Misc: A.O. Jones Diary, 1927, Lincoln Parish, LA Submitted by: Calvin B. Jones, 180 Bay Drive, Farmerville, LA 71241 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spelling and punctuation is as found in transcript compiled by Calvin Jones from original diary of his father, Arthur O. Jones. The following format is used: date - day of week - entry - weather entry JANUARY, 1927 1 - Sat - cut post and worked on fence - fair 2 - Sun - went to Mr M.A. Beards - fair 3 - Mon - hauled post and worked on fence - fair 4 - Tue - worked on fence & went town - fair 5 - Wed - worked on fence & thrashed peas - fair 6 - Thu - fixed on fence - fair 7 - Fri - finished wood pasture fence - fair 8 - Sat - went town - cloudy 9 - Sun - went to Trudys - fair cool 10 - Mon - thrashed peas - fair cold 11 - Tue - killed hogs - cold fair 12 - Wed - worked on fence, Malcolm came - cool fair 13 - Thu - fixed fence - rained 14 - Fri - went town - cloudy cool 15 - Sat - cut & hauled post (from Mr Kents) - cloudy 16 - Sun - staid home - fair 17 - Mon - cut and hauled post (from Mr Kents) - cloudy 18 - Tue - set fence post - cloudy 19 - Wed - fixed fence & made gate - cloudy 20 - Thu - went town - got mule from Charlie Best $35.00 - rain cloudy 21 - Fri - tried out mule hauling & plowing-fixed on fence - cloudy rain 22 - Sat - went town & traded mules (Charlie Best) - rain 23 - Sun - staid home - cloudy 24 - Mon - went town & fixed fence - rainey 25 - Tue - sawed wood - cloudy 26 - Wed - cut post & hauled wood & post-Mr Alexander came - rainey 27 - Thu - built fence - cloudy cool 28 - Fri - hauled post & wood, worked on lot fence - cloudy 29 - Sat - went town-Howard Alexanders house burned and lost most of things Simsboro - part fair 30 - Sun - staid home - cloudy 31 - Mon - bedded seed sweet potatoes & worked on fence Mr K used team - fair FEBRUARY, 1927 1 - Tue - set out 54 peach trees in orchard-Mr K used team - fair 2 - Wed - set out fruit trees 46 - Kent team - fair 3 - Thu - went town-purchased a roll of roofing paper to put around fruit trees to protect from rabbits K. team - fair 4 - Fri - cut stalks & planted some garden - rainey 5 - Sat - went town, Mrs Alexander came - rainey 6 - Sun - went to quarterly conference-Trudy, Will, Mrs Sumlin came-rainey 7 - Mon - hauled 2 loads fertilizer for Irish potatoes - fair 8 - Tue - went town, hauled 1 load acid Phos fert and planted Irish potatoes - fair 9 - Wed - hauled acid phos 2 loads for Mr Kent 1 for self - fair 10 - Thu - planted more potatoes & peas-set out onion sets - fair cool 11 - Fri - cut stalks half day, shelled peanuts - rain 12 - Sat - went mill - all day rain 13 - Sun - staid home - faired 14 - Mon - cut stalks, sacked 1000 lbs cotton seed for sale - fair 15 - Tue - Made banisters for porch, cut stalks, shipped cotton seed, pigs came - fair 16 - Wed - cut stalks & hung up meat - fair 17 - Thu - cut stalks, hail storm - rain 18 - Fri - cut some stalks & shelled peanuts - cold rain 19 - Sat - hauled fertilizer for melons - cloudy fair 20 - Sun - Malcolm & Audrey came - fair 21 - Mon - piled logs & hauled feed for Mr Kent half day - fair 22 - Tue - fired log pile, cut stalks, plowed terrices - fair 23 - Wed - plowed terrices - fair 24 - Thu - plowed terrices - fair 25 - Fri - plowed terrices - fair 26 - Sat - went town, cut sprouts K. from JL $100.00 - fair 27 - Sun - went Malcolms - fair cold 28 - Mon - went Ruston, Malcolm got 15 bu corn - cold rain Iwa awsa Mr Obertsa aboutwa heta Entka affairwa Olta mewa towa eesa intowa heta affairwa MARCH, 1927 1 - Tue - cut sprouts - cool wind cloudy 2 - Wed - went town (Kent reqs) - fair cold 3 - Thu - plowed - fair 4 - Fri - went town "Mr Kent left" - fair 5 - Sat - went town, cut some sprouts - fair 6 - Sun - went SS church & to Howard Alexanders - cloudy 7 - Mon - hope dig grave for Mr Loftin - hauled load feed for Mr Beard (from Kent stock) - rainey 8 - Tue - went to Mr Loftins funeral - all day rain 9 - Wed - cut sprouts, Malcolm came, hauled corn for Mr Beard - faired 10 - Thu - went town, plowed corn land half day - cloudy 11 - Fri - plowed corn land half day - big rain 12 - Sat - cut trees in pasture - cloudy rain 13 - Sun - Trudy, Will & children, Malcolm & Audrey all came - faired 14 - Mon - worked on road - fair 15 - Tue - cut wood & went fishing - fair 16 - Wed - sawed wood & plowed - part fair 17 - Thu - plowed - cloudy 18 - Fri - plowed, Mr Alex came - cloudy 19 - Sat - went town & fishing, Clarence & Effie came - cloudy 20 - Sun - staid home, Clarence & Effie went home pm - rainey 21 - Mon - hauled wood & fertizlier to watermelon patch - cloudy 22 - Tue - built hog house - fair 23 - Wed - plowed - Calvin (baby's 1st birthday) - cloudy rain 24 - Thu - plowed some, baby (Henry Harrold) born - fair 25 - Fri - plowed half day - fair 26 - Sat - went town - cloudy 27 - Sun - staid home, Calvin sick - rainy 28 - Mon - plowed and planted cane - cloudy 29 - Tue - plowed, Veston & Malcolm came - cloudy 30 - Wed - plowed - cloudy rain 31 - Thu - Veston left, plowed - some rain faired APRIL, 1927 1 - Fri - washed clothes & plowed - fair 2 - Sat - planted corn new ground - fair 3 - Sun - singing at church - fair 4 - Mon - planted corn - fair & rain 5 - Tue - Malcolm got cow, cut trees on line - rainey 6 - Wed - fixed Sumlin fence - rainey 7 - Thu - fixed fence, planted garden - rainey 8 - Fri - planted some corn - fair 9 - Sat - planted corn, went fishing, Will & Trudy came - fair 10 - Sun - staid home - fair 11 - Mon - planted corn & watermellons - cloudy 12 - Tue - planted peas, plowed middles - cloudy 13 - Wed - plowed middles C.L. - cloudy 14 - Thu - put out some fertilizer - some wind - big rain 15 - Fri - split wood - rain all day 16 - Sat - went to mill - rain 17 - Sun - went church W.C. & Allen Alexanders - faired 18 - Mon - put out fertilizer - fair 19 - Tue - put out fertilizer and covered - cloudy 20 - Wed - plowed middles & drug rows - cloudy rain 21 - Thu - mixed fertilizer, pigs came - rain cloudy 22 - Fri - replanted corn half day - cool fair 23 - Sat - went town, replanted corn - fair 24 - Sun - Malcolm & Audrey came - fair 25 - Mon - planted cotton near cotton house - fair 26 - Tue - run middles for cotton - fair 27 - Wed - put out fertilizer, Uncle George came - fair 28 - Thu - planted cotton, run middles in corn - fair 29 - Fri - all went town, plowed corn middles - fair 30 - Sat - plowed corn middles, Clarence, Effie & Thelma came - fair NOTE: Thelma-Moms sister, Effie-Moms sister, Clarence-Effies husband, Trudy-Dads sister, Will her husband, Malcolm- Dads brother, Audrey-Malcolms wife. MAY, 1927 1 - Sun - Clarence & Effie left, Eunice & children came - fair 2 - Mon - put out fertilizer & harrowed - cloudy 3 - Tue - planted cotton & plowed orchard - rain 4 - Wed - put out fertilizer, set out 2 rows potatoes - cloudy 5 - Thu - planted cotton (finished) - fair & cloudy 6 - Fri - plowed in Irish potato field - fair 7 - Sat - went town, broke the pea land - fair 8 - Sun - went to Uncle John Colvins - windy cloudy 9 - Mon - planted little field cotton 5:30 pm wind - big rain 10 - Tue - set out 4 rows sweet potatoes, planted soy beans and peas in orchard - fair 11 - Wed - broke peanut land, Malcolm came - cool fair 12 - Thu - broke some peanut land - rain 13 - Fri - planted octton for Mr Beard, letter from Veston (jail) - rain am fair 14 - Sat - Bro Harmon came then Mama went to Willie's - fair rain 15 - Sun - went church W.C., went to Allen's & Morries - fair 16 - Mon - planted peas & planted corn - fair 17 - Tue - planted peas & plowed corn - fair 18 - Wed - plowed corn 19 - Thu - borred off corn am - big rain at noon 20 - Fri - plowed corn & peas - cloudy 21 - Sat - plowed up potatoes, went town - rain 22 - Sun - went to Trudys & Malcolm's - rain & faired 23 - Mon - Borred off cotton, Jessie came - cloudy & fair 24 - Tue - plowed cotton - cloudy 25 - Wed - went to Ruston, chopped cotton - rain 26 - Thu - chopped cotton M.E.D.D.M. - fair 27 - Fri - plowed cotton - fair cloudy 28 - Sat - plowed cotton - cloudy fair 29 - Sun - staid home, Mulie & Reds calf came (heffers) - fair 30 - Mon - plowed cotton, went town, Veston & Mr Gisler came - fair 31 - Tue - plowed cotton - fair JUNE, 1927 1 - Wed - plowed & chopped cotton, Veston left - fair hot 2 - Thu - chopped cotton - fair hot 3 - Fri - chopped & plowed cotton, dug 1 row potatoes - fair 4 - Sat - went town, plowed cotton - rain 5 - Sun - went to Jessie's - fair cloudy 6 - Mon - nite big rain, set out potato slips, chopped cotton - cloudy 7 - Tue - chopped cotton, Dr Colvin 38 lbs peas $1.50 - cloudy 8 - Wed - chopped cotton M.E. half day - fair 9 - Thu - chopped cotton E.D. half day, Allen & children $9.00 - cloudy rain 10 - Fri - chopped cotton 1 day Bud Lolley - fair hot 11 - Sat - swept up cotton - cloudy fair hot 12 - Sun - staid home, taken kodak pictures of children - hot rain 13 - Mon - plowed cotton & corn, Bud Lolley helped 1 day - cloudy 14 - Tue - went town, pulled up onions - big rain - rainey 15 - Wed - chopped cotton B cut, Bud 1 day - cloudy 16 - Thu - plowed corn & peas - rain 17 - Fri - plowed corn, Malcolm went to hospital - faired 18 - Sat - plowed corn & potatoes, Jewell Choat came - fair 19 - Sun - Trudy & Will came - rainey 20 - Mon - went town, plowed garden & potatoes - rainey 21 - Tue - chopped cotton Beard cut - rainey 22 - Wed - plowed some cotton - big rain 23 - Thu - Sawed some wood - all day rain 24 - Fri - went town, fixed stove - faired 25 - Sat - chopped cotton, Clarence, Effie & Mrs Alexander came - fair 26 - Sun - went to Mr Sumlins - hot rain 27 - Mon - plowed cotton- Bud L 1 day - fair 28 - Tue - plowed & chopped cotton- Bud L 1 day - fair 30 - Wed - plowed cotton, went fishing, Mrs Alexander came - fair JULY, 1927 1 - Fri - plowed orchard peas - fair 2 - Sat - went town, hoed cane - cloudy 3 - Sun - went church S.S. and nite - fair 4 - Mon - plowed cane, cotton & went fishing - fair 5 - Tue - chopped cotton (finished) mulie heffer to male - hot fair 6 - Wed - planted peanuts, swept cotton - fair hot 7 - Thu - plowed cotton, took sow to Trussels (no good) - hot fair 8 - Fri - went to Rally S. SS - fair hot 9 - Sat - plowed cotton & peas in orchard, Silvers calf came - fair hot 10 - Sun - went to Trudys & Malcolms - fair 11 - Mon - plowed cotton, went town - fair 12 - Tue - plowed cotton - fair 13 - Wed - hope around house - fair clouds 14 - Thu - went to grave yard working W.C., heffer to male - fair & showers 15 - Fri - hoed & canned peaches - fair 16 - Sat - went to Trussels grave yard working, Mama came home, W.C. revival meeting started - threat, fair, hot 17 - Sun - Clarence, Effie, Aunt Lou & Mrs Alexander came - fair hot 18 - Mon - hoed some cotton, I Smith for supper - hot showers 19 - Tue - hoed & plowed, Trudy & Will came - fair 20 - Wed - hoed, Uncle George Alex came - fair 21 - Thu - [no entry] - showers evening 22 - Fri - plowed cotton half day - hot rain evening 23 - Sat - went town - cloudy hot 24 - Sun - Staid home - all day rain 25 - Mon - hoed & plowed cotton - fair 26 - Tue - hoed cotton, planted watermellons in cotton-mulie cow to male - fair 27 - Wed - hoed cotton, taken hog Mr Trussels male - fair 28 - Thu - hoed cotton, hog served - fair hot 29 - Fri - hoed cotton (finished) - fair 30 - Sat - went town, plowed cotton - showers 31 - Sun - staid home - hot showers evening NOTE: Dad did not have a bull or boar hog so was Necessary to take them where there was one. AUGUST, 1927 1 - Mon - plowed cotton - hot evening showers 2 - Tue - plowed cotton & cane finished am hauled fert garden - noon rain 3 - Wed - went town, cleaned out well - fair 4 - Thu - went to Minden - fair 5 - Fri - Minden - fair 6 - Sat - Minden - fair 7 - Sun - red cow taken male - fair 8 - Mon - came home from Minden - fair 9 - Tue - picked some peas - hot big rain 10 - Wed - picked peas, went church S. - cloudy 11 - Thu - sawed wood, picked peas, went fishing - big rain 12 - Fri - sawed wood, picked peas - fair hot 13 - Sat - picked peas in orchard, went town - fair 14 - Sun - went church Simsboro - fair 15 - Mon - cut corn fodder, planted turnips, picked peas Mulie to male - fair 16 - Tue - picked peas, hauled fodder - fair 17 - Wed - went town, picked peas, hoed peanuts - fair 18 - Thu - picked peas, planted peanuts, went fishing - fair 19 - Fri - picked peas, got pears, Malcolm came - fair 20 - Sat - went town - fair 21 - Sun - went W.C. Church - fair 22 - Mon - picked peas - fair 23 - Tue - picked peas & cotton - fair 24 - Wed - picked peas, went Arcadia - fair 25 - Thu - picked peas, cloudy cool 26 - Fri - picked peas, Winlock started cutting logs - fair 27 - Sat - went town, picked peas, plowed in orchard - fair 28 - Sun - staid home, went to Mr. Beards - big rain 29 - Mon - picked peas, cotton - fair cloudy 30 - Tue - picked peas & cotton, Unc John, Jim G & Malcolm came - hot cloudy 31 - Wed - picked peas & cotton SEPTEMBER, 1927 1 - Thu - planted turnips, went town, picked cotton - cloudy 2 - Fri - picked peas & cotton - cloudy 3 - Sat - picked peas, went town, taken in fodder - fair rain eve 4 - Sun - went church S.S., went to Mr Davidson's - hot eve rain 5 - Mon - Jim Colvin & Uncle George came - evening rain 6 - Tue - picked cotton, Ernest, Mae & Mrs Alexander came - evening rain 7 - Wed - hauled poles, picked cotton - fair 8 - Thu - picked cotton - fair 9 - Fri - picked cotton - fair 10 - Sat - picked cotton, planted turnips, went town Malcolm came - fair 11 - Sun - went to Allen Alexanders - fair 12 - Mon - picked cotton - fair 13 - Tue - picked cotton - fair 14 - Wed - hauled bale cotton town, picked cotton - fair 15 - Thu - picked cotton - fair 16 - Fri - collected for Church - fair 17 - Sat - went to Jonesboro, Mama left - fair 18 - Sun - went church & Malcolms - rain then fair 19 - Mon - picked cotton - cool cloudy 20 - Tue - Picked cotton - cool cloudy 21 - Wed - picked cotton - cool clear 22 - Thu - picked cotton, letter from William Jones about Evve - clear 23 - Fri - picked octton, Malcolm came - cool fair 24 - Sat - went town - fair 25 - Sun - went to Walnut C.C. Pastor calling - fair 26 - Mon - picked cotton - cloudy 27 - Tue - picked cotton, set out onions - cloudy big rain 28 - Wed - Allen came, went hunting, sawed wood - big rain 29 - Thu - picked cotton - windy cloudy 30 - Fri - picked cotton - rain OCTOBER, 1927 1 - Sat - went town bale cotton - cloudy rain 2 - Sun - Mary & Allen came - cloudy rain 3 - Mon - put down seed cane, pulled up peanuts - faired 4 - Tue - pulled up peanuts, pulled corn - fair 5 - Wed - pulled & hauled corn, hauled in peanuts, Uncle George came - cloudy 6 - Thu - hauled and pulled corn - cloudy eve rain 7 - Fri - went town, hauled corn, hope dig grave. Mr Browns baby buried - rain 8 - Sat - finished pulling & hauling corn - cloudy rainey 9 - Sun - staid home, went Simsboro, Mr & Mrs Davidson came - faired 10 - Mon - strung wire, got very sick (me) Dr came - fair 11 - Tue - sick Mr Beard came - fair 12 - Wed - sick - fair 13 - Thu - got up - fair 14 - Fri - picked off some peanuts, cut wood - fair 15 - Sat - went town - fair 16 - Sun - Malcolm, Audrey, Henry, Berta, Aunt Lou came - fair 17 - Mon - fixed fence, picked cotton - fair 18 - Tue - dug potatoes, picked cotton - fair 19 - Wed - dug potatoes - fair 20 - Thu - picked cotton, made potato house - fair 21 - Fri - picked cotton - fair 22 - Sat - went town - fair 23 - Sun - staid home - fair 24 - Mon - Claudia sick, picked cotton - fair 25 - Tue - Claudia sick, picked some cotton - fair 26 - Wed - picked cotton - fair 27 - Thu - picked cotton - fair 28 - Fri - picked cotton - fair 29 - Sat - picked cotton - cloudy 30 - Sun - went to Mr Beards - fair 31 - Mon - picked cotton - cloudy NOVEMBER, 1927 1 - Tue - picked cotton, finished big field - fair 2 - Wed - picked cotton, hauled wood - rain 3 - Thu - hauled wood, picked cotton - fair 4 - Fri - finished picking cotton - fair 5 - Sat - hauled cotton to gin - fair 6 - Sun - Clarence & Effie came - cloudy cold 7 - Mon - sawed wood, 1 load to town $2.00 - cloudy 8 - Tue - hauled wood town $2.25 - cloudy 9 - Wed - hauled wood $1.00 - cloudy 10 - Thu - hauled pine - faired 11 - Fri - went town - cloudy 12 - Sat - hauled poles - rain cool fair 13 - Sun - staid home - cloudy 14 - Mon - cut & hauled wood $2.00 - rain cloudy 15 - Tue - cut & hauled load wood $2.00 - cloudy rain 16 - Wed - cut wood, Malcolm came - cloudy cold 17 - Thu - hauled wood to town $3.00, 9 pigs came - fair cold 18 - Fri - hauled wood $2.00, 1st frost - cold cloudy 19 - Sat - staid home - cold rainey 20 - Sun - staid home - cold rainey 21 - Mon - hauled poles - faired 22 - Tue - cut wood, hauled lumber - fair 23 - Wed - hauled wood $2.00 - fair 24 - Thu - built steps etc, Aunt Belle came - cloudy 25 - Fri - went town, cut off fence row side road - fair 26 - Sat - set some post, went fishing - fair 27 - Sun - went to Uncle John Colvins - fair 28 - Mon - set post, loaded peas - fair 29 - Tue - thrashed peas (Mr Gullatt) - cloudy 30 - Wed - measured peas, set post - cloudy cold DECEMBER, 1927 1 - Thu - set post, stretched wire - cold rainey 2 - Fri - fixed fence, Malcolm came - cold cloudy 3 - Sat - went town, painted gate - fair cold 4 - Sun - went Simsboro S.S., went to Howard Alex - fair 5 - Mon - cut post - fair 6 - Tue - finished fence, painted signs, ordered sewing machine - cloudy rain 7 - Wed - cut Chinaberry tree, nailed up posted signs - high wind fair 8 - Thu - cut wood - fair cold 9 - Fri - helped wash - cloudy cold 10 - Sat - built chicken coop - rainey 11 - Sun - staid home - rainey 12 - Mon - sawed load wood, Malcolm came, burned brush - cloudy 13 - Tue - went town with chickens - rainey 14 - Wed - hope Malcolm move - cloudy rainey 15 - Thu - hope Malcolm saw wood - cloudy cold 16 - Fri - sawed wood - fair 17 - Sat - hauled wood, went town - fair 18 - Sun - staid home - snow cold cloudy 19 - Mon - sawed wood, Malcolm came $20.00 note Nov. 15, 1928 - cleared 20 - Tue - cleared land, cut wood - cold cloudy 21 - Wed - hauled wood, hope on Malcolms well - fair 22 - Thu - cleaned out Malcolms well - fair 23 - Fri - went town - fair 24 - Sat - split wood - fair 25 - Sun - staid home Christmas - fair 26 - Mon - went to Allen Alex - fair 27 - Tue - made feed pen, hunted mules, Dr Colvin came - cloudy 28 - Wed - Trudy & children came - rain 29 - Thu - helped Malcolm get hogs (pigs 6 weeks old) - fair 30 - Fri - helped Malcolm build a lot - rainey 31 - Sat - went town, helped Malcolm make gate, Uncle Mac Sumlin burried - fair cold