brings back to my memory the time when I first gave my name to the Methodis Church near elevon years ago since that time I have been a very weeked young man may God forgive me
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1866.
Monday, January 22.
this morning I started to school and got as fair as blacks thare John and Peter wanted to gow to meeting and that I should gow with them and I went with them I thare made a brake from the world to git back in the way I should gow and to fulfill my vows to God. we had a good meeting. I and Peter then went to school in the after knoon. I got along very well till school was out. I come home and helped do up the feeding then went to meeting at night again. we had a good meeting at and thare was a number forward aunt went to meeting Miss Mag Curry came her on a viset all goes well
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1866.
Tuesday, January 23.
this morning I concluded not to gow to school eny more on this acount that missing a here and a day there that it dident pay me. I thare fore went to meeting this morning we had a good time a waiting on the Lord after meeting I went with Mr John Miller down to his house and then went from thare to Lisbon after the mail and back to Millers for super then went with them to church we had another good meeting thare was a buring at the grave yard at 2 oclock PM Mr Sniders child it was som tow months old. the snow it has been snowing all day so that it is very good sleighing may it continue to snow
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1866.
Wednesday, January 24.
this morning it is a trying to snow but it is to cold I went to town with Jacob Ealy when thare I went to see the Rev Mr Meck and got my diner with them I then had a good chat with my friend Gussie Meck I then went to Mr Bixlers and made them a call and had a very good time thare then I went to my cousins John Eatons then went to meeting at night at the Methodis Church they had a good time thare was a number forward to the alter for the prairs of the church among them was my old comrad and Officer Lt Bixler and wife may they ever prove faithful it was a snowing when meeting was out I went to my cousins to stay all night
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1866.
Thursday, January 25.
this morning I dident git upp very early the wether is moderated some but it is cloudy I tended meeting at the Methodist church at 9 AM we had a good time I then went out on the street and was around thare a while and William Prouty was in town I got him to come home with me we rode with Mr Bell to our school house we walked home then I went to meeting at night brother Barnet adrest us from the fourth chapter and 18 verse of St Luke we had a good meeting
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1866.
Friday, January 26.
this morning the wether is warm and plesent but cloudy I went over to Mr Ealys with Mag Cury I stade thare a while then I and Jacob Ealy went to meeting together we had a good meeting and after meeting I and him went to Mr A Blacks for diner. I had an introduction to Miss Sarah Algier. I come home at 3 oclock PM I then set down and don some writing and then went to meeting at night we was adresed by Mr Barnet from the fourth ninth chapter and the fourth verce of the book of Job we had a very good meeting
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1866.
Saturday, January 27.
this morning I got redy and went to church at the apointed time and made aplications to be recieved in the Luthern Church as a member and the privlage was granted we had a good time a waiting upon the Lord after I went down to John Millers and got my diner then rode owt from thare to lisbon with John Black I then came back a foot home ariving at home at 4 PM. I then helped dow the feeding and then went to church again at night we had a good meeting but thare was no wone forward to be praid for
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1866.
Sunday, January 28.
this morning the wether is rather bad and it is trying to snow I went to church at 10 oclock AM and when the servisis comensed brother Barnet opened the doers of the church to receive toes thoes that wished to become members of the myself Georg Pen and Miss Sarah Algier gave our mam names to the church and may we ever dow our whole duty and live as we will wished we had when we come to die after preaching the sacrement of the lordes super was adminerst and they say that thare was more comuned than ever was knowen to before at this place after meeting was out I came home it tride to snow all day but dident make mutch out I went to meeting at night brother Miller come to night and preached a good sermon
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1866.
Monday, January 29.
this morning found me well I don my work and then went to our day meeting we had a good time after meeting I went with McCartneys boys to town we had a very good time a gowing and coming and while in town they come home with me and got there super we got home at 3 oclock PM then we went to meeting at night and brother Miller preached to us again to night it was a good sermon then brother Waltman gave an exortation they then invited morners forward and thare was eight that come and said by ther acts that they was tird of sin
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1866.
Tuesday, January 30.
this morning I helped do the feeding as usuel then went to church at 10 oclock AM we had a good meeting and a time of rejoicing to se siners returning to the fold of christ then I went to brother Henrey Waltman for diner Miss Healda Dean and Miss Trina McKee was thare we got along very well thare a tawking on the subect of religion at night we went to church we had a prair meeting before preaching brother Miller preached to us from the 55th chapter and 6 verse of the Prophet Isaih it was a good sermon after preaching they gave an opertunity for morner to come forward and thare was 15 that shode by ther acts that they was tierd of sin thar was a cold raw wind all day
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1866.
Wednesday, January 31.
this morning the wind is cold and wraw I don my work and then helped hitch upp the team and hall one log upp for wood then I got redy and went to church at the usuel hour we had a good meeting and a time of rejoicing to our soles after meeting thare was four young ladies came home with us. whare ever the sun shines on the ground it thaws but thare is a cold wind a blowing all day I dident have mutch to say to the ladys they got redy and went of and left me in the lurks it hurt my fealings but I think it will be all right I went to church at the right time and we had a good meeting brother Barnet adresed the congregation it was a good sermon thare was 13 that shode by the actions that they was tierd of sin
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1866.
Thursday, February 1.
wel this is the 1st of february and may I turn over a new leaf I helped hall three logs before and then got redy and went to meeting at 10 oclock AM we had a good meeting when it was out I come home and Magie McCartnie come with us the wind is very cold and raw all day I choped some wood and then went to church again at night we had a good meeting thare was a gret quite a number forward to the aulter of prair brother Miller adresed us it was a good sermon the wether is cold and raw Magie McCartnie come her and stade all night
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1866.
Friday, February 2.
this morning uncle went to Mr Amos Blacks to help them saw wood I tended to the horses and then got redy and went to meeting we had a good time the meeting lasted til after one oclock PM after meeting I come home and got redy to gow down in green to look at some land Mrs Barnet Miss Elizabath Ealy Miss Hulda Dean and Miss Ann M Pepel come to Uncle Chrises on a viset that is from the church. I went a horse back over to Uncle Calven Proutes and when I got thare Will was not at home so I put away the horse and concluded to wait till the morow and that night thare was to bee a lectur at the church I went up thare with the girles but the man dident come tharefore we had to gow home without it. the wether has been very cold all day
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1866.
Saturday, February 3.
this morning it is very cold I and William Prouty started from there house and went down to the south west part of Green township on foot to look at some land I found the land but it is roughf and broken but is well timberd we got Mr Gaff to show us the land and then went to his house and got diner after diner we started home again ariving at Uncle Calven at 4 PM I then got out my horse and come on home a horse back ariving at home in time to eat super and git redy to gow to church again at night brother Barnet preached to us again from the 32nd chapter and 11th verse of Isaiah we had a good meeting it continues very cold all day all thing works well
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1866.
Sunday, February 4.
this morning is as cold as ever we got redy and went to church at 10 oclock AM brother Barnet preached a good sermon and then opend the dores of the church fore thoes that wanted to unite with the Lutheran Church and thare was twenty that united with us in church felowship after meeting James and Jane McCartney come home with us then just before night we all got redy and went over to Mr Blacks thare they was a little slow about giting redy and the house was full when we got thare we had a good meeting and all things work well after meeting I went home with McCartneys boy boys the wether continues cold
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1866.
Monday, February 5.
this morning it is very cold I and McCartneys boys started from ther house at 9 AM and walked up to meeting we had a good meeting and a time of rejoicing to our waiting soles when it was out I come home and don some writing and helped Uncle clean upp some wheet and then done upp the feeding and went to meeting again at night we had another good time and then after meeting I went home with Wright Bell I was considerabel trubeld in mind but all things work together for good the wether is moderating som
brother Barnet preached to night from 1st Corinthians 16th chapter and 22nd verse it was a good sermon may joy gow with him
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1866.
Tuesday, February 6.
to day it is a great deal more plesent I and Mr Bell started from his house to meeting and and cald at Mr Blacks a few minets and John went along we had a good meeting after meeting thare was a hole house full come home with us we had a good chit chat and then Mr Curry come upp to make aunt a viset Uncle went to Mill today and got back at 4 PM we all went to meeting again at night and had a good time the wether is moderating fast and all things work for the best
brother Miller adresed us from the 1st epistle of John 1st chapter and 17th verse it was a good discourse
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1866.
Wednesday, February 7.
this morning the wether is very mild Uncle went to town this morning again and when it come time to gow to church I and the girles went to church thare was a good meny thare and we had a good time after meeting Jacob Ealy and friend Hattie come home with us and stade till night and then went to meeting again we had another good time a waiting upon the lord thar was onley three forward to night my friend Asa Grant expearensed a chang of heart and after meeting him and Hattie come home with us it thawed to day a good deal and is very plesent when the heart of man is right all things goes well. brother Miller adresed us from the fourth chapter and 7th and 8th verses of the epistle of James
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1866.
Thursday, February 8.
this morning when I got upp I found that it had been a snowing and was still at it I helped dow the feeding and then come in the house out of the storm my friend John D Black come over over hear and when it was time we all got redy and went to meeting Asa Grant was here and went along to meeting thare was not many thare but we had a good meeting after meeting I come home but dident do mutch the rest of the day I helped do the feeding and then went to meeting again at night we had a good meeting thare was a number forward and Jacob Ealy Jacob Ealy lay in a trans over three hours we took him upp to Mr David Koonses I watched over him until he come to and then we stade thare the rest of the night it is some colder to night
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1866.
Friday, February 9.
this morning I and Jacob got our breckfast at Mr Koonses and then we come home it has the apearence of being good sleighing thare was no meeting to day so I thought it was a good chanse for me to write some leters so hear it gows I wrote all day and went to meeting again at night we had a good meeting again they thought of closing the meeting to night but they could not. the wether is very mild
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1866.
Saturday, February 10.
thare was meeting this morning I went to meeting we had a good time after meeting thar was three young Ladies came home with us it thawed a part of the day and rained in the after knoon then just before night it turned into snow and I beleaved it snowed as fast as I ever saw we went to church again it was rather bad but we went thare brother Barnet preached to us thare was twelve joined the church.
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1866.
Sunday, February 11.
this morning the snow is very soft and deep I huried and got the team redy to gow to church but Jacob Ealy disapointed me and dident come to gow along so I and Asa Grant got redy and started to the Methodist church to meeting but dident git a great ways when we met a sled load and they asked us to gow with them we went to swan to meeting and after meeting went to Mr Strouses for diner we had a good diner thare was four of us our load and brothers Barnet and Sidels thar thair we had a good time. then about three oclock we went down to Mr McCartneys thare we had a plesent time and then thare was to sled load loads and tow sleigh loads started from thair and went out to Proutes to meeting when we got thair the house was crouded full as could bee the house was dident hold near all that come we got home all right
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1866.
Monday, February 12.
this morning the snow is soft and bad walking I helped do the feeding and then Uncle and I drove a beef out to town we got along very well I did not git redy to come home when Uncle did then I walked all the way home and then helped Uncle clean upp oats to sell we cleaned one load and got a part of them in bags the girles went to meeting again to night over to Prouties
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1866.
Tuesday, February 13.
this morning I and Uncle masured upp the rest of the oats oats and then cleaned upp another load of oats we then got redy and started for town we got thair all right I then done what buisnes I had to and then went in to se Wesley Bixler we then taulked over old times and the prospects of our futer succes after that that we went to another cabanet shop to se about buying it but it dont soot me at night I went home with him and got super and then to church from thair we had a good meeting when that was out I went to cousin John Eatens and stade all night but they wasent at home but I roused upp Mr Abe Buterfield and got in
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1866.
Wednesday, February 14.
wel this morning found me at Buterfields and it had been a snowing I ate breckfast thair and then went to meeting after meeting was out I went to Mr Shattucks to make them a call I had a good time their I got diner thair and while thair it turned cold and comensed blowing so that we are having a real snow storm. then in the after knoon I cald on my Gussie Meck thare I had a good time then a short time before car time I went to the depot to gow to wawaka but the storm was so bad that the cars was four houers behind time and when they did come was an houer and twenty minets a runing to wawaka when thair I went to Mr A Currys and stoped for the night it is very cold
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1866.
Thursday, February 15.
well this miserabel cold wether cetched me away from home this morning found me at Mr Currys I staid thare till 10 oclock AM when I started to Springfield I arived thair all right but some what cold I stoped at Aunt Cala Currys thare was a house full of us young people we had a good time if it is cold I remaend thar all day and night hardly gowing out of doers all is well that ends well
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1866.
Friday, February 16.
this morning it was very cold the themometer stood thirty degrees below zero at day light at Wawaka. I left Springfield about ten oclock and walked down to wawaka thare I stoped at Andrew Currys and thare was no train come from the west so I had to remain thare the wether is moderating a little I had a very good time thar considering the cold wether. the snow has drifted so that it is most imposible for trains to run
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1866.
Saturday, February 17.
this morning still findes me at Mr Currys and thare has no train com from the west I stade thair till near one oclock and no train yet so I got redy and started a foot upp the railroad calculating to come home but when I got upp above roam station I met cousin Stephen Barhan and went home with him I stoped at Uncle Johns and I and James Henderson hitched upp the team and went to Albion and back before night after super Stephens folkes come upp thair and spent the evening then I went home with them the wether is more mild to day
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1866.
Sunday, February 18.
this morning found me at Cousin Stephen Barhans and it a snowing well the morning past of very well and Stephens folks got redy and come down to Uncle Chrises we got down thar about 11 oclock AM it snowed till knoon. W A Curry come upp here in a sleigh he had his girl with him. we all had a good time Will started home at 4 oclock PM also Cousin Stephen. I helped do the feeding and then I and Ela and Jane got redy and went to meeting over to Mt Plesent. brother Barnet preached to us from the last chapter and last verse of St Matthew Gospel thare was eight joind the church all things past off well
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1866.
Monday, February 19.
this morning found me at home again I got up very erly erley and helped do upp the choers and then went over to Mr Robert Halfertys on buisnes but got he had got what he wanted I then come back home and set down to do some writing. I then helped Uncle grind corn a while at knoon and then John Black and Peter and Jane Black and Mary Waltman come hear a baging for a donation for brother Barnet I then started and went over to see Jacob Waltman to find out what I had to do I then went to sol Walterses but he wasent at home I then cald at brother Koonses then at Henry Waltmans on the road home at night went over to Mr Bucks and I John and Peter and Jacob Waltman took the colts and sleigh and went to hartman chapel to meeting then to se A Foster he had been hurt then I stade with John good meeting Prov 27 and 17
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1866.
Tuesday, February 20.
this morning found me at Mr Blacks I ate breckfast then I come home and got redy and went out a baging money for the donation I went over on the south road to Mr Shambaw Wheelers and the sawmill and Mrs Smiths and the school house thense Mrs Bells and Joseph Grubs Ealys Bells and Fosters thare I had a quite a time on religious question I had got 400 dolars with what I poot in I stade thare and went over to the Proutys church to meeting with Fosters girles and wils Easter and John Black brother Barnet preached a good sermon from Galations third chapter and first verse after meeting we come home with them and stoped thare a while and then come home with John and stade with him again thare has been a cold raw wind all day
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1866.
Wednesday, February 21.
this morning found me at the same place I was yesterday morning I got upp and come home and ate breckfast at home then got redy to gow to Albion to the donation I and Frank went over to Mr Blacks and went with them up thare thar was four teams went up to gether all loaded with provision and horse fead we had a good time at brother barnets and got our diner thare after diner I went up town with the girels then I renewed the search for Miss Mattie Bloom but all to no avail so I orderd my team out and started for Springfield to find her when I got thare I found whare she was and then started back to Albion and found her but she could not leave whare she was at work I then went down to Uncle Johns and got super and James Henderson went to W Ealys and back thare til 9 oclock making 30 miles since 3 oclock it has been thawing all day
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1866.
Thursday, February 22.
this morning found me at Uncle John Barhans after breckfast I got my team out and hitched upp and went to Albion to leave it whare I got it. after I got red of the team I went to se Mattie again and had a short conversation with her. I then went to the shoo shop and got my boot patched and masure taken for a new pare of boots I then started home and got down to Samuel Edwardes and stoped thare till after diner when I again renewed my journey toward home ariving at home at 3 PM all safe I saw Dan Chiles and Louisa Ogle on the road and neather one of them knew me it thawed all last night and to day the sleighing is spilt for this time I never knew the snow to gow off as fast as it has yesterday and today at nigh and after super I and Uncle seteld up so that we would know how we stood
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1866.
Friday, February 23.
well when I got upp this morning I found my self at home and that it had been a raining a little well I helped do the feeding and then helped Uncle Chris saw some wood for the sugar camp till knoon and after diner Uncle went to Albion a hors back and I went down to my friend John Scheurichs to se him before I went away I found him and his people all well. it rained nearly all day and to night findes me at home all sound
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1866.
Saturday, February 24.
when I got upp this morning I found that thare was a great change in the wether it had turned very cold and blustery I helped do the feeding and then Uncle and I cleand upp som wheet to gow to the mill we got redy and started at 11 oclock AM we got to Kendallville all right I and Brother Joseph stoped at the barber shop while Uncle went on to the mill. we got all things in redenes and started home at three oclock PM Lib Curry come home with us she had been at Kendallville a waiting to come out hear we got home before night the wether is cold and bad I stade at home to night Amos Black come over hear and spent the evening
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1866.
Sunday, February 25.
this morning is cold and a raw wind a blowing I and the girles got redy and went over to Mr Bblacks Blacks to gow with them to meeting to Albion but it was to cold and then we all concluded to gow upp to the Methodist church to meeting they had a good speeking meeting and then brother Selers preached to us from the 1st chap and 5th verse of St John after meeting I and the girles went to Mr Ealeys for diner we had a good time thare and then all of us went to meeting again at night Mr Spense gave an exertation from the tenth chapter and 37 verse of Hebrews we had a very good meeting and after meeting we had to walk home the wether still cold and raw
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1866.
Monday, February 26.
this morning found me at home but not to stay long John Black come over hear and I and him went back to his Fathers and then I went from thare to meeting at the Methodist church and then from thair I went to William Ealeys and got diner thair from thair I went to Albion and on the road I stoped at Uncle John Barhans and bid them good buy then on to Albion and got my boots and started from thair at 5 PM ariving thair at the Lutheren Church at Prouties in time for night meeting brother Miller preached to us and we had a good meeting thare was some eight or nine forward to the aulter for the prairs of the church. after meeting I went to Uncle Calvin Proutes to stay all night. thare was a cold raw wind a blowing all day
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1866.
Tuesday, February 27.
this morning found me at Uncle Calvins but not to stay long about nine oclock I started over to Cousin Sarah Engles ariving thair at ten AM. they hardley knew me I remaned thair till after diner and then I started home ariving thair at 3 PM all safe after my rounds the girles coaksed me to take the team and take them to meeting and I consented so I fed the horses and got redy to gow Blacks girles come over to gow along when we got thair the house was crouded brother Barnet preached to us from the 1st chapt and from the 43 till the last verse of St John thare was a number forward and 34 joined the Lutheren Church it was 11 oclock when we got home. it was very warm all day and thawed very fast
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1866.
Wednesday, February 28.
when I got upp I felt quite unwell & ate my breckfast and went out and helped do the feeding then John Black come over hear and I and him went over to Henry Waltmans to se if he had the money redy for me he was not at home I then come back home and went out and helped Uncle saw four cuts off for wood and then I come to the house and set around till diner after that I and Uncle seteld upp and he pade over the money that I had sent him also Henry Waltman come and pade me in the evening. I have the head ache this evening and dont feel very well myself I stade at home to night to rest. the wether is plesent and agreabel
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1866.
Thursday, March 1.
this morning I slep very late so that they sent one of the children to waken me I then got upp and drest and ate breckfast then I got redy to start I got Uncle to take me out to town I then went and harnesed up the horses and hitched to the spring wagon we started at 8 AM ariving at Hall right thare I don what buisnes I had to and then went to cousin Jane Eatens I wasent thare long till all of Uncle Josephs foaks come thair then we had a good time I stade thair until 3 oclock then I went over to Mr Bixlers and stade thair a while then Hattie and I went over to brother Meck to se Gussie thare we had a good time then the three of us went over to Wes Bixlers thair we all had a good time I had an introduction to tow young Ladies in the rounds from Weses I went back to Janes and bid Uncle Josephs good by then went to meeting at night they had a good meeting after that I went to Janes and got super and then to the depot at 11
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1866.
Friday, March 2.
this morning I got on the train at Kendallville at half past twelve M on the road to the fair west we got along finley and at seven oclock got off the train at Chaugo Ill thare we had to change depots I got into the onmibus and went to the wells st Depot thare I took the cars at fifteen minets after eight for Mechanicsville Iowa. the country in Ill is to low and wet to soot me but when we got into Iowa it is more roling and beter the onley troubel I se is not enoughf timber. the train arived at my stoping place a little before seven PM I dident have any troubel to find my friends and them in resenbel good health the wether is fine and plesent all things goes well
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1866.
Saturday, March 3.
this morning found me at cousin Jesse Axtells the air is a little cold but dry as fast as the ground thawes out it dryes so it hant a gowing to bee so bad. this is the making of a good town and a nice place I did not run around mutch to day this every body seams strange hear and every thing is strange
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1866.
Sunday, March 4.
wel this morning we was a little lasey and consequently dident git up very erly erley then after breckfast I and Jesse got redy and went to church thare was a very good sermon preached by the Rev Mr. Boag a Presbyterion Minester from the 14th chapter and later claus of the 18th verse of St Luke after meeting we come home and set around the rest of day thare was a cold raw wind a blowing all day it is a little lonsum all hear for me
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1866.
Monday, March 5.
this morning all things goes well I started a letter home this morning. things begin to look more chearing I don nothing mutch all day onley went out in town once or twice daring the day I and Rhoda went out and got our negativs taken for some photoographs the wether is pleasent all day it is nice to set by the window and look out on the vast open pararia all goes wel
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1866.
Tuesday, March 6.
this morning it has the apearence of a storm but is very plesent and agreabel to be out I did not doo eny thing to day onley read and write a little time pases slow but shoor I am enjoying myself the best kind. the day past off without eny storm thare wasent meny in town to day
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1866.
Wednesday, March 7.
wel hear it is another morning I felt a little lazy and consequently dident git upp very earley the sun rose clear and bright this morning I took a walk over town this fourknoon then set around and talked over old times well in the evening we had an oister super we had a good time
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1866.
Thursday, March 8.
wel this morning I feel very well after the oisters the air is a little cold but it very a very nice day after all time goes very wel after diner aunt and Emeline went to a quilten so I and Rhoda had a good time a visiting and talking over old times. I had a chance to gow into a soap factry with an old man but think it wont pay thare fore dont acept I wrote a letter to Miss M.B. all goes wel
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1866.
Friday, March 9.
wel this morning when I got upp thare was a sclft scift of snow on the ground and the wind blows a little cold but the sun come out and it soon all went away I had another chance to gow into a butcher shop that is to buy a man out and set upp butcering butchering for my self but I dont want to gow into it aloan so I will gow on west and enter land so that it will be safe thare fore I start on to morow morning if nothing hapens all goes well so fair
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1866.
Saturday, March 10.
this morning I took the cars at mechanicsville at 5 oclock and went to Boon ariving thair at one oclock all safe thare I met some men that lived at M that was gowing west with teams so I got in with them and we started on we had to cross the Des Moin river that night and we had a big time we went out five miles and stoped for the night and such a place it was the wether cold and bad for it sleated all day
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1866.
Sunday, March 11.
wel last night I slep in the hay mow and such a slep it was. then we got our breckfast and started on our journey west we had good luck till noon we was crosing a creek and one of the teams got into a hole in the ice whare one fore wheel went clear under they gave one pool and out come the tong we fixt it back and started on we got to Panora all right a distance of thirty five miles of roughf roads it was the most over pararia thar was some nice country. the wether is cold and raw
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1866.
Monday, March 12.
this morning we got up in good time and tended to our teams in good time then we got our breckfast and started out on the road at 7 AM we mad good time and drove 31 miles over roughf roads the country is very roughf and broken the wether cold. the sun come out and thawed enoughf to make it hard traveling
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1866.
Tueaday, March 13.
this morning we was out on the road at 7 AM we had good luck and past through tow towns we tro this after knoon we past throw a little town by the name of Louis we had to cros a number of creeks on the road to day and some roughf country we went upp some hills that was as mutch as we could pull it thawed a great little to day so that it made the roads mudy we went out 5 miles from Louis and stoped for the night at a roughf place that is things around looked roughf the old man wouldent alow us to cut upp that is if he could of helped it. we had miserbel poor grub for super and not enoughf of that well we traveled twenty five miles to day and thare was 13 men stoped here we had a good place that whare we stoped last night
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1866.
Wednesday, March 14.
wel this morning our breckfast was worse than our super and was not half enoughf. the ground frose some last night and thare was a cold raw wind a blowing we was out on the road by sevon oclock AM the old man acused some of us for steeling his halters wel let that be as it may I am clear. we made good hedway we traveled 15 miles and stoped for diner we ate our one din grub at diner then we hitched upp and went on a making 30 miles to day it thawed some to day so that it made hard traveling thare was part of our squad stoped at one house and some our wagon went on a mile to another house thare we pushed in and just got our teams tended to when it comensed snowing it was very poor stabeling the wind blew cold we got super but such a super worse than last night and the house cold
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1866.
Thursday, March 15.
wel our grub this morning was worse than last night the coffee wasent fit to drink and I went away from the tabel without half enoughf to eat we started a little after seven oclock for Councel Bluffs Iowa a distence of 10 miles ariving thare at 11 AM all safe we then fed our teams and ate a bite then hitched upp and drove down to the river to the fery boat thare we soon got acrost the river and then we drove upp to Omaha City Nebraska Teritora then I then we then got our teams in the stabels then went to hunt a place to stay all night we finley put upp at the Farnem house a very good house but it was crouded Omaha will make a nice place when it gits older it is a place of tow thousand inhabetance and Council Blouffs is about the same but wont make as nice a place as Omaha Omaha is crouded full of speculaters and bumers of all kinds
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1866.
Friday, March 16.
wel this morning the wether is cold and raw I went out and hunted upp my man to git work but he dident want me but sent me to another man then I went to the land office to see about land wel I got along thair all right I picked out my land and had him make out the papers and then pade over the money and by knoon had my my land of my one then I went and hunted upp the man that they sent me to se but he dident want me so I was left out without work and it wouldent do for me to lay around her without work I thare fore made upp my mind to gow back into Iowa to whair my friends live I thare fore got my trunk and went to the ticket office and got a ticket acrost the river then got on the bus and road rod to the river then crost on the fery boat then had to take the trunk on my sholder and cary to councel bluffs a distence of 4 miles got thare in time for super then baut a ticket and at 9 PM was on the stage
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1866.
Saturday, March 17.
we was out on the road all night and this morning a little after day light the stage stoped at Tabor for breckfast but I dident eat mutch I felt very unwell I hardly felt abel to travel but I spunked up and went on we arived at Sidney at 10 AM thare I had to wait til 3 PM before the stage went east from thair wel I set around in the bar room till the time come around for the stage to leave I felt a little beter this evening thare is a cold wind and I got considerabel cold the stage drove out 27 miles before they gave us a chance for super. we then got to Corinda by 12 oclock at night we then had 22 miles to Bedford before we could stop and I have began to git some what tierd and sleepy
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1866.
Sunday, March 18.
we arived at Bedford at 5 AM all safe but dident have a chance to sleep eny we got our breckfast thair then the stage started out at 8 AM we had good luck on the road and got along finley we got through to Leon at 12 oclock at night a distence of sixty miles the wether is more plesent to day
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1866.
Monday, March 19.
wel this morning found me at Leon the county seat of Decatur county Iowa the landlord had to come and waken me to gow out on the stage wel I got upp and ate my breckfast in a hury for the stage was a waiting for me and another young man that was traveling with me we got on the stage at half past seven AM and started east I traveled 9 miles on the stage then took my valese in hand and walked a mile acrost the country to whare my friends lived thare I rather suprised them for they wasent a looking for me I found them well and doing well I stade around Uncle Isack McClarys onley went down in the timber with the boys after a load of shingle timber then went over to one of my cousins a little while in the evening I enjoy myself very well. the wether is cold and chiley for this time of the year
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1866.
Tuesday, March 20.
this morning found me at Ucle Isaac McClarys all safe and sound it has been a raining some and is misting now about 10 oclock AM I and Uncle started out to look at his farms he has a good shear of it and the most of it as good as a person nead to se or have he ones hear 640 acres of land almost in one body we got back a little after knoon some what wet for it has been trying to rain all fourknoon the rest of the day I sat in the house the rain turned into sleet then into snow before night and had got cold and disagreabel to be out
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1866.
Wednesday, March 21.
wel this morning I was a little lazy and dident git upp very early. the sun rose clear this morning and has the apearence of being a fair day after breckfast cousin Isaac come over and I and Malisa got redy and went to the town of Leon with him we got thair all safe after they got through traiding we went down to a docters to se one of the girles that is at work thare we found Jane all right but she could not come home with us. we got back home about 4 PM all safe we stade over to Isaacs for super then come on home. the sun shone warm all day but thare was a cold wind a blowing
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1866.
Thursday, March 22.
this morning thare is the apearence of rain. cousin Isaac come over and I and him went over north to se the country and to se the man that had been a speeking to me about working for him this sumer we found him at home and I hiered to him for six months at $18 per month the wether as it comes and am to comense the first of April his name is McNeel after we saw him we went on over to Garden Grove to se that town it is a nice place for a town but it hant much of a place we started back before knoon and got back by tow oclock it had raind on us all the way home we was about tiered out when we got back the wether continued cold and wet the rest of the day. I wrote a letter home this evening
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1866.
Friday, March 23.
this morning it is cold and bad as ever Martain had to gow to Mill to day so I and Uncle started and went over to High Point to the PO we stoped thair a while then went on over to Elizabath Benets and stade thair till after diner then went on we started back home the wether has moderated some so that it is more plesent we stoped at Mr Bag[?]s a little while then at Isaacs a short time and then on home to rest for the rest of the day. Marten come home from Mill all right he hitched to the wagon and we went to singing school out to the Point thare I saw Joseph Smith that youst to live in Indiana he is gowing under an asoumed name he is the teacher of the school but he dont know me. all things goes well
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1866.
Saturday, March 24.
this morning when we got upp it had been a snowing and was still a snowing and thare was a cold north wind a blowing it continued to blow and snow all day in the after knoon I and Marten tok the team and went about tow mile north east after a hog that he had baut we had a colt that had never been worked hitched to the sled it was a little troubel but don very wel for the first time we got back all right but it was cold riding on the sled acrost the open pararia the wether continues cold for this time of the year I set clost by the fier the rest of the evening
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1866.
Sunday, March 25.
this morning the wether is cold and raw we did think of gowing to dunkard meeting but it was to cold and bad so I fixt upp a little and set around in the house house all day Isaacs famly come over her and stade all day then we went over thair in the evening and stade till bed time the wether continues cold and bad we had a lot of pop corn and tafy we had a good time and all things goes wel
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1866.
Monday, March 26.
this morning the wind is cold and raw the sun rose clear but soon it clouded over I helped Marten hall upp a saw saw log then hall upp som wood out of the feals in the four knoon then in the afterknoon we went down in the woods and cut and split one hundred and twenty five stakes for to fix the fence on the farm that Uncle has just baut for the girles we got the stakes cut and split and back by five oclock PM we hadent been here but a short time when Elsy Ann come home from Coridon whare she had been at work the man fetched her home that she had been at work for his name is Cooper it continues cold and stormy all things work well
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1866.
Tuesday, March 27.
this morning it is cloudy and thare is a cold raw wind a blowing Cousin Elsy Ann started back to Coridon to work whare she had been at work then I an Malisa got redy and started down to Elizabath Benets a horse back it comenced snowing about the time we started and snode on us all the way down thair when we got thair Lib wasent at home but she soon come we had a very good time and got Lib to do what we went after that was to cut out a pair of overhauls and an over shirt then they set down and partly made them till 4 oclock then Lib got redy and and come home with us it comensed snowing again about three oclock PM and snowed on till night. I fetched Libs children home on the horses and I Lib and Malisa walked home through the snow then Isaac and his famly come over to spend the evening we had a good time all together
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1866.
Wednesday, March 28.
to day is a dul one the snow lays on the ground and I set around in the house til most night then went down in the woods and helped Martain hal a load of wood
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1866.
Thursday, March 29.
this morning the sky was clear and the sun come out warm I had stade over to Ikes last mght night I come over to Uncles this morning and set around a while then went and helped Martain hall a lode of wood in the four knoon Benets sent up after Lib and she went home then in the after knoon I wrote a letter to John Black. the snow all thawed to day and has made it quite mudy and at night Ike Mart and I got on the horses and road out to High Point to meeting that is prair meeting they had a good one Mr Smith was thair but dont know me
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1866.
Friday, March 30.
this morning when I got upp it was cloudy and had the apearence of rain and the wind blew strong from the south west after breckfast I went over to cousin Isaacs to hunt a sturep that I had lost last night wel I found that out east of his house then come back thair and I an him come over to his Fathers when here they concluded to shele a lot of corn to take to the mill so I turned in and helped them shel corn we got done about four oclock PM it has cleard off and turned out to be a plesent day and has thawed what it froze last night to night we had company and when they they started home they saw the eclips on the moon and got scart then we watched it a while
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1866.
Saturday, March 31.
this morning thare is a north wind a blowing I went to Garden grove with Isaac we had a very good time and got back by 1 PM after diner I helped Ike brake his colt to ride then in the evening I went over thair to stay all night with him the wind fel and we had a rele spring day
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1866.
Sunday, April 1.
this is an other springs day I got redy and went to praer meeting in the four knoon they had a very good meeting after meeting we went back home and got an ester diner then in the evening I sholderd my valese and went upp to Mr McNeels whare I am to work this sumer the wether fair and plesent
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1866.
Monday, April 2.
this morning I comenced my six months work for Mr McNeel this is a very warm day I husked corn in the four knoon and helped hal in corn in the after knoon I got very tierd at my first days work in over four years. thare was a hard wind a blowing from the south all day so that it made it disagreabel working
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1866.
Tuesday, April 3.
this morning the wind is harder than ever and continued so all day I helped hall in corn all day the wether is warm I got along very wel with my second days work
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1866.
Wednesday, April 4.
this morning thare is a grate chang in the wether the wind has changed to the north and blows cold I went to husking corn and halling it in it was cold work we got in tow loads and onloded them to day. Mr McNeill had a party to night all things past smothly and they had a good time
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1866.
Thursday, April 5.
this morning thare was a little snow on the ground they set me to doing choers in the four knoon and in the after knoon I helped hall in corn in the shock to feed out the wether is more plesent this after knoon
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1866.
Friday, April 6.
this is has been a plesent day the ground was frosen frozen a little I went to plowing today the first in six years I got along very wel how diferent it is with me to what it is was four years ago then I was making a forse march to git into battle or to releave Grants army at Shilo. wel give me the [?] to farm on here I have plowed all day without striking a rout or stump
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1866.
Saturday, April 7.
wel to day has been a nice day a most too cold for the time of the year I went to plowing and got along finly I pushed the team through and don a big days work I got very tierd
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1866.
Sunday, April 8.
this morning the sun rose clear but thare is a cold air astir I got redy and went down to Uncle Isaac McCleary to se them I found them well except Jane she has been sick all week I also got a leter from home with sad news of Wm Proutes deth. I com back to Mr McNeills before night all goes wel hear
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1866.
Monday, April 9.
this morning it was all cloudy I went to plowing again and got along wel till about 2 oclock this after knoon when it comensed raining I com in with the team then helped onlode a load of corn and grind the choping knives and do the feeding it keepes a raining I lent eighty dolers to T J Knapp till the first of October
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1866.
Tuesday, April 10.
this morning thare is a hevy fog and a cold air astir I went to plowing again this morning and got along finley the fog cleard away about ten oclock and also cleared off about knoon I plowed this after knoon and after I quit for night and don the feeding I went to the Grove with Mr McNeill it was nine oclock when we got back. all goes wel so fair. thare was is quite a brees from the south all day
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1866.
Wednesday, April 11.
this morning it is cloudy and thare is a strong brees from the south I went to plowing again and got along finley till knoon. it cleared off and the wind raised very high till knoon. after diner I went out and watered the calves and then pumped water for the mules and went to let them out of the lot to git water when one of them broke past me and kicked me on the righ thigh so that I couldent woork this after knoon I had to lay upp which I am very sory of the sun shone warm but the wind continued high all after knoon and went down with the sun
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1866.
Thursday, April 12.
this morning thare is a cold raw wind a blowing I wasent abel to gow to work to day so I set around the house and red all four knoon my thigh was so lame that I could hardly git around Mr McNeill went to sheriden to day. after diner I started and hobeld down to Uncles to stay till I got abel to work when I got ther Jane was worse she had been sick over a week I rubed my thigh with linement and cole oil so my lage comenced giting beter I went over to Isaacs to stay all night all goes on right
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1866.
Friday, April 13.
to day the wether is more plesent I was laying around all day it seamed a very long day and very lonsom one day to me thare is nothing of importence of my recolection of to day
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1866.
Saturday, April 14.
this morning thare is a cold wind from the north I and Uncle went over to the Point to the PO and wated til the mail com from the west then come back home then they wanted me to gow to Leon after the Dr for Jane she was worse I got the colt and started at half past ten oclock and got thair at half past twelve and the Dr wasent at home I went upp town a few minets then come back home at 4 oclock PM then helped Martain hitch upp one of his colts and drive it we got along finley my lage has got almost well the wether is fine and plesent this after knoon lib Benet come up here to night and samantha with her they come to se how Jane was I went over to Ikes to stay all night
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1866.
Sunday, April 15.
this morning I was at Ikes my thigh panes me more this morning. the wether wether is plesent an fine I went over to uncle before knoon a while thare was a number of people come thare was Jane McClery is beter to day. I wrote a letter to D. Axtell and one to my sister it clouded upp and had the apearence of rain this after knoon in the this evening I come upp to Mr McNeills to gow to work to morow
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1866.
Monday, April 16.
this morning when I got upp it had been a raining som and had the apearence of more I fed my team and got them redy for work after breckfast I went to plowing and it cleared off about 9 oclock and the wind raised very high so that it made hard work to plow but I cept on and do a good days work
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1866.
Tuesday, April 17.
to day I have been a plowing all day and am very tierd I hitched on another plow and it wouldent scouer so I dident git much don. the wind blew hard all four knoon and this after knoon it clouded upp and rained a small shouer this evening it has benn warm all day all goes well
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1866.
Wednesday, April 18.
this morning it was a raining when I got upp I tended to my team and after breckfast I choped wood a while til it stoped raining then I went to plowing the plow wodent scouer so that it was hard work. it cept cloudy all day and thare was a cold north wind a blowing it comenced raining again this evening all goes wel
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1866.
Thursday, April 19.
this has been rather a wet day it raind nearly all night so that it made it wet plowing but I went at it the plow wouldent scouer I plowed till super time and then fetched in the team and put them upp for the night it has rained all evening all goes wel
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1866.
Friday, April 20.
this morning it was to wet to gow plow so Mr McNeill set me to choping wood on the wood pile I got a long wel for a while when the wind raised so that I could not strike strate I choped all day but dident git a very big pile of wood. the wind cept blowing all day and till late at night all goes well with me
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1866.
Saturday, April 21.
this morning it was still to wet to plow and my hands was to sore to chop wood from yesterdays work so he set me to puling corn stalks and piling them in the orcherd when that was don he set us that is me and Jimey Evens to piling upp pickets and old peaces of rails in the yard till diner then after diner we went and hauled a lot of manuer and put around som white willow sprouts that he had set out for hedge we got that don then we com to the house and shaved upp for to morow. to day has been a very plesent day all goes well
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1866.
Sunday, April 22.
this has been a very plesent day one of the most plesent days we have had this spring I helped tend to the horses and then got redy and went to the Grove to Sabath School and meeting they have a very good S.S. and a good sermon preached by a Presbyterion Minester from St John 1st chap and 4 verse after meeting was out I com back to Mr McNeill and wrote to letters this evening all goes well with me
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1866.
Monday, April 23.
this morning when I got upp it had been raining and was still at it I helped do the choers and then cut som potatoes up for seed and then sheled corn for seed we sheled corn all day it rained nearly all day but it was very slow and we had a hale storm in the after knoon
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1866.
Tuesday, April 24.
to day it has been a very plesent day I went with Mr McNeill and James Evens to the Arnel place to rebuild fence we tore down and lade a new worm of it and built a half a mile of fence five rails high and then put on a lot of stakes on riders and quit at half past five oclock then went to super at Mrs Arnels after super Jima and I went down town and set around thare till nine oclock we then walked home all goes well
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1866.
Wednesday, April 25.
to day we went back to Mrs Arnels to finish that fence we set in the stakes and put in the riders of that fence that we built and got don till super time it made me some what tierd to day has been a good growing day it was very warm after super we come home
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1866.
Thursday, April 26.
this morning I went to plowing again and finished the pese for hungarian grass till tow oclock PM then we comenced plowing for corn the wether is very plesent only thare is a wind a blowing all goes well with me
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1866.
Friday, April 27.
to day the wind has been very high all day so that it was very disagreeabel to work I plowed all day with Jima Evens and we plowed five acres thare is a festivel at town to night and all the men have gon and left me here with the women all goes well
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1866.
Saturday, April 28.
to day the wind is not so high thare is a cool brees from the north west it rained so last night but not enoughf to hurt I was a plowing to day I plowed till six oclock this evening then quit and got redy and went down to Uncles to spend the evening and Sunday I found them all well I am some what tierd
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1866.
Sunday, April 29.
this morning I was down to Uncle Isaac McClerys I went from thare to the Point to meeting with Elsa Ann they had a very good sermon by a Batas Minester from the sixth chapter and 23 verse of romans after meeting we went down to Lib Benets they are all well I come back to Uncles and then up to Mr McNeills in the evening this has been a plesent day
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1866.
Monday, April 30.
to day I and Jima James went to plowing with the tow horse plows and plowed till knoon then we fetched them in and after diner we hitched on to the gang plow and took them out and I plowed till super with them after super thar was a thunder storm a coming upp and I huried out to fetch in the teams before it rained and had just got to them when it comencd hailing the horses broke away from me and thare I had to stand and take it the hardest hail I ever saw I got as wet as a dround rat I dident eny more only tend to my teams
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1866.
Tuesday, May 1.
to day it was to wet to plow so I and James went to driving pickets and fixing the fence along the road the wind blowed very cold from the north west it made it very disagreeabel to work it was cloudy all day
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1866.
Wednesday, May 2.
to day I went to plowing again with the gang plows with four plow horses I got them to scowering and got along very well it was cloudy all day and cold
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1866.
Thursday, May 3.
to day it has been more plesent and agreeabel I went was plowing all day with the gang plowes with four horses we the plowes work beter to day the sky was cloudy all day
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1866.
Friday, May 4.
to day I was plowing and got along well with it and the evening I finished the first twenty acres of corn ground the wether is more plesent it cleared of partly and was warm all goes well
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1866.
Saturday, May 5.
to day has been very plesent I was a plowing all day and plowed about 5 acres all goes well I try to satesfy my employer
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1866.
Sunday, May 6.
this morning I tended to my team and then got redy and went to Sabath school and meeting Rev Mr Cary preached from the 16 chapter and 15 and 16 verses of St Mark it was a very good sermon after meeting I come back to Mr McNeills and wrote a leter
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1866.
Monday, May 7.
to day has been rather wet and bad I went out to plowing but soon had to come in with the teams and had been in but a short time when it stopt I had to gow out again to plowing and then the rest of the day it seams my luck to get wet every Monday it has the apearence of rain this evening to years ago to day we took Tunel Hill Ga what a diference now an then with me
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1866.
Tuesday, May 8.
this morning when I got up it was a raining and raind on till about 9 AM then I went into the orcherd to work a cleaning out around the apel trees I worked thare the most of the day and the rest of the day I chored around the rest of the day it cleard off about knoon and we have the apearence of fair wether
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1866.
Wednesday, May 9.
to day I have been plowing it is rather wet but it has to be plowed I finished the first thirty acres of corn ground it has been very warm to day
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1866.
Thursday, May 10.
to day it has been very warm and plesent I went to plowing with the four horses and plowed a round or to then Mr McNeill com and took the lead team off to mark out corn ground I then plowed on with one team and one plow I got along very well
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1866.
Friday, May 11.
to day I plowed till knoon with one team and one plow and in the after knoon went to driving team to the corn planter and got along very well we planted about six acres the wether is fair and plesent
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1866.
Saturday, May 12.
wet this morning when I got up it had been a raining and was cold we went to plowen planting it was very wet we got along very well and got about 3 acres planted to day it is very cold and has the apearence of rain all goes wel with me
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1866.
Sunday, May 13.
this morning the sun rose clear and has the apearence of being more plesent I got redy and went to the Grove to Sabath School and meeting thare was an adres deliverd on Methodist achevements and advancements it was very good I then come back to Mr McNeills and then went on down to my Uncels I stayed down thare till most sun down and then come back to Mr McNeill to night. it has been very plesent all day I found Uncels peopel all well and I had a good time down thare
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1866.
Monday, May 14.
well here I have been a planting corn all day or till super time and we have got doon our first thirty acres after super I got things redy to gow to plowing with the gang plows again. has been very plesent to day tow years ago to day we comencd the Battel of Resacka Ga how diferent now and then
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1866.
Tuesday, May 15.
this morning I got out the teams and went to plowing I got along very well the wether was very good for working teams but most to cold for the time of the year it raind some in the evening all goes well with me
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1866.
Wednesday, May 16.
to day has been a little chiley I have been plowing all day with the gang plowes and it has been hard on the teams it was a peace that was broke last year and the sod was turf and hard I had to dig the plowes out of the sod three or four times but I got a good days work don after all
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1866.
Thursday, May 17.
to day I have finished plowing in the big field for corn I got all plowed with the gang plowes by ten AM I then fetched them in to the sheds and then took one span and hitched on to the small plow and went out and finished som small strips after diner I took the other team and went to marking off the ground for the planter I marked off about ten acres and then when I come inn and got my team tended to I went upp to the grove to git a few little articels that I neded. the wether has been more plesent to day
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1866.
Friday, May 18.
this morning the sun rose clear and warm I got out my team and was out to woork by times this morning I was a marken out corn ground I got don marken out before tow oclock PM and then we went to planting with the corn planter we comenced at 3 PM and got 5 acres planted till sun down this has been the hotest day we have had this spring
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1866.
Saturday, May 19.
to day it has not been quite so warm the sun shone warm but thare was a cold wind a blowing I got out the team and hitched on to the roler and roled a pese of ground to plant corn seed I then marked it off boath ways and Mr McNeill droped it and I covered it it cept me buisy till near night after that was don I had the horses to tend to and I was don for the day it clouded upp this evening and thare was a hard wind storm and som rain all has went well with me this week
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1866.
Sunday, May 20.
this morning it had cleared upp again and was very plesant I stade at Mr McNeills all day to day thare has been nothing of importence to day all goes well with me
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1866.
Monday, May 21.
this is has been a very plesent day I and Mr McNeill was planting corn to day we got along very wel and got don in the big field all but an houers work I was orderd out to work on the road next friday and Saturday in the evening it has the apearence of rain
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1866.
Tuesday, May 22.
to day it rained all day we was planting walnuts til long in the after knoon when it comenced raining so hard we had to quit I dident do eny more only tend my team in the evening
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1866.
Wednesday, May 23.
this morning it is wet and bad we got redy and seperated the lambs from the sheep and then started with the sheep to wash them I drove the team down thare and then went into the gang way to help the sheep out after they was washed it was cold work the water was high and cold we got don by eleven olcock AM I got some wet I hitched up the team after we was don and huried on home and got on dry cloths after diner I hitched onto the drag and dragd five acres of corn ground it cleared off and is more plesent this evening
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1866.
Thursday, May 24.
to day the wether is plesent I cut potatoes in the four knoon and and in the after knoon got a peace of ground redy to plant melons and then went out and drug a peace of ground for potatoes and after super droped eight rows of them all goes wel
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1866.
Friday, May 25.
this morning when I come down to the stabels I found one of the horses down and couldent git upp I let him loose and then he got up but was badly injurd by it we got them out after breckfast and went to planting corn but he was so badly hurt that we could not work him then we turned him out and I got out the other team and went on the road to work thar I got along very wel I hald timber from the woods this is the first time I ever worked the road on my on hook
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1866.
Saturday, May 26.
this morning it comenced raining I went and tended to my team the rain spoilt my roaling so at breckfast Mr McNeill told to gow to work on the road so I turned out the horses and got the spade and started and got down to whare we was to meet and helped put in tow bridges till noon then went up to Mr Waringtons to eat diner it comenced raining hard while thair so we could not work eny more it rained till about four oclock and then we struck out from Mr Waringtons I come home with Mart McClary to stay all night it set in to raining again in the evening
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1866.
Sunday, May 27.
it raind all night till late this morning I am at uncels to day and it is so mudy and bad that I stayed here all day it is cold for this time of the year
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1866.
Monday, May 28.
today I have been a choping and sawing wood on the wood pile the wether wet and cold for the time of the year
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1866.
Tuesday, May 29.
to day it is more plesent it has cleard off I was driving pickets till super time and then comenced replanting corn but the ground is to wet
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1866.
Wednesday, May 30.
today the sun shone out a part of the day I replanted with the how it being to wet to yose the hand planter
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1866.
Thursday, May 31.
it rained some last night so I had to yose the how again to day or a part of it it dride of some so I could youse the hand planter
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1866.
Friday, June 1.
to day I am at the same old thing a replanting corn it is raining again to day other ways all things goes well
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1866.
Saturday, June 2.
to day I am still replanting corn thare is a hevy fog and in the evening thare come up a thunder shouer but dident rain mutch her I went to town this evening
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1866.
Sunday, June 3.
to day the wether is more plesent I went to church at the Grove to day the Methodist had ther quartly meeting at the Grove to day I atended this four knoon and after knoon
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1866.
Monday, June 4.
to day I was replanting corn the ground was giting in very good order for woork I got along finly till about four PM and thare was a thunder shouer come upp and I got wet before I got to the sheds it rained very hard all the evening
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1866.
Tuesday, June 5.
this morning it was wet and bad so Mr McNeill sent me to town with the horses and wagon on a fools erant Tom Knapp cept me a waiting on him so that we dident git back till most knoon it had partly cleard off this four knoon but it thickend up I went to nailing caps on the picket fence after diner and it rained so I had to quit I got compleatly wet through
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1866.
Wednesday, June 6.
to day I went work at the fence again it was slow work to me and tiersom on my right hand it cleard off to day and was very windy all goes well with me
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1866.
Thursday, June 7.
this morning I went to puting the caps on the picket fence I worked at it till knoon and after diner I went and catchd one of the horses and helped drive in the sheep then after we got them warded I and Jima had to cetch a lot of sheep we worked at that till super then I went down and finished the fence this morning when I got up it was a raining then before knoon it cleard off and was very warm all the after knoon
Friday, June 8.
this morning after feeding and turning out the horses I went to replanting corn Jima Evens helped me we got along very well the ground dried off some but is very wet. it was clear and the wind blew very hard all day and in the evening after I helped catch a lot of sheep and put them in a pen for to shear to morow
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1866.
Saturday, June 9.
wel to day I was replanting corn it was clear and warm all day I got through replanting our first thirty acres of corn and Mr McNeill got through a shearing sheep the ground is wet yet
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1866.
Sunday, June 10.
this morning it had the apearence of rain I got redy and started down to Uncels and it rained enoughf on me to wet me a little on the road but I come onn and after I got hear it partly cleard off and the wind rose but it is very warm about knoon the girles and I started and went down to Mr John Priers but we dident stay long then in the evening I and Jane went down to Mr Benets a while I had a notion of stoping a while but thare was some one else in my road
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1866.
Monday, June 11.
to day I sheld corn all day it being to wet to work out it rained very hard last night and nearly all day
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1866.
Tuesday, June 12.
this morning it is still wet and rany I went to replanting sod corn I had to right youse a spade it was very wet so that it made slow woork
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1866.
Wednesday, June 13.
to day it is more plesent and bids fair for good wether I planted sod corn and got along about as I did yesterday
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1866.
Thursday, June 14.
to day I was still planting sod corn I got along a little beter to day the wether fair and plesent
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1866.
Friday, June 15.
to day I finished planting sod corn and then went to replanting corn the old corn ground is very wet
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1866.
Saturday, June 16.
to day it is showery and cold I was plowing corn to day and got along well at it we have very good corn
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1866.
Sunday, June 17.
this morning after I tended to the horse I got redy and went to the Grove to Sabath School and meeting all goes well with me
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1866.
Monday, June 18.
to day I was plowing corn I plowed with one horse and the doubel shovel plow till knoon this after knoon I hitched on to the tow horse cultivater and plowed with it I got along finley with it it is very plesent to day
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1866.
Tuesday, June 19.
to day I have been plowing again all day I got along very well the wether fine
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1866.
Wednesday, June 20.
to day I have don a big days woork in the corn field it is warm and the corn growes fast it has the apearence of rain to night
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1866.
Thursday, June 21.
this morning when I got upp it had been a raining and was still at it. it was to wet to work in the corn so I helped grind the syths and went to mowing down the grass in the yard it was hard woork and I was very near plade out when night come it cleard off and was very warm all afterknoon
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1866.
Friday, June 22.
this morning it rained a little again I got out my team and went and worked on the road it cleard off and was warm again this after knoon all goes well
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1866.
Saturday, June 23.
to day I plowed corn the ground is very wet a hard wind blowed from the south all day and was very warm
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1866.
Sunday, June 24.
to day I got redy and went to Sabath School and meeting at the Grove preching from the 20 and 21st verse of Jude a good sermon it is very warm all day I went to the Grove to meeting this evening the Rev Mr Shin a Methodist preacher preached from the 13 chapter and 36 verce of St John it was a good discorse and a plesent evening
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1866.
Monday, June 25.
today I was a plowing corn again with the cultivator I got along very well it was very warm all day the corn growes fast
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1866.
Tuesday, June 26.
this morning it has been a raining som and has the apearence of more rain wel I went out to plow corn but had plowed only a few rounds when thare come up a hard thunder storm and I got completly wet before I got to the stabels with the team I then raked up hay or grass in the yard till knoon this after knoon I went to plowing with the doubel shovel plow it cleard off this after knoon and bids fair for plesent wether
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1866.
Wednesday, June 27.
this morning I hitched to the cultivator and finished plowing through the corn one way till 2 PM then I took one of the horses and hitched on to the doubel shovel plow and comenced plowing it the other way it seams like slow woork the wether plesent
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1866.
Thursday, June 28.
to day I was plowing again with the shovel plow and got along slow the wether fair and plesent
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1866.
Friday, June 29.
to day I doen a little beter a plowing I made 23 rounds three fourths of a mile long the wether fair I quit work a little early this evening and got redy and went to town to a mite sosiet we had a plesent time it is a butiful night
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1866.
Saturday, June 30.
to day I plowed all day it is cloudy and a little cool all day I got along very wel it rained a little this evening
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1866.
Sunday, July 1.
this morning after tending to the horses I got redy and started to Sabath School and it comenced raining so I turned back then I took my over coat and got on one of the mules and rode down to Unckles thare I had a very good time the wether cold and rainy all day
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1866.
Monday, July 2.
to day I plowed corn hard all day the wether warm but som apearence of rain it thunderd all around us and come up in the evening as though it was a gowing to give us a shouer but finley blew over and cleard of
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1866.
Tuesday, July 3.
to day it is clear and very warm I plowed corn all day all things goes wel with me
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1866.
Wednesday, July 4.
wel to day I havent worked I tended to my team and then got redy and went to the Grove to spend the fourth thare warent mutch gowing on in the grove but what thare was was good we had a song by the coier and reding of the declaration of Independence by Mr Harknes another song and then an oration by Mr Cary and then America by the audienc and then while the Ladies was seting the tabel for diner we had music by the martial band I ate diner with Mrs Aorneld it was a good one thare wasent a grate meny thare I stade around thair till 4 PM and then went down to Uncles thare I had a good time the wether is very warm how diferent to day to what it was tow years ago
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1866.
Thursday, July 5.
wel here I am at work in the corn field again I don the bigest days woork to day of eny day yet the wether warm and dry the corn is growing fast
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1866.
Friday, July 6.
to day I finished a plowing the corn in the big field the second time till knoon and then after diner I went into the small field to plow it through it was hard work for the ground was baked very hard it is very warm and has some apearence of rain this evening I took one of the mules and rode to town to the Mite Sosiety at night
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1866.
Saturday, July 7.
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1866.
Sunday, July 8.
this morning I got redy and rode one of the mules to the Grove to Sabath School and meeting we had a good school and a good sermon by the Rev Mr Shin from Romans 14 chap and 12 verse it is cold and cloudy all four knoon but is clearing off warm this evening
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1866.
Monday, July 9.
to day I went into the corn field again with the cultivator and comenced gowing through the corn the third time I did not git along very well today it is good growing wether
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1866.
Tuesday, July 10.
here I am back in the corn field I got along about as I did yesterday the wether fine and all things is growing very fast
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1866.
Wednesday, July 11.
to day I got along a little in the corn I am having stedy work in the corn field the wether nice
John M Barhan Esq
Lisbon
Ind
Ela M Barhan
Lisbon Ind
Frank E Barhan
Lisbon Ind
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1866.
Thursday, July 12.
to day it gowes some beter still in the corn field only it was very warm so that I could not work the horses all the time at knoon the murker stood at 91 in the shade all goes well with me
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1866.
Friday, July 13.
today I was plowing corn as usiel and got along very well I don more to day than I have this week it has been very warm to day I went to the mite sosiety at night at Mr. Wm Burnses in the Grove we had a very good time
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1866.
Saturday, July 14.
to day I was in the corn field as usiel a plowing the corn I got along finly to day the wether warm with a little sprinkel of rain about 4 PM all goes wel with me
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1866.
Sunday, July 15.
this morning I got up one of the mules to ride then after tending to my team I got on my best duds and rode the mule down to Uncles thare I put up my mule and I and cousin Jane McClery went afoot to meeting over in the brush it was warm walking after meeting I and Jane went to Mrs Hamptons for diner the way the people looked at me they are bound to know me the next time they se me it was dark when I got around home to Mr McNeills it has been very warm all day
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1866.
Monday, July 16.
to day I am back in the corn field the wether fine finished in the big field and plowed a part of the potatoes to day all goes well Mc has got another hand to help through harvest and haying
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1866.
Tuesday, July 17.
this morning I finished the potatoes and then helped finish another small pece of corn. then I went and picked the potato bugs of the potatoes and burnt them I then choped wood the rest of the day or at least when it wasent a raining we had a very hard shouer of rain this afterknoon wel we neaded it for the corn
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1866.
Wednesday, July 18.
to day it is cloudy and has the apearence of more rain I helped Fred Swan how out the walnuts and then choped wood in the wood pile the rest of the day it sprinkeld rain a little to day but has cleard of this evening
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1866.
Thursday, July 19.
this morning I howed out the cabage and then I and Fred got redy and went upp to Mrs Arnels place to make hay we was upp thair mowing with the mashien the wether warm I got along very well for the first haying in six years I and Fred stade up thare at night after we got our horses tended to we went down town
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1866.
Friday, July 20.
this morning thare was a hevy dew and fog so we could not gow to puting up very soon it was more plesent to work to day and this evening thare is some apearence of rain I went to the mite again this evening we had a very plesent time altho it looked like for rain
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1866.
Saturday, July 21.
wel it made out to rain last night and we had to wait till the hay drid off before we could gow to puting up the sun shone out warm all day & as soon as it was dry enoughf I went to raiking with a horse rake and by half past ten oclock I was near plade out by over heating my blood then I had to work more slow the murker stood at 98 all the after knoon in the shade
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1866.
Sunday, July 22.
this morning it is very warm it was so warm all night that I could not rest I got redy and went to the Grove to Sabath School and meeting Mr Bringel preached from the 16 chapter and 8th verse of St John in the evening I got up the horses and fed them and then sadeld the mule and then got redy and went to town to meeting in the evening I was a gowing to make an atact on some of the people but they wasent at home then I and Ausker Wats took a ride before time for prair meeting it was very dull at meeting it is more plesent this evening than it was last night
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1866.
Monday, July 23.
this morning I did not feel very well but went to work we fixed the reper part on the masheen and went to cuting wheet I worked by myself a binding wheet till knoon I stood it very well after knoon I went to binding with the other hands but could not stand it so I gave clear out by four oclock PM so after resting a while I started to the house and it was all I could do to git to the house I thought the sun would burn me up before I could git thair then I rested till about sun down and then took care of the horses it has been very warm all day with but little air astir
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1866.
Tuesday, July 24.
last night it was very warm all night but is a little cooler this morning I went to town and don some earents for Mr McNeill and when I com back I went out into the wheet field to work but took my one time for it I got along very well to day it has turned warm again so that we sufer with the heat we got the wheet all cut down this evening but not near all bound up
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1866.
Wednesday, July 25.
this morning we went to binding up as soon as it was dry enoughf we bound a while and then I went to shocking up I got along very well till knoon but after knoon I could not stand the heat so was about plade out again I worked slow on till night Mc have a young son at ther house so he could not work today
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1866.
Thursday, July 26.
this morning I felt so bad that I made up my mind to stop work for a while so after breckfast I told Mr McNeill and he was willing but wanted me to hitch up the other team and take Mrs Shepard home and dow some earents in town for him I acordingly don as he wished and then come back and onhitched and onharnest the horses and then got in the wagon with Uncle and come down home with him to docter up thare is nothing more of importense today only the wether very warm so that I suferd with the heat
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1866.
Friday, July 27.
to day has been a despert hot day so that I suferd dredful with the heat in the shade I am down at Uncles a doctering for my helth it rained very hard last night so to day has been the hotest day of the season
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Saturday, July 28.
it is still warm and disegreabel I am still at uncls a taking medisin and laying in the shade
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Sunday, July 29.
the wether continues warm I think that I am giting beter
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Monday, July 30.
this morning I went to binding oats a little but could not stand it the wether continues hot
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Tuesday, July 31.
to day I helped gether oats till I wored myself out it is cooler and more plesent
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Wednesday, August 1.
today is a plesent day for work but I hant abel to gow to work and I am afraid I wont be for som time
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Thursday, August 2.
today I and Jane McClery went over to Elizabath Benets I was about plade out when we got thair but we had a very good viset it was very warm so we dident start home till late it was away after dark when we got home
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Friday, August 3.
today is another hot one after diner I cetched a horse and rode up to Mr McNeills and to the Grove I got three leters at the Grove that cheard me up some but I hant giting much beter not so that I am abel to gow to work
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Saturday, August 4.
this morning fines it as warm as ever I layed in the shade the most of the day I am giting some beter I still stay at Uncels they git through stacking hay today
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Sunday, August 5.
this morning I feel worse so that I am hardly abel to set upp but got so that I got on the wagon and rode down to Mr Hitchcocks and back and then concluded to gow up to Macs to work so late in the evening I walked up thare I stood the walk very well
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Monday, August 6.
to day I was halling hay on the horse wagon from Mrs Arnels medow I was gowing home with the third load and the wagon tie run off then I had to unhitch and leave the load stand in the road we went down to Mcs and Mc was mad and cused us a little for being so carles the wether warm to day
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Tuesday, August 7.
this morning it has the apearence of rain but we got redy and started up to the medow to make hay it rained on us while on the road then I went back to Macs and made stack botems till knoon then after I ate my diner I went up to the medow and raked and put up hay till night
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Wednesday, August 8.
to day I cut weeds in the garden at Mc till knoon and then went up to the medow and put upp hay in the after knoon the wether rainy this morning but it has cleard off this after knoon
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Thursday, August 9.
today we put upp hay all day the wether fair and plesent I have to work slow and easy and then I am about played out at night
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Friday, August 10.
this morning I was upp to the medow in good time and went to puting upp but it rained a little about ten oclock so we had to quit I then come down to Mcs and cut weeds till a while after diner and it cleard off and I went back to the medow and put upp hay till night
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Saturday, August 11.
this morning I was upp to the medow in good time and we got it all up by tow oclock PM and helped load tow loads of hay then we waited thare a long time for them to come back after the third load but they dident come so I come on down to Mcs and they was eating super we then raised the dirk to onload hay with the weather fair
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Sunday, August 12.
last night I had the cramp cholic all night so that I could not res I got up and went down to the sheds and got in the spring wagon and rolld and tumbeld thair till morning and then I had the souer stomache all day it is cloudy and has tried to rain all day I feel beter this evening
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Monday, August 13.
today I went to helping hall hay we haled three loads from Mrs Arnels farm and got them in the stack I got along very well to day the wether fair
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Tuesday, August 14.
to day I raiked and bunched hay all day the wether fair the hay was in Mcs new medow and thare is a grate meny weeds so it made it hard woork
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Wednesday, August 15.
to day I went to raiking hay and broke the rake then Mc had to fix it and I moed till knoon after diner I raiked and bunched som hay and then helped hall in tow loads and onload them
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Thursday, August 16.
this morning the wether fair and plesent I went to raiking and bunching hay with the horse rake while Mr McNeill and the rest of his hands went up to Mrs arnels to do a little work for her and fetch down a couple of loads of hay they got back by knoon after diner I went to raiking again and got all raked up and a part bunched till night the wether plesent through the day but cold at night I did not feel very well when I went to bed
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Friday, August 17.
this morning I was very sick I was taken with somthing like the colra morbis it went very hard with me no one to help or do eny thing for me but I woried through the night I had to keep the bed the most of the day I was at Mr McNeill and they dident seem to cair whether I lived or died the wether very plesent through the day but cold at night
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Saturday, August 18.
this morning I felt a little beter but not abel to work so I got on the wagon with the boys and went to town and they went of to se the Dr docter and to git som money from T J Knapp I got the money and my buisnes tended to and then I went upp to Mrs Arnels for diner after that I got on the wagon with the boys and com down to McNeills I then got redy and com down to uncels in the evening and was tierd clear out when I got her. we had a small shouer of rain this morning
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Sunday, August 19.
to day the wether has been very cold for the time of the year I was not abel to set up all day I took physic last night but it dident work me I have about made up my mind to quit and gow home
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Monday, August 20.
to day we have som more rain it raind and haild hard at the grove I was so that I could set in the wagon and ride to the grove in the after knoon Swone Sloon made a spetch thare he is a black abolitinest and a stinken one after the speach was over we went over in town and thare come up a hard rain so we had to stay till that was over then we com down to McNeills and I got my things and put in the wagon and sent down to uncels and I stade thair to setel upp with Mc I feel some what woried after my exersise of to day
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Tuesday, August 21.
last night I dident rest well this morning the air was cold and chiley I and Mc seteld after breckfast but he dident have money enoughf to pay me so I had to wait till after diner for him to git som more money then he paid me and I started and walked down to Unckels but was woried clear out when I got her. I felt like having a chill to day. the sun shone warm all day but it is cold this evening
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Wednesday, August 22.
to day is wet and rainy all four knoon and real cold for the time of the year I feel a little beter to day this after knoon I and Elsa Ann went down to Benets and the Point when we got down to Benets we found Elizabath and one of her children sick so we stade remained thare to wait on them
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Thursday, August 23.
this morning it is real cold I stade all night at Benets the sick is a little beter I and Elsa come back to Uncels this fourknoon then in the after knoon I got up one of the horses and rode down to Mr Benets to trade for or buy a trunk I baught the trunk and took it home up to Unckels it was after night when I got back thare
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Friday, August 24.
this four knoon I went ought out on the pararia and cetched one of the colts to ride down to Mr George Teatrs in Apanoose Co they are cousins of mine I got redy and started about 2 PM I rode through to Promis City by little after night som twenty five miles the reson I went so fair is that I could not git to stop eny other place on the rode
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Saturday, August 25.
I got through to George Teaters by 10 AM all safe they was some what suprised to se me down thare in the after knoon I went with George over to the city of Milageville to mill it is a grate place we got back in good time the wether fair
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Sunday, August 26.
to day I am at one of my cousins George and Aseneth Teaters I enjoy my self very well her they seam to be glad that I com to se them ther childern is very still and bashful the wether fair and plesent
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Monday, August 27.
to day I went around som with Georg he has got a nice farm and a shere in a good mill it is cloudy cloudy and som apearence of rain today
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Tuesday, August 28.
this morning I got up not very wel rested for one of my teeth was a growling and trying to ache all night I helped Georg Teatr git redy to start to the river then I stade thare till after diner then I got redy and started back to Unckels I got to Coridon in Wain Co at 5 PM thare I put up for the night I rode 18 miles I was some what tierd the wether was warmer to day than it has been has been for severl days
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Wednesday, August 29.
this morning I felt some what beter than I did yesterday I started from Coridon in good time and arived at Uncels at 11 AM all right this after knoon I and Jane went over to Ikes to fix the house for the party and then I went over to Mrs Benets to se them before I left this part of Iowa at night I com back to Ikes and we had a very good time the wether plesent
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Thursday, August 30.
this morning found me at Uncels all right and redy to start on my round about way home I am having a good time in generel today while I am at Uncels I and the girles caried on high at four oclock I bid Uncels folks good by and Ike took my trunk and myself out to the road thare I met the stage and got on and went to Leon for super then thare was eight pasengers of us on a tow horse stage and we went on very well only a little crouded the wether has some apearence of rain
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Friday, August 31.
I arived at Mt Air Iowa by stage at 2 AM thare I laid over till half past six AM after breckfast I took the stage again ariving at Bedford Iowa for diner and then on to Corinda in Page Co Iowa at 5 PM thare the stage laid over for super at 6 PM then I was left to continue my jorney alone to Sidney the stage driver was along to drive thare was som rain fel last night while we laid over so it made the roads a little slipry to day aside from this thare has been nothing of importence my trip has been a very plesent one so fair the sun shone warm to day
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Saturday, September 1.
I arived at Sidney Iowa about 2 AM som wet for it rained on me the last 20 miles thare I had to lay over till 8 AM waiting for the stage from St Joe to C Bluffs it was detaind som on the acount of the rain last night it com at last and I got abord of her with four other pasengers for CB we arived at CB at 5 PM all safe it rained a small shouer just before we got her we got diner at Glenwood Iowa I put up at the Pacifick house in CB her I give the names of rivers and creeks I crost on my rout her Weldon C. Thomsons fork of grand R. Walnut C. Grand R. East and West Platt Rivers Honey C. East and west thunder and tow. East and West Naudaway R. snake C. East senter and West Terco [Tarkio] C. East and west Miskney Botney [Nishnabotna] River
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Sunday, September 2.
this is Sunday and I am at C Bluffs I am a gowing to lay over till Monday morning I went to Sabath school and meeting her in town this four knoon thare was a very good sermon preached from Luke 22nd chapter 41 and 42nd verses the wether plesent thare is an oful site of travel through this place in the evening I went to the Prysbyterien Church to meeting they had a very good sermon from the 7th of St Luke and 32nd verse it is very dark to night
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Monday, September 3.
this morning I got on the stage and crost the river mosura river to Omahaw Neb there I looked around some and stoped at the Douglas house I then went to a livery stabel and hierd a horse to gow up in the country to look at som land up on cumings I got my diner at the Douglas house and then I went and got the horse and started on my trip I went out to Elkhorn City that night some 23 miles from Omahaw I past over som very roughf country but it has the apearence of more level and beter country I stoped at Mr Fowlers they had a good looking girl the wether is fair and plesent
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Tuesday, September 4.
this morning I started from Mr Fowlers at Elkhorn city on my trip whare I stade all night on my journey I rode to fauntenell 16 miles at 10 AM then I went logan creek 11 miles ferther for diner I got a very good diner thair the people thare lived partly under the ground they apeard like a very very clever people then I had to ride 22 miles this after knoon to West Point whare I wanted to stop for the night I arived at the place before sun down but some what tierd this last 14 miles was very lonley for thare was not a house on the road but I past over som nice country and a rich one it is a nice country all along the road they have a good wheet crop the wether was cold and wet this morning but was more plesent this evening
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Wednesday, September 5.
this morning I left west point and went up to DeWitt and then a mile north to my land and looked around a while and then to look at some other land in the other neighborhood then went to Mr Moores for diner then I started back to Omaha I rode 20 miles that after knoon and stoped at Mr Robisons on cuming creek to stay over night the wether rainy this after knoon but I dident git wet this is a good rich country the have a good wheet crop here this season
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Thursday, September 6.
I had a good time at Mr Robisons last night they apear like clever people I left thare early in the morning and rode 20 miles to Mr Morleys half way house and stoped thare for diner they apere like clever people then I rode down the botom rode to elkhorn city to take a vew at the Plat river valy it is without exception the nises scope of country I ever lade eyes on then I stoped at Mr Fowlers a little while and then rode on towards Omaha and got within 11 miles of the city making 45 miles that I rode to day I stoped at the Schemiel house for super and nights lodging the wether plesent to day
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Friday, September 7.
wel and such a nights lodging as it was the flees and bed bugs come very near eating me up I dident git to sleep half an our all night this morning it is cold and chiley riding I rode into Omaha by a little after 9 oclock AM in beter condition than I was when I started that is for riding. I turned over the horse at the livery stabel whare it belonged and then pade for the youse of it and then went to the douglas house and put up for the day then I went to the stage ofice and pade my fair to new Jeferson Iowa then I past the rest of the day leasurly around town the wether more plesent this evening
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Saturday, September 8.
this morning I was up by times and redy to take the stage to Counsel Bluffs thare I got breckfast at the Pacifick house and then started got on the stage with eight more men and then we started out on our travel acrost the country to the railroad it rained nearly all day so it was slow traveling we got our diner at a farm house whare the stage stoped to chang horses then we pushed on to Denson this evening for super the rain still faling and the rout a giting mudyer all the time thare we concluded to lay over till the next morning
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Sunday, September 9.
wel we could not git a bed so we had to lay down in the tavern till parlor and make our selvs as comfortable as we could this morning we had 58 miles to stage it to New Jeferson we started out about 6 AM but it was slow work the roads was so bad and roughf that the team could not gow out of the walk finly thare was a extry stage over took us and took a part of our load so we got through to New Jeferson about 9 oclock PM some what tierd and wore out the wether wet all day
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Monday, September 10.
this morning I am at new Jeferson at 9 AM they hitched on to a stage coach and took us down to the depot at ten the train started to boon thare we had to chang cars and got our diners then from thare we I traveld on the cars to Mechanicsville arived thare about half past eight PM I then went up to cousin Jesse Axtells I found them in tolerabel good helth the wether a little damp
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Tuesday, September 11.
this morning found me in Mechanicsville Iowa at aunt Mary Axtells and cousin Jesse I arived here last night at half past eight PM it rained som in the night but has been very plesent to day I got a sinder in my eye yesterday while riding on the cars so I could not rede or rite today and then I have cetched an oful cold
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Wednesday, September 12.
to day I was most down sick with the cold and my eye I tryed to git it out but could not fase it I am still at Aunt Polies and cousin Jesses the wether plesent
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Thursday, September 13.
this morning my eye is worse I had to gow to a docters to have that sinder taken off from my eye it was a severe operation but it had to be don then in the evening I began to feel beter cousin Jesse sold out today and to night he is to make an envoise of his grooseres I calculated to start home to night but dident make conection with the cars. the wether fare and plesent
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Friday, September 14.
this morning I wasent a gowing to miss conection so I was down to the depot in good time the trane left Mechanicsville at 7 AM and I was abord of them the trip to Chacago today without eny thing of importence the wether plesent the trane arived at wel St depot at half past seven PM all safe and then I took the omnibus and went to the Rock Island depot thare I concluded to lay over till the next morning at the rail road exchange and then I went and baught a soot of cloths
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Saturday, September 15.
this morning I got up very erly on the acount that I could not sleep. I stade at the rail road exchange clost to the Rock Island Depot in Chicago at half past 6 AM I went over to the depot and baught my ticket and got my trunk checked to Kendallville and at 7 AM the cars started out from the depot the cars made good time and arived at K in at the time it was a very plesent trip at K thare was a great meny people gethered together to a speach Senetor Dewlittle from Wes. spoke he is a Democrat he made a good spech at night I come out home with Mr Amos Black I got to uncle chrises after dark a while the young people had all gon to meeting at Mt plesent the wether cold and raw all day
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Sunday, September 16.
this morning it is a raining som I got up and took the wheel barow and went over to Amos Blacks and got my trunk and then got redy and went over to Mt Plesent to meeting we had comunion to day and a good sermon by brother Barnet from the 11th chapter and 16th verse of hebrews after meeting I come home to diner and then went over to Uncle Jesse Axtells with Lovina to se them. the wether rainy and disagreeabel
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Monday, September 17.
last night I stade at Uncle Jesses they semed very glad to have me stay with them they hoped on me about politics but I held my one. I come back to uncels this four knoon and this after knoon I helped uncle stack up som lumber thare was no rain to day but it was cloudy and cold all day
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Tuesday, September 18.
this morning I am at Uncle chrises I went out and cetched one of the horses and fetched in for aunt to ride of a visiting and then it rained so she could not gow I waided around in the wet gras and cetched one of the colts and was a gowing to try and ride it but finly let it gow John Black come over here in the four knoon and then in the after knoon I went home with him and then I and John and Peter went over to Mr Koonses a while and thense to Mr Pepels and Cyrus Blacks for super and then back home it has been a raining most all day. it is so wet that the farmers cant git ther wheet sold and it is giting very late
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Wednesday, September 19.
to day I and Frank took a hors back rid and then I and Uncle cetched the colts and rode them a little and at night I went with the girles to prair meeting it is not a raining day but cloudy
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Thursday, September 20.
I stade all night at Mr Blacks last night this morning it is a raining it rained all four knoon and this after knoon I rode one of the colts
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Friday, September 21.
to day I went over to Fosters and hierd to work thare a while then I rode down to the old place then back up to Walkers and home the wether more plesent
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Saturday, September 22.
to day I cut up corn for Mr Walker and at night went to singing school at Mt Plesent this morning was the first hard frost of the fall
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Sunday, September 23.
this morning I got redy and rode road one of Uncles colts down to Hopewell Church in swain to meeting thare was tow sermons preached by a Prysbyterien minester after meeting I went down to Mr McCartneys for diner I had a very good time while thare I got back home about dark. the wether is plesent to what it has been
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Monday, September 24.
this morning I got up early and after breckfast went over to Mr Fosters to work I had just got thare and it comenced raining very hard it rained till near nine oclock AM when it stoped then I and Sam went to halling out straw and manewer we hald till 4 oclock PM then it comenced raining so we had to quit at night I com back home to gow to the raly at Albion to morow
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Tuesday, September 25.
this morning when I got up it was raining after breakfast I went out in the field and cetched one of the colts and fetched in an fed then went over to Blacks to se what was to be don it rained on and I stade thare till after diner then it slacked up and I come home and put the sadel on the colt and went over to the corner there met a lot of the boys and we went to Albion through the mud and rain the town was full of men and boys but no spekers com on the acount of bad wether at 4 PM we went to Mr Bradleys for super then I went out to Uncle Johns to stay all night it still continues to rain
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Wednesday, September 26.
this morning it has quit raining but thare is a hevy fog that is seteling to the ground I left Uncle Johns about 8 oclock AM and come down to Mr J T Fosters thare I fel in with John Black then we com down to our school house together I then went down to the old place and from thare I went over to the sawmill to se about som lumber. then I com past Jesses home til knoon then I and Elenor went over to John Steels a hors back and back home I went to se him about some money then I and Frank went over to Mr Shaws to se Lovina and then around by our school house home and at night we went over to Mt Plesent to meeting the wether is fair and plesent
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Thursday, September 27.
this morning I am at home after the dew went of a little I and John went out and fetched in the horses and colts into the stabel I then got the bridel on rock and led him around a while then got Abe to com over and help me with him I had a fine time before I got him to gow he throwed him self to or thre times and then throwed me off once fair after diner I put the sadel on him and led him around and then got on him he tride his best to throw me but dident I rode him tow houres the wether plesent W A Curry and Lady are up to Uncels this evening and we had an [?] super
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Friday, September 28.
this morning I went over to Mr Fosters to work I helped W Easter cut up corn it was hard work and at night I went down to our old place to se Mr Rusel the wether plesent
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Saturday, September 29.
to day I was cuting up corn we got don before midnight then I com home and got redy and went down to Mr Strouses school house to a spech Democratic it was a good spech the wether fair
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Sunday, September 30.
this morning I and frank got redy and went out to Uncle calvin Proutes a visiting but they was all gon away from home so we had to com back home
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Monday, October 1.
to day I went over and worked for Samuel Foster again I drug in wheet till about three oclock I finished then I cut clover seed a while then I went with wilson Easter to grind the syths the wether fair
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Tuesday, October 2.
to day I helped cut clover seed all day they come near runing me out of the field the wether fair
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Wednesday, October 3.
to day we finished the clover seed and then finished halling out manuer and hald away the cane to Sam Taylors the wether plesent I went over to Mr Blacks to night and went from thare to prair meeting
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Thursday, October 4.
this four knoon I helped John Black to log and brand up his clearen then after diner I come home and got in the colts and Pete Black com over and we put the sadels on them and rode them to kendallville to se the croud thare to hear Governer Morton speak we had a good time thare we staid till the croud was all a leaving and then we started home and on the road a young lady caled me a traitor to my country and an old one or a she dragon caled me a confound coperhed while in town
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Friday, October 5.
this morning I went back to Fosters to work I helped rake up clover seed till it got tow dry and then helped Wil Easter saw shingel and rail timber the rest of the day and after super I got Mrs Fosters side sadel and com home the wether fair
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Saturday, October 6.
this morning I was up by times got in the horses and colts and then got redy to gow to the aley at Albion I was of after my pardner in good time but she could not ride the colt I had got for her so she had to chang and then the colt that I was a riding got to kicking and then I could not gow in the croud he throwed me of once and come near kiling me but I rode him to Albion after all and thare waited on my pardner we had a good diner and a good time in generel it was a nice sight to se so meny on hors back the wether fair and plesent it was after dark when I got home
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Sunday, October 7.
this morning I went to sunday school at Mt Plesent and after S school thare was a funerel preached thare by brother Barnet of Mrs Wisers then after the berien I com home and got diner and then started down to Springfield about 3 PM I rode one of Uncels colts and got down thare before dark I found the folks all well the wether fair
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Monday, October 8.
wel this four knoon I stade in town then after diner I and Magg went out a calling we went out of town to whare Miss Mattie Bloom lives she was at home and we had her gow back with us she stade till night and then I went home with her or to whare she stoped to stay all night for it was a raining she seems to talk faverbel but alas how desetful
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Tuesday, October 9.
this morning is a little damp from the rain last night I left Springfield about 8 AM for home I stoped in Albion a few minets and then com on up to our town house till 10 AM thare I cast my first vote I voted a Democratic ticket I stade thare till knoon or after then I come on home and got my diner and then changed cloths and then took lether down to Mr Whetsels and had my masure taken for a pair of boots it rained on me nearly all the way down thare and back so that it has put in a stedy after knoons rain I saw Sam Foster at the town house and he dont want me to work eny more
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Wednesday, October 10.
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Thursday, October 11.
last night I stade at Uncel Calvin Proutes they was all well this morning I went back to G Bakers mill to try and git work but he had all the hands he wanted then I come acrost to John Ealys and then apast Wash Easters and Ogels to Mr Walkers to se if he dident want me to work for him but he had gon to Albion then I com home and cut up corn for Uncel till four oclock PM when I went to the house and got super and then I and John Black took the colts and rode them to Albion to a show I saw Mr Walker on the road and he wants me to work for him it is cloudy but no rain to day we cant git no news from the election to rely on
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Friday, October 12.
to day the clouds still hang on but no rain I was at work at Unckels cuting up corn for G Pen aunt was out and helped cut corn this after knoon I was in the sircus last night at Albion the first one I was ever at
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Saturday, October 13.
to day I cut up corn at Uncels for George Pen the wether plesent George wants me to help till Uncle gits his corn all cut up some of Aunts folks come up to se her
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1866.
Sunday, October 14.
to day thare was sunday school at Mt Plesent I was thare after SS thare was four or five come home with us we had a very good time the wether plesent
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1866.
Monday, October 15.
to day I was a cuting up corn at Uncels again the wether fair we got don
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1866.
Tuesday, October 16.
this morning I went to work for Mr Walker we halled out manuer all day the wether plesent
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1866.
Wednesday, October 17.
this four knoon I husked corn and this after knoon we haled out manuer and tore down or comenced taring down the straw stack and spreding it around over the yard to rot the wether plesent
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1866.
Thursday, October 18.
to day we finished halling out manuer and worked on the straw stack som
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1866.
Friday, October 19.
to day I husked corn till knoon and then it set in to raining so I had to quit I then com home and Uncel was at work on the road so I set in and worked out the road tax on our land it rained more or les all after knoon
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1866.
Saturday, October 20.
this morning I helped uncel hall a few loads of pumpkins and then went with him to kendallville then in the evening after we got back I got on one of the colts and went down to Mr Whetsels after my boots and got cetched out in a hard rain storm
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1866.
Sunday, October 21.
to day I am awful lazy and feel a little down harted it rained nearly all day so I stade at home to think over my bad luck it is real chiley this evening
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1866.
Monday, October 22.
last night was an awful stormey one but this morning it has cleard off and has the apearence of fair wether I went to Mr Walkers to work again I husked corn most all day the wind blowed very hard all day it put me in mind of Iowa
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1866.
Tuesday, October 23.
to day at work at Mr Walkers I spred straw out in the barn yard the wether cold and disagreeabel it snowed som this evening
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1866.
Wednesday, October 24.
this morning thare is snow on the ground I helped Walkers butcher a hog and then finished spreding straw till knoon and then husked corn the rest of the day the wether cold
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1866.
Thursday, October 25.
to day I was husking corn again the wether cold but no rain or snow
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1866.
Friday, October 26.
to day the thrashing mashen is at Mr Walkers I raked straw away from the mashine the wether wet and cold I come home at night
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1866.
Saturday, October 27.
this morning I and Frank started down to Springfield on a viset we got to wawaka at knoon we stoped thare for diner then about to oclock we went on to Springfield thare we found the people all well we went a horse back the roads bad a part of the way. the wether bad it snowed and rained most all day I found the report that I had heard to be true
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1866.
Sunday, October 28.
this morning it is raining I waited till eleven oclock AM for it to stop but it did not so I went and got out the horses and put the sadels on them then I and frank went to John Longs thare we had a good time we got wet it raind all day we had to stay all night
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1866.
Monday, October 29.
this morning it is not raining but the clouds is still thick and dark we start home about 8 AM and got home before knoon then after diner I and Ela went down to the showmaker I got my boots and she got her masur taken for a par of shows the wether cold
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1866.
Tuesday, October 30.
this morning I went to Mr Walkers to work again I husked corn all day the wether cold and disagreeabel with snow in the evening so I had to quit before night
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1866.
Wednesday, October 31.
this morning is a young winter thare was to mutch snow on the corn to be plesent husking so I seteld with Mr Walker and then went down to the sawmill to se about giting som lumber but the proprieter was not at home so I had to come away with out seing him I com apast Jesses and stoped thare a few minets and then com home till knoon I helped Uncel build fence in the swamp along the rode north of the house the wether more plesent this evening and at night I went with the girles to prair meeting
Uncel wants me to work for him a while
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1866.
Thursday, November 1.
to day I and Uncel finished the fence along the road and then turned the clover seed and husked a few shocks of corn in the evening the wether more plesent an faverbel
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1866.
Friday, November 2.
this four knoon I husked corn and in this after knoon we got in the clover seed the wether continues favebel
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1866.
Saturday, November 3.
to day I and Jo husked corn all day the wether faverbel for work
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1866.
Sunday, November 4.
this morning I went to Sabath School and meeting then I com home and stade thare as I ought the wether rainy this after knoon
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1866.
Monday, November 5.
to day it is as cleer as a bell I husked corn all day and got along finly at it
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1866.
Tuesday, November 6.
to day I husked corn all day we finished the little field the wether fien John Rusel com back to day
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1866.
Wednesday, November 7.
to day in the corn up to our eyes in the new ground the wether nice this evening I went to prair meeting
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1866.
Thursday, November 8.
to day in the corn the wether not so fair and plesent I and John Black went over to Mr Koonses to hear them sing this evening
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1866.
Friday, November 9.
to day the wether more plesent husking corn
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1866.
Saturday, November 10.
this morning it is cloudy and thare is a hevy fog I and John went out and husked corn till knoon and then it set in to raining so we quit husking then I got in the colts and I and Jo went to Kendallville it rained on us nearly all the way thare and back we got as wet as drouned rats
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1866.
Sunday, November 11.
this it is m morning it is more plesent I got redy and went to Sunday School it was the close of the school at Mr Plesent church we had a good time after it was out I come home and some of the young folks come here in the after knoon
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1866.
Monday, November 12.
this morning I expected some one to com after someone to help husk corn then I don som earonts I had to and helped cary apels down seler till knoon and then went to Cyrus Blacks and helped him husked corn in the after knoon the wether plesent
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1866.
Tuesday, November 13.
to day I husked corn again for Cyrus we got along finley the wether plesent it was a little frosty in the morning at night I come home and helped shel corn at night
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1866.
Wednesday, November 14.
this morning it was raining I went over to Fosters and worked at spreding manuer in the four knoon and in the after knoon husked corn
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1866.
Saturday, November 24.
this morning I went over and finished shoveling the dirt out of the house and then com back and direst and went to Calvin Proutes after diner
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1866.
Sunday, November 25.
this morning I left Jesse Engels an come home he semed a little beter but sarah is near down sick I set up with Jesse last night I com home and got redy and started up to the Chapel to meeting but met John Black and turned back and went to prair meeting at Mt Plesent when it was out I went to Blacks for diner Pery Thom Tomson come thare then we went back to the church to preaching Barnet preched from Luke 5th chapter and 36 verse till the last of the chapter the wether plesent over hed. to day is Jane Blacks 17 birthday
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1866.
Sunday, December 9.
this morning it has frose up and is still freezing I helped do the chores and then dresed and started to meeting but it was so late that I went down to blacks and stade thare nearly all the rest of the day when I left thare I struck for other quarters and I dident git shouerd on I had a good time it was a cold time to be out
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1866.
Thursday, December 13.
to day I chored around for Uncel was away helping Amos Black butcher and made a sleit fraim and got in a lot of wood and at night went over to plesent hall to spelling school they had a good speling I went to Blacks with Pet and stade all night the wether not as cold as it has been
PS I and the girles got a bid to a wood choping sawing and an oister super at Uncel Jesses to morow
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1866.
Friday, December 14.
this morning the wether is a little colder than it was yesterday I stade at Blacks last night I come home and helped do the chores and then dresed out som bords to finish the under flore in the house in the after knoon I and Uncel went over and finished the under and uper floors then come home and doon up the choers and then I got redy and went over to Uncel Jesses to an oister super they had a great croud thare was a lot up from Green and they was green for serten they was enoughf to puke a dog I stade till most ten oclock PM then I come home the wether about the same
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1866.
Saturday, December 15.
this morning I went over to the house and worked a while and then come home and helped Uncel hall som wood and clene out the stabel and do the choers as usuel and in the evening I and the girles went over to Mr Shimers a little while the wether cold and raw all day Peter Black and James McCartney come over her a while this evening
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1866.
Sunday, December 16.
this morning when I got up it had been snowing the snow had fell five or six inches deep after doing the feeding I got redy and and went to prair meeting with the girles we had a good meeting then I went to Blacks for diner and then back to preaching but Mr Barnett dident git thare in time on the acount of the roads being so roughf we sang a hymn or to and then dismist us I come home and helped do the feeding and stade at home it has snowed nearly all day
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1866.
Monday, December 17.
to day I helped Uncel git redy to butcher and then went over to the shop blacksith blacksmith shop to git som work don it is very cold all day
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1866.
Tuesday, December 18.
to day I helped butcher we got along fine I cut the sacage meet and then we got the lard and talo all renderd out before 4 PM the wether continues cold
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1866.
Wednesday, December 19.
to day I choped wood for George Pen in his choping it thawed so it driped of the house at night I come home and got redy and went over to waters school house to speling school it was a good one
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1866.
Thursday, December 20.
to day I got in a lot of wood in the wood house it is colder to day than yesterday at night I went to Mt Plesent to meeting preaching by brother Barnett it was a very good sermon this is the comensement of our big meeting
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1866.
Friday, December 21.
this four knoon I went over to Henry Waltmans and took a lot of wood to chop for him then at 40 cts a cord then I come home and got in a lot more wood and then went to meeting at night the wether cold
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1866.
Saturday, December 22.
this morning after doing the feeding I helped Uncel git of to town and then I sadeld up one of the colts and started to town I went to Mr John Steels to [?] him but when he was at Cyrus Blacks a thrashing so I com back thare and saw him but he could not do eny thing then I went on to town thare I had a very good time it was nearly night when we got home after feeding and eating super I and the girles went to meeting preaching by Rev J N Barnett from Galations 6th chapter and 9th verse it raind nearly day
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1866.
Sunday, December 23.
this morning it is still a raining and the snow is nearly all melted after doing the chores I put on my clean duds and then at 12 M I went over to the church to the funerel of Mrs Ricky the funerel was preached by the Rev. Mr Thomas from the first Thessalonians 4th chapter and from the 13th till the last verse
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1866.
Memoranda.
By B Moore
DeWitt Cumings Co
Nebraska
John Pancoast
A L Cobb
Stockbridge Ingham Co
Micheghn
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1866.
Memoranda.
1940
a regesterd leter envelop was recieved at High pont Iowa this February 10th 1869 with nothing in it except som old scraps of a nues paper
John M Barhan
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Memoranda.
Number of day work for Mr McNeill comensing Aprile 2nd 66
[tally]
May [tally]
June [tally]
July [tally]
Aug [tally]
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Cash Account. January.
Date Received. Paid.
6 from W A Curry $10.00
9 " C. Barhan 6.00
6 " oisters and crackers $5.50
6 " gloves and comb [?] 5.50
6 " fair on the railroad 2.10
6 from Lorrina [?]
29 from C Barhan 10.00
29 for clothing 5.50
31 for a dres modle 2.00
28 for lights at church 60
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Cash Account. February.
Date Received. Paid.
3 to the suport of the gospel 1.00
3 for diners for tow 5.50
10 from C Barhan 1.50
12 " " " 10.00
12 for album and valentines 3.50
12 for bres pin bone and brush 2.50
14th for pasag on the rr 45
16 to M Curry for sowing 2.00
16 from W A Curry on note 2.00
19th for the suport of the gospel 2.00
21st for a donation to Barnet 1.80
21st from O Black on order 50.00
21st for candy 75
21st for pocket book and whip 1.70
22nd for livery team 4.00
24th for albums and barbering 4.80
26th for a pair of boots 10.50
27th for a revolver 7.00
28th from C Barhan 350.00
28th from H Waltman 102.20
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Cash Account. March.
Date Received. Paid.
1st at the bank for intrest 6.61
1st for repairing a watchgard 10
1st for transpertaion on rr 5.10
1st for a boxof cartreges 1.00
2nd for breckfast at Chaugo 50
2nd for pasage to mechanicsvilleIowa 8.80
2nd for books and diner 2.70
3rd for hat 3.25
5th for a few stamps 30
5th for belt and bucle 1.50
5th for Photograph 4.00
7th for Oisters 1.00
10th for the cars and books 7.00
10th for apels 20
11th for nits lodging 70
12th for " " 65
13th for pasage on the road 5.00
13th for nits lodging 1.00
14th for nits nights lodging 75
15th for nights lodging 80
15th " " 1.75
16th for land in Nebraska 288.00
16th for pasage acrost the river into Iowa 75
16th for pasage on S. to Sidney 6.00
16th super at the Pacific house 75
16th for clothing at counsel blouffs Iowa 20.00
16th for a ring at Omaha N 2.50
17th for a botel of Medisen at Tabor Town 1.25
17th for pasage on stage to high point
from S 12.20
17th for breckfast diner and super 1.50
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Cash Account. March.
Date Received. Paid.
18th for breckfast diner and super 1.00
19th for nights lodging and breckfast 1.00
21st for barbering and butons 75
22nd for paper and apels 65
23rd for stamps and clothing 3.40
29th for sunday S purposes 25
31st for sope to 05
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Cash Account. April.
Date Received. Paid.
3rd for shoos and come 3.35
10th for medisin 1.00
14th for paper and blacking 25
24 for razor strop and come 2.00
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Cash Account. May.
Date Received. Paid.
4th for tooth powder 1.00
6th for the Sabat S 35
8th from Mr McNeill 1.50
17 for a number of articls 1.35
21st for postage stamps 30
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Cash Account. June.
Date Received. Paid.
2nd from S P McNeill 9.00
2 for boots and hat and other 8.25
2 for some little articels 1.10
29 from S P McNeill 10.40
29 for shirts and sternses 10.00
29 at the Mite Sosiety 25
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Cash Account. July.
Date Received. Paid.
4th for candy and powder 55
6th for admition at the MS 10
8th for the mitionary caus 75
13th at the mite sosiety 10
19 for thred 10
20 at mite sosiety 10
24 for Ink at shaws 10
26 for medisen 1.25
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Cash Account. August.
Date Received. Paid.
18th from T J Knapp $2.65
21st from S P McNeill 49.65
21st for medisin 25
22nd for some calico 90
23rd for a trunk 44.00
25 for nights lodging 1.00
25 for melens and apels 70
28th for socks 80
29 for nights lodging 1.50
30th for transpertaion on stage 12.50
31st for my lodging
30th for transpertation on the
Stage from hipoint to Sidny Iowa 12.50
30th for super at Leon Iowa 65
31st for nights lodging and bord 1.85
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Cash Account. September.
Date Received. Paid.
1st for transpertaion on stage from
Sidney to C Bluffs Iowa 5.00
1st for lodging and bord 1.50
1st for barbering and melons 1.25
3rd for bord over sunday at P. H 5.25
3rd pasage acrost the river 50
3rd for diner and brandy for M 1.75
4th for nights lodging at elkhorne 1.75
5th for nights lodging at west point 1.50
6th for nights lodging at cuming creek 1.75
7th for nights lodging at schmiel H 1.75
7th for a horse to ride to Cuming Co 8.75
7th for transpertation on stage from Omaha
Neb to Jeferson Iowa for Saturday 13.50
7th for bord and nights lodging 1.50
7 for reading mater 65
8 for breckfast and diner 1.25
9 for super and breckfast 1.00
10 for super bed and breckfast 1.50
10 for tow straps to gow around trunk 1.00
10 for diner at Boon 50
10 for pasage on cars from NJ to M 7.70
11 for tow hinges to put on trunk 25
13th for doctering one of my eyes 1.00
10th for books and speeches 2.50
14th for pasage on cars from M to C 8.30
14 for diner and super 1.25
14 for ride on omnibus in C 50
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Cash Account. September.
Date Received. Paid.
14 for soot of clothing in C 30.00
15 for nights lodging in C 1.00
15 for pasage on cars from C to K 5.10
22 for work at Walkers 15.00
25 for super in Albion 50
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Cash Account. October.
Date Received. Paid.
3rd of Samuel Foster 5.00
4th for whip and hitching strop 80
4th for cury comb and card 64
6th for diner at the raley 1.00
" for hors feed and to Jo 1.00
9th for sider at the election 25
11th for admitence in the show 75
11th of J D Black for work 50
16th for postage stamps 10
19th of G Pen for woork 3.00
20th for giting wach fixed 1.50
" for making a pare of boots and
fixing a pare to 3.50
24th for reparing a coat 75
26th of Walker for woork 5.75
31st " " " 1.85
30th for a corn husker 50
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Cash Account. November.
Date Received. Paid.
10th for barbering 50
10th for ruler tape and dye stuf 35
11th for the Sunday School 30
15th of Samuel Foster 50
17th of S Foster for work 1.50
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Memoranda.
Summary of Cash Account.
Received. Paid.
Jan.
31 by Cash 16.10
31st by Cash 21.05
Feb.
28 Cash reseived by me 416.25
28 Cash pade out 42.50
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Memoranda.
for worke that C Barhan and I don on our the house in November and Dec 15 day $15
fifteen days at a dolar a day
$15.00
for money pade out in fixing up the house
$15.50
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Memoranda.
Reward Odor Odor
adress Dr C Briggs
PO drawer 63308 Chicago
Ill
Marriage Guide Address Dr
Wm Young No 410 Spruce St
above Fourth Philadelphia Pa.
a ten dolar bill of
Pittsfield Massachusetts
no 361.192 in blew and
in red 291 1752
new york
weekley no 47
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A Rosenbury sec 18
H Ponty sec 32
South half of the
north east quarter
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John M Barhan Sergt of Co D 30th Ind
Lisbon Noble County
Indiana
John
John
DATABASE CONTENT
| (15352) | DL1445.003 | Diaries | 1866 |
Tags: Alcohol, Chores, Democratic Party, Election of 1866, Elections, Food, Politics, Railroads, Recreation, Religion, School/Education, Weather, Work
People - Records: 1
- (5313) [writer] ~ Barhan, John Miller
SOURCES
John M. Barhan Diary, 1866, DL1445.003, Nau Collection
