| January |
1881 - Lafayette Squires of Gray Valley in
Sullivan Township (1842-1891) Son of Charlotte Burrows and William Sturgis
Squires |
| Saturday 1 |
We went up to Fathers Wilsons . Loyd went with
us to a oyster dinner |
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Lafe's wife, Mary J. WILSON, was daughter of
Emily BURTON & John WILSON. |
| Sunday 2 |
We foddered the last corn stalks. Hulsey
Wheeler- 2 Bushel of Wheat |
| Monday 3 |
I went to Troy. George went with me. I bought
a pair of light bobs |
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Lafe's brother, George, lived across the road
in what is now Route 6 through Gray Valley. |
| Tuesday 4 |
I cut a basswood in to logs |
| Wednesday 5 |
I drawed two loads of logs to the flats (Note:
Sylvania was formerly called Columbia Flats) |
| Thursday 6 |
I drawed a load of logs to the flats |
| Friday 7 |
I helped George draw pine logs |
| Saturday 8 |
I went to the flats, two trips for George.
drawed pine Loyd |
| Sunday 9 |
We went to James Burtons he came home with us |
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James BURTON was uncle to Mary J. WILSON,
Lafe's wife. |
| Monday 10 |
Jim helped me cut drafts of wood in the after
noon. I went and got prince in the morning |
| Tuesday 11 |
Jim and I cut logs. Loyd stayed here all night |
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Lloyd SQUIRES was Lafe's brother. |
| Wednesday 12 |
Jim and I worked in the woods. We went up to
William Wilsons in the evening |
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William WILSON, husband of Salome HOWE, was
also Mary's uncle. |
| Thursday 13 |
Jim and I went up to Blossburg |
| Friday 14 |
Drawed a load of hay in the barn |
| Saturday 15 |
We skidded logs in the woods. Willie and ?
Corey over here and Bert was here, May and her man & Hettie stayed all night
here good sleighing |
| Sunday 16 |
May and Harry and Hettie went home |
| Monday 17 |
I drawed logs from the woods |
| Tuesday 18 |
I drawed logs to Mainsburg, made three trips |
| Wednesday 19 |
I took a load of logs to the mill. I went to
the Vendue at Caleb Denills (Daniels?) |
| Thursday 20 |
I went one trip to Mainsburg with logs in
afternoon. I drawed wood to the house |
| Friday 21 |
I fixed the harness. It snowed and hailed all
day |
| Saturday 22 |
I greased the harness. Loyd went home |
| Sunday 23 |
We stayed at home. Loyd came back |
| Monday 24 |
I went to Chandleburg in the after noon. Wils
and Sarah stayed here all night. (Chandlersburg was an early name for Elk Run) |
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Sarah WILSON was sister of Lafe's wife, Mary.
Wilson HALL was Sarah's husband. |
| Tuesday 25 |
In the after noon I drawed two loads of wood |
| Wednesday 26 |
I went to Troy and got Loyd a pair of boots
$3.00 |
| Thursday 27 |
Very cold and blustering. Hulsie and wife and
Miss Milk and Seth Wood stayed here all night |
| Friday 28 |
I went to Mainesburg. Loyd went home. Cold and
blustering |
| Saturday 29 |
We went up to Isaacs. I went to Mainesburg
with Isaac |
| Sunday 30 |
We went up to Father Wilsons |
| Monday 31 |
I drawed two load of logs for wood in the
after noon. I helped George a whiile |
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| February |
|
| Tuesday 1 |
I drawed a load of hay from the stack |
| Wednesday 2 |
I went to Mainesburg and got a shoe set. We
went up to Father Wilsons and stayed all night. Wils Sarah Mary and I went over
to Henrys |
| Thursday 3 |
We came home I went and took Mary’s shoes up
to Stone’s |
| Friday 4 |
I drawed logs for wood this after noon |
| Saturday 5 |
Isaac and I went over to the cross-roads and
down to Troy. Ann and Charlie Beach stayed all night here. (Note: Columbia Cross
Roads) |
| Sunday 6 |
Ann and Charlie went home. Loyd came back |
| Monday 7 |
I went up on the mountain and got 69 fence
posts of Haymann at 3 cnts a piece |
| Tuesday 8 |
In the fore noon I got a horse shoe sets at
Mainsburg. I went to Chandleburg in the after noon |
| Wednesday 9 |
the snow is going off. I took Stella and
Nellie up to school. In the after noon I took the sap dishes up to Billies. I
drawed a load of sap at night. |
| Thursday 10 |
It has been sleighing ever since Christmas
every day the snow is most all off |
| Friday 11 |
I washed the sap spouts and drawed down a load
of wood. Snow is all off |
| Saturday 12 |
It rained most all day. We washed the sap tubs |
| Sunday 13 |
I went up to Isaacs and got Emma’s wristlets.
Cold and blustering, Bert was here in the evening |
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Isaac WHEELER was married to Mary's Aunt Polly
BURTON. |
| Monday 14 |
I skidded wood, Wesley Wood stayed here all
night |
| Tuesday 15 |
I went to election, Loyd got 167 votes, Midge
96 votes |
| Wednesday 16 |
I drawed logs for wood |
| Thursday 17 |
I went to Troy . Wils & Sarah Edgar & wife
Frank Wilson & wife. Jimmie Wilson & Jim Burton was here in the evening a
visiting. Wils Jim and Sarah stayed here all night |
| Friday 18 |
Wils folks went home, Emma went home with them |
| Saturday 19 |
I drawed 2 load of wood a load of hay from the
other stack after noon I went on the Mountain & got a load of fence posts |
| Sunday 20 |
We went up to Father’s & got Emma |
| Monday 21 |
I went to Troy to mill. I contracted a new
lumber wagon -$18. |
| Tuesday 22 |
I took the tub butter to Troy. it weighest 495
lbs, 10 tubs at 26 cnts-lbs. We stayed to Father’s all night |
| Wednesday 23 |
We got back in the after noon. Dr. & Loyd
sawed wood. Henry Lawrence wife Hich Ruggles & wife , George & wife was here a
visiting |
| Thursday 24 |
Worked at the wood I went to Mainsburg & got a
horse shoe set |
| Friday 25 |
We sawed wood We went over to Hulsie Wheelers
a visiting in the eve |
| Saturday 26 |
We sawed wood. Button caught a load of trout.
Wesley B. stayed here all night |
| Sunday 27 |
We stayed at home. Wesley is here. It rained
some |
| Monday 28 |
We sawed wood. Daniel Seely come and got 600
pound of straw 33 cts a hundred |
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| March |
|
| Tuesday 1 |
We sawed wood |
| Wednesday 2 |
I went to the saw mill and piles lumber 7600
ft. they sawed wood |
| Thursday 3 |
We sawed wood all day |
| Friday 4 |
It snowed all day long. We split wood in the
shed & corded it |
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Vendue is apparently a word used to mean Sale.
He probably meansVenue. |
| Saturday 5 |
finished sawing numb. I went to Mainsburg in
the fore noon & got a load of lumber. in the after-noon I went to the Vendue at
William Seely’s. |
| Sunday 6 |
We went up to Father’s today. |
| Monday 7 |
I drawed to load of logs for George and then
drawed back lumber for me. |
| Tuesday 8 |
In the fore-noon I took a load of logs for
George & he drawed me a load of lumber. We taped the old sugar bush in the
after-noon Dolly Beach comin. |
| Wednesday 9 |
We gathered and boilt the sap. pina comin. |
| Thursday 10 |
I went to Troy took 20 pounds of Sugar at 16
1/2 cents a pound. |
| Friday 11 |
Loyd split wood. |
| Saturday 12 |
I went to Troy and got my new lumber wagon
$8.5 (hard to read) Spotty found a bossy (Note: This means that one of the cows
mated) |
| Sunday 13 |
We stayed at home. |
| Monday 14 |
We boilt sap & sugar off. I went to the
blacksmith shop & got the horses shod. |
| Tuesday 15 |
We drawed manure in the forenoon. in the after
noon finished tapping the sugar bush |
| Wednesday 16 |
I boilt sap we sugared off twice last night.
George was here. Old Yellar found a bossy. |
| Thursday 17 |
Emma and I went to Troy. I took 54 lbs of
sugar & got 15 cts per lb. traded it & got 81 lbs of white sugar. I got a pound
and a half of white sugar for a pound of maple. |
| Friday 18 |
We boilt sap. We suggared off twice. |
| Saturday 19 |
I went to Troy took 33 lb. of sugar traded and
got 49 1/2 lb of white sugar |
| Sunday 20 |
Willie and Bert was here old Buttercup & the
little heifer found a calf. Rosey found a bossy |
| Monday 21 |
I helped Geo. score timber 3/4 of a day. Loyd
bosed over the sugar bush |
| Tuesday 22 |
Isaac and I went to Troy |
| Wednesday 23 |
We shelled some corn. Pumpkin seed heifer come
in the Geo. Smith heifer come in |
| Thursday 24 |
I went ot Chandleberg with a load of chop. old
Rony found a bossy |
| Friday 25 |
I went to Troy to milk |
| Saturday 26 |
Loyd drawed some manure. Willie brought down
two lambs |
| Sunday 27 |
Lent Dr. Bates (?) Jim stayed here all night |
| Monday 28 |
I went and took some wheat and got 8 bushels
of barley of William Johnson |
| Tuesday 29 |
We drawed manure in the forenoon. in the
after-noon I went and got the chop stuff. 86 Bushels I brought home |
| Wednesday 30 |
I drawed manure |
| Thursday 31 |
We helped Geo. draw timber . Father & Mother &
Wesley B. & Carrie was here |
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| April |
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| Friday 1 |
I went on the mountain with the horses and
bobsled, got a load of fence posts |
| Saturday 2 |
I went to Troy and took a tub of butter. got
27 cts. a lb. it weighed 50 lb. $18.50. Cherry come in |
| Sunday 3 |
We went up to Fathers. |
| Monday 4 |
We drawed manure in the fore noon, in the
afternoon Wils folks was here |
| Tuesday 5 |
I scored timber for George. Loyd drawed
manure.the little Isaac heifer come in |
| Wednesday 6 |
I went up to Preists and got Mary’s and Emma’s
shoes fixed. I took dinner at Bert Palmers |
| Thursday 7 |
We drawed manure over Lafayette Squires |
| Friday 8 |
We gathered sap in the evening went up to
Isaac Wheelers to a birthday party |
| Saturday 9 |
We boilt sap and gathered till 5 oclock and
then went to Troy with a tub of butter 51 lb at 27 cnts lb. $ 13.77 I got back
at 10 oclock |
| Sunday 10 |
We gathered sap and boilt |
| Monday 11 |
We boilt sap sugared off three times |
| Tuesday 12 |
We boilt sap sugared off twice |
| Wednesday 13 |
We gathered sap & boilt sap. Loyd boilt. Loyd
Squires took dinner here |
| Thursday 14 |
We boilt sap in the fore noon in the afternoon
I went to Troy took 59 lb 6 oz at 11 cnts a lb. |
| Friday 15 |
I went to Chandleberg in the fore noon in the
after noon I suroped off. William Wilson & Carrie here |
| Saturday 16 |
I went up on the mountain in the fore noon in
the after noon I suroped off Willie was here in the evening |
| Sunday 17 |
We stayed at home . I went over to George and
got my haircut |
| Monday 18 |
Loyd boilt sap. I went over & got my horses
shod. Hiram came up here to get some sugar to eat |
| Tuesday 19 |
2 Bushels of mamoth clover $12. 6 bu 24 lb
grass seed. I took a load of hay to Troy for George it weighed 2386 pound. I
took a tub of butter 48 pound at 25 cnts. I got a butter tub |
| Wednesday 20 |
We commenced plowing the hill |
| Thursday 21 |
Loyd plowed and boilt sap |
| Friday 22 |
Loyd plowed. I went to Chandleberg |
| Saturday23 |
We sowed 12 Bu. of oats. Brin found a bossy |
| Sunday 24 |
We went to Wilsons |
| Monday 26 |
Loyd dragged. I helped George moving barn |
| Tuesday 27 |
I helped George move the barn in the fore
noon. in the after noon we went to Troy. I took a tub of butter 46 pounds at 21
cnts a pound- $9.66 |
| Wednesday 27 |
We sowed 11 Bushel of oats & sowed grass seed |
| Thursday 28 |
I helped Geo. half a day on his barn. We
gathered all the sugar dishes |
| Friday 29 |
I helped Geo. move his barn . Loyd plowed on
the hill. (Note: to relocate a barn or other farm building, logs or rollers were
placed under it and horses or oxen pulled or rotated it to the new location. It
was done with surprising frequency.) |
| Saturday 30 |
We dragged oats. I borrowed tools from
Lafayette |
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| May |
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| Sunday 1 |
We went over to Harrison Smiths. Hulsie stayed
here all night. |
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(William Harrison Smith and his wife, Nettie
Squires, lived in the house my grandparents bought in 1917. I now own the house
and am editing this diary in it. Nettie was Lafe's niece and she had just been
married in 1880. Will Smith, a.k.a. Harrison Smith, was the first person born in
the house shortly after it was built in 1858 by his parents Lucretia Welch and
D. T. Smith, and my father, Leslie M. Tice, was the last person born there in
1921.) |
| Monday 2 |
I finished sowing oats- 36 bushel. I sold my
buggy for 35 Dollars. I bought a bulb &15.50 of Albert Richmond |
| Tuesday 3 |
I sowed 6 1/2 Bushel of Barley on the corn
ground and finished sowing Grass seed |
| Wednesday 4 |
I helped George half a day, Loyd dragged
barley. We took 12 Bushels of Chopstuff to Chandleberg. |
| Thursday 5 |
We dragged barley and went after the chopstuff
at night. |
| Friday 6 |
Loyd plowed, |
| Saturday 7 |
We plowed until 4 oclock and then went to Troy
with tub of butter, it weighed 68 pounds-19 cts a pound. |
| Sunday 8 |
We went to Fathers. |
| Monday 9 |
I went up to Isaacs and I went to Chandleberg
and Albert Richmonds. |
| Tuesday 10 |
4 gal-48 Bushel of Barley of Isaacs & went to
the post office in the forenoon. In the afternoon I helped George in the
afternoon. |
| Wednesday 11 |
We finished sowing barley . sowed 26 Bushel. I
went to Mainsburg. James Burton stayed here all night. |
| Thursday 12 |
Loyd plowed for corn. |
| Friday 13 |
Loyd plowed. |
| Saturday 14 |
I went to Leona and got a carriage $ 145.- I
took one tub of butter 58 lbs at 20 cnts a pound $ 10.60 |
| Sunday 15 |
Bert and Josie Palmer was here a visiting.
Will took dinner here. |
| Monday 16 |
We went to Fathers and got some ashes. Loyd
cleaned out the corn house and fixed fence. It rained. |
| Tuesday 17 |
Loyd plowed. I scalded my foot. |
| Wednesday 18 |
Loyd went to the blacksmith shop in the
forenoon. in the afternoon he plowed. |
| Thursday 19 |
Loyd finished the corn around in the afternoon
drawed manure. They took up Hiram Burtons wife today. |
| Friday 20 |
It rained . Loyd fixed fence. |
| Saturday 21 |
Loyd and I went to Troy in the afternoon. got
6 firkins (Note: A firkin is a small wooden tub used for butter.) |
| Sunday 22 |
We stayed at home. |
| Monday 23 |
I went to Mainsburg and got a horse shoe set.
Loyd dragged in the afternoon. |
| Tuesday 24 |
I commensed marking the corn ground in the
afternoon. |
| Wednesday 25 |
I finished marking the corn ground in the fore
noon. I dropped potatoes in the afternoon. |
| Thursday 26 |
Finished planting corn this afternoon |
| Friday 27 |
We went to Troy, I got a new Whip, $.60 |
| Saturday 28 |
I fixed fence & I went to Troy towards night.
It rained hard. |
| Sunday 29 |
We stayed at home |
| Monday 30 |
We drawed manure in the hill for sowed corn.
It rained in the afternoon. |
| Tuesday 31 |
We sowed the corn in the afternoon, in the
forenoon I went to Mainsburg. |
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| June |
|
| Wednesday 1 |
I helped Geo. half a day Loyd drawed manure. |
| Thursday 2 |
We went to Troy . Loyd went with us. |
| Friday 3 |
I helped Geo. Loyd drawed manure. |
| Saturday 4 |
Loyd and I helped George raise the barn it
took all day. |
| Sunday 5 |
In the afternoon we went up to Fathers. |
| Monday 6 |
We put 26 Bushels of top dressing on to the
corn. |
| Tuesday 7 |
We plowed, It rained. |
| Wednesday 8 |
Loyd plowed. I went down to Amos Mudges to the
raising. Mary Ann was here a visiting. It rained in the forenoon. I ruened the
bull with the rowns ( difficult to read) |
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(Note: This probably refers to a neighborhood
barn raising at Amos Mudge place. Amos was my great great grandfather. His
property was on Gray Valley Road between Elk Run and Gray Valley, where
Sleighmakers live now. His second wife, Caroline Squires was sister of Lafe.
Caroline and Amos married in 1879, and she died March 1880, so she was dead at
the time of this diary.) |
| Wednesday 15 |
Loyd plowed. |
| Thursday 16 |
I went to the Flats with George. Loyd plowed &
then he went to the blacksmith shop. |
| Friday 17 |
Loyd plowed |
| Saturday 18 |
We finished plowing the buck wheat ground. I
went to Chandleberg and got 2,000 shingles of Albert Smiths’. I give $2 a
thousand. |
| Sunday 19 |
I drove my new carriage for the first time. |
| Monday 20 |
I went to the Flats, and let Waldo have 9000
feet of basswood. |
| Tuesday 21 |
We cultivated corn |
| Wednesday 22 |
I bought two pigs of Nelson Tears. I gave two
dollars a piece. |
| Thursday 23 |
We went to Mansfield to the commencement. |
| Friday 24 |
We went over to Father Wilsons. we got 2 pigs
of Nelson Tears two dollars a piece. |
| Saturday 25 |
We drove the calves over to Frank Parkhurts in
the morning in the after noon I went to the raising to Ed Grays. Jims folks
stayes here all night. |
| Sunday 26 |
Jims folks went home. Wils & Sarah was here. |
| Monday 27 |
We finished the briggy house. |
| Tuesday 28 |
I went to Troy for George. |
| Wednesday 29 |
We went to Troy this afternoon |
| Thursday 30 |
We plowed 6 Bushel of buckwheat. |
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| JULY |
|
| Friday 1 |
We went to Troy in the afternoon. |
| Saturday 2 |
We hoed potatoes in the forenoon. in the
afternoon I went to the raisen up to William Smiths |
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(Note: This would be another barn raising. If
this is the same William Harrison Smith mentioned earlier, this would have been
the barn that burned down in 1926. My Uncle Homer, then 8 years old, was playing
with matches in the barn and started the fire. My grandfather lost all his cows
and had no insurance. He dragged the charred cattle out to the woods and buried
them by cutting off the trunks of trees that had been uprooted in the recent
windstorm and letting the root balls fall over them. We can still find cattle
bones in the woods.) |
| Sunday 3 |
Steven Pefers had my horses & carriage. |
| Monday 4 |
We went to Mainsfield to the 4th. it raines
most all day. |
| Tuesday 5 |
We went over to Thomas Monswes & got 8 pigs I
give 20 shillings a piece. We stopped to William Wilsons in the Eve |
| Wednesday 6 |
We commenced mowing . Father Wilsons folks was
down here to day. Besie Wilson come with them. |
| Thursday 7 |
We drawed in one load of hay and raked. It
rained some in the after noon. |
| Friday 8 |
I went and got my horses shod. Emma went with
me. we took dinner with Leander Austins. |
| Saturday 9 |
I went to Troy to mill in the after noon. |
| Sunday 10 |
George and Mary J. was over hire a wile, it is
the warmest we have had.. |
| Monday 11 |
Loyd dragged 3/4 of a day for George. |
| Tuesday 12 |
We stacked 4 load of clover. |
| Wednesday 13 |
I mowed hay in the forenoon. in the after noon
we raked and drawed 4 load of hay. |
| Thursday 14 |
We mowed in the fore noon and in the after
noon. we drawed and stacked 6 load of hay. |
| Friday 15 |
We mowed in the fore noon & in the after noon
we raked & stacked 4 load of hay. |
| Saturday 16 |
We drawed 6 load of hay & ropped the hay
stacks |
| Sunday 17 |
We went up to Fathers & got 8 pecks of black
raspberries/ Willie was here a little while at night. |
| Monday 18 |
We cut out wheat. I took Emma and Eva to Troy
we started at 4 oclock. |
| Tuesday 19 |
We raked and bound our wheat and set it up.
Eva went home today. |
| Wednesday 20 |
We drawed in 6 load of hay. and drawed in the
wheat 8 load. |
| Thursday 21 |
We finished haying. |
| Friday 22 |
We cut and bunched Barley |
| Saturday 23 |
We drawed Barley from the hill. |
| Sunday 24 |
We was at home. Frank Wilson & wife came over
here a little while in the after noon. |
| Monday 25 |
I helped George bind wheat 1/2 day. |
| Tuesday 26 |
We drawed manure. I let George have 4 Bushel
of wheat. |
| Wednesday 27 |
We finished drawing manure |
| Thursday 28 |
Mary, Emma & I went up to Blossburg
(unreadable). went men up through Hall Brooks & morrison . we bought our dinner
& took supper with Harry & Mary Pitts. |
| Friday 29 |
In the after noon I went to Troy to milk. |
| Saturday 30 |
I helped Geo. Smith draw wheat with my team.
Loyd cradled Barley. |
| Sunday 31 |
Loyd went over to Hulsies to day. we had a
rooster for dinner. |
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| August |
|
| Monday 1 |
Loyd came back to night. It missed some most
all day. in the after noon we went up to Isaacs. |
| Tuesday 2 |
We cut Barley & drawed in some |
| Wednesday 3 |
We finished cutting the barley & drawed in
some. I am 40 years old to day Emma made a present of a large rocking chair. |
| Thursday 4 |
We finished drawing the barley. |
| Friday 5 |
I went to the shop in the forenoon, in the
after noon I commenced cutting oats. at night - we had a very hard rain & the
wind |
| Saturday 6 |
We worked at cut oats. Mary Emma & I went to
the flats & got Emmas dress |
| Sunday 7 |
We had a hen for dinner. It rained real hard
in the he morning |
| Monday 8 |
We finished the oats upon the hill a fire the
little orchard. |
| Tuesday 9 |
We reap bound and set and set upon 75 doz.
(Note: Oats were bound in bundles called sheaves and stood upright for drying in
the sun.) |
| Wednesday 10 |
Loyd & I reap and bound and set up one hundred
dozen. |
| Thursday 11 |
We finished cutting and setting up the oats.
At night went to Troy got Mary a pair of shoes & Emma a valise, Dellie Richmond
and Nellie Strange road home with us. |
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See the 1882 Mary Gates WOOD diary for the
marriage of Dell Richmond and the death of Nellie Strange. |
| Friday 12 |
We drawed oats all day. Emma went to Tioga. |
| Saturday 13 |
We finished drawing and stacking oats 17 load. |
| Sunday 14 |
We had a chicken for dinner. Emma came home. |
| Monday 15 |
We plowed. |
| Tuesday 16 |
We plowed in the fore noon, in the after I
went and got the horses shod. |
| Wednesday 17 |
We plowed in the fore noon, in the after noon
fixed fence. |
| Thursday 18 |
We helped George draw oats. |
| Friday 19 |
We helped George draw oats in the fore noon,
in the afternoon Loyd & I went to Troy. I got me a pair of Boots- 8.50, I got
the oil can filled 10 cts a gallon. |
| Saturday 20 |
I went and took Mary home. |
| Sunday 21 |
We stayed at home. |
| Monday 22 |
We finished plowing the wheat ground and
drawed the stone of. Father and Mother was down here. |
| Tuesday 23 |
I went up to Billies and got the chains fixed. |
| Wednesday 24 |
I went to Troy. |
| Thursday 25 |
I went to Mainsburg in the after noon and got
a horse shoe set. |
| Friday 26 |
We went up on the mountain to a picnic. |
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(Note: "up on the mountain" refers to Armenia
Mountain in the southern part of Tioga and Bradford Counties. People went there
to pick "huckleberries.") |
| Saturday 27 |
We went to Mansfield to the picnic. Loyd went
with Porter. |
| Sunday 28 |
We stayed at home . Put Howland and Ed Wheeler
was here. |
| Monday 29 |
Loyd and I helped Isaac thrash/ Vanbalkaner
thrashed for him. |
| Tuesday 30 |
I helped Isaac thrash all day. Loyd helped
half a day. The thrasher came here at night two of them- stayed all night. |
| Wednesday 31 |
We thrashed George Gardner and Fred Newell
helped. George & Bert. The thrasher stayed here all night. |
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| September |
|
| Thursday 1 |
It rained all night. I went to Troy. We
finished thrashing three hands worked from Issac’s till 9’0clock.Wheat -22
Bushels, Barley -166 Bu. Oats-552 Bu. Bert half a day. |
| Friday 2 |
I sowed my wheat- 7 1/2 Bushel. It rained some
today. |
| Saturday 3 |
I went and got the horses shod, in the after
noon we cradled buckwheat. |
| Sunday 4 |
We stayed at home Willie had the carriage to
go to George Gardner’s wedding. Loyd took the Demveral wagon and horses and went
home. |
| Monday 5 |
I went and took butter to Troy. got 25 cts. a
pound. Loyd worked at the buckwheat. It is a very warm day to day. |
| Tuesday 6 |
We cracked and set up buckwheat. it is very
warm. |
| Wednesday 7 |
Loyd & I cradled buckwheat today. |
| Thursday 8 |
George Gardner and Lurd Newelt helped us in
the buckwheat- we finished today. |
| Friday 9 |
We cut our sewed corn today. Mary and I went
to Sylvania. |
| Saturday 10 |
Loyd and I went on the mountain for a picnic. |
| Sunday 11 |
We had a chicken for dinner. Loyd had the
horses and carriage at night. |
| Monday 12 |
Loyd cut corn. I helped pair the peaches, Mary
canned two dozen cans. |
| Tuesday 13 |
I went to Mainsburg & took Mary over some
peaches & I left some. Then Jar Viola Loyd finished cutting corn. |
| Wednesday 14 |
We started for Elmira at night. I walk in the
morning. We went down to Sam Squirres & stayed all night. |
| Thursday 15 |
We went to the horse race then we came home at
night. |
| Friday 16 |
Jim drawed buckwheat. Dr. pd us. |
| Saturday 17 |
We finished drawing Buckwheat, then we
unloeded 26 Bushels of potatoes. I went to Troy this after noon. |
| Sunday 18 |
We went up to Father’s today. |
| Monday 19 |
We finished digging potatoes. We gathered some
apples to take to Arnot. |
| Tuesday 20 |
Loyd & I went to Arnot. |
| Wednesday 21 |
We fixed the water so it goes to the barn. |
| Thursday 22 |
Loyd and I went to the fair at Troy. |
| Friday 23 |
I went to Troy, took Isaac |
| Saturday 24 |
We thrashed our buckwheat had 160 bushels.
Gardner & Willie helped until 10 o’clock |
| Sunday 25 |
We stayed at home today. |
| Monday 26 |
I went and got the horses shod. |
| Tuesday 27 |
I went to Troy with a load of buckwheat. Loyd
husked corn. |
| Wednesday 28 |
I went to Troy with buckwheat. Loyd husked
corn. |
| Thursday 29 |
We went to the fair in Mansfield. Loyd went
with us. |
| Friday 30 |
We went to the fair. Loyd went home. |
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|
| OCTOBER |
|
| Saturday 1 |
I cleaned my Barley. Jim came here today and
stayed all night. |
| Sunday 2 |
We went up to Wilses. Sarah is sick in bed.
Jim went with us. |
| Monday 3 |
I went to Troy with a load of Barley. Loyd
husked corn. |
| Tuesday 4 |
I went to Troy with a load of Barley. Loyd
husked corn. |
| Wednesday 5 |
I went to Troy and sold the horses. Loyd
picked apples. Sold the horses |
| Thursday 6 |
I bought Georges ? colts. |
| Friday 7 |
George 2 Bushels of oats. I billed the colts.
Loyd helped Geo. half a day. A peddler stayed here all night. |
| Saturday 8 |
We broke the colts. |
| Sunday 9 |
We stayed at home. Loyd went home a little
while today. |
| Monday 10 |
We worked on the road. |
| Tuesday 11 |
We worked n the road. |
| Wednesday 12 |
It rained. We cleaned the wheat. George got 3
Bu. of wheat |
| Thursday 13 |
We finished working on the road. |
| Friday 14 |
We broke colts. |
| Saturday 15 |
We broke colts. |
| Sunday 16 |
We got Georges old team and went up to
Fathers. |
| Monday 17 |
I went to Mainsburg got Loyds horses shod. |
| Tuesday 18 |
We finished picking apples and took some
apples to the cidar mill. |
| Wednesday 19 |
We finished corn and drawed pumkins. |
| Thursday 20 |
I went to Troy. they was trying a law suit
about murder. this makes three bags of oats George has got. |
| Friday 21 |
Loyd cut sugar wood. |
| Saturday 22 |
Loyd helped George dig potatoes in the after
noon. I went and got the cidar. |
| Sunday 23 |
I went over to Harrisons today a little while. |
| Monday 24 |
I went to Mansfield with George. |
| Tuesday 25 |
I fixed the cow stable floor. Loyd commenced
working for George this morning. |
| Wednesday 26 |
I went up to Billies and got the teapot fixed. |
| Thursday 27 |
I helped George thrash half a day. I lent him
to more bags of oats. |
| Friday 28 |
I went up to Al Lounsberrys to day rode the
colt. |
| Saturday 29 |
I went to Mainsburg it rained some today. |
| Sunday 30 |
We stayed home. |
| Monday 31 |
uncle Calvin and his nephews was here a little
while today. |
| |
(Since Lafe has no Uncles on his Squires side
named Calvin, this may be a brother of his mother Charlotte Burrows and may
eventually be an aid in identifying her and her ancestry.) |
| NOVEMBER |
|
| Tuesday 1 |
Uncle Calvin and his nephew was here to day.
William Witmare... William bought Kit. George got two bushels of oats. |
| Wednesday 2 |
I helped Isaac clean barley. |
| Thursday 3 |
I went up to Alvin Pulriers and got his sulky.
I hitched up Nellie. I lent Geo. two bushels of wheat. |
| Friday 4 |
I went over to Chas. Henry Bensons. came back
by Chandleberg and got Nellie shod. We put the cows in the barn for the first
time. |
| Saturday 5 |
Geo. got 1 1/2 bu. oats. I went up to Mr.
Lonsberrys and I bought kit. I stayed there all night. I went to Blossberg. |
| Sunday 6 |
I came home today. |
| Monday 7 |
I drove the colts today. |
| Tuesday 8 |
I took Alvins sulky home and went to election. |
| Wednesday 9 |
I went to Mansfield. |
| Thursday 10 |
I plowed with the colts the first time they
ever plowed. |
| Friday 11 |
I plowed. George got 2 Bu. of oats. |
| Saturday 12 |
I went to Chandleberg in the afternoon. |
| Sunday 13 |
George got 2 Bu. of oats this morning. Emma
and I went to the post office. |
| Monday 14 |
I plowed today. |
| Tuesday 15 |
George got 2 Bushels of Oats. I plowed. |
| Wednesday 16 |
I plowed. got David home. |
| Thursday 17 |
I plowed. Geo, got 2 Bu. of Oats and 2 Bu. of
Wheat. |
| Friday 18 |
We went to Troy Wils & Sarah was at Troy they
came back here and stayed all night. We got the new lamps today. it rained. |
| Saturday 19 |
Wils and Sarah went home. Geo. got 2 Bu. of
Oats. It rained. |
| Sunday 20 |
We stayed home. |
| Monday 21 |
I plowed. |
| Tuesday 22 |
I plowed. Loyd bought20 Bushel of Oats at 50
cts. a bushel-10.00 |
| Wednesday 23 |
I helped Geo. butcher one hog. Loyd came after
the Oats- he did not pay for them. 20 Bushels at 50 cts. a Bushel 10.00 |
| Thursday 24 |
I went to Troy with George. |
| Friday 25 |
Emma and I went to Troy. took the butter. 7
tubs weighted 351 pounds at 80 cts. a lb. - 105.80 ( math is wrong) |
| Saturday 26 |
I helped George thrash part of a day. |
| Sunday 27 |
We stayed at home. |
| Monday 28 |
I boochered.( original spelling) George
helped. |
| Tuesday 29 |
I packed the pork in the forenoon. in the
after noon I helped George thrash. |
| Wednesday 30 |
I helped George thrash half a day. I plowed in
the after noon. |
| |
|
| DECEMBER |
|
| Thursday 1 |
I went to troy with Isaac, it rained some. |
| Friday 2 |
I plowed. |
| Saturday 3 |
I plowed. |
| Sunday 4 |
We went to meeting in the fore noon and in the
evening. |
| Monday 5 |
I helped Isaac butcher today. we sold our
chickens at 8 cts. a pound live weight. $ 10. 80 |
| Tuesday 6 |
( 6th - 8th has lines through it but I
transcribed it anyway). I packed the pork in the fore noon. In the after noon
helped Geo. thrash. I went up in the sugar houses, dug a ditch. |
| Wednesday 7 |
I helped Geo. thrash half a day. I plowed in
the after noon. I sold Pina & David for 42.50 |
| Thursday 8 |
I went to Troy. It rained some. I went up to
William Robbins. |
| Friday 9 |
I plowed. I went to Troy. I got a pair of
horse blankets. - 1.80 |
| Saturday 10 |
I drawed manure |
| Sunday 11 |
We stayed at home. |
| Monday 12 |
I went and got the horses shod. Dola shod
them. |
| Tuesday 13 |
I plowed in after noon. In the forenoon I went
up to Billies. |
| |
William (Billie) Robbins (1819-1898) was a
blacksmith and general handyman. He is known for the rifles he forged for use in
the Civil War. |
| Wednesday 14 |
We went to the flats in the fore noon. It
rained all day long. |
| Thursday 15 |
Lew Beach and Ann stayed here all night.
William Robbins was burried to day. |
| |
I can not determine which of the several
William Robbins died at this time, but it was not Bille, who died in 1898 - much
later than this. |
| Friday 16 |
I finished plowing. Elder Paine stayed here
all night/ |
| Seturday 17 |
Emma and Mary went. I helped Geo. Smith
butcher in the fore noon. Father and Mother Wilson & Wilson’s folks was here
today. Lew and Ann Beach took supper here. |
| Sunday 18 |
I went and got Mary & Emma. |
| Monday 19 |
I went to Troy with Isaac and got me a watch
chain & a new cap. |
| Tuesday 20 |
Isaac & I went to Mansfield to the Vendue. We
took dinner at Lewis Beaches. |
| Wednesday 21 |
I went to Mainsburg and got a load of lumber.
I took the pig up to George Robbins’s. |
| Thursday 22 |
Mary and I went to Troy. it rained |
| Friday 23 |
I went up to Billies. I got the pig home
today. |
| Saturday 24 |
I went to Chandleburg. |
| Sunday 25 |
We had a chicken for dinner. |
| Monday 26 |
I went up to George Smith’s. |
| Tuesday 27 |
I went up to William Robbins’s and got my
bolts for the sled. |
| Wednesday 28 |
I made a sled. We went to the donation. (A
donation was a social event that was used as a fund raiser, hence a donation was
expected..) |
| Thursday 29 |
Dr. & I commenced blasting. |
| Friday 30 |
Dr. & I went on the hill and blasted to day.
Wesley Wood stayed here all night. |
| Saturday 31 |
Wesley Wood and & went to Troy/ I got the
couch. |
