Misc: A.O. Jones Diary, 1942, 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, 1942 1 - Thu - Staid home-Day set apart to pray for peace by our President - cloudy 2 - Fri - Worked at gas plant-went to Union Church to Assoc meeting - cold cldy 3 - Sat - Rain, Sleet & snow, couldn't go to work - cold 4 - Sun - Went to Mr Lewises pm - cold cloudy 5 - Mon - Worked at plant - cold cloudy 6 - Tue - Worked at plant - part fair cold 7 - Wed - Worked at plant - cold snow & sleet 8 - Thu - Worked at plant - cold cloudy 9 - Fri - Worked at plant - cold cloudy 10 - Sat - At home - part cloudy 11 - Sun - Staid home - part fair 12 - Mon - Worked at plant - fair 13 - Tue - Went town am worked on wagon wheel pm - fair 14 - Wed - Worked on wagon wheels - part cloudy showers 15 - Thu - Hauled some wood - fair 16 - Fri - Went town & worked in garden - fair 17 - Sat - Went Ruston am - fair 18 - Sun - Went Simsboro Church - cloudy showers 19 - Mon - Went town & to Monroe Morrises-cut sprouts in Orchard - part cldy 20 - Tue - Cut sprouts & burned off grass in orchard - fair 21 - Wed - Made gate & fixed fence to orchard - fair 22 - Thu - Hauled fertilizer & plowed orchard - fair 23 - Fri - Plowed Mr Stevensons garden & plowed orchard - fair 24 - Sat - Went town am cut sprouts north 40 - fair 25 - Sun - Went to Church - fair 26 - Mon - Plowed orchard - part cloudy 27 - Tue - Plowed & put out fertilizer in garden - fair 28 - Wed - Worked on terrace drag & slip - fair 29 - Thu - Plowed on Sumlin 40 - fair 30 - Fri - Plowed terraces & hauled poles - rain wind 31 - Sat - Cut sprouts am-Killed hogs pm - cloudy cold FEBRUARY, 1942 1 - Sun - Staid home - cold cloudy 2 - Mon - Plowed north 40 - cloudy 3 - Tue - Plowed cotton land on north 40 - part fair 4 - Wed - Plowed cotton land - part cloudy 5 - Thu - Plowed cotton land windy - part cloudy 6 - Fri - Plowed north 40 - fair windy 7 - Sat - Plowed am-worked on new ground pm - fair 8 - Sun - Staid home - part cloudy 9 - Mon - Hauled some poles & plowed am - rained pm 10 - Tue - Cut sprouts on north 40 - cloudy damp cold 11 - Wed - Went to Alabama Church to SS Assoc meeting - cloudy cold 12 - Thu - Plowed north 40 - fair cool 13 - Fri - Plowed terrices - part cloudy 14 - Sat - Cut sprouts with boys - cloudy 15 - Sun - Staid home - rain & cloudy 16 - Mon - At home - Claudie sick - rain most of day 17 - Tue - Cut sprouts - part cloudy 18 - Wed - Cut sprouts - cloudy 19 - Thu - Hauled fertilizer to potato patch - cloudy 20 - Fri - Went to Ruston am-set out cabbage-hauled fertilizer in potato patch - fair cool 21 - Sat - Planted potatoes & some garden - fair 22 - Sun - Went to Church W.C. - part cloudy 23 - Mon - Rain all am-cut sprouts in pasture pm - cloudy 24 - Tue - Cut sprouts in pasture for cane - cloudy damp 25 - Wed - Plowed terrices & hauled some wood - cloudy then part fair 26 - Thu - Nite & am rain 27 - Fri - Plowed - cloudy cold windy 28 - Sat - Went town am-cut wood pm - cold windy MARCH, 1942 1 - Sun - No SS-staid home - cold,cloudy snow late pm 2 - Mon - Staid at home am-split some wood pm-cloudy cold am, fair pm 3 - Tue - Working in hog pasture on ditch - fair 4 - Wed - Slipped dirt in pasture - damp & rainy pm 5 - Thu - Went Ruston - cloudy damp am - fair late pm 6 - Fri - Worked in pasture on ditch - fair 7 - Sat - Dug ditch & put poles in it for drainage - cloudy rainey 8 - Sun - Staid home - cloudy rainy 9 - Mon - Worked in pasture - part cloudy 10 - Tue - Sliped dirt in pasture for cane patch - cloudy 11 - Wed - Went Ruston am - cloudy drizzly 12 - Thu - Worked in the pasture - some rain 13 - Fri - Worked on ditch etc - cloudy 14 - Sat - Hauled some poles & went fishing on branch - cloudy 15 - Sun - Went to Monroe Morrises etc - cloudy 16 - Mon - Dug on dranage ditch in cane patch - cloudy 17 - Tue - Finished diging dranage ditch & put poles in it - fair 18 - Wed - Plowed cane patch in hog pasture-went to Monroe Morrises to see about disc - fair 19 - Thu - Plowed cane patch & bedded sweet potatoes - part cloudy 20 - Fri - Cut post am-went after disk pm-Arthur O Fogle came 5oc pm from Jackson Air Force Base - cloudy rain pm 21 - Sat - Disked land for cane - fair 22 - Sun - Went Church-Monroe Morris & family came for dinner - fair 23 - Mon - Went after seed cane, did not get it-hope dig grave for Olla Sumlin - fair 24 - Tue - Planted cane & built fence - fair 25 - Wed - Cut post for fence around cane patch - fair 26 - Thu - Built fence around cane patch - fair 27 - Fri - Worked in shop & planted some corn late pm - fair 28 - Sat - Planted some corn & went town - fair 29 - Sun - Went SS & to Robert Murphys - fair 30 - Mon - Went after & planted some cane - fair 31 - Tue - Plowed corn land-Claudie went Ruston - fair APRIL, 1942 1 - Wed - Plowed corn land & planted corn late pm - fair 2 - Thu - Plowed corn land & planted corn late pm - fair 3 - Fri - Plowed corn land & planted corn-Went SS A nite at Barnet Springs - fair 4 - Sat - Plowed patches & garden planted okra, cucumbers - fair 5 - Sun - Staid home, Claudie about sick - fair 6 - Mon - Hauled fertilizer to watermellon patch-planted 2 rows mushmellons-planted 4 rows watermellons in orchard - part fair 7 - Tue - Staid indoors rain all day drizzle - rain 8 - Wed - Heavy rain all day staid indoors - rain 9 - Thu - Worked on pasture fence - cloudy 10 - Fri - Worked on pasture fence - part fair 11 - Sat - Went town & plowed corn land - fair 12 - Sun - Went SS-Herman & family & Mrs Alexander came - fair 13 - Mon - Plowed for corn west of house finished planting east of house - fair 14 - Tue - Plowed for corn-started planting corn but rained late pm 15 - Wed - Plowed for & planted corn late pm - some rain 16 - Thu - Plowed land & planted corn late pm-went to Ruston, Claudie to Dr. got peanut seed - cloudy 17 - Fri - Plowed & planted corn - some rain 18 - Sat - Planted corn - part cloudy 19 - Sun - Herman & Clarace came - fair 20 - Mon - Plowed for & finished planting corn - cloudy pm - sprinkle rain 21 - Tue - Plowed & put out fertilizer for cotton - part fair 22 - Wed - Plowed cotton land - part fair 23 - Thu - Planted cotton east field - fair 24 - Fri - Plowed soy bean land - fair 25 - Sat - Went town - rainey 26 - Sun - Went church-Claudie taken sick pm Dr came 6oc nite - big rain nite 27 - Mon - Staid home - cloudy 28 - Tue - Went Ruston - cloudy 29 - Wed - Worked with soy bean land etc - part cloudy 30 - Thu - Dr came - planted soy beans - fair MAY, 1942 1 - Fri - Plowed corn middles - part fair 2 - Sat - Put out fert for cotton north 40 - partly fair 3 - Sun - Staid home - cloudy 4 - Mon - Rain-went town put out fert for cotton - part fair 5 - Tue - Plowed for cotton & corn middles - fair 6 - Wed - Registered for sugar-plowed for cotton - part cloudy 7 - Thu - Run corn middles & plowed cane - part cloudy 8 - Fri - Run corn middles west field - fair 9 - Sat - Borred off cotton am - planted peas pm - fair 10 - Sun - Staid home cow lost calf - fair 11 - Mon - Plant cotton-5 acres 100 black joe-planted cotton - part fair 12 - Tue - Planted cotton & peas-Edwin borred off corn - cloudy 13 - Wed - Plowed garden-big washing rain - most all day 14 - Thu - Staid indoors-went school play pm-big washing rain all day 15 - Fri - Went Ruston - faired 16 - Sat - Planted some peanuts - part fair 17 - Sun - Staid home - clouded big rain - pm & nite 18 - Mon - All day rain - staid in - rain 19 - Tue - Plowed for peanuts - cloudy 20 - Wed - Planted peanuts - cloudy 21 - Thu - Plowed for & planted peanuts - fair 22 - Fri - Plowed & planted peanuts - fair 23 - Sat - Plowed pea land am-chopped cotton pm - part fair 24 - Sun - Went church-Mrs Alexander went home - part cloudy 25 - Mon - Went Ruston-chopped some cotton - fair 26 - Tue - Plowed & chopped cotton pm-Old heifer cow taken bull - fair 27 - Wed - Chopped cotton - fair 28 - Thu - Chopped cotton - fair 29 - Fri - Chopped cotton & plowed - fair 30 - Sat - Chopped & plowed cotton - fair 31 - Sun - Went Grandma Sumlins funeral - fair JUNE, 1942 1 - Mon - Borred off cotton - swept corn - fair 2 - Tue - Swept corn & cotton - part fair 3 - Wed - Hoed cotton swept corn - cloudy some rain 4 - Thu - Boys plowed corn swept cotton - some rain 5 - Fri - Set out some potatoes & chopped cotton - part cloudy 6 - Sat - Chopped cotton & plowed patches - cloudy 7 - Sun - Staid home-Chloe & Bennie Lee & folks came - cloudy 8 - Mon - Swept & chopped cotton-plowed soy beans - cloudy rain 9 - Tue - Chopped & swept cotton - big nite rain 10 - Wed - Set out potatoes & thinned corn - cloudy 11 - Thu - Chopped cotton - part fair 12 - Fri - Thinned corn -part fair 13 - Sat - Plowed peanuts & cotton - cloudy nite rain 14 - Sun - Staid home - all day rain 15 - Mon - Set out potatoes - rain am & nite 16 - Tue - Plowed corn - cloudy 17 - Wed - Plowed corn - part cloudy 18 - Thu - Plowed corn-boys chopped cotton - part fair 19 - Fri - Picked berries-boys plowed corn pm - part fair 20 - Sat - Plowed corn & dug potatoes - fair 21 - Sun - Staid home - some rain pm 22 - Mon - Plowed cane etc am - cotton pm - rain late pm nite 23 - Tue - Dug potatoes am-hoed cotton - part cloudy 24 - Wed - Hoed cotton - part cloudy 25 - Thu - Hoed cotton - part fair & threatening 26 - Fri - Hoed cotton - hot shower pm 27 - Sat - Plowed cotton & corn middles - hot fair 28 - Sun - Went church - hot part fair 29 - Mon - Planted peas-plowed corn middles - cloudy 30 - Tue - Plowed peanuts, corn middles, cotton middles - cloudy JULY, 1942 1 - Wed - Plowed peanuts - part fair 2 - Thu - Plowed peanuts am-Fred checked crop-plowed peas pm- fair 3 - Fri - Planted peas north 40 - fair 4 - Sat - Went fishing on branch & to town pm - fair 5 - Sun - Mrs Leonard & family came & Stevensons - part fair 6 - Mon - Plowed cotton - part rainy 7 - Tue - Plowed peas & peanuts - part cloudy 8 - Wed - Hoed cane & weed in yard - fair 9 - Thu - Hoed cotton - hot fair 10 - Fri - Plowed cotton north 49 - hot part cloudy 11 - Sat - Plowed cotton am-fishing on the branch pm - Boys went to Ruston - hot part cloudy 12 - Sun - Staid home - fair 13 - Mon - Finished plowing cotton - fair 14 - Tue - Plowed peas - fair 15 - Wed - Plowed peanuts east field - fair 16 - Thu - Went to Grave Yard working Walnut Creek - fair 17 - Fri - Plowed peanuts & cane - hot part fair 18 - Sat - Went to Grave Yard working Trussells - hot part fair 19 - Sun - Staid home - hot fair 20 - Mon - Canned peas & beans - hot part cloudy 21 - Tue - Went Earl Turners - rain pm 22 - Wed - Canned beans etc - hot part cloudy 23 - Thu - Picked peas am-went after peaches & canned same - fair 24 - Fri - Canned pears am-hoed in garden etc pm - fair 25 - Sat - Went church & hoed in garden - fair hot 26 - Sun - Went church - fair 27 - Mon - Hoed in garden - part fair 28 - Tue - Canned peaches - fair 29 - Wed - Earl Turner & family came - fair 30 - Thu - Hoed in garden - shower - part fair 31 - Fri - Hope can & plowed peanuts - hot fair NOTE: Burried at Trussells Cemetary-was Grandad B.F. Jones Grandma Jones. Infant son Colvin and Aunt Trudy & her family. AUGUST, 1942 1 - Sat - Boys plowed peanuts-hope can pears - hot fair 2 - Sun - Staid home - hot part fair 3 - Mon - Boys picked peas - went Grambling - fair 4 - Tue - Canned fruit-picked peas - fair 5 - Wed - Taken cow-plowed peas-canned fruit - fair 6 - Thu - Plowed young peas & picked peas-sawed some wood - fair 7 - Fri - Plowed & picked peas & sawed wood - fair hot 8 - Sat - Picked peas am-repaired pasture fence - fair hot 9 - Sun - Staid home - part fair 10 - Mon - Picked peas-plowed in orchard & hoed weed - part fair 11 - Tue - Picked peas & cut wood pm - nite rain 12 - Wed - Picked peas - part cloudy 13 - Thu - Cut corn tops & picked peas - part fair 14 - Fri - Cut corn tops & hauled 1 load tops - hot fair 15 - Sat - Picked peas am-hauled in corn tops pm - hot fair 16 - Sun - Went church-Meeting W.C. Church starts - rain nite 17 - Mon - Went Church Rev J.C. McCann-hauled wood pm - rained noon 18 - Tue - Went Church - cloudy 19 - Wed - Went Church - some showers 20 - Thu - Went church & to Monroe Morrises - some rain 21 - Fri - Went Church, Herman joined church-we entertained Pastor, J.C. McCann, Mr Morrisees folks & others - cloudy 22 - Sat - Went Church - rain pm 23 - Sun - Staid home - rained most of day 24 - Mon - Rained most of day - no weather entry 25 - Tue - Picked some peas - cloudy 26 - Wed - Cut some syrup wood - no weather entry 27 - Thu - Went Gene Sims & fishing - part cloudy 28 - Fri - Cut syrup wood - fair 29 - Sat - Worked on syrup mill-gathered muscadines - cloudy hot 30 - Sun - Staid home - part cloudy 31 - Mon - Start picking cotton am-gathered muscadines pm - cloudy SEPTEMBER, 1942 1 - Tue - Worked on syrup mill-picked cotton - fair 2 - Wed - Made sorgrum syrup for Allen Robinson-boys picked cotton - pt fair 3 - Thu - Boys picked cotton-made syrup am - part fair 4 - Fri - Picked cotton - part cloudy pm 5 - Sat - Sawed syrup wood-Black heifer taken bull - part fair 6 - Sun - Staid home - part cloudy 7 - Mon - Went Ruston - boys picked some cotton - rain pm 8 - Tue - Went election - rainy 9 - Wed - Worked on wagon - some rain 10 - Thu - Went town-hope Deck Alex cover barn pm - hot cloudy 11 - Fri - Boys picked cotton-worked on wagon wheel-hope cover barn am - big rain pm 12 - Sat - Worked on wagon bed - part cloudy 13 - Sun - Went Monroe Morrises - part cloudy 14 - Mon - Went after moving machine & cut some soy beans - part cloudy 15 - Tue - Cut soy beans & raked some - part fair 16 - Wed - Hauled in some bean hay - rainy 17 - Thu - Hauled in some hay - cloudy 18 - Fri - Picked cotton & hauled in hay - cloudy 19 - Sat - Picked cotton am-cut hay pm - pat cloudy 20 - Sun - Staid home - fair cool 21 - Mon - Raked & hauled in hay-picked cotton - fair cool 22 - Tue - Picked cotton - fair cool 23 - Wed - Picked cotton - fair cool 24 - Thu - Picked cotton - fair 25 - Fri - Picked cotton - fair 26 - Sat - Hauled 2 bales cotton town - turned cold pm 27 - Sun - Went church - cool fair 28 - Mon - Went Ruston - cool fair 29 - Tue - Pulled up peanuts - fair 30 - Wed - Pulled up peanuts & hope around house - fair OCTOBER, 1941 1 - Thu - Went Association - fair 2 - Fri - Plowed up peanuts - part fair 3 - Sat - Went Ruston am, shocked peanuts - fair 4 - Sun - Went church & Baptising - cloudy 5 - Mon - Hauled & shocked peanuts - cloudy some rain 6 - Tue - Plowed up & shocked peanuts - fair 7 - Wed - Shocked peanuts - fair 8 - Thu - Picked some peas am-shocked peanuts-start pulling corn pm - fair 9 - Fri - Pulled corn weest field - fair 10 - Sat - Hauled in corn 50 bu-set out some onions- went town late pm-fair 11 - Sun - Staid home - fair 12 - Mon - Picked cotton - fair 13 - Tue - Picked cotton - fair 14 - Wed - Picked cotton-sow taken male - Sumlin - fair 15 - Thu - Picked cotton - fair 16 - Fri - Hauled cotton & went Ruston - fair 17 - Sat - Pulled & hauled corn - fair 18 - Sun - Staid home - fair 19 - Mon - Hauled corn - fair 20 - Tue - At internment camp - fair 21 - Wed - At internment camp - fair 22 - Thu - Went work internment camp 8 hrs $1.121/2 hr - fair 23 - Fri - Worked at internment camp 9 hrs - fair 24 - Sat - Worked at internment camp 9 hrs - fair 25 - Sun - Went church - some rain cloudy 26 - Mon - Worked at internment camp 9 hrs - boys dug 1 row potatoes - cool 27 - Tue - Worked at int c 9 hrs - dug some potatoes - light frost fair 28 - Wed - Worked in int c 9 hrs - no weather entry 29 - Thu - Worked in int c 9 hrs boys cut some seed cane - cloudy 30 - Fri - Worked 5 hours int c 5 hrs - Pay check $67.94 - rainy 31 - Sat - Worked at int c 9 hrs - faired NOVEMBER, 1942 1 - Sun - Went Mr Sims - fair 2 - Mon - Worked at int c 9 hrs boys dug some potatoes pm - part fair 3 - Tue - Worked at int c 9 hrs boys dug some potatoes pm - part fair 4 - Wed - Worked at int c 9 hrs boys dug some potatoes pm - cloudy 5 - Thu - At int c work 9 hrs-Mrs Alex same after school - cloudy 6 - Fri - Work at c 9 hrs check $62.37 - part fair 7 - Sat - Work int c 9 hrs-Boys finished potatoes & went Ruston - part fair 8 - Sun - Claudie & Mrs Alexander went Decke, I staid home - fair 9 - Mon - Worked at int c - Claudie went Ruston - fair 10 - Tue - Worked at int c - fair 11 - Wed - Worked at int c - fair 12 - Thu - Worked at int c - fair 13 - Fri - Worked at int c - fair 14 - Sat - Worked at int c - fair 15 - Sun - Staid home - fair 16 - Mon - Worked at int c last day - part cloudy 17 - Tue - Wet town-stripped cane pm c hogs - part fair 18 - Wed - Stripped cane - fair 19 - Thu - Worked on syrup mill & start making syrup Lonnie Starks - part fair 20 - Fri - Made syrup for Lonnie Starks - cloudy drizzly 21 - Sat - Made syrup for self 21 gals - cloudy turned cold 22 - Sun - Went Church-Reds calf came-Mrs Leonard came - fair 23 - Mon - Went Ruston got pea seed etc - fair 24 - Tue - Hauled peanuts to Monroe Morrises place - fair 25 - Wed - Thrashed peanuts - fair 26 - Thu - Finished peanuts - fair 27 - Fri - Plowed for Austrian peas - fair 28 - Sat - Planted Austrian peas - fair 29 - Sun - Staid home - fair 30 - Mon - Went to Monroe Morrises - part fair DECEMBER, 1942 1 - Tue - Worked around house - White's calf came - cloudy windy 2 - Wed - plowed etc - fair 3 - Thu - Hauled some wood & hope can Turnips - cloudy 4 - Fri - Went Arcadia sold peanuts 1370 lbs for $57.54 - cloudy cool 5 - Sat - Staid indoors - rain cold all day 6 - Sun - Went to Mr Sims & Robert Murphys - rain nite cloudy 7 - Mon - Hunted hog - rain most of day 8 - Tue - Cut wood & got hog - rainy cloudy 9 - Wed - Went Ruston-worked on barn doors - cloudy 10 - Thu - Hauled some wood & went town - cloudy 11 - Fri - Went Ruston got l br for well - rain nite cloudy 12 - Sat - Cut wood - part fair 13 - Sun - Staid home - part fair 14 - Mon - Went town-start on forms - fair 15 - Tue - Worked on form for well tile-Red cow taken male - fair rain nite 16 - Wed - Worked on form - part fair 17 - Thu - Worked on form - fair 18 - Fri - Worked on form - fair 19 - Sat - Worked on form - part fair 20 - Sun - Staid home - part fair 21 - Mon - Worked on form & got wood etc - cloudy 22 - Tue - Worked on form & went Ruston - rained 23 - Wed - Went town-worked on form-boys hauled rock etc - part fair 24 - Thu - Worked on form-Jack & Thelma came - cloudy 25 - Fri - Christmas day - cloudy 26 - Sat - Rev Jones came Storm came to Simsboro - rainy cloudy 27 - Sun - Went Church - cloudy rainy 28 - Mon - Worked on form & tile - cloudy 29 - Tue - Tile no good worked on same - cloudy 30 - Wed - Went town - part fair 31 - Thu - Went town - part fair