Misc: A.O. Jones Diary, 1930, 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, 1930 1 - Wed - went town, hauled lumber for house Guy hope - cloudy 2 - Thu - worked on house - cloudy 3 - Fri - worked on house, went town, Mr Murrie came - fair 4 - Sat - worked on house, went town - fair 5 - Sun - staid home - fair 6 - Mon - worked on house, fire in Simsboro - cloudy 7 - Tue - worked on house, went town - rainey 8 - Wed - worked on house Mr Ode & brother came - rainey 9 - Thu - moved Guy to house, hope on grave - rainey 10 - Fri - hauled wood, went town - rainey 11 - Sat - fixed on house, Guy moved in - cloudy 12 - Sun - went to Aunt Lilies - cloudy 13 - Mon - built toilet to house, cut wood - rainey 14 - Tue - cut stove wood - cloudy cold 15 - Wed - hauled wood - cold cloudy 16 - Thu - hunted hog, went town - fair cold 17 - Fri - cut wood morning, snow evening, hut cows - snow 18 - Sat - staid home, worked on chairs - cold freezing 19 - Sun - cold, staid home, eve went to Guys & Mr Gilmores - fair 20 - Mon - went town & hauled wood - rained 21 - Tue - cut wood paper [sic], Will came - cold 22 - Wed - cut some wood, Ode came - cold some snow 23 - Thu - cut wood - fair 24 - Fri - cut wood - fair 25 - Sat - cut wood, went town - fair 26 - Sun - Trudy & Will came - cloudy 27 - Mon - cut wood - cloudy 28 - Tue - cut wood - cloudy 29 - Wed - cut wood, Uncle George came - fair 30 - Thu - cut wood - fair 31 - Fri - cut wood - fair [Submitter's note: Dad had decided he needed help on the farm so made arrangements with Guy & Lois Sanfords from Hattisburg, MS to half share crop with him. Built them a house and furnished them.] FEBRUARY, 1930 1 - Sat - cut wood & went town - cloudy 2 - Sun - staid home - cloudy 3 - Mon - set out some pecan trees - rain 4 - Tue - cut wood - cloudy 5 - Wed - cut paper wood - fair 6 - Thu - cut wood - fair 7 - Fri - hauled and cut wood - fair 8 - Sat - cut stove wood, went town - fair 9 - Sun - went burring Simsboro Aunt Minnie May, Claudie's Mama came - cloudy 10 - Mon - went town, sawed some stove wood - faired 11 - Tue - planted garden-peas, lettuce, mustard, beets, turnips - cloudy 12 - Wed - cut stove wood - cloudy 13 - Thu - went Ruston, bought mule $85.00 + int. - cloudy 14 - Fri - went town, got mule - fair 15 - Sat - went town - cool fair 16 - Sun - went preaching W.C., went Mrs Davidsons eve - fair 17 - Mon - hauled stove wood - fair 18 - Tue - worked in new ground - fair 19 - Wed - planted irish potatoes, hauled wood - fair 20 - Thu - worked new ground, measured church roof 52-7 x 25-10 - cloudy 21 - Fri - piled brush, set hen - cloudy 22 - Sat - went town - rainey 23 - Sun - went to Ethels & Garlands Choate - fair 24 - Mon - went Ruston - cloudy 25 - Tue - piled brush in new ground - cloudy eve rain 26 - Wed - cut trees in new ground - fair 27 - Thu - worked in new ground - cloudy rain 28 - Fri - went town, pigs came - fair MARCH, 1930 1 - Sat - went town, hauled wood for Mr Gilmore - rainey 2 - Sun - staid home, Mr & Mrs Gilmore came - fair 3 - Mon - piled brush in new ground - fair 4 - Tue - cut logs & wood, set hen - fair 5 - Wed - cut stove wood - fair 6 - Thu - hauled stove wood, set hen - cloudy 7 - Fri - bedded potatoes, planted irish potatoes, hauled poles - fair 8 - Sat - hauled poles, went town, Trudy & children came - fair 9 - Sun - Mr Morris came, went to Eunices, Trudy & Will went home - fair 10 - Mon - hauled lumber from old mill - cloudy 11 - Tue - went town B.M. - fair 12 - Wed - went Ruston, fixed plows - fair 13 - Thu - burned some new ground - cloudy 14 - Fri - burned new ground - fair cloudy 15 - Sat - went town - cloudy 16 - Sun - Ethel & children came, went preaching, Jule came - cloudy 17 - Mon - worked in new ground - cloudy 18 - Tue - went town, worked in new ground - cloudy rainey 19 - Wed - worked in new ground - fair 20 - Thu - hauled fertilizer, planted some garden - fair 21 - Fri - worked in new ground - cloudy rain 22 - Sat - went town, train hits care with five (J.W. Saint, L. Hedgepeth & Levelle Holloway killed) - rain cloudy 23 - Sun - went to Uncle John's - fair 24 - Mon - burned off new ground - cloudy 25 - Tue - started plowing - cloudy 26 - Wed - plowed and built stable - rainey 27 - Thu - put porch on house - faired 28 - Fri - worked on house, went town - fair 29 - Sat - went town - fair 30 - Sun - Eunice came - fair 31 - Mon - plowed new ground - fair APRIL, 1930 1 - Tue - plowed new ground - cloudy 2 - Wed - planted some corn - cloudy 3 - Thu - plowed new ground - cloudy 4 - Fri - worked in new ground, fixed cotton house & lot fence - rainey 5 - Sat - planted some corn (twin day), went town - cloudy 6 - Sun - staid home, Mr & Mrs Brown came while - fair 7 - Mon - plowed in new ground, ate dinner Mr Gilmore - fair 8 - Tue - plowed new ground - fair 9 - Wed - plowed new ground - fair 10 - Thu - finished new ground, went in cane bed - fair 11 - Fri - planted cane - fair 12 - Sat - went shop & town - fair 13 - Sun - went town & Trudy's, Chloe & children came - fair 14 - Mon - planted corn & plowed terrices - cloudy 15 - Tue - plowed terrices - cloudy 16 - Wed - plowed terrices and cotton land - cloudy 17 - Thu - plowed terrices - fair 18 - Fri - plowed - fair 19 - Sat - covered church house, went town - fair 20 - Sun - went church, Ethel came - fair 21 - Mon - plowed, Guy got pig - fair 22 - Tue - plowed cotton land, Claudie & Lois went Georgios - fair 23 - Wed - opened cotton rows, plowed middles - fair 24 - Thu - plowed cotton land - cloudy 25 - Fri - plowed cotton land - fair 26 - Sat - went town & Uncle John's, plowed middles - fair 27 - Sun - staid home, Jim Alexander came, Edwin sick - fair 28 - Mon - plowed cotton land - fair 29 - Tue - plowed cotton land - cloudy 30 - Wed - went got cotton planter, planted watermellon & cantelope seed and some peas - fair [Submitter's note: only one day of rain in April. Uncle John (Colvin) was Grandma Jones brother and lived in Antiock community. Ethel Choate was Uncle John's daughter.] MAY, 1930 1 - Thu - start planting cotton & put out fertilizer - cloudy 2 - Fri - planted cotton, rain at 8 o'clock - cloudy 3 - Sat - finished planting Guy's cotton, went town - cloudy 4 - Sun - went to Eunices - fair cloudy 5 - Mon - planted cotton - cloudy 6 - Tue - planted cotton, Claudie went Mrs Browns - cloudy 7 - Wed - finished planting cotton - fair 8 - Thu - carried planter home, started plowing corn - cloudy 9 - Fri - plowed corn - cloudy 10 - Sat - plowed corn & peas, went town 11 - Sun - staid home bluedown - cloudy 12 - Mon - cut bushes in new ground corn - cloudy 13 - Tue - rained, worked on stove, went fishing, fixed lot fence - rain 14 - Wed - cut sprouts in corn, gave census - fair 15 - Thu - worked on pasture fence (wet) - fair 16 - Fri - went town got potato slips, set out some - rain 17 - Sat - went town, set out potato slips, sow taken male - rain 18 - Sun - went church, Bro James came - rainey 19 - Mon - Claudie sick, fixed on pasture fence - cloudy 20 - Tue - fixed on pasture fence, Claudie sick - fair 21 - Wed - went shop, Claudie sick, fixed fence, borried off cotton - fair 22 - Thu - borred off cotton, Claudie sick, Dr came - rain 23 - Fri - replanted cotton - rain 24 - Sat - went town, replanted cotton - fair 25 - Sun - staid home - fair 26 - Mon - borred off cotton - fair 27 - Tue - borred off cotton - fair 28 - Wed - borred off cotton - cloudy 29 - Thu - finished B cotton, plowed corn, Claudie went Jessie's - cloudy 30 - Fri - plowed cotton - fair 31 - Sat - Claudie sick, operated on - went town [Submitter's note: Understand Mom had a miscarriage.] JUNE, 1930 1 - Sun - staid at Decks, Claudie some better, wrote Malcolm & Mama - fair 2 - Mon - swept Guys cotton, Claudie still sick at Decks - fair 3 - Tue - swept cotton, Claudia still at Decks - fair 4 - Wed - chopped cotton, Claudie still at Decks - fair cloudy 5 - Thu - chopped cotton, Claudie came home - cloudy & showers 6 - Fri - chopped cotton, Lois washed for Claudie morning - rain hot 7 - Sat - chopped cotton, went town, Mrs Alexander came, calf came - fair 8 - Sun - Mrs Alexander sick went to Simsboro - fair 9 - Mon - chopped cotton, Mr & Mrs Gilmore taken dinner with us - fair 10 - Tue - chopped cotton for Guy - fair 11 - Wed - chopped cotton for Guy - fair 12 - Thu - chopped cotton for Guy - fair 13 - Fri - chopped cotton for Guy - fair 14 - Sat - chopped cotton, went town late, Herman Alex came - hot fair 15 - Sun - went church, Bro Jones & family came, also Ode Standifer - fair 16 - Mon - plowed corn & cane, taken up cows - hot showers 17 - Tue - plowed corn - fair 18 - Wed - plowed cotton, Thelma & Rassie came - fair 19 - Thu - plowed cotton for Guy - fair 20 - Fri - finished sweeping Guys cotton, chopped cotton - fair hot 21 - Sat - chopped cotton, went town - fair hot 22 - Sun - staid home, Silvester Standford came, berries ripe - hot fair 23 - Mon - chopped cotton - fair hot 24 - Tue - chopped cotton, plowed cotton, plowed up cotton, Arnolds came - fair 25 - Wed - plowed cotton & watermelons - hot fair 26 - Thu - plowed cotton middles - hot fair 27 - Fri - hoed & plowed cotton for Guy, morning shower dry - fair 28 - Sat - went to Ruston for peas etc - hot dry fair 29 - Sun - Trudy & Will came - hot fair 30 - Mon - chopped cotton - Arnolds hope - hot fair [Submitter's note: calf came = calf born] JULY, 1930 1 - Tue - finished chopping cotton, dug potatoes - eve showers hot 2 - Wed - planted peanuts, peas & sorgrum - plowed terrices - fair 3 - Thu - plowed and hoed cotton - fair 4 - Fri - plowed & hoed potatoes & garden - Mr Ode came - fair hot 5 - Sat - hoed cotton, went town - fair 6 - Sun - staid home - hot fair 7 - Mon - hoed cotton, Calvin sick - came a good rain PM - rain 8 - Tue - went Ruston, plowed terrices - cloudy hot 9 - Wed - plowed terrices, cotton hoed, set out potatoes - rain 10 - Thu - plowed cotton - fair 11 - Fri - plowed cotton - fair 12 - Sat - plowed cotton, went town - fair 13 - Sun - staid home - at Mr. Gilmores in evening - hot fair 14 - Mon - plowed & hoed cotton - Aunt Lura & folks Gerty came - fair 15 - Tue - plowed cotton, hope scrub floors - fair 16 - Wed - plowed cane, bedded potatoes to sprout - fair 17 - Thu - grave yard working Walnut Creek - fair 18 - Fri - plowed peas, went town - fair 19 - Sat - Malcolm & wife came (nite) went Trussells grave yard working - fair 20 - Sun - Monroe & Berrel, Mr Beard, Ester & Prentiss came - fair 21 - Mon - picked peas, went Church, fished, got pears - fair cloudy 22 - Tue - went lpreaching, Herman came (night 21st) - fair 23 - Wed - Bro James Jones & family, Bro Womack came - fair 24 - Thu - went church, cut peaches to dry - hot fair 25 - Fri - Aunt Lillie, Mae - Mrs. Turner & all came - hot clouded 26 - Sat - picked some pears for canning, went town - fair 27 - Sun - staid home - hot fair 28 - Mon - went town & road Guy & folks left - hot fair 29 - Tue - Dec, Jessie & Dixie came - fair hot showers 30 - Wed - plowed peas - worked in garden - hot fair 31 - Thu - cut lpeaches, plowed garden - everything burning up for want of rain - hot fair AUGUST, 1930 1 - Fri - picked peas, cut corn for fodder, went town - hot fair 2 - Sat - picked peas, hauled load cut corn - hot fair 3 - Sun - went to Monroe Morrises - hot fair 4 - Mon - cow-red-served Guilliot bull, cut some corn - fair hot clouded 5 - Tue - cut corn, fixed wagon wheel, hauled corn fodder - fair 6 - Wed - cut corn, thrashed out peas, hauled load corn - fair hot 7 - Thu - Claudie went Simsboro, eve estimated damage to corn - Gilmore -fair 8 - Fri - went to Minden - hot clouded threatening rain 9 - Sat - went town - Guy & boy came home - hot fair 10 - Sun - went to Uncle John Colvin's - hot dry 11 - Mon - cleaned out Baptising pool - went town - hot 12 - Tue - went Minden - hot 13 - Wed - at Minden - hot dry 14 - Thu - came home - hot dry 15 - Fri - Claudie came home, taken watermellons to town - shower 16 - Sat - planted some peas & turnips, Mrs Davidson came - fair 17 - Sun - went to Baptising and to Mrs Gilmore - fair hot 18 - Mon - plowed pea middles, planted turnips, went town - hot 19 - Tue - plowed peas, hauled wood for Mr Gilmore, washed - hot fair 20 - Wed - picked peas - Howard Alexander killed by train - a good rain eve. 21 - Thu - went to Howards funeral at Vienna - fair 22 - Fri - went town after Claudie, Robert & Leona came in eve - fair 23 - Sat - fixed cotton sacks - went town - fair 24 - Sun - went to Trudy's & Wills - fair 25 - Mon - started picking cotton - cotton house cut - fair 26 - Tue - picked cotton - fair 27 - Wed - picked cotton - bale hauled - fair 28 - Thu - picked cotton - Guys field - fair 29 - Fri - picked cotton - cloudy 30 - Sat - picked cotton - big rain at night - cloudy 31 - Sun - went to Mr Davidson's in evening - faired [Submitter's note: Howard Alexander was a brother to Claudie (Mom) and husband of Eunice.] SEPTEMBER, 1930 1 - Mon - picked cotton - Jessie & Ruby came - cloudy faired off 2 - Tue - picked cotton - fair 3 - Wed - picked cotton - hot clouded up 4 - Thu - Mr & Mrs Brown's baby burried - cloudy 5 - Fri - went town, picked cotton, estimator for dry dist. came - hot cloudy 6 - Sat - fixed terrices, set out onions-Jim & Monroe came - hot cloudy 7 - Sun - staid home, wrote Willie - hot fair 8 - Mon - picked cotton - hot fair 9 - Tue - cow taken male - went town election day, picked cotton - hot 10 - Wed - pigs came - picked cotton - shower fair 11 - Thu - plowed garden, peas & picked cotton 12 - Fri - Hauled bale cotton, picked cotton, Guy Ode Syline came - hot fair 13 - Sat - picked cotton - hope dig grave for Monk - fair hot 14 - Sun - staid home - Chloe & children came in evening - threatening 15 - Mon - picked peas - rain cloudy 16 - Tue - picked peas & cotton - hauled stove - fair 17 - Wed - picked peas and cotton - cloudy 18 - Thu - picked cotton - fair 19 - Fri - picked cotton - cloudy 20 - Sat - went town & preaching & picked cotton - high wind evening 21 - Sun - went church-church called Bro James Jones for pastor again- went To Mr Cannon McLaughlin's funeral 22 - Mon - picked cotton - cloudy drizzle 23 - Tue - picked cotton - cloudy shower 24 - Wed - hoed in garden, picked some cotton - rain cloudy 25 - Thu - picked cotton - cloudy rain 26 - Fri - went town - loaded bale cotton - cloudy rain 27 - Sat - hauled cotton to gin-put coal oil water on collars - fair cool 28 - Sun - organized Sunday School at Church - cloudy 29 - Mon - picked cotton - Malcolm, Mama & Velma came - fair 30 - Tue - picked cotton - Malcolm & Velma went home - fair OCTOBER, 1930 1 - Wed - picked cotton - fair 2 - Thu - picked cotton - fair 3 - Fri - picked cotton - fair, clouded up 4 - Sat - picked cotton, went town - fair 5 - Sun - Clarence, Effie, Mr & Mrs Alexander came, went Sunday School-cloudy 6 - Mon - all day rain, staid home 7 - Tue - casterated hogs, went town - rain cloudy 8 - Wed - fixed fence, picked cotton & peas - fair 9 - Thu - picked peas, cotton - fair 10 - Fri - picked peas & cotton train wrecked - fair 11 - Sat - went town & picked cotton - cloudy 12 - Sun - went Simsboro preaching & Walnut Creek Sunday School - fair 13 - Mon - picked cotton - fair 14 - Tue - picked cotton - fair 15 - Wed - picked cotton - fair 16 - Thu - picked cotton - fair 17 - Fri - picked peas & cotton - cool fair 18 - Sat - went Ruston after oat seed - fair 19 - Sun - went Walnut Church - Bro Jones & family, Mrs Belle, Trudy & family, Aunt Lillie came - cloudy 20 - Mon - went town after oats, picked peas & cut pea hay - cool cloudy 21 - Tue - cut pea hay - fair 22 - Wed - cut & picked peas-Mrs Sims & Brown & Jessie-Ruby came - fair 23 - Thu - shocked 1 hay stack - rain all day 24 - Fri - sawed wood at church, turned pea vine hay, cut cane, Malcolm came - fair 25 - Sat - Malcolm left for Jackson, went town, shocked pea hay - fair light frost 26 - Sun - went S.S., Avis & Beadie came, Calvin feverish - fair 27 - Mon - sacked cotton - all day rain 28 - Tue - picked peas, dug potatoes - cloudy 29 - Wed - dug potatoes, hauled load cotton to gin, start hauling logs to mill - fair 30 - Thu - hauled bale cotton to gin, went to syrup mill, Mr Alexander came - fair 31 - Fri - hauled cotton to gin and ginned same-Mama & Claudie went to Mrs Sims to quilting fair - first killing frost NOVEMBER, 1930 1 - Sat - went town, stripped cane for mill - fair 2 - Sun - went to Mr Mays - cloudy 3 - Mon - hauled cane & wood to cane mill, hauled hay from shock to house - fair 4 - Tue - went town, hauled hay, covered cane bed, went to Mr Mays funeral - fair 5 - Wed - patched garage roof, hauled in hay - fair 6 - Thu - made up cane for syrup - fair 7 - Fri - pulled corn - fair 8 - Sat - pulled & hauled corn, went town, Aunt Lou came - fair 9 - Sun - Mr & Mrs Wash Pesenell came, went S.S. - cloudy 10 - Mon - picked cotton, Sumlin got cows, hauled 3 loads wood for Mr Gilmore- drizzly rain 11 - Tue - went town, picked some cotton, all went to Mr Gilmores- cloudy rain 12 - Wed - went to grave yard with Aunt Lou- picked cotton - cloudy 13 - Thu - picked cotton - cloudy 14 - Fri - went town, Jule, Eunice came morning rain - faired off 15 - Sat - went church, Bro Jones came - rain 16 - Sun - went church, Dr Thomas came evening - fair 17 - Mon - picked cotton - fair 18 - Tue - Aunt Lou went Jessies, picked cotton - cloudy faired up 19 - Wed - help dig Jim Morrises grave, finished picking cotton - fair 20 - Thu - went to funeral of Jim Morris - rainey cloudy 21 - Fri - hauled bale cotton to gin - fair 22 - Sat - had cotton ginned - cloudy drizzly 23 - Sun - went to Sunday School - fair 24 - Mon - hauled wood & hay for Mr Gilmore, killed shoate - fair cold 25 - Tue - went town, fixed fence - fair cold 26 - Wed - went town, made bed - fair cold 27 - Thu - filed saws for Mr Davidson - fair 28 - Fri - fixed post hole diggers - fair 29 - Sat - rainey all day - staid in home - rain 30 - Sun - staid home, Evelyn & Dorothy Alexander came - bad rain [Submitter's note: shoate = small or young pig] DECEMBER, 1930 ** This page of diary torn off and missing **