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 Note: Many day’s entries were not written. 1913 January 1913 1. a nise day wind Sw not hig still an dry. Mearing Stewart an Bill came. 2. A fue thin clouds cleard of vary soon, wind northwest and cold, Maring Stewart went to Jonathans. 3. Some clouds soon clerd by 10 wind NW an cold an dry. 5. Sunday cloud dark a litle fine mist in the are a part of the time, wind NE cold. George an Jas gon to Means. 6. Som litle sleat a litle snow, wind NE an W an cold. 7. Grund cuverd with snow an spits thru the day wind NW cold. 10. Raning a slow rane, freezing. a litle som snow. 11. Cloud a mist then som havey snow, wind NW cold. 14. Som clouds sun shins som wind SW snow nerly gon. 15. Cloudy warm wind S a litle high, snow an ice gone. Jasper went to Walker got a sack of brand. 16. Cloudy lite shurs all day wind SW. Lillie an Alis cam to Walker. 19. Sunday, som cloud warm wind SW high. George an Alis here. the 17 was fogy, motley in streaks an hevy. 23. Cloudy fogy warm for January, a litle rane be fore day, ground mudy. Jasper and George gon to Harwood, Alis beter. 26. Sunday, cloudy sun shined dim a part of the time wind SW then NW not high, warm for January, grund not frozen. Bills folks came, Jasper, Georgea an Allis went to Mrs. Brown in after noon. 27. Jo Ross an Faney came stade all day. 29. Som scatern clouds wind SW modrately warm for January groud dry. Jasper taken Allis an Georgea Smith to Walker to start home to morrow. Elsey came an taken ther picters be fore they left. Sarah sick, i sent John $10, sent a check to Walker Bank for $20. 30. Som clouds all day, sun shined som weind SW not high, a litle cul. Jasper went to Nevada with Allis an Georgea Smsith, the gurls started on the trane for home ticket cost $21.60 to Pineville. 31. Cleair at 7 pm then got cloudy camenst snowing at 12 a fine snow didint a mount to eney thing, jest some litle spits, wind NW a litle cold. February 1913 1. Som clouds sun shined a litle cold wind NW. i sold the steer to Pate Swargan at 7 cts. 2. Sunday, cloudy a fue spits of snow, wind E cold. Snow got a bout 3 inches. 3. Snowing snode til a bout a 11 snow about 5 inch, cleard up at noon. Jasper taken the steer to Walker wade 1200 brouht at 7c $84. 4. Dark thoe clear one of the bigest frosts i ever saw. 5. Cloudy spit snow til noon, clear up cold but nise. 6. Clear still an cold til 10, nise an plesant. snow melgint. Jasper got 2 sacks of brand. 9. Sunday, cloudy snow melting som wind S thoe still chiley. 10. Cloudy snow melting wind S grund geting bar, fogy lat in the evening. 11. Som clouds erly wind N a litle and cold. sun cam out a bout 9 nise thoe som thin cloud, som patchs of snow. Bills folks cam for diner, rode got a litle mudy. 12. Cleair an cold, wind NE not high, thawing some, nise. 14. Cleair nise warm a nuf for February, snow a bout gone, wind SW still. 18. Cleair wind SW a litle warm a nuf. I an Jasper went to John Cruellis sale. i bought a lod of wood of MckShort. 19. Cloudy still an warm a nuf. Jasper went to Bill Crulers for lode of wood. Sarah sick, Dr. Davis came out. Sarah vary bad in a stuper half a day. Dr. came at night, a gane, Sarah a litle beter. Bills folks, Mrs. Brown, Faney Ross, Mrs. Buchanan, Mrs. Thompson here. 20. Som clouds. Sarah a litle beter. Becky, Suse an Abbie an her children an Albert came. Mcvury an Marthy came. Emey came. it camenst raning a bout 5 raned nerly all night. 21. Sarah a litle beter, raning a bout 1 1/2 in. 23. Sunday, cloudy camenst snowing at 7 snde a good part of the day, snow a bout 5 in. Harvey came a but , Becky, Suse, Abbie an Mary here, Sarah a a litle beter. 24. Cleair still an cold, snow a bout 5 in. Sarah no beter resting esey. 25. Cloudy snow melting, still. Albert started home. 26. Cloudy snow gon, raned some. Sarah a litle beter. 28. Cloudy snode a fine snow all day an cold. wind NE not high. Sarah not much beter. Becky, Suse an Abbie here, the month gos out snow 2 inch. March 1913 1. Mostly cleair snow meltling alitle wind Sw an chiley sun shins pale at time. 2. Sunday, cleair cold this morning, wind SW cule. snow nerly gon. Sarah a litle beter. Becky Suse an Abbie here yet. 4. Som cloud erly later all disaper an a still nise warm day. 5. Clody camenst raning slow an cold. Suse went home yesterday. 13. Cloudy warm a nuf it camenst raning a bout noon, came up a nother cloud a bout 3 with wind hade an rane. Suse came yesterday. 14. Cloudy wind SW high and cold. Abbie an children went home, Sarah a litle beter, Suse here came the 13. 15. Cloudy a sprinkle of snow, melted, wind NW cold. 18. Cleair windy for 2 day SW chiley. Sarah ganing slow. Charley Gibson came, he got thru last night plated potatos. 20. Cloudy an cold and still, liting last night, rane later. 21. Cleard of this morning wind NW cold ran an slow last night, nerly today. Sarah worse Dr. came. 23. Sunday, cloudy afue drops of rane wind SW high, warm a nuf. 24. Raning all day a litle hale last night and the morning. Wind SW an high, Sarah no beter. Miscellaneous notes on back cover of tablet: i gave the children $5 a pese in February 1913. Suse cam back the 13th of March 1913 went home the 30th, pade Suse $5.50. Bill’s Lillie staing this the 30th of March, Lillie went home the 2nd of April, owe her for 3 days. pade her $5. Becky came the 1st day of April, goe home the 13. 13 Lillie came to stay awhile. 20 went home stad one week ow her for 10 days, pade in full. April 1913 18. Cloudy cule a lite frease, snode a litle, melted, vary damp. Suse an Mabel came. 19. Snowing a bout 3 in drifted suncame out a litle then a nother flurey of snow. 20. Snow melting clear. Suse an Mabel went home, Jasper taken them to Harwood. 21. Cloudy snow mostly gon, came up a snow flurey a bout 8, thoe soon went off. 22. Sunday, clair ground frosen, thoud out. Snow gon only spots, wind SE then SW. Alis came last night, will go home (can’t read) 25. Cleair still an warm wind blode yesterday, raned a litle last nite. 26. Som clouds a litle wind SW warm. the 2 Lillies went to Fare View to a diner. i a workin with the goosberes. 28. Some clouds warm. i Lillie an Jasper went to Harwood an to Ediths Smiths firnel. 29. Sunday raning an raned a good rane warm every thing groing fast. 31. Raned a good big rane last night an a gane this evening at 5 a big rane. Som wind a litle fine hale. Jasper planted a litle patch of corn at the pond yesterday. May 1913 11. Sunday, vary cule for May a lite shour last night, cloudy this morning. Sun shines at times. Jasper finish planting the 8th and Bill finished the 10th. 13. Mostley cleair and warm. Jonathan came stade til 5. Jasper camenst cultivating corn in the SW pease. Bills camenst cultivating next to Peats. 18. Sunday, raned a hour yesterday. Jack Porter came, Alas came, cleair an windy. Suse came about 4. 24. Clear Suse and Jack went home. i pade Suse $5.50, i give Bill $5 to buy milet seed. 29. Hot an dry, windy. in went for Gresum. 30. Hot winds. i went to decaration. 31. Hot an dry, hot winds at times. it looks as garden would die, so the month goes out aful dry. June 1913 1. Sunday, hot an dry. the 2 Lillies went to Harwood to memorial, som thin clouds. 5. Hot an dry, grund geting vary dry. 6. A litle more plesant, a shour a bout three in the after noon, a litle culer. 7. The sun shined brite ever thing looks nise. the sun soon shet up, got cold. i an Jas went to Walker, it got cloudy an vary cold. 8. Sunday a fue drops of rane and cule all day. Mrs. Rodick down sick. 21. Hot an vary dry, no rane for a long time, came up a dust stor a but 5 pm and a shour of rane. 22. Sunday, some clouds. Harva came. Dr. Daves cald in a fue minets. July 1913 7. Hot an dry. Sarah got wors at noon. Bill thrashed wheat had over 500 bushels. 8. hotest day, hot winds 108. 9. Not so hot, som couds a drop of rane culer at night, clear an dry. 10. Clear dry thoe plesant. Sarah a litle beter. 18. Cleair hot an dry, hot winds. 20. Sunday, hot cleair an dry. Sarah dide a but 5 pm. several here. 21. Hot an dry wind a litle plesant. Suse an Core came, Becky came. 22. Abbie, Albert, Jim and Sariah came. Mabel came in the day. Sarah was beared at 2 pm, left the hosue at one, furnel at 2 pm. 23. Sun is hot som scatren clouds. 24. Cloudy an plesant. Becky, Abbie, Jim an Sarah here, Suse went home. i setled with Buck for the fnerl exspences. $80.00 an the Dr. Davis $11.65, to the children $5 a peas and for help i do not now have much, Sarah changed 7 dolars for paper money to Jim to goe home, $15 to Jim 7 out of 15 leave $8 to me. 27. Sunday, a litle sprinkle of rane at 6 am. Marthy an Maquary here. Becky, Abbie, Jim an Sarah, Mrs. Brown, Bills folks, Charles Gibson folks, Elsey all here. 28. A shour of rane a bout 6 am. Mr. an Mrs. Cager came. 29. Cleair hot an dry. i got $15 of Lillie for Jim, i pade the $15. 30. Cleare hot an dry som clouds later. Jasper taken Jim an Sarah to Walker to start home, left here 1/2 past 3 to take the 7 trane. Abbie here yet will stay a fue day longer. 31. Cleair hot an dry wind North, a litle more plesant, looks like corn cant meak eney thing, water aful low an scarse. Abbie her talk of goin home to morow. August 1913 1. Cleair hot an dry. i Abbie an Lillie went to Nevada. Lillie got some drsing, i got a hat an sute cost $12.50 hat $2.50. i due all the money i had at Walker Bank. i dure my money out of the home an trust compney $998.46, deposit in the First National Bank. 2. Hot an dry cleair. i went to see Mrs. Swargan. she is vary bad off. Wille an wife an Mavis is thare. 3. Sunday, cleair hot an dry. Wille Swargin an wife went home. Mrs. Swargin no beter. 6. Cleair hot an dry wind NW a litle more plesant. Suse and Jack came yesterday. Jasper camenst plowing east of orched. i got my pension check. wind got hot, Jas gon to Nevada. 7. Cleair hot an dry, no rane in site. 22. Cleair hot an dry no rane to eney good cence the first of April. 24. Sunday, some thin cloud a litle culer vary dry. Emey here, Jack her. i and Lillie am to start to Ky (Kentucky) tomorrow. 25. Cleair a litle cule but plesant, vary dry, i an Lillie ar redy to start to Ky at 8 am. go to Harwood to take the trans. October 1913 7. i and Lillie got home from our Ky trip, it cost me from Harwood to St. Louis $10.00 from St. Louis to Pulaska $21.90 - going to Pulaska $32.20 From Pulaska to Ages $10.70, going from home to Ages $43.90, from Ages Creek home $49.90, rail rode for the round trip $93.80. Cleair an plesant we got home a bout 4 pm. 8. Cleair plesant an nise. 9. Cleair plesant an nise. 10. Som clouds a litle sprinle a bot 5. 11. Clear a litle cule but plesant, Mr. Cobbs sister bered. 12. Sunday, cleair an plesant Jonatha here. 13. Cleair an plesant, som wind from SW. 14. Cleair an plesant some wind from SW. 15. Som fue clouds wind SW sun hot about noon. Suse an ____ came, i an Lillie went for them. 16. Cloudy camenst a slow rane a bot 11. Suse an Abbie here, Jasper gon to the Fort??? it raned til in the night, cold rane. 17. Cloudy a fine mist at times an culd. Suse an Abbie gon with Bill to go home. 18. Partly cleairn, Mrs. Brown fetch some sogrem. 19. Sunday, cloudy rane in fore part of day, som litle homeny snow in after part of day. 20. Cleair wind NW an cold ice 3/8 of in, had a mess of rastners(??) for diner today. Jasper an Lillie duge the sweat potatoes a bout 6 b. 21. Som clouds a litle spit of homeny snow, then nerly cleair a litle cul no ise. 22. Raning cule nerly still raned nerly all day, had green beens an rosting ears for some days. 23. a big frost a litle ice nise after the morning. i shucked one roe of corn thrue Bills corn, made 20 lbs. 25. Cleair an nise. i an Jasper went to Harwood got 10 bushels of corn an 3 berels of apples. 26. Sunday, raning til 8 then snow the frund cuverd by 10 and snowing hard. 27. Partly clere, snow on the ground but melten nerly all went off. 28. Some clouds. i an Lillie went to Rades sale, turned cold about noon, a bout 4 some sleat an snow began to fall, snow cuverd the ground, got vary cold, Suse came a bout 4. 29. Cloudy an cold, Suse here, helpen to make crout. November 1913 1. Cloudy a drop or 2 of rane. Suse went home. Mrs. Sumter an Emea came. 2. Sunday, cloudy a litle cule. Jack came after Mrs. Sumter an Emea. 3. Cloudy. Jasper an Omphy sawed wood half day in after noon. 4. Cloudy. Jasper an Ophe sawed wood 1/2 day. 5. Cleair nise an still. i got my check. Jasper an Omphay sawed wood 1/2 day in fore noon. 6. Some clouds. i an Lillie put the onions out. 7. Some clouds a fue drops of rane. i an Lillie went to Walker. 8. Some clouds wind NW an cold. 9. Sunday, cleair an cold. wind NW. 10. Cleair an frost. Jasper camenst getheren his no count corn. wind cold all day. 12. Clear an nise. Jasper got dun getting his corn out, had 18 bushels and 30 lbs. i pade him $10 for it. 13. Som clouds. Jas an Omp sawing 1/2 day. 14. Cloudy. Jasper and Omph sawing 1/4, a slow cold rane. 15. Cloudy fue drops of rane,a bout 4 it set in raning. 16. Sunday, dark and cloudy til afternoon. Harvey came, Bills was here. 17. Dark Cloudy 18. Som clouds, i went to Dunkes sale. Jas an Omphy sawed wood 1 day. 23. Sunday, som clods a litle culer thoe plesant an nise an still. 24. Cleair a rite smart frost. Wes? got corn at Herstons 26 bushesl and 30 p came to $21 and 30 cts. MacCommac rite fide the tax mistake. 27. Cloudy an still has bin cloudy for 2 or 3 days and warm for November. 28. Cloudy an warm for November. Jasper an Lillie went to Walker. Dewey Porter an Flide came. 29. Sunday, raning a shur, clouds broke a way an partly cleair in after noon. Dewey Porter went with Boid up home, Lillie went with them up to Bills at 4. Mostly clair an still an nise an plesant. December 1913 1. Cloudy not qite so warm. i and Lillie an Mrs. Denide went to Walker, i got a sack B?? 2. Cloudy a litle rane. i an Jasper went to Harwood, got lode of corn. 3. Cloudy raned a shur last night. Jasper an Powel sawing appel wood. 4. Cloudy a drop of rane. Powel an Jas sawed. 5. Raning a slow rane til a bout 10, dark cloudy til about 12 then raned til night, lots of water. 6. Some clouds thoe broke away, clouds a gane an culer later. i an Jasper went to Harwood. 7. Sunday, cleair wind north an cold, grund frozen. 8. Cleair still an cold, Jasper and Pauel sawing. 9 Cleair still a big frost, Jasper gon to Bills. and Jack to Butch got of Bill wade 422. 10. Cleair still an cold. Jasper cuting up meet. 11. Cleair a big frost an still. 12. Cleair still an frost. Jasper an Powel sawed wood. 13. Cloudy an cold. 14. Sunday, cloudy, still dark an fogy plesant. 15. Dark a part of the time, nice later in the day. i an Lillie went to Nevada. 16. Vary dark an fogy. 17. Cloudy a part of the day. 18. Cloudy a part of the day. Jasper an Powel sawing wood. 19. Cloudy a fue drops of rane, i page Powel $6 20. Cloudy a litle cule an thretnig. 21. Sunday, Frost groud froze, partly clear than nise. Emea came lat night at 6 here now. 22. Snowing, snode all day an tel in the night, a big snow melted a good deal a bout 6 inches. Emea went home. 23. Cloudy still a litle cule thoe plesant. 24. Cloudy a fue fine spits of snow, snow melting, rods mudy, vary still, wind at night north. 25. Cloudy wind North an cold, rods an a fue plases necad, mostly cuverd. a fue speck of snow. Jasper gon to Bills or Jacks. no body no body pasing to day. 26. Cloudy still cold but plesant, clouds partly give way by noon, snow melting a litle. Jasper gon to Harwood to get some corn. 27. Cloudy, Jasper helped Jack to butcher. 28. Sunday, cloudy a litle spit of snow fel before day, damp, som fog an dark an thetning, som patch of grond necked but mostly cuverd. 29. Cloudy and dark in the morning. 30. Dark, smoky and cloudy an still, groud necked in plases rite smart of snow yet thoe plesant. 31. Cloudy still an plesant som patches of snow grund geting necad in pases, rods packing some, dark towrds the timber, smoke looking, grund frozen a litle this morning thoud to ten, still an plesant, what wind was SE snow melting, so gous out plesant. Miscellaneous notes; October 25 1913 1 check on First National Bank to George Wilson $17.95 November 1, i pade Bill for the wheat seed $10.05 Bought a hog pad on it $15.00 I pade Lillie for bored money $26.00 July 13 i pade $5 on the telephone, i am pade up to December 13. September 19 i had Grshums teem 1 3/4 of day. i have to setl $2.50 cts on his note when we setle DIARIES OF ALBERT FONZO COPE FROM HIS FARM NEAR WALKER, MO 1913 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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