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 1910 1. Saturday, cleair and warm, fogy soon in for noon, snow all gon, grond ful of water an mud. Becky went to Bills yesterday, Jasper went to Harwood, Albert started back to Kasas, Lillie taken Bertha to Bills, so her an Abbie an Cora culd go to home to go home. my leg still hurts. 2. Sunday, vary cloudy an colde rouds ruf. Beckey an Jas cam frome Bills. 3. Cloudy som litle sleat last night, a sprinkle of snow this morng, clouds a litle broken at noon. Jasper taken Becky to Walker. 4. Som litle snow an sleat thru the night, som wind NE som snow an sleat all day, but still an cold. 5. Cleair in fore noon som cloud later in the day. Slete on every all day, some clouds but sun set clear an clde. 6. Som clouds in fore noon, cleair at 9, vary cold night but nise in the day. Slete a hange on. 7. Cleair an nise but cond wind NE, meltin vary litle every thing coted with ice an snow. 8. Cleair an nise cold but plesant, the sleat went of the trees but the grond cuvered. 9. Sunday, nise cleair an still, no wind, the ice melting vary litle. 10. Cleair all fore noon wind SE not high, ice meted rite smart som plases necked, cloudy in after noon a lite culer. Jasper went to help Jack butcher a hog. 11. Cloudy looks threaten wind SE, ice melting some. Bill, Jasper an Jack butcheren 2 hogs for me. one wade 224 the other 198, the cows got out went to Casters. 12. Raning a litle erly got harder later. Jasper went to Kesters (Casters??) for the cows.. Sleat an snow all gon, rods mudy. 13. Cloudy wind NW geting cold. 14. Nerly cleair erly cloudy lter in the day, cule wind NW. rendered the lard. 15. Cloudy all day stil melting some wind SE. 16. Sunday, cloudy a litle mist all day, wind SW, not cold nor high. 17. Cloudy a fue drops of rane wind SW, a litle hight, ground thude. 18. Cleair an nise wind SW not high. som frost, ground frose sum but thawing. 19. Cleair with som fue white clouds wind SW, not high nor cold but nise. A litle frost but melted off. 20. Nerly clear, som fling clouds wind NW an high, a litle cule, but nise, rods mudy. A comet shod it shelf SW a but 1 hour high tale a bout 6 feet long, strate up, saw it at 6 o clock pm. 21. Cleair wind NW a litle high an cul. Jasper gon to Walker to get saw set an files. 22. Mostly cleair in fore noon partly cloudy in after noon, a litle wind SW. i an Lillie went to Harwood, i went to get medeson, rods ruff. 23. Sunday, cleair still an nise, warm for the time of yere, a litle frost. Lillie an Jasper gon to Bills. 24. Cleair an nise in fore noon, som frost, still, som clouds after noon, warm. 25. Mostly cleair wind NE an SE. 26. Cleair an nise, som clouds erley but all went off, wind NW not cold. 27. a rite good frost, cloudy an still, frost all off by 10 am, no wind plesant. Jasper triming trees in orcherd. 28. A big frost cleair in fore noon an still, some clouds in after noon wind SW. The comitt is going North, the talle is about 50 feet. 29. Cloudy vary still an damp, vary thretning, camenst snowing at dark, barly cuverd the gound, still not vary cold. 30. Sunday, cleair still snow a bot all gon, wind NW then SW plesant. Bill’s folk here, Allis came, Lillie went home with her, Lillie went home with Allis. 31. Cleair a good big frost, ground frose but thawing thrue the day. Some fue thin clouds a long in the day, wind SE thoe vary still an plesant, nise. February 1910 1. Sun came up yallow an nise, wind SE then S, got a litle high an sun shined dim , looked smokey. Lige Childers eate diner here. Hunting votes in the hereld contest. 2. Cloudy camenst a slow rane a bout seven raned til 10, vary still wind, came up from NW got colder wind light. 3. Cloudy snode last night cuverd the grond, sum came out in the day, some clouds all day, wind NW not high, snow melting nerley all gon by 4. 4. Cleiar an nise wind SW not high. i went to Walker, fetch Lillie home. 5. Cleair still an nise, wind SW not high. Jas helping Denison on smoke hose. 6. Sunday, mostly cleair but thin clouds the sun shines dim, vary litle wind SE. Big frost but thawing. some of the Stanger comet diaperd, stade in sight 15 days, went out of sight a litle Nof W. 7. Cloudy wind SE but vary still, vary damp an threatnig, frost melted off. 8. Som thin clouds in fore noon a bout three in the after noon, dark, cloudy. Jas helped to butcher at Jacks. Thear was a fue spits of rane, snow last night. 9. Cleair still an nise, it camenst snoing at 5 last night, this morning a bout 6 in of snow on a level, no drifts. Jasper an Lillie gon to Harwood an to meet Burtha came. 10. Cleair an still an nise. vary cold erley but snow going tolerbel fast later in the day. 11. Cleair still an nise, cold in the moring, warm in the day, snow melting. Suse an Burthay (Bertha) here. 12. Cleair cold wind NW cold, snow melting vary lite. Suse an Lillie gon to Bills. 13. Sunday, cleair still an cold, wind SE, a vary nise day, snow melting, a litle grund geting neced in plases. 14. Cleair only a fue thin clouds at times, wind SW a litle high an damp, snow all gon, rods mudy. 15. Wind SW high an hard all night, cloudy in fore noon, wind went NW, got cule cleard up, som cloud later. 16. Snowed a nuff to cuver the ground least night, snde all day to day, vary cold wind NW then NE. Snow drifted some plases, half leg deep. 17. Snowed a sprinkle this moring then cleard up, wind NW cold, snow not melting. 18. Cleair an cold wind SE damp, not high. Snow melting vary litle. Bill haled up a gag of milet hay. 19. Clear fore noon, wind SE snow melting, a litle thin cloud after noon, a nice day. 20. Sunday, cloudy still an warm, snow melting off in patches. i was offul sick last night with lagrip. Burthy went to Bills, Fonzo an Albert Porter came a litle while. 21/ Cloudy, still an could what wind is NW. i have lagrip, camenst snowing at 1, snow a 2 inche. 22. Cloudy but a big frost, a spit of snow. Marvin came a while. 23. Cloudy an coldst day, wind NE not high. 24. Cleair nise an still, vary cold at sun up, then thawing, snow going fast nerly all gon. 25. Cloudy all day cold erly, began to though a bout 8 som patches of snow yet. Jas an Lillie went to Harwood, Denes went with them, the Lillies came with them. Buchhanan pad his sucispion. (subscription) 26. Raned from 7 tel 3, slow but study rane a part of the time, dark an fogy, wind came up from NW, a litle cul. Bill fetch 14 bushels cole, i pade him $1.75. Cam snow an rane mixed about five. 27. Sunday a but cleair at sun rise, got cloudy, still grund thawing, some drifts of snow yet, nerly all gon. rods mudy, sun shines out throu the clouds at 12. 28. Some clouds soon in the fore noon, cleard up later in the day wind Soth East thoe vary still an nise. Grund an rodes vary mudy. some litle drifts of snow yet, so out gose febuary. March 1910 1. Som clouds erley, sun came out a later but some thin clouds throue the day, vary still an warm, wind SE, raned a litle shour be fore day, rods vary mudy a vary litle snow drifts yet nerly gon. 2. Cleair warm still an nise, what wind is SE, mud setleing grund wete. 3. Cleair wind SW not high, warm an nise. i started to Walker, so mudy turned back. i an Jas trid to burn the sage in the paster, the ground so wet it wold not burn. 4. Cleair still warm an nise, wind SE not high, rods an ground drying fast, looks smoky. 5. Cleair still nise an warm, wind wat is is South west. i an Lillie went to Walker, rode ruf. Bill an Jasper put the timothy hay in barn. 6. Sunday, som white clouds wind NW then NE a litle cule, sun shine dim. 7. Cleair a litle ice thin clouds after noon. i went to Harwood to the Dr. had a spel with an stone??? rods afful rugh. 8. Cleair still warm an nise. i Lillie haled out the foder. 9. Cloudy wind SE cul sprinkled of rane then homney snow a bout 3, camense snowing, grund a but cuverd. 10. Cleair still an nise, snow melted nerely all night, melting yet this morning. 11. Cleair still an nise, frost, som ice. i worked on the garden gate, Jasper went for post, got 200. 12. Som frost a litle ice still an nise. i finished the grden gate, Jasper went for post. 13. Sunday, cleair still nice an warm. Mr. Ridle cam a while. Mrs. Denes, Mr. Ridle came a while. Mrs. Denes came a fue minits, ground drying fast. 14. Clear nise wind NE a litle cule. Jasper haling hedge post, get dun to day. my stomach is no beter. 15. Cleair an nise a litle frost but plesant. i was beter, i went to Sharps to see Walter. Jasper went to Curelesis for wood. 16. Smoky looks like it mite be cloudy thoe can se the sun. i went to Harwood got plow sharpened, got sick with my stomich a spiting up. Jasper is a braken the old medow next to rode. 17. Fogy an cloudy in fore noon, sun shined after noon thoo dim. it is smky, still an plesent. 18. Still cleair but smky, warm a nuf for March. Bill camenst plowing for oats east of orched, Sarah sode letis. 19. Dark looking smky som clouds. made som garden planted 3 rose of potato, pare?? set some onins, Jas an Lillie went to Harwood. 20. Sunday, smoky but still and cleair and warm a nuf. Lillie wnet to Harwood to church. Mrs. Swargin an Omphy here, Mr. an Mrs. Anderson an 3 children here. Mr. an Mrs. Buchanah here. My leg broke out in a sore. 21. Cleair a litle smoky yet, still an warm a nuf, ground working nise. 22. Cleair warm an nise, a litle windy from SW not vary high. Franky an Minez Anderson stapte on a canvas fore the church. 23. Cleair warm wind SW an high. Bill camenst soing oats got to the pon. 24. Mostely cleair a fue thin clouds wind SW a litle high. the day is warm. Bill got done soing oats by a 11. 25. Som thin scerts of clouds a litle wind SE vary warm for March. Ros got the dimon plow to plant potatos. 26. Mostly cleair an warm wind a litle high. i an Lily went to Harwood the Dr. burnt my leg with costic, my leg no beter. 27. Sunday cleair smoky, winda an warm. Harva came about 6 am, stade til a bout 5 pm. Fire at Walker, cout in Buens store, burnt Buens, Bucks, the Drugs an the Bank. Post ofice an that blak east. Mrs. Dons house an Truses house. 28. i went to Harwood to the Dr. for my leg. 4 houses at Shell burnt, vary winda an dry. 29. smky look like som cloud, som drops of rane a bout noon an a lite shour a bout 4 pm. wind vary high SW. Butson put out fure or set out. Jasper is cuting stalks, raned a itle sprinkle til dark. 30. A litle cloudy a lite cule but plesant, wind changed to the NE. Jo Ross, Fancy an children came a fue minits, Fancy wanted som roses sprouth. 31. a fue thin clouds till nise an plesant, warm in after noon. i an Lillie went to Harwood, went by Hutson, taken an article to be signed for the rent of the land. April 1910 1. Mostly cleair some high thin clouds, still an nise, what wind was in SW. Jas cakmes harig????? 2. Som thin clouds in for noon a litle distent thunder an a hard shour of rane an hale a bout 2 pm. Sun came out thrug the clouds wind SW not high. 3. Sunday, som clouds all day the sunshined the clouds a par tof day, wind SW a litle high. Bill was here a litle while, Marvin came, Denes an wife came a while. 4. Som clouds wind SW. i an Bill taken dow the fence that fur thou the well pece of groud. Hutson sent word he would not tend the land east of the barn. it camenst raning 1/2 past 2, a slow study rane with a storm, blode the milit hay stacks dow, raned til night. 5. Ranig slow study rane of an on all night wind NW an cule an nise day to day. a good eal (deal?) of water cam in seler. 6. Clear cul but plesant a litle frost. Bill an his folks here, they are halling the bush out of the orched. 7. som clouds. i an Lilly went to Harwood, Bill an Fonzo helped hall the brush out of the orcherd 2 loods, then thay put up the milet that blode down. 8. Som clouds a litle sprinkle of rane. Bill an Fonzo helping to put in the lane fence. pade Bill $5. 9. Cleair still an fogy. i went to Walker. 10. Sunday, cloudy raned in after noon. 11. Raning a slow drisley rane, still. Emey an Bill’s Lillie here. Lillie taken Emley hom. Sun cam out thrugh cloud, warm an still. Jas fixing barn lot fence. 12. Cloudy dark foby all day, vary damp. 13. Cleair wind SE an damp. 14. Rane a shour at 4 am, some clouds all day, a 5 a heap of litning and a harde rane, wind went NW. Hank Roses barn burnt, hous, hay an corn by litnig. 15. Cloudy, rods vary mudy wind NW cul. Jasper gon with Denes to Walker to mille. Slnky stade here, taken the sences. 16. Cloudy wind NW an cule a fue drops of rane at noon, wind lay at 4 moderated. 17. Sunday, cloudy a spits or to of snow, wind SW nerely W a litle high an cule. 18. Cloudy a spit of snow. i did not se eney wind, NW a litle high an cule. Jasper plowing ground, very heveay, Lillie gon to Bills. 19. Cloudy in fore noon wind NW an high an cule, cleard up a but 5 pm but the sky looks so gloomey. 20. a white frost, every thing white, some fog still after the morning, warm an nise. 21. Cleair an nise wind S an a litle W. Jasper camenst planting corn at noon. 22. Cloudy a litel rane a bout 10 wind NW then N a litel cule. Lillie gon to Harwood, Jasper finished planting the N pease. 23. Cleair a cold NW wind an high all day. Jasper hared west of granery, plante a litle late in after noon, cold an windy. 24, Sunday, cloudy snode a sprinkle in fore noon wind N an litle E, then N an cold, a litle ice. 25. Raning mixed with snow, then all snow, meted as it fell, qit a bout 8. Wind N an cull. Jasper planted corn after noon. 26. Mostley cleair som litle frost but warmer wind NW not vary high. Jasper finished braken the garden. Bill camenst planting corn over at the well pece. 27. Far still an nise an warm. i went to Mrs. Browns in after noon. 28. Cleair an warm wind SW. i went to Mr. Buchanan an with him to Harwood. 29. Mostley cleair a fue thin clouds in the west, wind SW an high, warm. Jasper plowing. 30. Som clouds in fore noon, a litle dist thunder. Jasper went to Harwood to get plow shapen, got clody, looked like rane. May 1910 1. Sunday, some clouds warm a nuf wind mostly NE not high. a vary plesant day. i went to Thompsons in after noon. 2. raned with hale thunder an litning at 4 am, cloudy an still in fore noon, rods mudy, raned a sprinkl thrugh the after noon an cul. 3. Cloudy all day, cule wind NE. 4. Mostly cleair a litle cule but plesant. i went to Walker, Jonathan came out with me. 5. Cloudy still a litle cule camenst a sprinkle of rane a bout 1 pm, what wind is SE. 6. Raning a slow but study rane wind SE then all la round, raned all day part of the time harde, a cold rane, waters high. 7. Raning a slow cold rane wind N. every thing full of water, seler has 3 in. qit a long in the day, every thing full of water. 8. Sunday, cloudy an cule, clered up or nerly by noon, cul yet, but not so cul as it was, ground dry fast. 9. Mostley cleair sky vary dinge, warmer, but not bright. Jasper an Lillie went to Harwood. i fixed som fence next to Hanings an the gate south of pond. 10. Mostly cleair nise an warm, wind S. i went to Curelers for wood, rods dring up. i seede Haley comit this morning. 11. Som clouds wind NW but plesant. Jasper worked on the rode 1/2 day. 12. Somme fue clouds part of the time, wind N west, not vary higy but cule. Jasper worked 1/2 day on the rode then we planted potatos down at the pond. 13. Some thin clouds sun shone all day, plesant. Jasper finished braken for corn, i set the post down at the draw be twen me an Thompson. i an Jas put the wire up in after noon. 14. Clear at 3 am. i got up an sede the comit, it was plane the head over. John Blotts, the tale be hind the walnt.?? som thin cloud all day a itle cule. Bill came and got some cede corn. Jasper replanting. 15. Sunday raning aslow rane nerly all day still an cule. 16. Cloudy raned good part of the day, some tims hard, wind went all a round rite hard a fue minits from NW, changed to SE, cule all day. 17. Cleair wind NW a litle cule, g round vary wet, rods mudy. Jasper an Marvin working this half mile of rode. 18. Cleair and nise fore noon, som thin clouds after noon. Jasper finished the rode, grund yet to wett to work. i an Lilie went to Harwood, Bill’s Lillie an Cora came to help paper. 19. Cloudy still an plesant, camenst a slow rane a bout 9 did not rane a gread del, sun shined out a litle about 2. Jasper went with Denis to Walker, the 2 Lillies an Cora is papering, did not see the comit last night as was predicted nor its tale. 20. Mostly cleair som clouds in fore noon, clear later an warm. Lillie an Cora put carpet down in N rume, Cora cride to go home. groud to weat to work. 21. som thin clouds all day, wind SW, not high, sun is warm. Lillie taken Cora up to Bills to go home. Ground to weet to work yet, it raned last night rite smart rane. i sead the hed of the comit at 8 pm. 22. Sunday, cloudy fine mist at times, camenst raning at 2 pm. Arte and Orel Goodman here, Greshim Broon got his coler boon brok the 21. (colar bone broke) 23. Cloudy sun shined out a bout 11 am, a fue thin clouds all after noon. The moon eclipes and the comit at the same time. 24. Cleair an nise. Lillie went to Bills to helpe to paper. i went to see Gresum, has his colar boon broken. Seede the comit a litle south of west about 2 hours high. 25. Cloudy an som clods all day. 26. Cloudy raned a slow rane camenst at 8, raned a nuf to a wet, a man qit about 10. Jasper taken Lillie home and went to Harwood. Lillie wento Mrs. Browns to se how Gresum was. 27. Raning a slow rane vary cul for the time of yere, raned nerly all day. 28. Mostly cleair som flying clouds wind SW, warmer, ground drying. 29. Sunday, some clouds in fore noon, cleair nise and plesant in after noon. i an Lillie went to Harwood to the memorel, Woven preached. 30. some clouds in fore noon about noon clouds got thicker, raned a fue drops. i an Lillie got redy to go to Deceration, clouds looked so hevey in the N we gave it out. Jasper ploud the patch of corn west, grund vary heavy, we worked some in garden. 31. a nise day, sun shined all day, a vary litle wind SE. every body at work, Bill ploud in well pease, Jas cultivated the garden, Hutsons finished planting the 35 acr pease, i went to Walker to get checken feed, grund works hevey. Thunder an litning an a lite shoer at a bout 10 pm. June 1910 1. Sun shined in fore noon som clouds in after non. Bill hared an Fonzo dist for Jas in after noon, Jas planted, we set out the swet potatos. 2. Som clouds a fue drops of rane in fore noon, cleair in after noon. Bill hared, got don by 4 pm. Fonzo disted, got don at noon. Jasper got don planting. 3. Som clouds in fore noon, sun shined after noon, it is cule. Jasper went to plant for Bill, plating over. 4. Raning litning all night, rane from 5 til noon, lots of water on the ground. Abbie Porter came home with Jasper. 5. Sunday, cleair an warmer, the skye looks mudy, ground ful of water. Bills folks here, Abbie Porter here. 6. Cloudy raned a drop or to. i went to Walker with Mrs. Denis. sun shine som in after noon, a litle cule. 7. Cloudy an cul, fue droops of rane wind SE. Shured all after noon an cule. 8. Cloudy an cule a fue drops of rane thru day. Jasper an Denis working at Finley, to weet to plant or work in comglins on hous. 9. Cloudy in fore noon lite shours rite smart thinder a hevy cloud a part of the time. Sun shined a part of afternoon, to cule for corn to groe fast. 10. Cloudy all day raned a lite shour at noon, wind NE an cule, groun vary weet. 11. Cleair an still an warmer. we went to Harwood, rods mudy, but drying fast. 12. Sunday, cleair an warm fore noon. som clouds after noon, rods geting dry. Suse an the 2 boys came, i went to Finleys. 13. Cleair an warm ground wet but plows started. Jas camenst erly. 14. Cleair an warm an still. Suse gon to Bills for the boys one has mesels. 15. Cleair still an warm. i ploud som in the garden thrud up a roe of swepotato for Suse, Suse planted a pach of irish potatos north of granery, Suse got slips of Bill. 16. Clear an nise an warm, groud begining to get dry. 17. Clear in fore noon warm an nise, som clouds in after noon. Jo Ross got a lode of corn 26 bushels, i taken Jonathan to Walker, an i went to mill, got me, i got Jiney shod at Stevens cost 80c. 18. Som cloud in fore noon cleair in after noon, still an warm. Jasper went to Bills got the planter, camenst planting the peas over by the calf shed. 19. Sunday, mostly cleair an hot. Suse an the 2 boys went home. Jasper taken them to Harwood, we gave Suse a side of meet, a gug of Sogrim and $2. 20. Cleair an hot. Jasper is planting over the pease at the grnery. 21. Clear still an hot but smkey looking. Jasper got dun planting over corn at the alf shed pease. i an Lillie went to Harwood. Lillie got Abbie a par shos. 22. Cleair an hot. i went to look for hogs, did not get eney, went to Blaknthigh.?? 23. Clea an warm but dinga or Smkey.Lillie an Abbie Porter went Bills to wash. Jasper will finish runing though the corn he jest plated. 24. Hot cleair an get dry. i and Lillie an Allis went to Nevada. i got a watch cost $12. 25. Cleair hot an dry in fore noon, som clods in after noon, som distce thunder. i went to Jim Cevels for a lode of i pade $10 for more wood, 11 rinks than now. got cloudy raned a lite shour. 26. Sunday, some clouds all day an warm. Harvy’s folds, Bills folks, Jacks folks came, Jasper taken harness to Walker. 27. Som clouds no rane, warm an still. i went to Fare Haven then to Harwood. Abbie Porter went home. 28. Cleair an warm and dreyn still. 29. Warm an drye, wind NE not high, begining to neede rane. 30. Cleair but smoky lookin, sun shine pale, wind NE not hie, vary still. ground geting dry, so the month go out. July 1910 1. Som clouds in fore noon nerly all banished a way later, wind NE but still. Abbie an Cora came, i went west of Walker to look at som hogs, ground geting vary dry, a bout 7 a dust storm, a hard rane folerd for a fue minets. 2. Som clouds all day. i Lillie went to Harwood, looked like rane, after we got home it raned. 3. Sunday, Lillie went to Mrs. Meanses. it raned a good shour a but 3 pm. Som rane til late in the day, lots of thunder thrugh the nite. 4. Sun shines thoe dim, looks smoky, so smky can’t tel if theare is clouds or not, ground weet, mity litle pasing for the 4. i, Sarah an Lillie stade all day an Jasper til diner by our selves. Jasper went som wher after diner. 5. Cloudy in fore noon, sun shined after noon, rods drying fast, pepel begin to cultivat. Abbie an Cora cam from Bills, Bill an Thompson helped saw boses horn off. 6. Som clouds sun shine som all day qite warm. Abbie an Cora here. Jasper finished cultivating the first time the pease by granery, camenst ......... 7. Hot clear still. Bill camenst cuting his oats, Jasper cultivating corn. Dan got to hot, a vary hot day. raned a litle at 8 wind blue hard. 8. Som thin clouds, sun shined all day, still an hot. Bill got dun cuting oats. 9. Cleair wind stering a litle. Jasper got dun laing by the north pase. Jo Ross sent the money by Jasper $15.65 for 26 bushels of corn. 10. Sunday, cloudy in fore noon a drop or 2 of rane, sun shined after noon. i went with Ridle to Rodricks. 11. Cloudy in forenoon a litle fin mist, sun shine in after noon. Abbie an Cora went to Bills, Bill came an got a lode of corn. 12. Som clouds in fore noon cleair in after noon, plesant. Mr. Tape got a lode of corn. Mrs. Cobb came got som apls. Jas cultivating. 13. Clear still an warm. Abbie an Cora came from Bills. 14. A fue scatrin cloud, cleair the greter part of the day, wind SW a litle high. i plowed Suse’s potato patch, Jasper will get over the late corn, Abbie an Cope hode potatos. i burnt my leg with turpentine. 15. Cleair an hot in fore noon, som clouds in after noon. a litle shur of big drops a but 5. Abbie an Cora went home. i an Lillie went with them to Harwood. 16. Cleair an warm. i went to Bills an got the planter, wier up out of the field. 17. Cleair still hot an geting dry. Sunday hotst day, som clods in after noon, some time in the night a small shour. 18. Som cloud thou sun shines wind NE, plesant. Jasper gon to help Tap stack hay. 19,. Cleair still an warm some scatern clouds in after noon. Jasper helpin Tap stack. Lillie cleaned shuse the SW rume. 20. Cleair still an warm an dry. i an Lillie went to Eldoradto the picknic. Albert cam from Canses, went to Eldorado, got back home a bout 11. Jasper helped Tap stack hay. 21. Cleair an warm. Bill hauled the oats out an put them in the barn, 2 lods. 22. Mostly cleair in for noon som cloud in after noon, a fue drops. Albert haled corn to Finleys, haled 5 llds 140 bushel. 23. Raned an thundred wind blue all night, Fonzo poney kiled by litnig., cleair to day. 24. Sunday, cloudy afue drops of rane then the sun shined. some. Mrs. Brown stade here last night. 25. Cleair an hot. i an Albert finished haling corn to Finley, i taken Albert to Walker to go to Kansas. 26. Clair an nise. Jasper cultivating the late pease of corn 14 acres at the granery. 27. Cleair an hot. Lillie went to Rockville. 28. Hot an cleir. i went to Fair Haven got a jug of water, com by Harwood for Lillie but she never came from Rockville. Jasper is a cultivating corn. 29. Cleair hot wind changed all round, not vary high. Lillie got home from Rockville, Jasper finished laing by. I sent John $5. 30. Sun shined in fore noon, cloud at 5. i went round the east part cut beens first time, i bin a round in 3 yerse. 31. Sunday, mostly cleair an hot an dry. Albert got back from Franks, fetch 3 head of plugs with him August 1910 1. Mostly cleair in fore noon som clouds later on. Jasper cuting weeds in paster. Albert fixing fence. 2. a litle rane yestredy, cleair to day. Jasper finished the paster, Albert finished the fence. 3. Cleair, Albert mode in the orcherd. Porter got 5 bushels of corn. 4. Mostly cleair. i went to Walker taken Dunn 1 bushel of onions got a $1. 5. Som clouds raned a good after noon. 6. a fue drops of rane at 6 am, cloudy all day a litle cule. 7. Sunday, som clouds all day. Bills folks here, Jo Ross pade $15 on corn. 8. Some clouds erly cleard up. Albert got Finleys riding plow, camenst plowing for wheat east of barn. 11. i went to the reunion, stade at Harve. 12. i came home from the reunion. 13. Som clouds geting a litle dry, hot. 14. Sunday, warm. i went to Bickhorn in after noon, warm. 15. Warm geting dry, som fue clouds. 16. Vary dry geting hard to plow some clouds coming up, vary hot. 17. Cloudy lite rane a long in day. Mr. an Mrs. Vanmeter stoped in an made a visit. Wind went N was plesant. 18. Cloud an plesant, a lite rane, cloud all day. Albert finished plowing for wheate. 19. Cloudy a drop or 2 for noon, sun shined by 8 thru the clouds. Sarah an Lillie maken crout. Old Man Coner dide. 20,. Dingey lookin but fue thin clouds. i went to Buckhanan, the old man Coner was dead, hot an geting dry. 21. Sunday, som fue thin clouds, hot. i an Lillie went to the Olde Man Coners funerel. 22. Hot an dry, some thin clouds, old man Scott came, the seser came. Bill got done baken for wheate. 23. Cleair warm an dry. Jasper went to Crunels for wood, i taken the red cow to Rodicke brout. 24. fue cloud, wind SW vary dring an warm. Jasper an Albert went to Cruneless for a lode of wood, got 1 rink leves 9 yet. 25. Dark, misty or smikey looking, cloudy later in the day, sun shined in after noon, wind N and qite chiey. we caned peaches, Albert went to help bale i went to Crulis for a lod of wood, i pade Jim Cureis $10 for 10 rinks have 11 rinks ther now. 26. Clear dry an cule all most frost, warm in the day. Jasper went for wood, leaves 8 rinks thare yet. 27. Dark an smoky but cleair a litle cule erly, later it was warm. Jasper went for wood, 7 rinks down there yet at Curreleses. Albert helping Buckhanan boys bale hay. 28. Sunday, a litle dark looking west an smoky, but cleair dry an warm. 29. Som clouds mostly gon by noon. Jasper an Albert gon for wood. Lillie gon to Bills to help put up peches. Mrs. Cobbs and Richerd’s wife came. 30. Som clouds comes an goe, sun shines. Abbie Porter came yesterday, Jasper an Albert went for wood. 31. Mostly dry an hot wind in after noon, som clouds last night, raned a sprinkle. Albert dragin what (wheat) grond til noon. went to Harwood, i an Lilly taken chickens and Abbie Porter went home. Albert got a coler, taken it back got a pad. September 1910 9. Som fue clouds sun shined most of time. i went to Walker to get a pese of drill fixed Buckhanan wint with me. Bill, Mary Bo.... and the 2 Lillies went to Bill Thompsons. 10. Cleair an vary cule last night an soon this morning warmer in the day. 11. Sunday, clere an nise an plesant wind SW. the folks came back from Bill Thompson. 12/ Cleair an plesant. i went with the boise to sales, got wheat, Albert got twenty fore bushels and 3/4 of a bush came to 24.80, bill got 22 bushels $22. 13. Cloudy an fogy an a litle misty, wind NE. Albert camenst drilen wheat. 14. Cloudy cule a litle mist. Albert sowing wheat, Bill a haring. 15. Mostly cleair cule nights, warm days. Albert got done soing wheat, Bill camest. 16. Cleair an nise. 17. Cleair an warm. i an Albert went to Sailors, bought a stack of hay. 18. Clear an nise Sunday. 19. Mostly cleair some clouds in North in after noon, clouds NE, fue drops of rane. Lillie an Sarah let Mrs. Brown have $50 20. Cleair fore noon still an hot, clouded up in after noon, fue drops of rane. 21. Cleair in fore noon, fue drops rane. 22. Cloudy though day, right smart of thunder in after noon, litle shour. 23. Som clouds lite sprinkle of rane. Mr. Finly give a check for $16.20 for corn, 27 bushels. 24. Som clouds a fue droops of rane. 25. Sunday, some litle rane erly, clouds thru the day. Leney came a while in after noon. 26. Raneing til a 11 a big rane a heap of thunder in fore noon, raned til a bout 2 pm, wind N an cule an plesant. Albert plowing in SW pece, Jas gon to Help Omply to hall tise?? October 1910 1. Buckhanan an Chitwood baled hay for me at Sailors, baled 159 bales wad 59 to bale. 2. sunday, cleair an plesant in fore noon, hot in after noon, i went with Mr. Cobb to se Andrew Mann. 3. Cloud camenst raning a but 8, a slow cule rane. 9. Sunday, cleair still nise an plesant. Bills folks an Mr. Scott came, Dewea (Dewey) Porter came. 10. Cleair warm an nise. i an Lillie went to Harwood, i went to se the Dr. Suse came, Maraly brough her out. 11. Cleair still nise and warm, geting dry. i an Lillie went to Walker, Lillie taken Onions to John Bicks. 12. Cleair still an nise, Suse an Duey diging the sweepotatos, had 7 baskit. 13. Som clouds cleard up, warme an still. i taken Sus an Duey to Harwood, i pate Murey Buchnam for bile $7.10. 14. Frank came a bout 11, Jasper helping Jack shingle, Albert helpin Finley. 15. Cleair still warm an nise. Frank an Albert went to Harwood. 16. Sunday, cleair som fog warm an still. Frank here, goin to start hom, Jack stoped, going to Walker with Stanly. Old Boss found a calf. Albert taken Frank to Walker. 17. Cleair an warm, boys dug the seweepotatos. i an Lillie went to Harwood, taken onions to Sharps. a man by the name of Boles want a cow. 18. Cleair an dry wind SE not high. 19. Cloudy a drop or 2 of rane, wind NW an a litle cule. the boys cuting corn. 20. raning a slow cold rane, wind N not high but chiley, raned til a 11. 21. Cloudy and cule wind NW, raned a litle some time in the night, clouds a litle broken. 22. Cleair a good big frost, cule an nise. Old man Powers came a bout 6 stade at 8. 23. Sunday, mostly cleir a fue scatring clouds. 24. Cleair dry an nise. i went to Jim Culeses for alode of wood, 4 thare yet. 25. Cleair warm still an dry. i, Jas and Albert went to Jim Crulesis for poles to fix hen house and wood, 3 racks there yet. 26. Cleair wind Sw, a litle hight. i an Jas put down som conceat. 27. Cleair wind NW an cold. Bill Cope’s family, Jim an Sarah, Bill an Becky Thomson, Suse an Mabel, Mrs. Brown an Marven here for my burthday, fetch lots of presnets. Jim an Sarah came the 26th. 28, Cleair in fore noon som clouds later, wind NW an cold, ice lat night 3/8 thick. Mabel went home, Albert an Jim went to Harwood for lime sand to fix the flue, Bill Thompson fix on the flue, Bill taken Suse an her potatos an onins home. 29. Cleair an cold, ice this morning 1/4 in thick. Bill Thompson finished flue, Bill an Becky started for home at 1, Albert, Jas, an Jim puting up fence, turne in wheate. 30. Sunday, cleair wind SW an hight but plesant. Severl came in se Jim an Sarah. 31. Som clouds wind SW a litle high but plesant. i taken Eme home, drue out 50 for the children, Jas an Albert shucked 1 lode of corn in north pase. November 1910 1. Cleair or nerly so, wind Sw an plesant. 2. Jim an the Sarahs went Bills, cloudy an cule. 3. Fonzo, Jim, Sarah, 2 Lillies an Albert went to the rench for purcons (is what it looks like could be pecans) 4. Cleair a litle cul but plesenent. Jas, Jim an Albert went to the rench for purcons. 5. Cleair some frost, Jim has a bade cold. 13. Sunday, Jim an Sarah here, Mr. Cobb here, Mrs. Brown, Bill, Allis an Leney here. Cleair still an nise an dry. 14. Some clouds in fore noon an cule. Jim and Sarah started home, Allis went home. Jas taken Jim to Walker to get wagon tiers set, Husons fetched som corn. 19. Fair nise an dry. all the Lillies went to Rockville. i got the frame of hen hous up. 20. Sunday, a litle rane or mist is coming down. jest a nuff to dampen, wind SE a litle cule. 22. Hutson finish gether corn, nise an dry. i the gipe, a bad head ache. Jasper camenst shucking in south pease, nise wether, vary dry. 24. a litle fogy, some fue thin clouds, wind SW. Albert helping Omph, Jasper shucking corn. 26. Some clouds a drop or to of rane, warm. J.B. Youll came, i let him have $50, taken his note, i went to Walker got lumber for hen house. 27. Sunday, cloudy wind NW an cold, looks like snow. 29. Cloudy a litle plesant in fore noon, colder in after noon, a lite spit of snow the first for the yere. it spite a litle snow a but 2. Jasper an Albert shucked 2 lode of corn, hauld to Finly at 35c. 30. Cleair an cold, wind NW vary dry. Jasper an Albert hauld 2 lods of corn to Finley. December 1910 1. Cleair an cold wind NW. 2. Some thin clouds erly about gone by noon, cold wind SW then SE. not so cold, more plesant. Jas an Albert bucherd a hog, wade 200 ponds. 3. Som thin clouds wind SW then SE. the shucked 2 lods of corn, haled to Finley, it woen’t so cold. 4. Sunday a litle sleat still but damp an cloudy all day, lite late. 5. Ground cuverd with sleate a litle homey snow, then a fine snow all day. Jasper go to Harwood, Albert gon a hunting. 6. Cloudy a litle fine snow, cold all day. 7. Cleair cold in fore noon, snow meltin in after noon. 10. Still an cule thoe nise. Snow a bout gon. Jasper an Albert shucked a load of corn tacken to Finleys, its soft an frozen gets 35c. The boys cuvered the hen hous in after noon. Bill an Cosley came, Jonathan came a shile. 11. Sunday, cloudy a drop or so of rane, a litle cul but still. Orvil cam from Bills, stade a while, went home. 12. Cleair a part of the a cold. 13. Cleair an cold in fore noon, wind SE, nise in after noon. Jasper finish shucking corn an haling to Finley. i worked on hen house, made door. 14. Cleair an nise, frosty morning, wind SW. Albert an Jasper haled milet hay to barn. 15. Cleair frosty an cold, wind North. Jasper gon to Walker to Odd felows meeting. 16. Cleair an nise, frosty mornings,. i an Lillie went to Nevada, i got a pare of shous, Lillie got shouse. 17. Cleair an nise. 18. Sunday, a big frost, wind NW an cold. Mr. and Mrs. Finley here, Jack an Mary an Martha came. 19. Cloudy. Jasper gon to help Omply to butcher, Albert gon to Davses for cole. 20. Cloudy wind NW an cold. the boys butcherd 2 hogs, Omhy and Bill helped. 21. Clearn in fore noon wind SE, not high but cule an chiley, cloudy in after noon, a fue spits of snow about 4. 22. Cloudy all fore noon wind SE then SW. sun shined after noon. Jasper an Albert went with Denis got a lode of poles cost $1.00 23. Mostly wind Nw an cule. 24. Cleair all fore noon an after only a fue thin clouds loe doun ?? wind SE not high but cule, dry an nise. Maris Swarigan here a fue minits, Jasper gon to Walker, Lillie gon to Bills to go to Harwood to a tree, Albert going to Walker. 25. Sunday wind SE not high but damp an chiley, thin clouds all day, sun shined dim all day, every thing vary dry, water scare. Fonzo an Hart came a litle while. Bills folks here for diner, Albert an Buchenens boys went over west, Jasper came from Walker. 26. Wind was NW a litle while last enving, but was vary still. today is nise dry an still, wind SE but nerly still, som fue thin cloud west. 27. Cloudy camenst raning a bout a 11, raned a slow rane of an on til night, then thundred some, wind high for litle while from SW. Lillie an Albert taken Rusten to Walker, got 2 sacks of flour, i an Jas burnt the draw off east. 28. Vary dark cloudy an fogy, the boys tride to scrape in the pond, to slick, coverd the north part of old hen house. 29. Cloudy a sprinkle of rane mixed with snow, snow made the ground a litle gray, wind NW geting cold. 30. Cleair an colde, a big frost wind SW then SE, not high, cler all day but plesant. 31. Cleair an nise wind SW then SE not vary high but a nise good big frost, grond dry, pond water scars, wind SE at night. So out went the yere. DIARIES OF ALBERT FONZO COPE 1910 AT HIS FARM 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. 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