24th, still raining this morning. I didn’t do anything except clean out stables & sleep. Jno went to a party at Cherry’s. Frank & I didn’t get to go. Jesse tends to write about just the facts and not his opinion, preference, or judgment. However, it’s hard to not to wonder if there was disappointment his last line here, and…
Monday, June 23, 1900
23rd, stacked oats. It is raining.
Sunday, July 22, 1900
22nd, went to S.S. & Church in the morning. Then to BYPU at 3:00. Then back to Church that night. Sermons were preached by Bro.Wood from Liberty. This is the first time Jesse mentions Oscar Lionel Wood in his diary. Oscar, wife Viola, and three of his kids are recorded in the 1900 federal census as living in Liberty, Missouri,…
Saturday, July 21, 1900
21st, stayed around home all day. This evening Frank, Charley, & I went to Baptist S.S. Convention in Chilli. Jessie Elizabeth Bench Dawkins wrote that her father Jesse was the superintendent at Utica Baptist Church before he met her mother Mary Frances Frazier. That would mean sometime around this summer, Jesse was made the superintendent, but he never mentioned it…
Friday, July 20, 1900
20th, It rained all last night & is still raining this morning. I cut a few weeds & cut a little wood & harrowed in some turnip seed.
Thursday, July 19, 1900
19th, Stacked oats from the 70.
Wednesday, July 18, 1900
18th, Stacked oats from the piece west of the railroad. Went to prayer meeting at night.
Tuesday, July 17, 1900
17th, Geo., Jno, Frank, Charley, & I stacked oats.
Monday, July 16, 1900
16th, helped Geo. haul logs to Chilli. Jesse and George are hauling the cut logs to Chillicothe to run them through a mill and make them usable for building a house for George, Rosa, and Hazel.
Sunday, July 15, 1900
15th, Clifford Bagley & I went out to Aunt Lizzies. Cliff & Nellie, Rosa & Mr. Shuttles, May Warner & I went to Church at the schoolhouse out near Aunties. Cousin Edd Wells preached. Got home at one o’clock Mon. morning. Clifford Bagley is the 23 year-old son of William Wash Bagley and Mary A. Bagley of Green Township, Livingston…