Misc: A.O. Jones Diary, 1939, Lincoln Parish, LA Submitted by: Calvin B. Jones, 180 Bay Drive, Farmerville, LA 71241 Keyed by Jo Autrey, Dallas, TX ********************************************** 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, 1939 1 - Sun - Staid home - fair 2 - Mon - Hauled wood to town-Thelma & Jack came nite - fair 3 - Tue - Hauled wood to town - cloudy 4 - Wed - Rained most of day split some wood - rain cloudy 5 - Thu - Split & cut some wood - fair 6 - Fri - Went Ruston - fair 7 - Sat - Cut wood - part cloudy 8 - Sun - Staid home - part fair 9 - Mon - Went town am-split stove wood pm-A little rain cloudy 10 - Tue - 1st primary election for Dist Attorney-plowed garden pm - fair 11 - Wed - Rain all day staid indoors - all nite rain 12 - Thu - Rain all day & nite 13 - Fri - Hauled wood to town - faired 14 - Sat - Cut wood - cloudy late pm rain 15 - Sun - Staid home - cloudy 16 - Mon - Hauled wood - fair cool 17 - Tue - Rained nite hauled some fert in garden - cloudy rainey 18 - Wed - Hauled wood & cut wood - part fair 19 - Thu - Hauled wood - fair 20 - Fri - Went Ruston am-hauled load wood pm - fair 21 - Sat - Cut some wood at Church - fair 22 - Sun - Went Church - cloudy 23 - Mon - Rained most all day - rainey 24 - Tue - Went town - Election day - hauled load wood - fair cold 25 - Wed - Went town - fair 26 - Thu - Sawed wood - part fair 27 - Fri - Sawed wood - cloudy 28 - Sat - Sawed some wood am hauled load wood town - rainey 29 - Sun - Staid home - rainey some hail 30 - Mon - Split wood - part cloudy 31 - Tue - Sawed wood - mostly fair FEBRUARY, 1939 1 - Wed - Sawed wood - some rain 2 - Thu - Hauled 1 load wood - all day rain & windy 3 - Fri - Went Ruston & hauled load wood - cloudy 4 - Sat - Sawed & hauled wood town - part cloudy 5 - Sun - Staid home - cloudy & all nite rain 6 - Mon - Hauled wood town - faired 7 - Tue - Hauled wood town - fair 8 - Wed - Hauled some wood-hurt foot, wagon run over foot - cloudy 9 - Thu - At home with sore foot - cloudy 10 - Fri - Cut some wood & went town pm - fair 11 - Sat - Cut wood - fair 12 - Sun - Bell & Jim Alexander came - fair 13 - Mon - Went Ruston got FSA Ck - cloudy 14 - Tue - Hauled wood to town - cloudy big rain pm 15 - Wed - Went town taken wood - fair 16 - Thu - Hope around house - part fair 17 - Fri - Went to Ruston - cloudy rain 18 - Sat - Cut wood - cloudy 19 - Sun - Staid home - cloudy rainy 20 - Mon - Worked on stands for bees - fair 21 - Tue - Went town & got bees - cold faired 22 - Wed - Killed 4 small hogs - fair 23 - Thu - Plowed potato patch and etc - fair part cloudy 24 - Fri - Hauled fert for potato patch - some rain cloudy 25 - Sat - Rain all am - hauled load wood town pm - rainy 26 - Sun - Went church - pastor did not come - cloudy 27 - Mon - Hauled load wood town - cloudy rainy 28 - Tue - Hauled fertilizer for potato patch - part cloudy MARCH, 1939 1 - Wed - Planted Irish potatoes - some sleet, cloudy 2 - Thu - Plowed in oats - fair 3 - Fri - Went Ruston & plowed in oats - part fair 4 - Sat - Finished oats & hauled load wood to town - fair 5 - Sun - Staid home - fair 6 - Mon - Bedded sweet potatoes - fair 7 - Tue - Plowed west field - fair 8 - Wed - Plowed west field - fair 9 - Thu - Plowed in west field - part cloudy 10 - Fri - Plowed in west field - part cloudy 11 - Sat - Plowed & cut some wood - windy part fair 12 - Sun - Staid home - cool cloudy 13 - Mon - Plowed corn land east of house (cotton house cut) fair 14 - Tue - Plowed corn land & terrices - fair 15 - Wed - Plowed corn land - fair 16 - Thu - Went to Ruston am-hauled some wood pm - fair 17 - Fri - Plowed corn land - fair 18 - Sat - Planted some corn-Clerance Sparrow & Mr & Mrs Alexander came - fair 19 - Sun - Mr Alexander & Clerance & folks went home pm - fair 20 - Mon - Plowed for corn & planted some-heifer taken bull - fair 21 - Tue - Hope dig grave & went to Mrs Holloways funeral - fair 22 - Wed - Plowed terrices & corn land - fair 23 - Thu - Plowed for & planted some corn late pm - fair 24 - Fri - Planted some corn & went town - part cloudy 25 - Sat - Planted some corn west field am-went church and Bro Jones came - rained all pm 26 - Sun - Went Church - rain & faired late pm 27 - Mon - Went to Jeff Nappers funeral pm - fair 28 - Tue - Worked on fence & cut trees in Sumlin new ground - part fair 29 - Wed - Worked on pasture fence-went town pm - some rain 30 - Thu - Worked on fence-planted some corn - part fair 31 - Fri - Went town pm after wire-worked on pasture fence - fair APRIL, 1939 1 - Sat - Worked on pasture fence - fair 2 - Sun - Went SS - fair 3 - Mon - Finished planting corn in west field - plowed garden - part fair 4 - Tue - Hauled post & went town am-planted some peas pm - part fair 5 - Wed - Plowed for corn - shower cloudy windy 6 - Thu - Big nite rain - worked on fence - cold & cloudy 7 - Fri - Worked on pasture fence - cool part fair 8 - Sat - Worked on pasture fence - fair 9 - Sun - Went Sunday School & Easter Egg hunt pm-Monroe & Berryl Morris & children came - fair windy 10 - Mon - Plowed for corn & planted some corn - cloudy am faired pm 11 - Tue - Sodied oats-plowed terrices - cloudy am faired pm 12 - Wed - Plowed terrices & middle busted - fair 13 - Thu - Finished terrices & middle busted below barn - part fair 14 - Fri - Plowed terrices east field-went town - rain pm cloudy 15 - Sat - Plowed east field - cloudy showers 16 - Sun - Went Jim Alexanders - Big wind rain hail pm 17 - Mon - Cut sprouts am-Plowed & fixed tomato patch - cloudy 18 - Tue - Plowed fertilized for & planted watermellons - cool windy cloudy 19 - Wed - Middle busted cotton land east field - fair 20 - Thu - Plowed for cotton land - fair 21 - Fri - Plowed for cotton - fair 22 - Sat - AM went church & town-finished breaking for cotton - fair 23 - Sun - Went Church Mr Brannon came - fair 24 - Mon - Plowed middles for cotton & start plowing corn - part cloudy showers 25 - Tue - Plowed corn & put out some fertilizer for cotton - cloudy 26 - Wed - Start planting cotton east field - part fair 27 - Thu - Morning rain-put out fert for cotton west field - cloudy faired pm 28 - Fri - Put out fertilizeer & plowed for cotton - fair 29 - Sat - Planted some cotton am-went town-hope clean off church grounds - fair 30 - Sun - Went Church Bro Tulles of Vernon preached -went to Mr Morrises birthday dinner - fair MAY, 1939 1 - Mon - Plowed garden & patches went town pm - fair 2 - Tue - Planted cotton west field - fair 3 - Wed - Plowed corn in west field below cotton - fair 4 - Thu - Put out fertilizer in east field - fair 5 - Fri - Plowed for cotton east field - part fair 6 - Sat - Planted cotton east field all day - cloudy 7 - Sun - Went SS-staid home-made ice cream - cloudy 8 - Mon - Nite rain-set out some tomatoes, collards, pepper etc and cut some wood - cloudy 9 - Tue - Plowed for & planted cotton late pm - part fair 10 - Wed - Finished planting cotton east field - fair 11 - Thu - Plowed for cotton below orchard - fair 12 - Fri - Plowed for cotton & planted some cotton late pm - part cloudy 13 - Sat - Finished planting cotton am-thinned corn pm - part cloudy 13 - Sun - Went SS - part cloudy 14 - Mon - Plowed peas & borred off corn - part fair 15 - Tue - Went Ruston am borred off cotton - part cloudy 16 - Wed - Borred off corn - some rain pm 17 - Thu - Rain fixed some fence - cloudy rain 18 - Fri - Went town-hope can some english peas - cloudy 19 - Sat - Went to West Carrol Parish at Foriest for clover seed - cloudy rainy 20 - Sun - Went SS-Jim Alexander & family & Monroe Morris and family & Mr Morris came - showers part cloudy 21 - Mon - Plowed corn & planted some cotton over - fair 22 - Tue - Claudie went to Ruston, bored off cotton, put out fertilizer for potatoes - fair 23 - Wed - Plowed terrices in corn & truck patches - part fair 24 - Thu - Plowed corn-went to School Closing exercise - rain nite 25 - Fri - Boys set out some potato slips - Sick - cloudy 26 - Sat - Put out soda in corn - part fair 27 - Sun - Went to preaching-Earl & Mae Turner & children came - fair 28 - Mon - Borred off some late corn & borred off cotton W field - part fair 29 - Tue - Borred off cotton - threatening 30 - Wed - Borred off cotton-Sidney Leonards baby died - set up nite with it - cloudy JUNE, 1939 1 - Thu - At Mr Leonards am-big rain ll-1 oc-sawed some wood - rain 2 - Fri - Rain - set out some potato slips - rainy 3 - Sat - Went town-Claudie went Minden-went fishing pm - some rain 4 - Sun - Went SS-Went to Mr Morrises for dinner - big rain pm 5 - Mon - Plowed corn-wet rainey-Claudie came home nite - cloudy 6 - Tue - Plowed corn am-hoed cotton pm-Mr & Mrs Alexander came - wet rainey 7 - Wed - Hoed cotton-Mr & Mrs Alexander left-Janie cow taken bull - cloudy 8 - Thu - Plowed corn - Boys hoed cotton - part fair 9 - Fri - Plowed corn & water melons etc - fair 10 - Sat - Borred off late cotton-went town pm - fair 11 - Sun - Went SS - made ice cream - part fair 12 - Mon - Swept cotton-Boys hoed cotton-hauled load wood am - part fair nite rain 13 - Tue - Hoed cotton am - plowed cotton pm - cloudy 14 - Wed - Swept cotton & potatoes - fair 15 - Thu - Swept cotton - fair 16 - Fri - Swept cotton east field finished - part cloudy showers 17 - Sat - Plowed late corn & some corn middles 18 - Sun - Went SS - & Mr Leonards pm - part fair 19 - Mon - Hoed cotton west of house - part fair 20 - Tue - hoed cotton east field, 3 d help labor - Claudie went Minden- Calvin sick pm - shower 21 - Wed - hoed cotton 7 da help - part fair 22 - Thu - Hoed cotton-Claudie's Father died 5 oc pm - 4 da labor - fair 23 - Fri - Went to funeral of Mr. G W. Alexander - fair 24 - Sat - Cut some oats-went church-Rev Jones came - showers pm 25 - Sun - Went Church & to Mr Leonards - hot some clouds 26 - Mon - Plowed cotton-picked berries am - showers am & pm 27 - Tue - Plowed cotton - showers pm 28 - Wed - Plowed cotton - part cloudy 29 - Thu - Plowed cotton am - rain all pm - good rain - rain 30 - Fri - Plowed potato land-gathered irish potatotes am- Worked some in grave yard pm - hot cloudy showers JULY, 1939 1 - Sat - Sawed wood am-went town pm - hot part cloudy fair 2 - Sun - Went SS & Mr & Mrs Leonard came pm - showers 3 - Mon - Set out potatoes & fixed land for some - cloudy hot 4 - Tue - Set out some potates am-Herman Alexander & wife came-went to Mrs J Williamson's funeral - fair 5 - Wed - Plowed land for and planted peas east of house - fair 6 - Thu - Plowed land for and planted peas spring cut - hot fair 7 - Fri - Finished planting peas & plowed cotton-Prentiss Alexander came Herman went to Minden - hot fair 8 - Sat - Plowed cotton - fair 9 - Sun - Went SS am-Mr Leonards pm - hot threatening late pm 10 - Mon - Plowed cotton & potatoes - big rain 11 - Tue - Went town am-planted peas over-Calvin plowed terrices - part cloudy 12 - Wed - Plowed cotton middles - hot fair 13 - Thu - Went to grave yard working Walnut Creek 14 - Fri - Plowed cotton middles - hot fair 15 - Sat - Went to grave yard working Trussells am-wind big nite rain - hot swettery 16 - Sun - Jim Alexander & folks came - fair 17 - Mon - Went Ruston am-hoed cotton pm - fair hot 18 - Tue - Plowed cotton middles & terrices - hot fair 19 - Wed - Plowed cotton middles & terrices - hot fair 20 - Thu - Plowed terrices-went town-Calvin went Minden - hot fair 21 - Fri - Plowed some in cotton & peanuts - hot showers pm 22 - Sat - Went church am-rain hail 930 am - hot cloudy 23 - Sun - Went church - Petraced meeting start-Bro Jones came - part cloudy 24 - Mon - At Church - Bro Jones here - rained some 25 - Tue - At meeting-Calvin came from Minden-Opal, Parelee Belton May came - part cloudy 26 - Wed - At church - no weather entry 27 - Thu - Went to Monroe Morrises - part fair rain 28 - Fri - Went Mr Lewises for dinner from church - part cloudy 29 - Sat - Went town & meeting - part cloudy 30 - Sun - Went to Baptising, meeting closed-Jim Alexander, Monroe Morris, Cornelius Alexander and folks came - fair 31 - Mon - Hope can tomatoes am-sawed wood pm - part fair AUGUST, 1939 1 - Tue - Hauled load wood town-cut wood pm - fair 2 - Wed - Plowed peas spring cut-boys hoed garden - fair 3 - Thu - Plowed peas - hot part fair 4 - Fri - Plowed peas am - cut corn tops pm - fair 5 - Sat - Cut corn tops am -went town pm - fair 6 - Sun - Went to Jim Alexanders - fair 7 - Mon - Cut corn tops-awful sick with bowels-so was Calvin - part fair 8 - Tue - Taken in corn tops & cut some - part fair 9 - Wed - Cut corn tops - part fair 10 - Thu - Cut & hauled in some fodder - rain some pm 11 - Fri - Hauled in fodder-Claudie sick nite - fair hot 12 - Sat - Finished bringing in fodder am-went town pm - part fair 13 - Sun - Went SS - Jim Alexander & folks came - fair 14 - Mon - Plowed late peas - part cloudy hot 15 - Tue - Finished peas & cut poles for smoke house - fair 16 - Wed - Peeled poles for smoke house - fair 17 - Thu - Went town-start putting up smoke house - fair am - rain pm & nite 18 - Fri - Plowed & planted garden, 3 rows beans, 2 rows turnips, some lettuce, mustard & onions - part cloudy 19 - Sat - Worked on smoke house - some rain early am - hot fair pm 20 - Sun - Went SS and to funeral of Allen Rasburys son who killed himself - fair 21 - Mon - Worked on smoke house - fair 22 - Tue - Start picking cotton - part fair 23 - Wed - Picked cotton am-cut & hauled load wood town - fair 24 - Thu - Sawed stove wood - fair 25 - Fri - Sawed stove wood - threatening rain pm 26 - Sat - Cut wood am-hauled 2 loads wood town pm - fair 27 - Sun - Went to Monroe Morrises from church - big rain pm 28 - Mon - Sawed wood - wet part fair 29 - Tue - Picked cotton-hauled load wood town late pm - fair 30 - Wed - Went town am-picked cotton pm - fair hot 31 - Thu - Nite rain-cut wood am - picked cotton pm - cloudy SEPTEMBER, 1939 1 - Fri - Went Ruston am - picked cotton - fair 2 - Sat - Hauled load town am picked cotton - fair 3 - Sun - Went SS - James Alex & Harrell Morris came - fair 4 - Mon - Hope dig grave for Mrs Charlie Gray Sr - taken Calvin to Dr to treat hurt eye - fair 5 - Tue - Hauled bale cotton gin am - rain pm 6 - Wed - Hauled 3 bales cotton for Mr Leonard - fair 7 - Thu - Picked cotton - White's calf came - fair 8 - Fri - Went Ruston am - Picked some cotton - fair 9 - Sat - Hauled peanuts for Mr Leonard - fair 10 - Sun - Went SS-Ernest & folks came - Mr Bob Napper burried Simsboro - fair 11 - Mon - School starts - part fair 12 - Tue - Hauled BC Mr Leonard & picked cotton - fair 13 - Wed - Picked cotton - hot fair 14 - Thu - Picked cotton am hauled bale cotton gin pm - fair 15 - Fri - Hauled bale cotton Mr Leonard & pulled corn - nite rain part fair 16 - Sat - Went town & hauled in some corn - part cloudy 17 - Sun - Went to Jim Alexanders & Mr & Mrs Leonards - shower & part cloudy 18 - Mon - Pulled up and hauled in peanuts & scrapped cotton in west field, turned mules & cows in field - hot fair 19 - Tue - Picked cotton - showers 4oc pm 20 - Wed - Picked cotton-hauled BC for Mr Leonard - fair 21 - Thu - Picked cotton-Mr Leonard hauled corn-Thelma & Jack came - fair 22 - Fri - Picked cotton - fair 23 - Sat - Picked cotton-went Church am - Went town pm - fair 24 - Sun - Went Church-Mr & Mrs Leonard came - fair 25 - Mon - Picked cotton - fair 26 - Tue - Picked cotton & hauled BC for Leonard - fair 27 - Wed - Picked cotton - fair 28 - Thu - Went Alabama Church to Association - part cloudy 29 - Fri - Picked cotton am - sawed wood pm - part fair 30 - Sat - Hauled bale cotton - hauled some wood - part cloudy cool OCTOBER, 1939 1 - Sun - Leona & all came pm - cool fair 2 - Mon - Boys start school-picked peas & pulled corn - fair 3 - Tue - Pulled corn - fair 4 - Wed - Went Ruston - fair 5 - Thu - Went Ruston & pulled corn - part cloudy 6 - Fri - Went to Simsboro Fair pm - pulled corn am - fair 7 - Sat - Hauled in corn am-cut wood pm - fair 8 - Sun - Went SS-Herman Alex & wife & Mrs Alexander - fair 9 - Mon - Hauled 2 loads wood town some rain - rain pm 10 - Tue - Went to Arcadia am-pulled corn pm - cloudy 11 - Wed - Hauled in some corn - fair 12 - Thu - Hauled in load of corn & hauled seed for Leonard - fair 13 - Fri - Picked scrapping cotton, hauled load corn - fair 14 - Sat - Picked scrapping cotton - fair 15 - Sun - Went SS - fair cool 16 - Mon - Went town-taken hog to Gullats, taken male, dug potatoes pm - fair 17 - Tue - Hauled 2 loads wood to town-picked up & hauled potatoes - fair 18 - Wed - Worked on smoke house - fair 19 - Thu - Went town-worked on syrup mill - fair 20 - Fri - Made syrup for D.B. Alexander 28 gals - fair 21 - Sat - Went town & church, sawed some wood pm - fair 22 - Sun - Went church-Orphan children came & gave program - fair 23 - Mon - Went town & hope haul poles to church for scafaling - fair 24 - Tue - Went Ruston & put tin roof on smoke house - part fair 25 - Wed - Went to Little Rock - cloudy 26 - Thu - At Little Rock Ark - some rain 27 - Fri - At Little Rock Ark - rain 28 - Sat - Came home-children cleaned around house - fair cool 29 - Sun - Went SS-Mrs Alexander & Prentess came - fair 30 - Mon - Worked on church - part fair 31 - Tue - Worked on church painted - fair NOVEMBER, 1939 1 - Wed - Worked on church - fair 2 - Thu - Worked on church-boys scrapped cotton - part cloudy 3 - Fri - 1st case-Worked some on church am-hunted mules pm boys finished cotton - fair 4 - Sat - killing frost-boys cut wood - hunted mules - fair cool 5 - Sun - First ice-went SS-Mr Morrises folks came - fair 6 - Mon - Went after mules am-hauled cotton town - fair 7 - Tue - Made syrup for Lewis Dick 33 gals - part cloudy 8 - Wed - Made syrup for C. Hughes 17 gals fair 9 - Thu - Cut and hauled some wood 2 loads to town - part cloudy 10 - Fri - Went Ruston am-split wood - cloudy 11 - Sat - Hauled load wood am & cut wood - rain all pm 12 - Sun - All day rain - staid home - 13 - Mon - Mrs. Alexander went home-went town & cut some wood - faired 14 - Tue - Cut wood - cow lost calf - cloudy 15 - Wed - Hauled wood town - rainy 16 - Thu - Plowed - cloudy 17 - Fri - Plowed land & planted burr clover seed - drizzly cloudy 18 - Sat - Planted clover & sawed wood - cloudy 19 - Sun - Went SS - Herman & Clarance came - part fair 20 - Mon - Painted on church - cloudy 21 - Tue - Sawed wood - part cloudy 22 - Wed - Painted on church - fair 23 - Thu - Painted on church - fair 24 - Fri - Cut wood am-worked on church pm finished painting- fair 25 - Sat - Went town & church-hauled load wood pm - fair 26 - Sun - Went church & Monroe Morrises - fair 27 - Mon - Cut wood and hauled 1 load town - fair 28 - Tue - Cut & hauled wood & went Ruston am - fair 29 - Wed - Cut & hauled wood - fair 30 - Thu - Worked around smoke house & cut some wood - fair DECEMBER, 1939 1 - Fri - Hauled wood to town - cloudy 2 - Sat - Cut some wood & killed hog - fair cold windy 3 - Sun - Went SS - fair 4 - Mon - Went town am - hauled wood pm - fair 5 - Tue - Cut wood & cleared - fair 6 - Wed - Cut wood & cleared land - fair 7 - Thu - Cleared & cut wood - fair 8 - Fri - worked on smoke house am-hoped dig grave pm - fair 9 - Sat - Went town am-cleared land pm-Frank Atkins Sister burried - part cloudy 10 - Sun - Went SS - staid home pm - cloudy 11 - Mon - Cleared land & cut wood - cloudy 12 - Tue - Cleared land & cut wood - part fair 13 - Wed - Split wood & cleared - fair cold 14 - Thu - Went town am-cleared pm - fair 15 - Fri - Hauled load wood town, covered bck of barn - rainy cloudy 16 - Sat - Cut wood & cleared - part cloudy 17 - Sun - Went SS - part cloudy 18 - Mon - Hauled & cut wood - cloudy nite rain 19 - Tue - Went Ruston & hauled load wood - cold rainey 20 - Wed - Hauled load wood & killed hog - fair 21 - Thu - Worked on smoke house & cut wood - part cloudy 22 - Fri - Hope cook & clean - rainey cloudy 23 - Sat - Went town-big rain cloudy all day 24 - Sun - Went Church - cloudy some rain 25 - Mon - Staid home - cloudy rainy 26 - Tue - Split a little wood - rainey 27 - Wed - Split some wood - part rainey 28 - Thu - Cut wood & hauled load - cloudy No entrys for Fri 29, Sat 30, and Sun 31st