DIARIES OF ALBERT FONZO COPE 1894-1913 FROM HIS FARM NEAR WALKER, VERNON 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 January 1909 1. Cold, still an plesant, cloudy. I an Lillie went to Harwood to a diner of the G.A.R and to get some medison, partly cleared up wind NW. Albert went to St. Clair to a party. 2. Still an plesant some warmer wind Suth east. Albert gon to a party at ... 3. Sunday wind S vary damp and dark, cloudy. Albert gon to Finleys an to Bills. 4. Cloudy an warm wind S clouds give way some at noon. Bill helped bucher a hog wade 282. 5. Cloudy still an cold wind N clouds give way nise an plesant. 6. Cloudy wind N then E a fue spits of now the night cold. Albert to Swargans and Finleys twist. 7. Cleair still an nise wind changing all a round. Albert gon to Bills an on to Harwood. 8. Cloudy cule and nise. Albert haled a litle maneur then went to MacFarles to a party an super. 9. Raning gest a mist. Albert gon som where then to Cobbs pan to scat. and then to Walker at night. Fonzo came. 10. Sunday a mist of sleat wind NW geting cold. it camenst at 10 11. a fine snow an cold got harder at night it was a bout 6 inches of snow and cold. Albert went to Finleys. 12. Clear still an cold vary cold. Albert kild 3 rabbits in noon after him an Mavis went out and Albert kild 11 rabits, the day was nise. 13. Snowing snowed about 3 inch last night an this morning. Wind SE qit snowing erly. Albert gon with Greshum a hunting. 14. Cloudy not so cold a litle mist a while then thoud all day an still. Mr. and Mrs. Cobb came. Bill an Albert put a gag of hay in barn. Albert gon with Mavis an Omph to Walker. 15. Fine mist all nigh an yet this morning. Snow melting wind East dark cloudy. Albert gon to Walker to tak his rabits. Emey cam home with him. 16. Snowed a litle sprinkle that has melted off, cloudy yet but a liter wind NE a litle plesant. We put up the col heter in the north rume. i gave Albert $2.35 the balen for stove. 17. Sunday. Cloudy the wind NW geting colder, the ground cuvered with snow. Emea yet here, Albert gon some where, i don’t know where. Taken Emea home at night. 18. Cloudy wind N an E changing a litle, vary damp. Albert went som where, then down to Greshus. 19. Cloudy wind NW not cold but afful damp, snow melted all night the grond geting nekid in plases. Albert gon somwhere, with Greshums to Walker. 20. Clousy snow about all gone wind SE, rods qite mudy. Albert gone to Walker. I am not so weld have a cold. Sold Finley the hogs. 21. Cloudy an warm for January. Snow all gon, rods mudy. i an Albert taken the 3 hogs to Finley wade 470, got $5.50. Wind SW cloudy given .... 22. Mostly cleair wind SW warm for January, no ice. i had a spell with my stomich last night. Albert an Lillie gon to Harwood. 23. Mostly cleair som thin clouds all day, wind SW warm. Albert ploud grond turned nise. 24. Sunday, son shins a litle dim som thin clouds wind NW still a litle cule but plesant. Albert gon Agan i don’t no wher then at nite to Walker 25. Raned a litle shour last night cloudy this morning. Shury thrue the day wind NE not high nor cold but a litle cule. 26. a litle cloudy clouds thin an high. a good big frost grond not frose wind shifting vary still. Albert an Lillie gon to Walker. 27. A big fog stade on til 10 then sun shined at times some high clouds wind SE but still and plesant. i had a bad spell with my head last night. Albert gon to Dicks, sumwhere i don’t no where. 28. Som clods sun shined a litle at times, at times a srpinkle of rane til 3 sun shined out at 4, a cloud came up a litle thunder, a hard rane an a prety bad storm for SW. Albert ploud som in fore noon, gon in after noon, i don’t no where, with Greshum to Newlens pond. 29. Snode a litle last night wind NW an high an cold wind this morning, som snow for a while then sun came out, wind high all day. Albert went to Browns. 30. Cleair brite an nise but offul cold last night, wind NW an cold. the brights day of the winter so far. Albert went to brak ice an on somewher to Browns an 31. Sunday, cleair an bright an still but a litle cul. som clouds at sun down. Albert gon to Browns an on to...... February 1909 1. Som clouds thoe sun shines som wind SE litle cul but nise. Bill helping to hal hay sun came out nise lat in day. Albert haled one lode of hay up to Bills. 2. Som thin clouds sun shined not brite, clouds give way but smokey, wind SW a litle frost, warm in the day. Albert helping Bill hal hay. 3. A bout cleair vary som..... wind SW plesant and warm. Albert went where Omp was drgen the rode. Albert draged the rode. i had a spell with my stomach last nite. 4. Som thin clouds wind SW a litle high, grond a bout thawed out. i an Albert went to Walker got Lucy shode, Albert gon sum where. 5. Cloudy wind chagned to the north, got culer about noon, a lite mist agan about 2 a snow storm for a fue minutes, nerly cleared up nise. Albert went some where. Mary, Lillie an boyes here. 6. Cloudy wind SW vary damp camenst a sprinkle of rane at 12 a sprinkle of ran an at times snow all the after noon, wind went to NW. 7. Sunday, clier wind N a litle cul a big frost. a nise day. Albert gon to Walker at 3. 8. Cloudy sprinkl of rane thru the day wind SE damp not cold. Albert gon some where to Browns i recon. 9. Cloudy fogy looking litle spits of snow, wind west an afful cold, sun shines at times. 10. Cleair wind SW a litle cul but nise an plesant. Bill and Albert Porter came, stade a bout 2 hours. Albert gon to Harwood. 11. Nise an plesant some fronst, wind SW. i an Lillie went to Harwood to get som medison and som grosses. Albert went hunting an to Buchanan at night. 12. Cloudy raned some before day, wind SW not cold but damp. Albert went to Swangars then at night to Walker. 13. Dark misty that made sleat camenst thawing at noon. Auful damp dark and gofy not vary cold, but damp. 14. Sunday, thunder an litnig ran an sleat nerly all night last night. Wind NE damp a litle cul and vary disagreeabel, a big sleat. 15. A snlowing wind N cold snow a bot 5 in, the snow was fine snow, it snowed til night. 16. Clear an still plesant for so much snow, melting on SE side, snow drifts is fuley half leg deep. 17. Cleair wind a litle SE not high. Sleate a bout all off, snow a melting tolerbel faste. 18. Cloudy wind SE snow melted all night nerly all gon, lots of mud, raned a litle shour a but 12 pm. Estel child dide this morning. Raned agane at 4 a good big rane. 19. Cloudy wind NW cul an damp, rods auful mudy. Lillie gon to the funel at Esteles, Albert gon to Dons sale. Sun came out at times. 20. Som thin clouds wind SE not high but plesant. sun shined a bout noon vary hot. 21. Sunday, a fue clouds mostly cleair a litle frost but nise. lots of mud but drying. Buchanan here and Mrs. Buchanan brother. Will Cevens caled in a bout 30 mints. 22. Som thunder thrugh the night, some rane towards day, cloudy a litle mist in the day, wind NE a litle culer. 23. Cloudy some shours throu the day, wind went NW got culer. Bill an Fonzo cam an help top mapel trees a while. 24. Clear an cule wind NW. Bill an Fonzo helping to chop wood. 25. Cleair a rite smart frost, grond forse, but thoud out wind S a litle damp. Bill an Fonzo helping clean up in orcherd. 26. Partly cloudy still an damp. What wind is SE. a vary litle freeze last night. the cow found a calf. 27. Cleair nise an still grond drying fast. got the calf to the shead, could not stand. Albert went to Walker, i went as far as Walker. 28. Sunday, cleair an nise all fore noon, wind rising a bout noon SE, som clouds shoing up in the NW but nise day. March 1909 1. Cleair still a nuf nise an warm. Albert ploughing. Bill camenst plowing east at the draw, Bill helped to thin out the goos bierys. 2. Cleair warm an nise wind NW a litle high, vary warm to be NW. i sent stamp to make up for the globe 63c. i rold up the wire at the pond, Albert finished plowing the sod south of barn, went to knocking stalks. I let Bill have $10 to get oats. 3. Cleair wind N a litle cule but nise. Bill an Albert soing oats. i an Lillie went to Nevada. i got a sute an Sarah a pare shoes. 4. Som frost and som clouds but still an nise erly in the morning, raned a litle sprinkle a bout 4 pm. Bill an Albert finished sowing oats. 5. Som litle frost offal smoky but cleair sun shins dim, wind SE, plesant. 6. Som fue flying cloud wind NE plesant. i went to Harwood to get som medison, rode dry where they have not bin draged, thare rugh,. 7. Sunday, som clouds wind SE, damp an chiley, som drop of rane a bout noon, thunder a time or too, raned at 5 a litle shour. 8. Thundred som the night som rane, some rane throu the day, wind NE damp, raned hart a bout 5 pm. 9. Cul an cloudy wind NW no ice, camenst snowing a bout 5, ground got white, qit a bout 6. 10. Cleair wind NW cule ice about 3/8 but melting, nise morning. i an Albert went to Penticost sale. 11. Cloudy wind NE an cold grond frozen, thawing a litle but wind damp an chily. Lillie an Albert gon to Harwood, rods mudy. 12. Cloudy still in the morning, wind NW later in the day an a litle damper an culer. 13. Cleair wind N a litle W, vary plesnt som mud. 14. sunday, cleair wind north, cule, grond frosen, thawing later in day, nise and plesant. Mabel, Abbie an Cora came 15 through 21 - no entry, may have a page missing. 22. i got $11.00 flax seede of John Rodck, 4.76 pounds. 23. Mostly cloudy wind SE. Bill an Fonzo helped Albert put hay in barn. Mr. Cobb got a lode pade $3. 24. Cloudy raned in the night wind SE, wind blue hard last night. 25. Cleair a litle windy a litle cule. Jonathan came out, Albert ploud some in after noon. 26. Mostly cleair warm a nuff. i an Bill wnt to Harwood, i got potatos. Mr. Tawal fetched them out for me. Albert plowing for flax, Fonzo camenst plowing for flax. 27. Partly cloudy not much wind a litle damp an cul. 28. Sunday, cleair or nerly so, a litle cule but still an plesant. 29. Som clouds all day, thin an high, wind NE an cule. Bill worked at fence 1/2 day, got a gallon of sogrim ......... 30. White frost an ice wind N but still after the morning warmer. Bill set post in the after noon. 31. Cleair right good frost, still a nuf for March, wind North East plesant. Albert finished ploughing for flax, Bill fixed fence in fore noon, hode an trimed goos briers in after noon. April 1909 1. som clouds nerely all day, some frost, wind SW, a drop or 2 of rane about a 11 pm. Bill worked til noon then sode flax in the well pease. Fonzo finish baken for flax, Albert an Fonzo haring in flax, Bill a soing flax for me. 2. A big frost got fogy, frost went off, som clouds at times, still nise and warm a nuf after the morning. Thay got the well pease sode to flax. 3. Som clouds small frost, still a litle cule. Albert an Fonzo haring an dragen (part of top of next page torn off) soing flax next to ...... had nerley 3 bushels of sede. Lillie went to Harwood. Got vary cloudy in after noon. 4. Sunday som clouds in fore noon all disapered, wind SW vary high all day an warm. i let Bill have ten dolars to get flax seede. 5. Som clouds wind high SW warm. we made som garden, set out onion sets, planted pease. Mr. Browns, got som catriges, i burnt the draw, Albert camenst haring west. 6. Som clouds wind SW an hight, raned a bout 11 a right good litle shour, a litle hale then partly cleared up and cule. Bill finished soing flax, we planted som corn and beens in the garden. 7. a litle frost some fue cloud but still an nise. Albert camenst planting corn south of the calf shead, planted a bout 4 acre. 8. (top left corner of this page torn off) clouds thrue day wind .... an cule. Albert planting corn south of the calf shed. 9. a litle ice wind went SE and ... Albert got the peas planted by 10, got Bill to helpe hal maneuer camenst at 3. Wind back north. 10. Cleair a litle frost wind SE a litle in after noon a nise day geting bary dry. Bill hellped hall manuer til 3. a litle smokey in after noon. 11. Sunday, som somkey an thin high clouds, the moon shined dim all night the sunshines dim to day, wind south an afful hig and ful of dust. the old wood hous went down. Bills folks here. 12. Cloudy, camenst raing a but 7 raned til 10, some fine hale wind SE went N geting cold at 12 pm. 13. Cleair a big frost fround frose a scime. Bill helped move the hay stack, plought up the old lane. 14. Cloudy a fue droops of rane. we planted irish potatos, Fonzo helped. 15. Clear til a bout noon, a fue drop of rane, a nise groing day. i worked at the gats. 16. Mostly cleair in fore noon som clouds in after, wind SW nise and warm. Albert planting in his pese, i fix the gates to go thrue by the granery, Jonathan came. 17. Cleair an warm, wind sum from SW. i to Harwood in fore noon an to Bills an then to Ceanes for egg for Mary. Albert finished this side of draw of his an plantig a pease for Bill east of the draw, about 3 acres. 18. Sunday, som cloud and som thunder, a fue drop of rane, som wind south west not vary high. Albert gon with Billow for the bugy they boght last night. 19. Som clouds in fore noon wind a litle high, rane all after noon (botton right corner torn off) 20. som cloudy a good ..... 21. Cloudy wind NE an cule, wet..... 22. Som clouds off an on all day, still an warm til night then cule. Albert went to Laws school. 23. Cleair an still a good big frost after the norming, warn an nise. Albert gon to Onyues school last day, grond wete, but some pepel plowing. 24. Mostly cleair still an plesant a litle cule early no frost. i an Lillie went to Hrwood, Albert went with Billows to Walker at night. 25. Sunday, cloudy wind SW plesant. Buchananans boys here, them an Albert went to Finleys came back for dinner. Billow came to Albert, went with Billow to Walker. 26. Clear in fore noon som clouds later, wind SW a litle high warm an nise. Albert finished plan.......(bottom right corner torn off) 27. Som thin clouds ------ 28. Cloudy wind SW an high an some warmer. Albert plowing west of the house. i planted milios hils musk an water melens. 29. som clouds wind S a litle W auful high, a fue drops of rane about 4 wind went to N/W got culer. Mary and Lillie helped Lillie paper, Bill helped after noon, Albert helped. 30. Cloudy wind NW tolerbel hight and cold. Albert got done planting corn, Fonzo harred after noon til 4 oclock. Lillie helped paper the kitchen, got nerely done. May 1909 1. Cleair wind NW a litle hight an cold, no frost but ice a 1/4 inch thick. Albert helping Bill plant corn. Lillie helping Lillie to finish paperin kitchen and put down carpet. (There must be two Lillie’s) 2. Sunday, som clouds all day wind SW hight in after noon, a litle cule, no frost. Albert Porter came a litle while. Albert was gon to Buchnerns and went with Omph to Walker at night. Blaca found a calf. 3. Mostly cleair in fore noon some clouds after noon wind SW plesant. Bill got done planting here, Albert harde for them then broke garden. 4. Cleair nise an warm wind SW. i and Albert went to Walker. 5. nise an warm. Albert hared the corn west of barn. Suse an Bertha came. 6. Wind went NW a bout 6 got auful dark with dust, thundred in the nite. Suse an Burth went home. Albert taken them to Harwood, then went to haren the corn. Lillian an Albert went to Harwood to the closing of Miss Yates school. 7. Clear warm an dry. Albert hared then went with Billow to Walker. 8. Cloudy, raned a big rane a but 8 til a bout 11, som litle hale, sprinkle of an on all day, a but 1 inche of water. Albert gon som where i don’t know where. 9. Sunday a litle vary nise day. 10. A litle cul but nise. Albert camenst ploughin for milet. Fonzo ploud in after noon, a litle frost. 11. Nise an still. i an Lillie went to Harwood. i got a pare of shous of Sharps cost $2.25. we got some litle chickens of Mary 15 legerns. 12. Som clouds wind SW a litle high som warmer. i an Bill replant som corn in fore noon. se sode milete in after noon, lacked a bout a bushel having a nuf. 13. Som cloud a litle sprinkle of rane. i went to Harwood for milet sed got 1 bushel off of Sharp, $12.5 15. Clier an frosty gound thude wind S a litle but nise. Mabel, Abbie an Cora went to Bills to go home. We burnt the medow, Owen, Bill helped. 16. Cleair a right smart fast wind S a lite cule but nise an plesant. i went to Bills in fore noon, all 3 children sick in bed. i and Albert went to Walker, got a corn planter and a 14 in plow and is have 2 cultivaters cost $68.00 17. Cleair an warm wind SW a light high. Albert an Sarah has whooping cught. 18. Clear an nise warm for March. 19. Cloud a litle damp an cul. Lillie went to Harwood taken onion sets, Bill not much beter, wind NE an damp. 20. Raning at 6 raned hard for a while then slowed up damp an drisle the beter part of the day wind NE damp and cul. Marvin here. 21. Sunday som thin clouds off an on all day. Sun shines at times an cule, lots of mud but setlen, no frize. 22. Cleair still an warm got 472 pound of flax seede of Rodie. Repeats some of May 1909 although I believe some of the dates may be wrong, or perhaps the month may be wrong??? It does state May 1909 at top of page. 13. Bill helped replant corn. 14. Raned a shour a bout 5 am wind SW a litle high. finished the milet an finished replanting the pece of corn west of the barn, Bill helped. Albert went to Walker at nite. 15. Cleair still an nise. Albert went to Nevada, got back at midnight, i gave him $5. 16. Sunday still nise and cleair. Albert went to Bills an then no tele where, got in at midnite. 17. Nise an clear. Albert camenst cultivating corn. 18. Warm an nise. Albert cultivating corn, went to Finleys an Swargan in the evening. 19. Raned a good rane camenst at 12 raned til after day. Albert gon some where. 20. Nise groing wether. Albert cultivating, i replanting corn. (top of next page also states May 1909) 21. i replanted corn til noon. I an Lillie went to Harwood. Old Man Grifin ded, Albert cultivating. 22. Nise groing wether corn very litle to hits age. i an Lillie went to Grifines funerel, Frasier preached. 23. Sunday, i an Lillie went to Harwood to memorial. Elder Jons preched. Some clouds but nise an warm. Albert went som where. 24. raned thrue the night a good rane cloudy all day some sprinkls. Albert gon a gane some where. 25. Fogy an cloudy raned a litle a bout 9. Some clouds all day. Growing wether. Albert went with Buckhanans boys fishing, Lillie went to Buckhanans to get some soing don, nise in after noon. 26. Nise an warm ground to weet to work. came up a wind with a litle rane. 27. Nise an still everything going, ground to wet to cultivate. Bill, Fonzo and i went an cleaned of the graves, Mrs. Griffen sale. 28. nise an warm. Albert cultivating. we set out 250 potato slips the first we have set out. 29. Nise an warm in fore noon clouds in after noon a fue droops of rane an a dash of wind at 7. i an Lillie an Albert went to Harwood to decerations, Albert went some where. 30. Sunday, some fling clouds an culer. 31. Mostly cleair nise. i went to Walker for checken feed, came up a cloud in the after noon wind blue hard a litle while raned a litle shour. we set out 2 rose of potatos June 1909 1. Som fue scatrine clouds nise an warm. Albert camenst cultivating the 2nd time. 2. Mostley cleair in fore noon, cloudy an shurey in after noon, lite shours here but S and E hevy. 3. Cloudy an fogy in fore noon litle sprinkl in after noon ground works nise, every thing groing. 4. Hot an geting a litle dry. Albert finished cultivation the 2nd time nest to rode then rold the 4 acrs north, started to go to Harwood, Lillie rased a fuse, he dod not goe. 5. Hotst day, wind an sun drying things. Albert started to canses (Kansas) i taken him to Walker i gave him $56. 6. Sunday, wind SW nerely cleair wind an sun vary dring, rane would be good. 7. Mostly cleair hot an dry. i worked the roler over. 8. Cloudy a litle mist a bout 7 then clere an hot. Fonzo rold corn. 9. A good rane about 3 am, cloudy an still an warm. i mode the yarde, raned at 7 in the after noon a hard rane. 10. Cloudy ground to mudy to plow. i an Lily went to Harwood. i got the mares re set. 11. Cloudy raned a good shour at a 11 am a litle cule. 12. Cloudy the best part of the day. i mode a litle in the orchard, broke the Pitman. 13. Sunday, cloudy i went down South try to get a hand to plow, did not find eney, vary raney looking. 14. Cloudy most of the day. i have a cach in my back an hip. i went a round try to get a hand to plow, got non. Old man Tall sick. 15. Some clouds all day, still. Stanely Armstrong ploud fore me 1 day. 16. Cloudy raned a shour at a 11 am. Stanely Armstrong cultivted til 9 am then in the ater noon. 17. Raned some last night at 11 and aful heap of llitning, cloudy this morning or partly and still an hot. Stanly ploud 1 day. 18. Some clouds, Stanly 1 day. 19. raned camenst a bout 12 raned til after day light, raned a big rane. i taken Stanle Armstrong home to Mr. Man. pade for what he had don 75 a day, i pade him $3.10. i went to Harwood in the afternoon. 20. Sunday, some clouds warm. 21. Cloudy looked like rane in fore noon. sun shined after noon. Afful hot. i an Lillie went to Harwood taken checkens. Lillie got a tabel pade $10 for hit. Sam Mount thout to be ding ever sence 9 last night. 22. Cloudy all fore noon raned at 1 til 3 pm. a slow rane sun came out late in the day. Stanley Armstrong cultivated til noon went home. Mount a live yet, dide at 8. 23. Partly cloudy. i went with John Sharp to Sam Mounts funerel, got back at 6. 24. Som clouds of an on all day. i rote to John sent him some money $10. Stanley ploud. 25. Raning. Stanly Armstrong went home. i pade Stanly one dollar. 26. Raning at 4 raned til a bout 8 a hap of thunder, cloudy all day. July 1909 1. Cleair an warm groud vary wet. Jonathan here he got Omphs old mare to plow a fue days, some wheate to cut yet, ground to soft to run binders. 2. Cleair an still grund vary wet. 3. Cleair in for noon, still an vary hot for 3 days. Cloudy in north and NE late in after noon. Jack cuting our oats did not get done, got a litle culer a bout 3. Art Goodman shocked oats a bout 1 hour. 4. Sunday, vary litle wind warm, not qite so hot, som clouds looks dark like mite rane. Lillie came back from Jonathans. Allis came with her. raned at 3 agane at 8 about 1/2 inche. 5. Some clouds wind SW not high fround wet. Jack finished cuting the oats. gave Bill $5 to pay for the cutting of the oats out of it. i taken Allis home. 6. Some scatren clouds in fore noon cloud came up a bout 6 with thunder, warm. went as far as Andersons to se a bout a hand, got nown. raned 1/2 inch. 7. Cloudy. i an Lillie went to Harwood. raned at night 1 inch, warm. 8. Som clouds a sprinkle of rane, sun shined a part of the time, ground vary weet and warm. i cut weeds with cith. 9. Cloudy a part of fore noon an late a cloud began to shoe, hot an sultry all day. 10. Camenst raning a bout 3 am raned til a bout 8 am raned 1 1/8 in. 11. Sunday, the farast day for a bout 2 weeks, grund vary weet. Bills folks an Mr. Scott came. 12. Som cloud off an on all day. a cloud went round N i think raned hard, a lite shour here. Bill was here, hode his cabbges, helped Lillie put a box on the bees gum. i an Bill went to Michels to se a bout cuting flax, Mitchel camenst on his. 13. Som clouds a litle rane. 14. Cloudy a lite rane we got Mitchel moshean, cut 1 round of flax. 15. Cloudy raned a bout 3/8 of in, cut flax after noon. 16. Cleair got dun my flax by 2 and camenst on Bills, osage high. 17. Cleir an still an warm. 2 days clear. Bill finished cuting his flax, ground a geting dry first time in 3 weeks. 18. Sunday cleair all fore noon not much wind warm all day, som scatring clouds in after noon. 19. Cleair still an hot. Bill got the hay from to helpe Salon trash, Flake got corn 3 B 56 lbs. 20. Cleair still an warm, i set out some flax. 21. Cule last night warmer today. Cleair still an warm. i an Lillie taken chickens to Harwood. got 12 cts a pound old hens. 22. Som clouds in fore noon all disapeard in after noon wind NW not high but plesant. i mode som wedds, set out some flax. 23. Cleair an plesant. i finished seting out flax. 24. Cleair still an plesant. i went to Walker to se a bot flax seed, com by Miches, pade him for the use of hise moshean $4.80. 25. Sunday, cloudy raned a fue drops in fore noon then camenst a bout 3 raned a good rane. Lillie went to Bills. cule an plesant still a nuff. 26. Raning nerely all night a slow rane cloudy the greter part of the day. i went to Walker for a pitch fork, Lillie went to Harwood to a sher. 27. a litle sprinkle of rane. 28. Som clouds in fore noon mostly cleair after noon. i set up some flax, i sold the yerling mules to Bob Wilson for $2.20 dolars. i an Lillie taken them to Wilson. 29. Som clouds in fore noon. Fisher and Slaback camenst thrashing Bill’s flax, got his flax done 1:40. 30. Som clouds in fore noon, thrashed my flax got dun by 3 had 134 B, taken it to Lee Yuning got $1.05 a bushel. 31. Cloudy in fore noon an raning a litle a bout day, then clere an hot an still. So out went the month. Jack got a single bed of corn $10.30 pade. August 1909 1, Nerly cleair still an warm a litle breze from SE in the after noon. 2. Cleair hot an still all fore noon some clouds shoes up SW in the after noon, still an hot. 3. i sold the 3 calves to Finnly got $31 dollars, still an hot. 4. a fue drops of rane a bout 6 am. a gane a bout a 11 still an hot. i went to Walker, i mad applecatin for inshourince (insurance) for $200 on house an $200 on barn cost me $20 dollars. i let Lesley Brown have the grass on the west slue for $2. 6. Cleair hot an dry. Orvil an Coany??? come to stay while i an Lillie go to the reunion. 8. Sunday hot an dry. Bill taken me an the 2 Lillies to the reunion. 9. The reunion camenst hot an dry an dusty. 13. hot an dry. Bill came to the reunen for us. Abba an children came to Nevada the 10th. 15. Sunday, hot an dry themomter 101. Harva came down, i taken him back to Walker. 16. Still hot an dry, still all the time. 18. Still hot an dry. Suse an children came over, they shock the milet hay. 19. still hot an dry. Mrs. Mount sale. Suse an children went home, Albert stade to helpe stack millet. i gave Orvel an Cora??? $10 beteen them 20. Still hot an dry. the boys stack milled did not get qiet done. 21. Still hot an dry. i mode som slugh grass to go on stacks, the boys helped Curtus to stack in fore noon. missing entries 28. i got 2 hogs of Jim Youll, one wade 90 the other 78, both wade 168 lbs pade $10. hot an dry. 29. Sunday, Abbie started home. Albert Porter taken them to Walker. Bill went as far as Walker. Lillie went as far as Nevada an to Haraves. Wind NE a litlel plesnt but allful dry. Bills Jacks folks here for the day. 30. Cleair an dry wind SE an a litle plesant last night was vary cule. i sold Wm. Finley my yerling 6 head for $151.50 to cape them one month in the paster. i cut up som corn a round Bill corner next to the fence. I went to Walker for Lillie. 31. Cleair all fore noon some scatren clouds in after noon. i cut som corn a round Bills corn an burnt some where i had mode and up the rode towards Curtses. Mrs. Meens and Elsey came an spent the day. some thunder not close an litning about dark no cloud to aney a mount but afful dry. September 1909 1. Sun shinig but som litle cloudy. 2. raning a slow rane camenst a bout 3 am lade the dust good. sun shined after noon thoe, som clouds wind SW, not qite so hart tho warm. 5. Sunday, cloudy an cule in fore noon, mostly cleair and warmer in after noon. Abbie Porter here, yet Albert an Orvell Porter fin puting up crabgrass at Bills. Old Man Scott started for Texis. 6. Cloudy an plesant in for noon. Sun shined som in after noon. Abbie Porter went as far as Bills on her way home. 7. Raned a 1/2 of water last night. 8. Som clouds raned a litle in the night plesant this morning. Finly give me a check for $150.00 for the yerlings steers ose me $1.50 on the paster. 9. i put the Finly check in at the Walker bank. som fue clouds a drop or 2 of rane, warm. i went to Walker. 10. Cleair still an warm. Martha came, Bill’s Mary fetched her. 11. Still hot an dry. i finished cuting the garden corn. 12. Sunday, cleair in fore noon and hot some clouds in after noon and wind SE a litle mor plesent. Martha here, Harva came stade til 3. 13. raned some turned culer. 14. raned in fore noon cul at nite. i taken Martha up to Bills. 15. i an Lillie went to Nevada to the shoe (show?) 16, cule last night warm to day an cleair. i went to Bills got the mosheen. 17. Cleair cule last night warm today. 18. Cleair an warm to day, cule last nite. i wen to Shell to the Post meting. 19. Sunday, mostly cloudy an plesant. Lillie gon to Harwood to preching. 20. Cleair an plesant in fore noon, rane in after noon, a good rane at 4 pm, the bigest rane 3 1/4 in., in one hour, big wind all a round rite smart hale, hardst wind from NE. 21. Som clouds no rane vary warm a bout noon. i an Lillie went to Harwood. 22. Cleair an cul all most frost. 23. Cleair an cule but plesant. i an Lillie went in after noon to Walker to streat fare. Mrs. Sumter came home with us, cule at night. 24. Cule at night but plesant. i an Lillie went to the Streat fare at Walker, Mrs. Sumter went with us an back to Jonathans. 25. Cule at night warm in day. i an Lillie went to Harwood an to Ant Teene Roys furnele. i got a pare of shoos at Sharps, cost $2.25. 26. Sunday, cul last night, plesant to day, wind NE cleair. 27. Cleair an plesant lite frost in plases non here. i went to see the Dr. about my leg, he prescrib a salve to a plie 2 each a day. 28. Cleair som frost. i taken a single bed of corn to Loller 20 B, i fetched back 16.80 ponds of sand. October 1909 1. i bught 2 pigs of Bill Short. 3. Sunday, cleair an warm. Jonathan came out, i an him went to Bills. Mrs. Hutson dide a bout 7 pm. 4. Cleair an warm. Bill Short sent the pigs up thay wade 75 an 70 both wade 145 pade $12.00. 7. Cleair hot an dry. i went for wood, got a rink of Bill, pade 85. 8. A litle plesant. i went tor cole, got a lod of pruite $2.80. raned a slow rane at nite. 9. Some clouds an plesant raned slow good part of last night. i sold Will Nickcel the mule. 10. Sunday, raned 1/2 in last night. Some culer, Emey here. 11. Cloudy an cold wind NW. i taken Emey home, put the Will Mitchels check he gave me for the mule in the bank. Fonzo camenst shucin corn. Finley taken his catle, ows me $2.50 12. Cleair an cold wind NW ice 1/8 of in. 13. Partly cloudy thoe som ice an some frost. 14. Cloudy fue drops of rane then clere. Gilipens lay sement (cement) in seler, Bill helped. fire from the trane got out an John Rodic all went to help put it out. 15. Cleair an nise. i finished the concrete in the seler floor. The Baker medeson man wade take diner here. 16. Warmer an dry. i went for cole got 23 B at Hawards bank of Smith. 17. Sunday, mostly cleair an warm wind SW som clouds long in the day. 18. Raney an mistey all day an culer. 19. Cloudy but plesant. 20. Raned last night nerly all night. A drisley rane 1/2 in. 22. i an Jonathan went to Harwood, i got som kidney mesdon of Roiston. 23. Cloudy wind NW an cule. 30. Warm an winday wind S a litle wes vary high. Trans thrude out fire on Mr. Flake and Mrs. Goodman’s place an Youning. i haled 2 lods of rock from Charly Mores plase an went to Harwood an got 5 B of sande an 10 of gravel. 31. Sunday, cloudy camenst raning a bout 10 am a slow rane. November 1909 1. Cleair cule an nise. 2. Cleair an plesant. Fonzo shucken corn. Lit his pipe droped the match, set the feald on fire burnt over a bout 5 acrs of grond in the stalks. Greshum came home, Sceavers cam down. (handwriting was large and firm, could tell he was upset.) 4. i went to Nevada to Dr. Wilson. Cleair and warm an still. 5. Som cloudy an still an plesant. 6. Cleair an fogy in morning warm afternoon. got dun chucken south of granery. 7. Sunday, cloudy. Mr. an Mrs. Buchanan here. 11. Cloudy an showery. Bill and Fonzo shucken a litle corn in fore noon. 12. Raning raned all night 13. Windy but plesant, i went to Walker. 14. Sunday, raned last night 1/12 in of water, cule this morning. 15. Cloudy in for noon a litle cul. Bill an Fonzo got don shucking my corn at a 11, camenst in his, it camenst raning at 1 raned all the after noon, a cold rane, thunder an litning an rane nerly all night. 16. Clody son in the morning, sun came out long in the day, wind NW an cold but nise. 20. Cloudy sun would shine at time. i to Bill Dunaways for wood, got a rink, cost 1 dolar. 21. Sunday, vary cloud an thretning, still erley, wind came up later, first west then N, warm a nuf but geting culer. December 1909 1. Raned thrugh the night, rods mudy a vary nise day still. I went to Crulises for a lode of wood. 2. Mist soon in the morning by 10 was cloudy an culer. 4. Cloudy vary dark the greter part of the day, raned nerly all day, som times hard. 5. Sunday, vary could an cloud in the moning som spits of snow. Sun came out in after noon, modrated a litle. 6. Cloudy an still in fore noon camenst snowing in after noon, snowed til lafter nighte, cleard up cold wind NW. 7. Cleair wind NW not vary high but cold. Snow drifted some, snow is a bout 4 in. 8. Wind NW an could cleair. Bill an Fonzo haled 3 gags of milet hay an put in the barn. 9. Celar an still an cold soon vary still an plesant later on. Snow melting vary litle suth side. 10. Cloudy still an damp, snow began to melt som late in the after noon, melted all night. 11. Cloudy snow meten but patch yet, turning colder, wind NW a spit of snow an a litle sprinkle of rane at times. Lillie gon with Bill to Harwood. 12. Sunday, som clouds all day cule. 13. Cloudy an cold. Bill, Fonzo, an Jack butch 2 hogs for me, the 2 you.... hogs, first one wade 276 the other one wade 292. 14. Cloudy wind a litle NW cul clouds a litle broken. Bill here helping to render lard. my leg hert me. 15. Cloudy in the night a sprinkl of snow but cleair this morning a litle cule. my leg hurts so i can hardly get a round. 16. Cleair an nise in fore noon melting a litle som patches of snow yet, cloudy in after noon an threatning. 16. Cloudy wind NW an cold, looks very much like snow. 17. Cloudy still an cold, cleard up in the night but cloudy this morning. Clouds a litle broken at noon. 19. Sunday, cleair wind a SE nerly still, cold but nise an plesant. i have to be in an a but house on a count of leg. 20. Cleair still an nise a litle cule. Lillie an Fonzo went to Nevade, got me a par of pants. 21. Clear an nise a litle cule but stille. Fonzo haled maneuer about 1/2 day. 22. Clear still an cule up 10 then som flying clouds. Fonzo came 1/2 past 9 to hale maneuer. Bill come to put up the cole stove. 23. Cloudy looked like snow or sleat all day, wind SE, cule an damp. 24. Snde in the night, snowing this moring, snow some 2 or 3 in ceep, camenst mist of rane a bout 8 am, wind SE a then snow about 2 in. 25. Cleair to day cold wind went to the north last night. a bout 2 inch of snow. Albert came this morning. Fonzo and Curtis after noon. a white Xmas. 26. Sunday, cleair an nise and still but cul. Albert went to Walker for Jas but never came. Stanly came back with him. 27. Cleair a litle wind NW a litle cold snow melting vary litle, some clouds the day, but a vary nise day. 28. Cleare an nise, snow milting a litle. 29. Cleair an cold, snow not melting, vary still the air or wind is from NW. Jasper an Becky came, Burthey, (Bertha) Abbie an Cora came, Jasper went to Bills. 30. Clear still an plesant, thawed a litle, a party at Bills. 31. Cloudy still an plesant. Mr. an Mrs. Abbs, Mr. an Mrs. Buckhaman an Bill Susan children here. ALBERT FONZO COPE DIARIES 1909 AT HIS FARM NEAR WALKER MISSOURI --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------