Misc: A.O. Jones Diary, 1931, 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, 1931 1 - Thu - taken hog to Youngbloods, she taken male, hauled wood - fair 2 - Fri - set post for fence & stretched wire - cloudy then fair 3 - Sat - finished fence, went town, Claudie & children came home, Trudy and children came - fair clouded 4 - Sun - all day rain, went to Davidsons & Gilmores - rain 5 - Mon - moved Mr Davidson & fixed fence, Trudy & C went home - fair 6 - Tue - sawed wood & rail timber - fair 7 - Wed - hauled wood & fixed on cow pen fence - rain am 8 - Thu - split stove wood & fixed on fence - cloudy 9 - Fri - sawed wood - Mr Gilmore hope - dismal cloudy day 10 - Sat - hauled wood & went town - dismal cloudy 11 - Sun - staid home - all day rain 12 - Mon - sawed wood for Mr Gilmore - faired some cloudy 13 - Tue - hauled wood Mr Gilmore, cut wood - cloudy 14 - Wed - split wood & hauled poles for rails - cold fair 15 - Thu - split rails & sawed rail timber - fair cloudy 16 - Fri - hauled rail poles, went town-laudieca actedwa oolfa - part cloudy 17 - Sat - went town - rain 18 - Sun - went S.S., Ethel & children came & Lewis - cloudy 19 - Mon - went Ruston fixed note to Pirkle - fair 20 - Tue - went town, split rails - fair 21 - Wed - went town got rations from Red Cross & worked on fence - fair 22 - Thu - worked on fence - fair 23 - Fri - worked on fence - fair 24 - Sat - worked on fence - fair 25 - Sun - went S.S. & Gilmores - cloudy 26 - Mon - plowed & planted garden, E peas, cabbage etc - cloudy 27 - Tue - tore down fence and hauled old rails - cloudy 28 - Wed - hauled wood & plowed in orchard - fair 29 - Thu - plowed orchard, fixed fence, set out pecan trees - fair 30 - Fri - made garden gate - fair 31 - Sat - went town, hauled wood for Mr Gilmore - fair [Submitter's note: Entry on 16th in pig latin.] FEBRUARY, 1931 1 - Sun - went S.S. - fair warm 2 - Mon - plowed in oats - cloudy 3 - Tue - went town, plowed oats again, Aunt Lillie died 4 AM - fair 4 - Wed - finished oats, plowed potato land, Aunt Lillie brought in 5 PM - fair 5 - Thu - went Aunt Lillies funeral at Trussell cemetary taken dinner at Mae's - fair 6 - Fri - went town, got gro from Red Cross $4.80 put out fertilizer for potatoes - cloudy fair 7 - Sat - planted 3 rows potatoes, set pipe for arbor vines - fair 8 - Sun - staid home, went S.S. & Gilmores all day rain - cool 9 - Mon - finished arbor for grape vines - fair 10 - Tue - worked on arbor (heifer W & R spots) taken male - fair 11 - Wed - planted row potatoes, Malcom & Velma here - came last night - fair 12 - Thu - laid pipe from well to lot, Malcolm & Velma went to Chloe's- cloudy 13 - Fri - fixed some chairs, Trudy and children came - all day rain 14 - Sat - went town & church, Rev Jones came for dinner - fair cool 15 - Sun - went church - clouded 16 - Mon - cut sprouts, dug stumps - rainey AM faired PM 17 - Tue - went to Mrs Emma Murrays with news of Gracey dieing - cloudy 18 - Wed - fixed pasture fence, sawed wood - fair 19 - Thu - sawed wood G. hope - fair 20 - Fri - cut wood Clyde hope - fair 21 - Sat - went town, burned brush, Trudy came - fair 22 - Sun - Will came - rain thunder 23 - Mon - split post, worked on bridge across creek - cloudy rain 24 - Tue - went town (Red Cross $3.55) worked on bridge - cloudy 25 - Wed - helped cut post for grave yard, hauled poles - fair 26 - Thu - hauled wood for Garland Choate - fair 27 - Fri - hauled post & poles - cloudy 28 - Sat - went town, hauled & cut wood MARCH, 1931 1 - Sun - went S.S. Avis & Ruby came - rainy 2 - Mon - went town - snow-sleet-rain 3 - Tue - hauled & split wood, cut sprouts - cloudy 4 - Wed - hauled rock & started plowing corn land - fair 5 - Thu - plowed corn land - fair 6 - Fri - plowed - threatening rain, cloudy 7 - Sat - big rain at night, went town, dug stumps - cold all day, wind fair 8 - Sun - went to S.S. hard cold wind all day 9 - Mon - plowed - fair 10 - Tue - plowed - cloudy 11 - Wed - plowed middles for corn - fair 12 - Thu - planted corn - clouded 13 - Fri - planted corn - cloudy 14 - Sat - plowed garden, went town & preaching - cloudy 15 - Sun - went preaching W.C., Tinsley boy burried - cloudy 16 - Mon - planted beans etc garden, Mama went Monroe Morris, plowed corn land - fair 17 - Tue - plowed corn land - fair 18 - Wed - finished breaking corn land - fair 19 - Thu - planted cane - fair 20 - Fri - went hope dig grave for Trudie's baby - rainey 21 - Sat - went to baby's funeral & town - rain cold wind 22 - Sun - went S.S. Walnut Creek - fair 23 - Mon - cut post, wood & plowed - fair-thunder eve 24 - Tue - went town hauled maise, plowed orchard - fair 25 - Wed - plowed middles in corn land-letter from Willie - fair 26 - Thu - Worked on planter, cut wood, set hen - rainey 27 - Fri - split wood & post - AM rain PM cloudy-cold-wind 28 - Sat - went town hauled nitrate of soda, split wood - fair cool 29 - Sun - went S.S., Uncle John came-Garland & Ethel too - fair 30 - Mon - finished planting corn - cloudy nite rain 31 - Tue - rain - fixed plow - sodied oats - rain cloudy APRIL, 1931 1 - Wed - sawed wood- Mr Gilmore stuck E. peas - fair 2 - Thu - plowed middles in 6 acre cut, planted some peas - cloudy 3 - Fri - plowed watermellon patch - planted 1 row & peanut land- damp cloudy 4 - Sat - went town, plowed middles & potatoes - cloudy fair 5 - Sun - went S.S. - Mama came home - fair 6 - Mon - plowed in new ground for cotton - Clyde hope - fair 7 - Tue - hauled acid phosphate, cut sprouts, plowed, Clyde hope set hen - fair 8 - Wed - plowed in new ground - Clyde hope - fair 9 - Thu - plowed & cut sprouts in new ground - set hen - cloudy 10 - Fri - set hen - cut sprouts & plowed in new ground - cloudy 11 - Sat - went town - Mrs Alexander came - fair 12 - Sun - Aunt Belle went home - Trudy & Will came - fair 13 - Mon - cut sprouts in new ground - showers cloudy 14 - Tue - cut sprouts & plowed in new ground - showers cloudy 15 - Wed - cut sprouts & plowed in new ground - fair 16 - Thu - plowed in new ground, planted peas, mail route started - fair 17 - Fri - cut sprouts in new ground - showers 18 - Sat - went town toted out sprouts - cloudy 19 - Sun - Uncle John came - rain cloudy 20 - Mon - plowed new ground - cloudy fair 21 - Tue - rain - replanted corn - AM rain 22 - Wed - replanted corn-trade machine for stove (Mama) sow due - cool fair 23 - Thu - plowed new ground-planted peas & butter beans - cloudy 24 - Fri - planted watermellon & cantilope-worked in garden - cloudy rain 25 - Sat - cut sprouts in corn, went town - cloudy rain at nite 26 - Sun - went S.S. & town - cloudy 27 - Mon - pigs came - opened cotton rows - fair 28 - Tue - started planting cotton & put out fertilizer - fair 29 - Wed - planted cotton - plowed corn middles - cloudy rain pm 30 - Thu - big rain - fixed chicken coops & planter - rain [Submitter's note: Clyde = Clyde Gilmore a neighbor Aunt Belle = Mom's mother Mrs Alexander Traded machine = sewing machine] MAY, 1931 1 - Fri - fixed pasture fence & worked on terrices - rain cloudy warm 2 - Sat - went town, worked on fence - fog cloudy 3 - Sun - went S.S. - cloudy 4 - Mon - plowed corn middles - cloudy big rain pm 5 - Tue - planted peanuts, hauled wood for Gilmore, plowed potato patch- rain 6 - Wed - plowed corn middles - cloudy 7 - Thu - finished planting cotton - fair 8 - Fri - borred off cane, run middles in corn, worked out peas and garden - cloudy rain 9 - Sat - planted milo, caffiar corn & peas, went town - cloudy fair 10 - Sun - Chloe & Trudies folks came - cloudy 11 - Mon - borred off corn - reds calf came X - cloudy 12 - Tue - borred off corn, thinned corn - cloudy 13 - Wed - borred off & thinned corn - cloudy part fair 14 - Thu - finished B off corn, worked peas, started plow cotton - fair 15 - Fri - borred off cotton - fair 16 - Sat - replanted watermellon seed, went town - fair 17 - Sun - went S.S. church - fair 18 - Mon - borred off cotton - cloudy 19 - Tue - worked a lot & garden, set row potatoes-3 tomatoes - rain 20 - Wed - thrashed out turnip seed, put out soda on corn - rain 21 - Thu - hoed cane, replanted & plowed cotton, thinned corn - fair 22 - Fri - borred off cotton - Mr Gilmore sick - fair 23 - Sat - swept corn, went town, Clarence & Effie came - fair 24 - Sun - Clarence & Effie went home, went S.S. - fair 25 - Mon - swept corn, put out soda - fair 26 - Tue - swept corn - fair 27 - Wed - finished sweeping corn - fair 28 - Thu - start sweeping cotton - fair 29 - Fri - swept cotton - shower part cloudy 30 - Sat - swept cotton, went town - cloudy 31 - Sun - Mama & Claudie went Ethels, I went Gilmores - fair JUNE, 1931 1 - Mon - swept cotton & set out potato slips - warm fair 2 - Tue - borred off cotton (finished) - fair warm 3 - Wed - plowed peanuts, peas, caffiar corn etc - fair 4 - Thu - plowed peas, cut oats - 59 arm planes pass west - fair 5 - Fri - cut oats - fair 6 - Sat - cut oats (finished) went town, hauled 330 bundles oats - fair 7 - Sun - no S.S., went to Mr Gilmores - fair 8 - Mon - dug potatoes, finished getting in oats - 720 bundles - fair 9 - Tue - chopped cotton - fair 10 - Wed - chopped cotton (Hughes hope) - part cloudy 11 - Thu - chopped cotton - warm part cloudy 12 - Fri - chopped cotton - shower warm 13 - Sat - went town, thrashed some peas - shower cloudy 14 - Sun - went to Trudie's & Wills - rain 15 - Mon - plowed corn - hot part cloudy 16 - Tue - plowed corn, set out potatoes - Mrs Price came see about children - rain 17 - Wed - plowed corn, chopped cotton - hot 18 - Thu - plowed corn, chopped cotton - hot fair 19 - Fri - Silvers calf came, finished corn, plowed watermellons, Mildred & Evelyn came - fair 20 - Sat - plowed peas, went town - fair 21 - Sun - went preaching - Trudy & Will came - fair 22 - Mon - plowed peas, garden & potatoes - hot threatening 23 - Tue - plowed cotton, Mama finished hoeing - hot fair 24 - Wed - plowed cotton - hot & fair with eve shower 25 - Thu - plowed cotton, gathered onions - fair hot 26 - Fri - plowed cotton Ethels baby came - rain evening 27 - Sat - plowed cotton - went town - fair hot 28 - Sun - went Gilmores & Garland Choates - hot fair 29 - Mon - hope Clyde get bull - hoed peanuts - fair hot 30 - Tue - Clyde used mule half day - saw first cotton bloom - fair [Submitter's note: Ethel & Garland Choate - she was Uncle John Colvin's daughter & Mae Turner's sister.] JULY, 1931 1 - Wed - hoed some peanuts - Baby Robert Herman came 11 am - showers fair 2 - Thu - hope around house, set out potatoes - showers rain 3 - Fri - thrashed peas, set out some potatoes, planted peas in oat patch - fair 4 - Sat - planted peas spring cut - fair hot 5 - Sun - Bro Jones, Monroe & Berryl, Allen-Mary- Jessie came - fair 6 - Mon - plowed peanuts - went town - fair 7 - Tue - picked peas, and too ripe berries, hoed peanuts - fair 8 - Wed - hoed peanuts - fair cloudy 9 - Thu - hoed peanuts - fair hot 10 - Fri - plowed cotton & terrices - fair 11 - Sat - plowed cotton, went town, plowed peanuts - fair 12 - Sun - Mae & children came, went S.S. - Bro Jones family came - fair 13 - Mon - plowed cotton - sold peas - sprinkle rain 14 - Tue - finished plowing cotton - evening good rain 15 - Wed - set out potato vines & slips, worked at church - cloudy rain 16 - Thu - grave yard working W.C., rain, went town - cloudy 17 - Fri - went town & Monroe Morrises - rain cloudy 18 - Sat - went to grave yard working Trussells & Ruston meeting starts - fair 19 - Sun - went meeting - fair hot 20 - Mon - went town - fair 21 - Tue - Bro Jones, Monroe Morris, Jim Alexander families came for dinner - showers 22 - Wed - went Monroe Morris for services & dinner - fair 23 - Thu - Aunt Lou came, went church - showers 24 - Fri - went town and to church - showers 25 - Sat - Heffer & cow taken male, Meeting closed - cloudy warm 26 - Sun - Monroe & Berryl came - cloudy showers 27 - Mon - picked peas, plowed peanuts, set hen, canned fruit - hot fair 28 - Tue - plowed peanuts & peas, set hen, Dallas-Alice Davidson came - fair 29 - Wed - hope take down wire around grave yard - Mr Morris came - cloudy 30 - Thu - set hen, plowed peas, cane & potatoes - cloudy hot 31 - Fri - Will came, picked peas - fair AUGUST, 1931 1 - Sat - went town sold 14 watermellons $1.00, thrashed peas - fair 2 - Sun - to S.S. - cloudy sprinkle 3 - Mon - picked peas, plowed peas, cut peaches to dry - cloudy hot 4 - Tue - picked peas & plowed orchard - hot cloudy 5 - Wed - picked peas, Jack came, went town, plowed in orchard - fair 6 - Thu - picked peas, moved potatoes under house - fair 7 - Fri - picked peas, went fishing, plowed orchard - fair 8 - Sat - went town - fair 9 - Sun - Sundy School, Will & Trudy, Effie & Clarence, Malcolm & Velma and families came - fair 10 - Mon - pulled fodder & picked peas - clouded 11 - Tue - pulled fodder - taken in 142 bundles - fair 12 - Wed - went town, pulled fodder - fair 13 - Thu - went to grave yard working, taken in 242 bu fodder - fair 14 - Fri - worked on grave yard fence, hauled melons, 62 bu fodder - fair 15 - Sat - went church & town, cleaned out pool - cloudy fair 16 - Sun - went to baptising - Regan & Erma came - cloudy 17 - Mon - hauled lpost from grave yard, sawed wood - cloudy 18 - Tue - pulled fodder & split wood - cloudy 19 - Wed - pulled fodder & tied up - cloudy 20 - Thu - taken in fodder - cloudy rain 21 - Fri - picked peas, fixed fence, plowed orchard, dried fodder - fair 22 - Sat - picked peas, went mill & went Minden - fair 23 - Sun - at Minden - came home 8:30 pm - fair 24 - Mon - picked peas & cut corn tops - fair 25 - Tue - picked peas, went fishing, taken in fodder - fair 26 - Wed - picked peas, Malcolm-Velma went home - cloudy 27 - Thu - picked peas - cloudy 28 - Fri - cleaned out Gilmores well, picked peas - shower rain 29 - Sat - went town-to mill & thrashed peas - cloudy 30 - Sun - went S.S. & Gilmores - fair 31 - Mon - picked peas - clouded [Submitter's note: Fodder = pulling corn leaves, letting them dry, tieing them in bundles and was cow feed.] SEPTEMBER, 1931 1 - Tue - picked peas, fertilized-plowed garden, sow cut up - cloudy fair 2 - Wed - picked peas, cleaned out cotton house - cloudy fair 3 - Thu - started picking cotton, Gerty-Grandma & all came - fair 4 - Fri - picked cotton - hot part cloudy 5 - Sat - went town, thrashed peas - fair 6 - Sun - Chloe & folks came - Mama went home with her - fair 7 - Mon - picked cotton - Garland & children hope p221 - fair 8 - Tue - picked cotton - Garland & children hope p237 - fair 9 - Wed - picked cotton - Garland & children hope p164 - fair 10 - Thu - picked cotton children p80 - fair clouded 11 - Fri - picked octton children p41 - fair 12 - Sat - went town, cut cane wood - fair 13 - Sun - went S.S. & Mr Gilmores - fair 14 - Mon - hauled lumber for church table, cut caffair corn - fair 15 - Tue - cut caffair corn & pulled up peanuts - fair 16 - Wed - pulled up peanuts, hauled in caffair corn - hot cloudy fair 17 - Thu - hauled in caffair corn & peanuts - had rain evening 18 - Fri - planted some garden, shocked peanuts - hot cloudy fair 19 - Sat - went town, taken wood to Mr Sims, Trudy-children came - fair 20 - Sun - went church, Trudy-children went home, Church called pastor, went to corner stone laying off school building at Simsboro - fair 21 - Mon - picked octton, sold green peas & muscidines - shower 22 - Tue - picked cotton, Garland moved - fair 23 - Wed - picked cotton, taken hog to male - fair 24 - Thu - picked cotton - fair 25 - Fri - picked cotton - fair 26 - Sat - picked cotton, went town, hoe make table at church - fair 27 - Sun - went S.S. & Monroe Morris - fair clouded eve 28 - Mon - picked cotton - cool fair 29 - Tue - picked cotton - fair 30 - Wed - went town & Mr Morrises for beef, picked cotton - fair OCTOBER, 1931 1 - Thu - at Association Walnut Creek Church - fair 2 - Fri - at Association - Gentry came - fair 3 - Sat - put up Grandpa Colvins monument at Unionville - fair 4 - Sun - went S.S. - clouded 5 - Mon - picked cotton - shower 6 - Tue - picked peas - showers 7 - Wed - picked cotton - cloudy faired 8 - Thu - picked cotton - fair 9 - Fri - picked cotton - fair 10 - Sat - picked cotton, went town - fair 11 - Sun - went S.S. Mr & Mrs Alexander came - going to move - fair 12 - Mon - picked cotton - cloudy 13 - Tue - hauled bale cotton Mr Gilmore, picked cotton - fair cloudy 14 - Wed - picked cotton - part cloudy sprinkle 15 - Thu - picked cotton - cloudy shower 16 - Fri - picked cotton - faired off cool 17 - Sat - hauled bale cotton gin-cleaned out Mr Gilmores well - fair 18 - Sun - went church- Mr Will Lann came & Will Choate - fair 19 - Mon - picked cotton - cool fair 20 - Tue - picked cotton - fair 21 - Wed - picked cotton - fair 22 - Thu - hauled bale cotton gin & picked cotton - cloudy 23 - Fri - picked some cotton, casterated hogs, loaded a bale cotton, Uncle John came - light rain 24 - Sat - hauled bale cotton gin, hauled wood Mr Gilmore & table lumber to church - cloudy 25 - Sun - Chloe & children came & Mama came home - fair 26 - Mon - picked cotton - cloudy 27 - Tue - picked cotton - big nite rain (28) - sprinkle cloudy 28 - Wed - loaded bale cotton, picked peas, filed saw - fair 29 - Thu - hauled cotton town 4 bales - fair 30 - Fri - picked peas, hauled in peanuts, loaded bale cotton - cool fair 31 - Sat - Mama went Mrs Sanders at Simsboro - light frost fair NOVEMBER, 1931 1 - Sun - went S.S. - fair 2 - Mon - dug potatoes - cloudy 3 - Tue - dug potatoes (finished) - fair 4 - Wed - hauled corn Mr Gilmore 4 loads, started pulling corn for self- fair 5 - Thu - hauled 2 loads corn, pulled corn Mr Gilmore hope - clouded 6 - Fri - hauled 4 1/2 loads corn-Jimmie hope, loade bale cotton - fair 7 - Sat - went town-ginned bale cotton-worked on corn crib eve - fair 8 - Sun - went to Simsboro Brotherhood meeting - fair 9 - Mon - picked cotton - fair 10 - Tue - hauled bale cotton to town-sold 2 bales cotton - cloudy 11 - Wed - hauled peanuts Mr Gilmore-finished picking cotton - fair 12 - Thu - pulled corn - clouded up 13 - Fri - hauled 4 loads & pulled corn - cloudy 14 - Sat - finished hauling corn - went church - cloudy 15 - Sun - Trudy, Will, Ethel & children came - cloudy 16 - Mon - cut seed cane-went with Bro Jones around place - cloudy 17 - Tue - went to gin - rain 18 - Wed - went town - Mama went to Ruston - Jim Pirkle came - faired 19 - Thu - helped dig grave for Mr Liege Davidson - cloudy rain 20 - Fri - J.P. got corn-covered cane bed-fixed gate post - fair 21 - Sat - went town - cloudy 22 - Sun - went S.S. - spotted cows calf came - cloudy 23 - Mon - cut wood for Mr Gilmore - cloudy 24 - Tue - Went town-taken chickens - cloudy rain cool 25 - Wed - hauled wood for Mr Gilmore half day-culled potatoes - cloudy cool 26 - Thu - Malcolm & Velma came - rain 27 - Fri - cut some wood - drizzly & fog - rain 28 - Sat - went town - Malcolm & Velma went home - cloudy 29 - Sun - Mr & Mrs Gilmore came evening - damp rainey 30 - Mon - fixed fence - cloudy damp [Submitter's note: J.P.= Jim Pirle who he had bought a mule from and was paying some in corn. When he referred to Mama it was Grandma Bertha Jones.] DECEMBER, 1931 1 - Tue - made bed - turned cold - all day rain 2 - Wed - cleaned out cow stales - worked on hog pen - rainey 3 - Thu - worked in cow barn - rainey 4 - Fri - hope around house-wash etc - fair 5 - Sat - went town-Mama came-worked on fertilizer pen - fair 6 - Sun - went S.S. Bro Jones came - Trudys & Ethels children came-cloudy 7 - Mon - worked at barn-hauled wood - cloudy start raining 8 - Tue - assorted seeds etc - wet rain 9 - Wed - set out onions-baby sick (Herman) - cloudy 10 - Thu - went town - baby sick - cloudy drizzly 11 - Fri - went hunting - baby sick - rainy 12 - Sat - went town - Jessie came - cloudy drizzly 13 - Sun - staid home - all day big rain 14 - Mon - went town - killed hog - cloudy 15 - Tue - went town, salted meat - fair 16 - Wed - cleaned out barn - all day rain 17 - Thu - all day and night rain 18 - Fri - cloudy & misty all day 19 - Sat - went town - wet & rain 20 - Sun - went church- Bro Cloudy Jones & Mr Morris came - faired 21 - Mon - all went town - cloudy rain 22 - Tue - hauled post to town - cloudy rain 23 - Wed - hauled load post town - cloudy with rain 24 - Thu - Trudy and children came - cloudy then faired off 25 - Fri - got and set out some fig sprouts - fair 26 - Sat - Mr Davidson moved in - fair 27 - Sun - staid home - fair 28 - Mon - went town & to Mae's - fair 29 - Tue - taken Trudy & children home - went town - clouded 30 - Wed - hunted mules, Monroe Morris came - big rain 31 - Thu - fixed saw - got mules - cool cloudy [Submitter's note: Mr John Davidson lived in a house about 200 yards east of George's hanger.]