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THE JOURNAL OF JAMES B. KNOWLES, 1852-1858     (page 20 of 137)

June 8-13, 1853

The 8th continued: “Mr. & Mrs. White’s Secret or Hole in the wall-did you ever 
send your wife to Brooklin-me E. D. Oslin & L.(?)McMillan stade at the acdy-the 
Judge(which is our teacher)brought some cakes or sent us the key of the 
division where the cakes was-so we hope(helped)ourselves-G. W. W. was here-a 
great many persons here to night”.

The 9th: “continued(to)examin all day-but neve got near threw-J. G. Pain gave 
us a lecture on ed-ucation-very good-me & G. W. W. could not have the 
opportunity of conversing-as I was busy all day & night-The names of the plays 
that night was The Widow’s Victum, Perfection, & The Stranger which is the best 
plat I ever saw acted-stade all night-more cakes & beer-E. D. O., T. Price and 
S. W. Turner a cousin of mine(are)very sickly in this portion of Georgia at 
this time”.

The 10th: “here to take down the seanry-The Judge said a great deal about the 
said G. W. W.-against him-today received a letter from home which I call Pa’s 
in Dooly-which gave me much satisfaction to hear-that they was all well-some 
rain-we had pretty wether for the examination-the school commences Monday(in)2 
weeks and what I do in this length of time(I)know not not for the best for me”.

The 11th: “I went to Court here at Beersheba“.(likely Justice of the Peace 
court)

The 12th: “I went to S. O.-they all went off-me & M. J. O.(O’Dell)stade nearly 
all the day there-we walked out-we heard of a show tomorrow in McDonough-I went 
to L. M. F.s to see if I could get a buggy of(for)me & M. J. O. to go to town 
in-tomo(rrow)-he said we could”. [likely L. M. Fargason‘s buggy]

The 13th: “we went-a good many person there-I was much pleased to see the show-
we went to W. Greer’s-then I road F. M. Wyatt’s horse…”



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