Misc: A.O. Jones Diary, 1928, 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, 1928 1 - Sun - Staid home, Trudy & children went home - cold cloudy 2 - Mon - Killed hogs - cold fair 3 - Tue - Made meat box etc - cold cloudy 4 - Wed - Made sausage & went town - cool fair 5 - Thu - Cut sprouts in orchard & pasture - cold fair 6 - Fri - Hauled fertilizer to orchard, salted down meat - warmer fair 7 - Sat - Cleaned hog head & feet, staid home - drizzly cloudy 8 - Sun - Went to Allen & Marys and to graveyard - cloudy 9 - Mon - Sawed wood with Malcolm, went town after mule - fair 10 - Tue - Sawed wood - Malcolm - fair 11 - Wed - Hauled wood & post for Malcolm - fair 12 - Thu - Cut post with Malcolm, Allen & Marys house burned - fair 13 - Fri - Cut post - fair 14 - Sat - Cut post, went Ruston - fair 15 - Sun - Went Minden - cloudy 16 - Mon - Hauled post - cloudy 17 - Tue - Hauled post, went town to election - cloudy 18 - Wed - Worked on fence west line - cloudy 19 - Thu - Worked on fence west line - fair 20 - Fri - Built fence west line - fair 21 - Sat - Built on fence west line, went town - cold fair 22 - Sun - Staid home - cloudy 23 - Mon - Worked in new ground Y.W. of place(Malcolm hope)- fair windy 24 - Tue - Worked in new ground - fair windy 25 - Wed - Worked in new ground - fair 26 - Thu - Hope wash, Uncle Laught Powell died - cloudy 27 - Fri - Worked in new ground Malcolm half day - cloudy windy 28 - Sat - Went town - fair 29 - Sun - Staid home - fair 30 - Mon - Worked in new ground - Malcolm hope - cloudy 31 - Tue - Went town, Jim Alexander came - rainey FEBRUARY, 1928 1 - Wed - cut wood - fair 2 - Thu - split rails - fair 3 - Fri - hauled rails & poles, Uncle George Alex came - cloudy 4 - Sat - went town - rainey 5 - Sun - staid home - cloudy 6 - Mon - hope Malcolm on garden - cloudy rainey 7 - Tue - helped Malcolm on fence - fair 8 - Wed - hope Malcolm on fence - fair 9 - Thu - went to Ruston, hauled poles - fair 10 - Fri - sawed wood for Malcom & piled logs - fair 11 - Sat - went town, piled logs & hauled post - fair 12 - Sun - Claudia went to Simsboro-I went to Mr Beards - cloudy rain 13 - Mon - split post & cut potatoes - cloudy 14 - Tue - plowed & fertilized potato patch, taken sow to male, set hen - fair 15 - Wed - rain & snow 16 - Thu - hope Malcolm kill hog & hauled fert from old corroll - fair 17 - Fri - cut sprouts and planted potatoes - windy cloudy 18 - Sat - went to Vienna, Baby Henry bad sick 10 oc am - fair cold 19 - Sun - Henry died 11 OC AM, Mama came - cloudy 20 - Mon - burried Henry - Willie & Gracie came - cloudy 21 - Tue - went town, Willie & Gracie went home (Jonesboro) - rainey 22 - Wed - hope wash & set out cabbage plants - fair 23 - Thu - staid home - cold cloudy 24 - Fri - went town - cloudy cold 25 - Sat - hope Malcolm half day on fence - cool fair 26 - Sun - staid home - fair 27 - Mon - hope Malcolm cut sprouts - fair 28 - Tue - hope Malcolm cut sprouts - fair 29 - Wed - hope wash - cloudy MARCH, 1928 1 - Thu - hauled poles & burned off new ground - part fair 2 - Fri - Bedded potatoes & burned some logs - fair 3 - Sat - went town, set hen, killed 33 rats at nite in barn - rainey 4 - Sun - staid home - rainey 5 - Mon - plowed in new ground, Malcolm hope - faired 6 - Tue - plowed in new ground, Malcolm hope - cloudy 7 - Wed - went town & plowed half day - cloudy 8 - Thu - hope Malcolm plow in bottom, set hen - cloudy 9 - Fri - hope Malcolm plow in bottom - fair 10 - Sat - went town & fishing - cloudy 11 - Sun - staid home - fair 12 - Mon - hauled fertilizer in garden, Allen & Mary moved from us to Simsboro - fair 13 - Tue - planted some garden - fair 14 - Wed - worked on well, Malcolm helped, Audrey cut up and left Malcolm - fair 15 - Thu - worked on well (curbed) removed - rainey 16 - Fri - went town hauled fertilizer for Malcolm - cloudy 17 - Sat - worked on well etc - fair 18 - Sun - went church Walnut Creek - fair 19 - Mon - worked on well - fair 20 - Tue - planted cane and fixed fence - fair 21 - Wed - worked on fence - fair 22 - Thu - worked on fence, Mama moved from here to Malcolm - fair 23 - Fri - finished fence, hope Malcolm plow, planted some garden - cloudy rain 24 - Sat - went town, cut sprouts - cloudy 25 - Sun - went to Howard Alexander's - fair 26 - Mon - plowed corn land - castorated pigs - fair 27 - Tue - plowed corn land - fair 28 - Wed - plowed corn land burmuda patch - fair 29 - Thu - plowed corn land burmuda patch - fair 30 - Fri - worked on lane fence - fair cool 31 - Sat - went to town & fishing - fair Note: 14th - cut up = mad and raised a rucus APRIL, 1928 1 - Sun - went Church Simsboro & Jessies - fair 2 - Mon - plowed middles in corn land - set hen - fair 3 - Tue - plowed middles in corn land & started planting corn - Eve rain 4 - Wed - planted corn - windy showers 5 - Thu - hope Malcolm plant corn - big rain eve 6 - Fri - went town - cloudy cool 7 - Sat - made cabinet in dinning room & cut sprouts - cloudy 8 - Sun - went Malcolms - cool cloudy 9 - Mon - made table - rainey 10 - Tue - went town, cut sprouts, set 2 hens - cloudy 11 - Wed - cut sprouts & hauled 3 loads fertilizer from town - fair 12 - Thu - finished hauling fertilizer (1 load) & plowed - fair 13 - Fri - plowed terrices - cloudy showers 14 - Sat - went town, Easter & Deal Beard came - cold sleet cloudy 15 - Sun - staid home, Mama & Malcolm came - cool fair 16 - Mon - frost - put out fertilizer - cool fair 17 - Tue - put out fertilizer - cool fair 18 - Wed - put out fertilizer - cloudy 19 - Thu - hauled fertilizer and hope Malcolm plant corn in bottom - AM rain cloudy 20 - Fri - went town, set out collards, hope Malcolm plant corn - showers 21 - Sat - hope hunt Mrs Shelby in evening (she was found at a neighbors) staid at Malcolms nite - all day rain 22 - Sun - staid home - cloudy rain 23 - Mon - replanted corn - cool fair 24 - Tue - replanted corn - fair 25 - Wed - hope Malcolm put out fertilizer - fair 26 - Thu - hope Malcolm put out fertilizer - cloudy rain 5pm 27 - Fri - big nite rain - went to town (wet) - fair 28 - Sat - plowed orchard & cotton land - Malcolm hope - fair 29 - Sun - Mrs Alexander came went to graveyard eve - fair 30 - Mon - hope Malcolm put out fertilizer MAY, 1928 1 - Tue - hope Malcolm half day in bottom, plowed middles - fair 2 - Wed - plowed middles for cotton - warm fair 3 - Thu - plowed cotton land - fair 4 - Fri - plowed cotton land, planted watermellons & cantelope - cloudy rain 5 - Sat - went town, planted cotton burmuda patch - fair 6 - Sun - went Church Simsboro & ate dinner at Malcolm's - fair 7 - Mon - planted cotton, Malcolm hope - fair 8 - Tue - planted cotton (finished) Malcolm hope - fair 9 - Wed - hope Malcolm plant cotton - fair 10 - Thu - hope Malcolm plant cotton - fair 11 - Fri - went town, hope Malcolm plow corn half day - fair 12 - Sat - plowed corn middles - fair 13 - Sun - Mama & Malcolm came also Evelyn & Dorthy Alex - part fair 14 - Mon - plowed corn middles, set out potato slips (28 U.S. Army planes passed going west) - rained 15 - Tue - set out potato slips, hoed in orchard, went fishing, 42 planes passed going west - cloudy 16 - Wed - went town, planted peas in orchard - hot cloudy 17 - Thu - borred off corn, planted peas in orchard (black crouders) Malcolm hope half day - warm cloudy 18 - Fri - borred off corn, hope Malcolm plant some corn & cotton - cloudy showers 19 - Sat - nite rain, went town & fishing - cloudy threating 20 - Sun - staid home, Mama & Malcolm came - all day rain 21 - Mon - sawed wood & hoed cane - cloudy 22 - Tue - borred off cotton - cloudy drizzly 23 - Wed - borred off cotton - fair 24 - Thu - borred off cotton - fair 25 - Fri - borred off cotton - fair 26 - Sat - went town, borred off cotton & went fishing PM - fair 27 - Sun - staid home 28 - Mon - swept corn, planted peas, Baby George Edwin born 11:30 oc am - fair 29 - Tue - hope wash, swept some corn - fair 30 - Wed - swept corn - fair 31 - Thu - finished sweeping corn - fair JUNE, 1928 1 - Fri - swept cotton - part fair 2 - Sat - went town, fixed potato land, hay to Malcolm $2.24 - showers 3 - Sun - staid home - rain 4 - Mon - set out potato slips, sow due, Jim Alex & wife came - rain 5 - Tue - chopped cotton - fair 6 - Wed - swept cotton (pigs came) - fair 7 - Thu - swept cotton - fair 8 - Fri - swept cotton, Mr M.A. Beard came - fair 9 - Sat - plowed peas in orchard - big rain pm 10 - Sun - staid home, Eunice came - rain 11 - Mon - went town, hoed cotton - faired 12 - Tue - hoed cotton M-S-C - fair 13 - Wed - hoed cotton, finished setting potato slips - rain 14 - Thu - hope wash, put up some plums - cloudy wet 15 - Fri - dug Irish potatoes & hoed - rain 16 - Sat - sick - cloudy 17 - Sun - sick - cleared 18 - Mon - sick - hoed some potatoes - fair 19 - Tue - plowed cotton - fair 20 - Wed - hoed & plowed cotton (Mama hope hoe half day) - fair 21 - Thu - plowed cotton & thinned corn - rain 22 - Fri - thinned & plowed corn - fair 23 - Sat - plowed corn & went town - rain 24 - Sun - went Mamas - cloudy showers 25 - Mon - plowed corn - fair 26 - Tue - finished corn, plowed peas & hoed cotton - cloudy 27 - Wed - hoed cotton, Aunt Lou & John Lolley came - cloudy showers 28 - Thu - hoed cotton, cow taken male, Pete Colvin came - fair 29 - Fri - swept cotton 30 - Sat - went town, plowed middles in cotton - hot fair JULY, 1928 1 - Sun - staid home am, went swimming pm - hot fair 2 - Mon - plowed cotton & peas - fair 3 - Tue - hoed cotton - hot fair 4 - Wed - hoed cotton - hot fair 5 - Thu - hoed cotton - fair 6 - Fri - plowed cotton - hot fair 7 - Sat - planted cotton, went town - cloudy showers 8 - Sun - went Mamas, Uncle John came - showers 9 - Mon - hoed cotton - warm cloudy 10 - Tue - hoed cotton - fair 11 - Wed - hoed cotton, Ethel & Garland Choate came - fair 12 - Thu - grave yard working day (went to Jessies for dinner) - showers 13 - Fri - hoed cotton - fair 14 - Sat - hoed cotton - fair 15 - Sun - staid home (Will & Trudy & children came to Mamas) - rain 16 - Mon - hoed cotton - fair 17 - Tue - hoed cotton - fair 18 - Wed - plowed cotton - fair threatening 19 - Thu - plowed cotton - fair am showers 20 - Fri - plowed cotton - fair 21 - Sat - went Arcadia - fair 22 - Sun - went to Chloes - at Homer - part fair threat 23 - Mon - went town & shelled beans - showers 24 - Tue - hauled old lumber - went fishing - threat rain 25 - Wed - hope Malcolm hoe cotton - eve showers 26 - Thu - hope Malcolm hoe cotton - eve showers 27 - Fri - made shelves in room for fruit jars - all day rain 28 - Sat - went town - cloudy 29 - Sun - staid home - rain 30 - Mon - hope can some fruit - hot cloudy 31 - Tue - worked on rebottomed wagon bed - fair AUGUST, 1928 1 - Wed - hoed cane & weeds - fair 2 - Thu - plowed cane, went town - fair 3 - Fri - went to Minden & etc - fair 4 - Sat - at Minden - fair 5 - Sun - from Minden to Stamps Ark. Meeting start M.E.C. S'boro - fair 6 - Mon - at Stamps, Buckner etc. - fair 7 - Tue - came home from Stamps Ark. - fair 8 - Wed - went Church, staid around home etc sweltry day - fair 9 - Thu - Mrs Alexander came, went Church, hot day - fair 10 - Fri - went Church, inspected Malcolms damaged corn (by Negroes cows) - fair 11 - Sat - went fishing, picked peas etc, went Church - fair 12 - Sun - meeting closes at Simsboro - fair 13 - Mon - picked peas & pulled fodder - fair 14 - Tue - hope Malcolm paint his car & pulled fodder - fair 15 - Wed - picked peas - part fair 16 - Thu - pulled fodder - fair 17 - Fri - pulled fodder - fair 18 - Sat - went town - fair 19 - Sun - preaching started at Walnut Creek Church - hot showers 20 - Mon - fixed fence, pulled fodder, went preaching - fair 21 - Tue - cut corn fodder - fair 22 - Wed - cut corn fodder - fair 23 - Thu - picked peas am, went fishing pm - fair 24 - Fri - picked peas (Mr Green Federal Land Bank Agt came) - fair 25 - Sat - went town - part fair then rain 26 - Sun - went to Jim & Belle Alexanders - fair 27 - Mon - picked peas & cotton - fair 28 - Tue - picked peas & cotton - fair 29 - Wed - picked peas & cotton - fair 30 - Thu - picked cotton 122 lbs - cloudy 31 - Fri - picked cotton - eve rain SEPTEMBER, 1928 1 - Sat - went town & picked peas - cloudy 2 - Sun - staid home - cloudy 3 - Mon - picked cotton - fair 4 - Tue - picked cotton - Aunt Lou Lolley came - fair 5 - Wed - picked cotton - fair 6 - Thu - picked cotton - hauled Aunt Lou Lolleys things here for stowage - fair 7 - Fri - picked cotton - cloudy 8 - Sat - picked cotton - fair 9 - Sun - Trudy & Will & children and Jim Colvin came - fair 10 - Mon - picked cotton - fair 11 - Tue - taken bale cotton to gin & town - fair 12 - Wed - picked cotton - fair 13 - Thu - picked cotton (Peoples gas fuel line servey made) - fair 14 - Fri - picked cotton - cloudy 15 - Sat - picked cotton - cloudy & threatening 16 - Sun - went Mamas & Eunice came - showers 17 - Mon - plowed garden, picked cotton - fair 18 - Tue - picked cotton - cool cloudy 19 - Wed - picked cotton - fair 20 - Thu - picked cotton - fair 21 - Fri - hauled load corn, picked cotton - cloudy 22 - Sat - went Ruston - cloudy 23 - Sun - Jim Colvin got his truck (from here had been in stowage for several months) - cloudy 24 - Mon - picked cotton - fair 25 - Tue - picked cotton - cloudy 26 - Wed - picked cotton - cloudy 27 - Thu - picked cotton - cloudy 28 - Fri - hauled bale cotton for Malcolm - fair 29 - Sat - hauled bale cotton - fair 30 - Sun - staid home - fair OCTOBER, 1928 1 - Mon - pulled and hauled corn - fair 2 - Tue - pulled corn for Malcolm - fair 3 - Wed - hauled corn for Malcolm - 9am rain, pm faired 4 - Thu - picked cotton - cloudy 5 - Fri - picked some octton & planted turnip seed - big rain 6 - Sat - went to Jonesboro - cloudy 7 - Sun - went Church - fair 8 - Mon - hauled bale of cotton for Mr Gilmore, start digging potatoes-fair 9 - Tue - finished potatoes, picked cotton - fair then cloudy 10 - Wed - picked cotton - fair 11 - Thu - picked cotton - fair 12 - Fri - picked cotton - hot clouded 13 - Sat - went town - fair 14 - Sun - went to Mamas - fair 15 - Mon - picked cotton - cloudy 16 - Tue - set out onions - rain 17 - Wed - sawed wood - rainey 18 - Thu - picked cotton - faired 19 - Fri - picked cotton - fair 20 - Sat - went town - fair 21 - Sun - went Church Walnut Creek - cloudy 22 - Mon - went to Trudys, cut seed cane - cold or cool cloudy 23 - Tue - picked cotton - cool fair 24 - Wed - picked cotton - fair 25 - Thu - picked cotton - fair 26 - Fri - hope Malcolm load B cotton & scrapped cotton - fair 27 - Sat - went town - fair 28 - Sun - went Mamas - cool fair 29 - Mon - fixed on yard fence, killed hog - cold fair 30 - Tue - worked on yard fence - cloudy 31 - Wed - worked on yard fence (Mr Madden got 20 Bu corn from Malcolm) - rain & rain NOVEMBER, 1928 1 - Thu - cut wood & went to saw mill - rainey 2 - Fri - fixed fence - faired 3 - Sat - went town - fair 4 - Sun - Jim Alexander & wife came - fair 5 - Mon - loaded bale cotton & scraped picked cotton - fair 6 - Tue - Ethel Causey (ne Gray) burried, hauled cotton to gin -cloudy rained 7 - Wed - went town - fair 8 - Thu - went to Ruston & Arcadia - cloudy 9 - Fri - hauled bale cotton to gin for Mr Gilmore, sold yearling - fair 10 - Sat - went town & hauled wood for Mr Gilmore - fair 11 - Sun - Clarance Sparrow & Prentis Alexander came - fair 12 - Mon - recovered smoke house - fair 13 - Tue - cut and hauled wood - fair 14 - Wed - cut stalks & plowed in orchard, Malcolm & Grandma came - fair 15 - Thu - cut wood - fair 16 - Fri - finished smoke house, went town - fair 17 - Sat - went town, sold 1 pig, Malcolm & Mama went Jonesoboro - fair 18 - Sun - went to Walnut Creek preaching, Eunice came - rainey 19 - Mon - hauled load pine - fair 20 - Tue - thrashed peas - fair 21 - Wed - hauled some pine - fair 22 - Thu - hauled pine - fair 23 - Fri - hope wash - fair 24 - Sat - went town & hauled wood for Mr Gilmore - fair 25 - Sun - Claudia went to Minden - fair 26 - Mon - cut some paper wood - fair 27 - Tue - cut paper wood half day - slow rain 28 - Wed - went Minden - rainey 29 - Thu - at Minden - rainey 30 - Fri - at Minden - rain DECEMBER, 1928 1 - Sat - came home from Minden - fair 2 - Sun - went to Mamas - fair 3 - Mon - corded up wood & cut bushes in new ground - cloudy 4 - Tue - went town, cut bushes in pasture - cloudy 5 - Wed - went town - cool cloudy 6 - Thu - killed 3 hogs - cold cloudy 7 - Fri - ground sausage & sawed wood - cold fair 8 - Sat - hauled one-quarter cord house wood to Bro Henderson (pastor M.E.C. Simsboro) - cool fair 9 - Sun - went to Mr Gilmores - cool fair 10 - Mon - cut paper wood 2 « cords, Tom Kelley hope - warm cloudy 11 - Tue - cut wood - rain 12 - Wed - cut wood - Malcolm & Jewell - rain 13 - Thu - cut wood 3 « cords, Tom hope - fair 14 - Fri - cut paper wood - fair 15 - Sat - went town cut wood for Church all day - cloudy 16 - Sun - staid home - all day rain 17 - Mon - went town hauled wood - AM rained, PM faired cool 18 - Tue - killed big hog - fair 19 - Wed - cut wood, William & Chloes & Clarance families came - cloudy 20 - Thu - cut wood 2 « cords, Clarance went home - fair 21 - Fri - William & Chloes folks went home, hauled corn from Malcolms 28 Bu - fair 22 - Sat - went town moved things from Malcolms to here- 186 Bu fodder-fair 23 - Sun - staid home - fair 24 - Mon - went Minden - fair 25 - Tue - came home - Claudia staid - fair 26 - Wed - moved lumber and Mama etc - fair 27 - Thu - went town (Mama sold chickens) put up lumber - fair 28 - Fri - stacked lumber, cut wood - fair 29 - Sat - went town - Trudy & Will & children came - fair 30 - Sun - went to Minden - fair 31 - Mon - cleaned out well - moved stove (Tom Kelly hope) - rainey