24th-Raining. Pa, Frank & I built fence between the 55 & other fields on the West.

23rd-Finished the yellow corn on 55. Got 207 Bu. Snowed, sleeted & rained.

21 & 22nd- Gathered corn in rain. While today is Thanksgiving in 2018, before 1942 Thanksgiving was the last Thursday of every month.  Since in 1900 and 2018 there are five Thursdays in the month, we are celebrating on the fourth Thursday as Congress resolved in 1941, and the Bench family is celebrating next week.

18th – Rained all day.

17th-stacks of hay fell over & killed a cow & calf.

12-13-14-15 & 16 gathered corn.

11th-Howard & I went to S.S. Took Mary back to Chilli. in the evening. Went to Holiness meeting south of RR. Howard rode with us. Leona rode home from Chilli. with us. Drove John’s horse and Buggy. Howard is Frank Manfield’s 15 year-old brother, and Jen’s brother-in-law who lives in Chillicothe.

10th- Mary came home today. Snowed. Geo. & I husked corn east of Brown house. Jesse does not say outright why Mary is not living with her parents, or where she is living.  It appears that she is living with her Uncle Ed and Aunt Sallie McCormick.  Since her parents’ household has seven children and Mary is 22 years old,…

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9th- Geo. & I picked corn east of the Brown house. About 30 Bu. Mrs & Maggie, John Earl & Matt DeLapp came down home today.  Frank Bench, Howard, Maggie, Matt & I went to cottage prayer meeting at Fred Shermans. Chillicothe-born Jesse Brown is a young day laborer renting a house in Green Township.  In the 1900 census, it shows…

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8th- Pa & I gathered corn. About 30 Bu.