DIARIES OF ALBERT FONZO COPE 1894-1913 FROM HIS FARM NEAR WALKER CERNON COUNTY MISSOURI NOTE FROM TRANSLATER: This is typed as near as possible as it was written. I did not correct spelling although I did add periods at end of sentences and commas or dashes which were not in the original diaries. Words that I could not figure out what they were, were spelled as they were written or put in dashes or question marks. Many sentences were not completed. Loretta May 1895 missing. 1896 (early part of 1896 missing) April 1896 1. Wensday - cold wind SW some frost. Jasper soing flasc sed for Marten. i an Albert an Sarah went to Mrs. Porter... Jasper wen to so flasc sede for Jack. 2. Clear and cold wind NW ice nerle 1/2 in 3. Friday clear an the ground frozen and frost wind SE. Bill Cope got 20 bushels flasc sede, John Goodman got flasc seed and 5 bushles cone to $5 4. Clear and warm wind SW i went to Walker got 1 bushel of caster beans, in the after noon wen with Pine to Harwood. Bob Maten got a lod of toe... 5. Cloudy and still Sarah, Jim, Albert, Abbie and Frank went to Harwood to ch... Jessey mines her 6. Som clouds a lite shower warm wind E. I went to Nevada with Mrs. Brown to make finel settlement on her estate. i got $1.00 in coffee 2 bunches of camfet chane $1.78 a pare of shoes $2.20 10 lbs swea potatoes 25 cts. 7. i taken flasc sede to Young went for sand got one bushel for Mrs. Brown. 8. Raning wind changing thunder wet fisces the pon dump west of the house. Dickson here left the 9th wind blue. 9. Cloudy a litle cule wind W. Jim an John gon to plough at Shorts, stil and clear an worm. i made a hot bed for potatoes, Jim hoed in the east pece after noon. Sarah planted some bed, Lil went to Cobbe to a rag tacken 10. Clear win S and high. John Haig comenst planting the east peas, Jas soing flax for Nordane, Sarah gone to Swarergans to quilt. I let Boling have the old wagon for $3.00 to be pade in lumber at the mill. 11. Clear windy i got the east peas planted, i planted a patch of watermelons, planted 2 rose of potato, som sweat corn. The sweat potatos got to hot, teken them up for the ced to cul. Jas sode gas sed for Finley, 12 is Sunday. 12. Cloudy wind SE an high, comenst raning at noon, a cold rane win ceast a litle, cloudy at 5 Alges here. 13. Som clouds wind SE and high wind - Dw Cleves up, the boys plowing at Shorts. i went with Jatton to Harwood. 14. Wind SW an high i went with Jatton to Elwood to mill, Bill haled hay, got cole oil, wind SW an high. 15. i an Sarah, Lilia an Albert went to Rich Hill stop at Mr. Grays for Dinner. Winds W an high. 16. i an Albert came back from Rich hill, wind SW, a few drop of rane. The boys comenst planting at Shorts, Mary sick, Abbie gon to Bills. 17. Cloud wind SW warm, John take Scott Burot home, John workin at the watermelens patch, i went to Harwood taken the plows got sharpen, got Albert a pare of schoes of Sharp for $1.25 to big and Abbie at Bills, May sick, John an Jas planted watermelens. 18. Cloudy wind SW, i went an worked up the river, a mist of rane at 1, the boys camenst plowing in the NW pece, raned som, turned cule, set out some tomatos plants Mrs. Brown sent us. 19. Som clouds a litle cule, clear up at 8 wind SW, Mary no beter. 20. Clear wind SW and high warm, Manny Soors? i and Albert went to Harwood changed his shoes got Albert a par of stockens, got 25 cts in coffee, a wash pan, taken egge 3-1/2 doz com to 28 cts raned at 10 in the night then cleared up planted 5 in the g... 21. Cloudy a litle cul wind NE. Sarah and Lily came from the tran 7 hours late, it was 11 before we got home, raned a big rane up til 12, went by Bills. 22. Cloudy and warm wind SE. Drove post a long the meder, comenst at Tuls, i stop in at Lanksten out of a shower of rane. 23. I put a wire on between us an Tuls, clear wind SW sun shined but raned at night. 24. Wind Sw raned at night. 25. i went after the carpet pad $2.15c. i went to the union school hous. 26. Sunday, raned a big rane at 4 in the morning, some hale and wind. The children all gon to the school hous to preachin, not well yet, Mrs. Marten sick. 27. Wind SE and NE. the boys drove post aroun the lot at the pond then up the orched, i put up wire. 28. Cloudy wind SW, the boys finished diging post to the corner fence, raned some. I finst up wire. Bill came and went to Harwood, made a note at the bank for $60, raned a hard shower at 4. 29. Cloudy, wind SW cule. I finished the fence the corn pen worked at the lot. Jas gon the river. 30. Clear and cule in the morning, i worked at the caf lot, Sarah making sope, Faney Rose and Scotts 2 girls came. Some clouds at 11, wind SW. The boys replanting corn, Jas gon with George Means to the river. May 1896 1. Cule then came in with rane an som hal jest after midnight. i worked at the calf lot til 2 o'clock. got done i an Mitchel went to Harwood. 2. clear wind SW i went to Nevada to the convenson. i got $2 in coffee 50c in shugar got at 7. 3. Sunday cleair an plesant in the fore noon. Mr. and Mrs. Cobb an children here. cloudy in the after noon threatnig vary much at 5 an hevy thunder wind NW. raned in the fore part of the night wind high wind SW 4. Cloudy wind SW. I went to Walker mad out my paper got a sifter 20c. raned a few drops. the boys finish replanting my corn. 5. mostly clear and plesant wind SW. the boys replanting the corn at Shorts. Bell and Lilly cleaning the North rume. put down the new carpet. 6. Clear wind SW and plesant. the Boys finished replanting there corn at Shorts. worked in the garden and broken ground. Harva qit. Love went for his trunk. ploud in the afternoon. i put up screan Daves. 7. Mostly clear wind SW an plesant. Jim camenst (commenced) planting the 20 west of the house. Mary had a bad spell. i taken Sarah over there. the boys finished baken ground. 8. Mostly clear wind SW warm. Sarah came home from Bills. Harva went to work for Finley. finished planting corn west of the hous. finish braken the garden planted som corn and beens and 6 rose of potatos a pise of the plater broke i made it worked all right. 9. i and Albert went to Walker to mill. Jim an Jas camest plow corn in the East feld. some cloud wind SW. John planted cane. 10. Sudy cloudy in the morning boken after wind SW. Jim's hefer found a calf many bites(?) Havay here. 11. John and Jasper plowing in the east peas of corn. Jim gon to help Bill. We hode the Irish Potatos. i hode my water melons. wind SW an high. i set out 150 potato slips wind S an high. 12. Cloudy wind S and high. We planted Penuts. John and Jas planting caster beens. Jim at bills. raned at 10 at night. 13. Cloudy wind S a litle raned a sprinkle. John and Jas finished the beans. raned from 11 til 4 then at nite also raned. 14. mostly clear wind W a litle cul. John and Jas plowing corn at Shorts. ground tolerbel weat. 15. Cloudy wind S. i went to Walker. John & Jas plowing corn at Shorts. it raned a big rane at 3 o'clock an a gane at night al litle hale. 16. the bigest rane at 3 in the morning wind in SE a litle culewind s at B an vary high all the afternon raned 1 til 3. the bigest range. George Means here Son came out at 5. 17. Sunday clear wind S litle cule. some clouds up in the day. the children all gon to Prech at the school house. 18. cloudy wind S. i an Albert went with Yong to Bills to get some straw. 19. Clear in the fore noon same at night. Bills folks her. i bill went to Walker. Bolen here camenst raning at 3 raned nerly all the time til 8. hard wind went all round mostly S and SE with litnig. i got 50c coffe 5 ma 20. mostly clere wind SW. Bill's folks going home Mary not feling well. Jim came home from the river. 21. mostly cleair. Still an vary warm. i an Albert an Abbie taken chickens to Harwood. i went to Roses. in the after noon raned a little at 5 an vary warm. 22. Cloudy still an warm. Selar ful of water raned at night 1-1/2 inches of water. 23. camenst raning at 5 raned til 12 then cameset from S a litle E. blue almosta hercan then clered up wind SW. 24. Sunday some flying cloud wind SW an hig. Mr. and Mrs. Tull her. wind S in the afternoon. 25. wind SW and vary high som clouds. taken the stove to the barn. John an Jim doing water melons. the rever vary high. 26. rane at 2 in the moning then shours a litle culer month. have to go to Nevada. so raney not go to day. 27. Clear and pleasant. I Abbie and manth gon to Nevada. Raned at 3 as we started hom rand agan at 5. i got 100 potatos for Marten and 1-1/2 bushel for myself. flour 500 lbs coffee $5.00 shuger $3 beans $5 soda 25c, the hole bill $19.40 28. some clouds but pleasant. Martha have gone home. I an Albert taken her. Jonathan bin to the river, higher than ever was fel a foot. 29. fare and plesant wind SE. i went to Harwood. Set out over 200 sweat potatoes. 30. rand at 2 til 5 in the morning thunder and lliting all night. a water pout at ft. cole. i an Abbie an Albert wen to Harwood to deck(?) 31. Sundy raned a bout dalight then partly clered up warm wind SE all gon to Harwood to memorial Wind NE. About 3 an vary cul about noon vary hot. Rev. Heten preched memorial surmon to get give to Cezer what belong to cezer and to God what belong to God. JUNE 1896 1. Monday, June 1, 1896 mist of rain and cule wind NE. 2. Som clouds wind NE plesant i went with Willey an Andrew man an minen to Schell to se the trane come through. The water was up to the 2nd step. 3. Some fue clouds wind SE warm and foggy. Fog gave way clere and warm. 4. Clere an warm wind SE. The boys started to plough but to wet. Mr. Marten and children here had my watermelon______S.W. at sundown. 5. Some clouds, wind SW warm. I howed the Swetpotatoes. john and Jas plowing corn, Jim plowing beans. 6. I went to Walker. A shower of rane east and one west, wind SW very warm, boys plowing. 7. Shower of rain wind SW a good big rane at 5 in the evening. 8. Clear and warm wind W. I went to Walker to mill a man named bund from nere Pafenville came by going to Lamar. 9. I went to Nevada with Ross to get a canvis pade $5.00 for the canvis. B Lawers found gilty of murder on the 8th. Clere and plesant wind NW. The boys finished miy corn the 2 ??? 10. Ross comnest cutting wheat for Jim and Bill. Cloudy and cule wind NW and E. Jim ploud in the afternoon for Ross. 11. Partly clere wind SE warm. I went to Walker got 60 lbs of twine for Jim at 8 cts, cost $4.80. 12. Wind NW plesant. The John an Jas comenst plowing the west pece of corn, Jim ploued for rose a man by the name of Wily 13. Clere and warm still. I went to St. Clear started at 6 14. Clere an hot 15. Som fin flying clouds and drop of rane. 16. Clear and warm i went to AppletonCity 17. I came home clean and warm, ploud my corn the last time 18. Clear an worm i hode my water melons 19. I went to Schell taken a sickel back to Date got a bolt some clode very warm wind SW boys got over they corn at Shorts finces the pond west. 20. cloudy an warm an still I went to Walker to mill the fired? the ??? 21. cloudy raned a shower at 9 in morning Sunday I went to Pines 22. Shower of rane warm hode the sweet potatoes Resenfeld got 18 bushels corn. 23. Cloudy a big fog partly cleain at 10 warm wind SE very hot 24. Some clouds clous and thunder an warm. The boys plowing west if the house. Very hot wind NW. 25. bill and jim thrashed there wheat. I let Peaeafiled have some corn 14 bushels at 25c 26. Started in cuting flasc raned at all Jim gone to hall, rent wheat to Walker 27. Camenst raning at 2 in the morning raned hard the most of the time til 9 Frank and George Gray here worme something, kild som chickens 28. clear wind NE an pleasant Sunday. 29. I an Bill went to Eldorado to mill. Shanf? comenst cuting oats. The boys flasc. i was sick with head ach all day. 30. I was sick in bed Shant got dun cutting oats. The boys got dun cuting flasc. Bill went to cuting his. July 1896 1. I was yet sick som clouds wind SW warm. 2. Wind SW very warm. I yet sick. 3. Wind SW very warm, yet sick. Some fine clouds. The boys cut the orchard grass, raned a sprinkel, wind went N, a hevy cloud ________ have at 6 in the afternoon. 4. Som clouds wind SW warm. I am no beter. A shower of rane. Jim gon to Pevaida at noon. 5. Clear and warm wind NE. Mrs. Brown here late in the afternoon. Mrs. Cobbs here in the fore noon, i am yet sick. 6. Clear and still. Joh and Jim haling hay, Jas plowing beans. The boys stacted the orched hay. 7. Som clouds warm. I am yet sick. Croford thrashing. Jim went to town to ge a teacettle, plates, tecups. I pade for what Jim got. 8. Some clouds all day. I turned to paster east of the house. Joh plowing corn, Jim and Jasper helping Cobb thrash. Roses baby sick Ames goodman been sick. John ploing corn, Jim an Jasper helping Cobb, Jons a good man to ??? 9. I went to Roses, baby yet sick, then to Goodmans to see Amer. He is a little better. Suse and children came. Mrs. Crampton here. John plowing, Jons and Jim helping Cuming thrash. Sese and child came over. 10. Bill thrashing flax, Rose came to cut gras, moshen gave a ------ did not cut eney, got it fixed. 11. Som clouds, Suse here, John, Jas and Jim helping Bill, Suse went home. Abbie went with Suse home, Jas cut gras did not get dun, Bill finish threasing, had 232 bushels. 12. Som clouds wind S warm Sunday. 13. Som clouds wind SW warm. Got the gras cut, the boys helped Dick thrash 14. Clear wind SW warm. Jim and Jasper helpin Dick an miler thrash. I finished sticken beans, the boys cuting hay Roun fetched me 50 post at 6-1/2 cts. Pade him in corn got 13 bushels. 15. Clear and warm wind SW. Jaim helpen Shorts thrash, the boys cuting hay next to tuls, raned a shower. Got a dispatch David coud not live at 11 o'clock. 16. Raning a good shower, I am going to Chances, Roses baby dide, Dava Porter vary sick. 17. Davy Porter dide at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. My whtch bay dide. Dr. concans?? dide, raned a little thru the day. 18. Davey Porter bered funeral, preached by Burns at 12 ------we cane gine 30 mins after 9, raned a sprinkle at night 19. Raning a good rane, raned all night and all day had showers. 20. Raned all night at 4 raned hard. Wid blew hard at times. A very warm morning and sultry. It raned hard at noon. John Mitchel her in the afternoon. 21. Raned from a tel 7 in the morning. Harvay here. Mr. Cobbs, Mr. Sisons and Mr. Brown here. Cleared up in the afternoon. 22. Som clouds winds SW. Swangin got 26 bushels of corn off. Jim Manters sick but beter. I went to Harwood wit Pine, got 5 in paper 5 sticking wax 23. Som clouds wind SW the boys got dun stackin hay. 24. I taken some cabge to Harwood got 5 cts. 25. I went to Nevada to a convention on ratifycation meting. got coffee $2 and 2 in sugar, 300 lb of flour. 26. Sunday Becky Bengel and Walter came, got here about 1 o'clock in the morning. Clear wind SW. Harvay and Jim taken havin cow to a bo, Becky and all went home started at 2. 27. I went with John Shafer to Eldorado. Clear an hot wind SW 28. Clear wind SW. 29. Clear wind SW and hot. Goodmas Omer dide about 4 pm. 30. Clear wind SW. Omer Goodmas bered at Vergel. I an Grifen went. 31. Som clouds warm and stil. I went to look for a mashere, then to Yongs. We comenst stacken the bound thing they filed up 1 stack. August 1896 1. Cear and warm wind SW. Finished stacken the. Timothy I went to Harwood. Jim went to St. Clair. 2. Sunday - Clear wind up roots vary dry. 3. Cear wind SW Grifet thrasher of thiothy had 35 bushels pade him $5.00 4. I went to Walker, vary warm and dry. Themometor ran to 104. 5. clear and warm, wind SW. I cut weeds in the sleu to feet the fence. Jim haled corn for Pine. Miles got 22 bushels of wheat. 6. The warmest night til 4 then a cul wind, cloudy and hot agan. 7. I finished moing the fence, now hot and dry wind SW and clear. Jim Ab and lily gon to Conley. Maga Cramfton got shot. 8. I went to Conley, vary hot wind SW dust covered everything. 9. Sunday I went to Confes and Walker. Bill Shorts baby died. Hot and tdy themoater 103. 10. Hot and dry, wind SW a few drops of rare at 10 out of catem clouds. 11. Hot and dry wind SW, pade Tul for helpen to thrash. The boyd picken bens. Mary her soing. Abbie and bill gon to Harwood. 12. Hot and dry wind SW. I went to Walker, got 1-1/2 doz cans got _______ _______ it an the be??? 13. Mrs. Nace came for ????? hot an dry, wind chaged to NE. 14. Hot an dry an clear, wind changed. I an albert went to Walker. 15. I went to Walker then to Harwood, cler and hot wind SW 16. AT 2 it turned cul wind blue hard from NE raned a good shower. I and Michel gon to Eldorado. 17. at Eldorado it raned til noon. Jasper and Abbie came at about 5. 18. Raned nerly all day. 19. Raned in the forenoon 20. Raned in the noon 21. Had a big crowd, had a feast. 22. Saturday, came home raned a little, coming hom got about 5. 23. Cloudy and pleasant, preching at the schoolhouse. 24. I and John Shanf went to the Still house got 1 galen for myself and 1/2 for Bob Marten, cost $1.00. Clear and plesant and still. 25. Som fine clouds, cul and plesant, wind SW, Marten thashed. 26. Clear and plesant. I went to Mrs. Browns. I an John Shanft went to Nevada.Stop at Dave Shanfes, clere an plesant. 27. Cler and plesant still. 28. Mr. Swargan got 4 bushels of timithy 198 lbs coms to $4.00. Clear but dark looks as if cloudy, Bill taken corn to Eldorado. 29. Cloudy still and plesant a little cule. 30. I taken Lilley to the Dr. Tratens. Albert went a long, Dr. bill was 50 cents. Yongs folks here George Mims and Marten's folks here, hot dusty Sunday. 31. Mack Short went o Nevada. I got 2 shirt patnens and 5 yds of dom??? Have bene clere and plesant dusty September 1896 1. Cloudy an plesant and still. C.H. Brown ?? to timoth seed 4 bushels $4.00. 2. I Jim taken wheat to Nevada. I got 350 lbs of flour, I got 11 bushels of wheat of Jim pade $5.00, I got $1 in coffee and 50 Cts in shugar. 3. Cloudy raned a mist a little cule. 4. I cut weed alon the fence on the east fence of the orchard. A rane at 5 o'clock in the evening. 5. I finished cutting weed around the orched. Abbie went with Harva home, the boys don post on the ab the orched. I went to Harwood, cul and clear. 6. Cul and clear Sunday. 7. I made fence east of orched. John Hins got 3/2/4 of Timothy ??? pade $3.75 raned half past 8 til 12 The boys cut the cane. 8. The boys haling cane to Parkers. Raned from 7 til noon and sprinkled 9. I mode some weeds in the garden. 9. I taken the last cane to Parker. I got a contract of wood for $1.00, it look like rane fel a few drops. 10. I mode weds in the garden, then to Swangans to se how the sick - is mostly cler wind SW. 11. Cloudy all day a mist of rane sometimes. I and Albert went to Walker got $1 in coffee, 24 cts thread, taken 5-1/2 dz eggs. Got the molases. 12. Cloudy an a big fog. H.C. Brown pade $3.00 owes $1.00 yet. Cleared up at noon, warm, raned a big rane at 6. Som wind from SE. Sarah went o Jonthan. 13. I and Albert went to Johnathan. I came back at 3 it looked like rane, a few drops, warm. Mans folks Bills and I an Sarah and Albert at Jonathans, Faney Ros vary sick. 14. I an Albert went to Pines, raned. 15. I an Jim went to the timber for poles, drove posts in fore noon. Sent by Abby, $1 coffee. A man by the name of Miles help. 16. I taken Miles to Walker. Noted up some wind in the evenin. 17. I mode the fene an vold up wen the boys finished driven the post, Faney Rose baby bade, turned cule at 5 in the evening 18. Faney Ros very sick, iput up wine round the medow some hale and wind at 5 in evening 19. Cloudy wind NE an cold. i am yet maken fence round the medow. 20. Sunday cule and cloudy wind E Leuis Cobb here Faney Ros no beter. 21. A little cule but plesant. Later comest bailing hay. 22. Clear and cul wind NE. lol?? baling hay got a bushel for corn tul turned in the paster. Faney Ross no beter. 23. A big frost Faney no a litle beter. Many cover over i went to mill for bill taken some corn for our selv 24. Cloudy wind SW. Faney Ros wors, i went to Roses. 25. Clear wind SW. I taken down wier between the bean feld and paster. 26. I an Mitchel went to Harwood, cloudy a litle mist at noon rained 3 hours turned cul. 27. Cloud and cule Sunday. I an Sarah went to Tulls, Mrs. Tull sick. Sarah went to Rosses, Mrs. Ross very low Sarah said. 28. Monday, cloudy wind NE cule. I went with Jim to Shorts. Jim got 2 pigs one wade 93 lbs. I fixed fence round the orched. 29. Cleared up. Women I am working at the Jas made the orched. Faney Ross a little beter. Abbie going stay awhile, got a leter from Suse. 30. Clear and pleasant. I am maken fence a round the orcherd. The Preacher here a few minutes. October 1896 1. Clear and plesant. I worked at the orched fence, Jim and Mack Short went to Def. Water fill cane over sed semore was bad 2. Cler and plesant, Jim got at 8, i finished the orched fence. 3. A big fog clear an plesant. The boys gon for wood, i taken 6-1/2 of eggs to Harwood got $1 in coffee $1 in cot flanel and 8 yds white cotten flanel. I went with Daffer. 4. Som clouds wind SE plesant, i went to Ross, Faney a little better. 5. Monday, i went to Eldorado with Pine got Liley 10 yds of calico for a ?/nens 6. Thunder and litnig rane and som wind. At 1 o'clock in the morning then clers up wind north a little cule, Bill Short helping pick beans. 7. Some fine clouds wind NE pleasant. The boys working the rode, George Crampton started home. 8. Some fine clouds, pleasant, wind SE. Jim cuting bean stalks, John and Bill gon to Eldorado. 9. Froday, i went to Scots to se about som hogs. Jim plowing, John and Jas clening bens, Sarah gon to Martez, few clouds wind SE pleasant. 10. Cloudy a litle cule comenst raining about 10. Showered all day, i fixed a wire gate at the field. 11. Sunday cule and cloudy and damp. Mrs. Ros worse, Jo sick. 12. Som clouds in the fore noon, clear in the after noon, warm. Roses no better. Jim finished cleaning bean stalks, Liley an Albert start to school. 13. i went with Pine to Nevada to here Lewis for Govener. Spke clear and plesant. 14. i went to Menzes, Rosey sick, Jim and John comenst gethern corn in the afternoon. 15. I went to Harwod got 70 cts coffee, 10 cts stefels?? rose mens sick 16. I went to Eldorado to mill, Jim and Jas went to the river. 17. Clear a little cut but plesant. 18. Cloudy and cule and frost. Wind NE. Rosey menes ??? Rose better 19. Clear and plesant but vary wind. 20. Clear, I helpen Jim get a load corn, i an Jim went to the Leflens, got 4 hogs wade 140 lbs. Rosey men dide at 6 in the afternoon. 21. Rosey mins bered, i went to see bout the grave, taken dinner with Thompson. 22. Bill cam got his mule to plow, some clouds a light rane comenst at noon. 23. Raned a slow rane til 1 in the afternoon, i fixed the cole house, Jim went for cole. 24. The boys went to the river for nuts, i went to Harwood, got $1 in coffee, $1.10 sugar 25, clear and plesant. McCli? Mack ?? Preach at the school hous all went but I an Sarah was sick. Mr. and Mrs. Gray here. 26. Monday, Mr. and Mrs. Gray went home. John and Jim gethered corn for the hogs out of the west peas of corn. Clear and plesant wind SW. Jasper plowing. 27. I went to Walker to the ???spekon, got col oil. Harva came down the plowing an shuck corn, some clouds warm wind SW. 28. Some clouds, warm, wind SW. the boys chucking corn, John ploud til noon, Jasper finished the ben ground, rane a bout 9 at night wind blue from SW. 29. Raing til 8 then boke of some wind SW wind blue hard 30. i, Jim, John and Harvey went to the river for nuts, clear and cule. 31. Jas and John went for apples, got non, Jim taken some turnips to Walker got some coffee, Swaringan, got 4 bushels of turnips. Mrs. Marten sick, Sarah up there. NOVEMBER 1. Sunday Martin children all here, clear and plesant wind SW. Mrs. Martens baby a gurl borned. 2. Clean wind SW helped Dick Compton put the roof on barn. 3. went to the electon, raned at night a good rane. Tul taken his cows out of the psster/ 4. i went to Nevada, got a pare of shoes for Sarah, got 25 c soda 25 peper. (repeated on next page for 11/4/1896): i went to Nevada got Sarah a pare of shoos $1.50 peper 25 soda 25. 5. i an Sarah went to Chances a big frost Suses baby turned the 4. 6. i came home turned cule all day wind NW. 7. The culest morning, ground frozen, wind N. Jim plowin, John an Jasper puled the turnips, i and Mitchel went to Harwood. 8. Sunday, a big frost, ground frozen. 9. Cul wind SW the NE buwnt of the water patch. Jim plowing, Jas and John got lot lode corn. 10. Coudy wind NE. I to Walker got 45 in coffee. Mrs. Brown got 3 bushels of turnips. 11. Som cloud wind NW cold. Jim plowing, John, Jasper shucked corn. 12. John and Jasper finish shucking my corn, Jim plowing, a big frost. 13. i went to Eldorado to mill. Abbie and Lily went a lon. Jim went to the shop to work. 14. Saturday, the boys went for wood, i went to Bills, Bill sick, Jim went to Bills in the evening, John and Bell went to Yongs. 15. Sunday, clear wind wind SW. 16. i went to Harwood for Bill. Wind SW and high, got my check. 17. i and Jim went to Nevada, pade my tacks (taxes?) Jims and Jas tacks, got $3 coffee $1 in shuger, thread 25 cts, coten flanel for under shorts 55 cts. 18. Jim and Jasper plowing East of the house burnt off, a mist of rane wind SE. 19. i went to Mrs. Browns cold wind NW. 20. i went to Chacy's a lite mist wind NW, raned all night a slow rane. 21. i and Sarah came home, a cul wind from NW, got a littl ater 4, cloudy. 22. Sunday, a cold SE wind, Richard Cobb here, cloudy all day, i have rhimetz in arm. 23. Cloudy, wind SW then SW an mist of rane, an vary dark. 24. (No entry) 25. Cloud warm wind NE looks like cleren up. 26. Cloudy a mist an shower in afternoon. i an Jim put up the crib. Thursday, Thanksgiving, wind blue hard til 3 in the morning with rane, thanksgiven came with a big rane. 27. Cloudy an cold wind N a fue spits of snow, the boys getheren corn at Shorts. Mr. Swangan here. 28. Clear and cold, wind N. The boys getheren corn at Shorts, the ground froz hard. 29. Sunday, clear and cold wind N, Stills here, Jack an Tha..ke an Ed Mitche here Bill Brute Stela and Mabel over here. 30. The coldst morning up til now, wind N clear a big frost. Thad Nation here, the boys gethering corn at Shorts, Stele an Mabel goin to school. DECEMBER 1896 1. Som cloud wind SE an cule. The boys getheren corn at Shorts, Stele an Mabel here goin to school. 2. Som cloud in fore noon, clere up ......wind SW burnt field, the boys finished schuk at Shorts. 3. The boys gone to the timber, i fisced som on Jim's crib, clere a big frost wind SW. Mack Short halled some corne. 4. Partely clear, wind SW, warmer, ice melting. The boys gon for wod, i an Sarah went to Mr. Cobbs, the boys got some Padgnes and 2 sqed??? 5. the boys gon to the timber for wood, i went to Harwood changes Aberts shoes, got 20 yd of Domestic, clere and warm, ice all out wind SW. 6. Clear and worm on sill Sunday. Jas gone to Toku? hill. 7. Cloudy and damp, wind NE, Jim an John plowing E of the house. 8. i went to Roses to look at his hogs. Jim an Jas plowing, dark fogy til 10, cleres up warmer wind W. 9. I went to Roses sale, got 9 pigs at $14 75c 10. Cear and nise and still, trimed 6 of the pigs, Jim an Jas plowing. R.Ros stade here warm an nice. 12. Jim camenst plowing, (unable to read most of this part) pade for the timothy sed $4.00. 13. Cul, a big frost, then clouds up Sunday wind NE. 14. Damp, dark an cloudy cul wind NE then SW. the boys baled 66 b cole from messes, Jim an John ploud aternoon, Jo Miler got Pasper wagon. 15. i an Sarah went to Mrs. Browns, Jim ploud, John & Jas gethered corn, cloudy and fogy in fore noon clear up at 1. 16. A big frost clouse, i taken down the fence this end the stock. Jim ploud all day, Jas in the evening, John an Jas finished getheren corn. May came, Abie went to Bills, Minea a round with a petion comenst raning at 3. 17. raning a study slow rane an cule til 1 then went to the N spit snow, ground froze. 18. Friday cold wind N more plesant at noon, Butched 2 hogs wade 276 an 188 lbs. Bill helped, Mary Dalton went home. 19. Grond froze, fine snow faling til 10 modats at 1, nerly clear an plesant. Jim plowing , wind SW, John, Jas an Jim went 20. Sunday, clear a big frost the ground froze, still an plesant. Yongs folk here, Frank. 21. Monda, clear a big frost. Jim, John an Frank went to Eldorado to mill, i puled stakes up at the filed. Jas plowed 2 or 3 rounds. 22. Clear and plesant, ground froz, Stele and Mabel gon to Bills. Jim an Jas plowing, John gon to Finkes to setle up for corn, i have a bad cold and a bad cought. Manth here to work on Abbies dress, i gave Sara a dollar for Chstmas 23. Clear a big frost. Jas, Jim ploing, Jim's plow broke, Jim went to Bills got another one. Martha still here, Bill an Frank gon to the timber, wind NE. 24. Cloudy in the fore noon ground froze, cleard up at noon, wind NE, a litle cul but plesant. Jas gon hunten, Jim and John gon to Harwood, sent 30 coffee 25. The wind changed sometime in the night from NE to SE, som clouds in the forenoon, clear in the afternoon, cule and vary chiley. Johnathan Becky and Manth here. Jim an Jas gon hunting, John to Walker. i have a bade cough an cold. 26. Some clods ground froze an frost wind NE. Jim taken Manth home, my caugh no beter, Chance came. 27. Sunday clear an cul wind SE in the afternoon, some clouds wind NE. Chany went home at 11, Albert still here, John an Bill at Tulls. 28. Ranen a slow rane til 11 in the afternooon, dark cloud wind SE then SW a litle cule. 29. Cloudy, still an warm. Mr. Swangas folks here. Mrs. Nance many? an Edger, Mrs Cobbs an ----- Alis Dalton here, Jim an John ploud in the afternoon. 30. Clered up warm as i ever saw for December. the boys plowing, Jim an John til noon, then Jim & Jas. 31. Cloudy, raning in showers til afternoon. Sarah stade all night at Martens.Aler an Manth here. Jim an Jas finished ploing. Jim an Jack went to Walker to go to Finley's to the party. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives Loretta May (© 1997 Loretta May) USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genealogical information on the Internet, data may be freely used for personal research and by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for profit or any form of presentation, must obtain the written consent of the file submitter, or their legal representative, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ------------------------------------------------------------------------