Month: July 2018

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…

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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.

19th, Stacked oats from the 70.  

18th, Stacked oats from the piece west of the railroad. Went to prayer meeting at night.

17th, Geo., Jno, Frank, Charley, & I stacked oats.

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.

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…

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14th, helped Geo. cut logs up on section 5 to build him a house. Frank, Charley, & I went swimming in the evening. If any descendants know where section 5 and George’s house was, please drop us a line!  When checking the 1910 census, George and Rosa are living in Chillicothe in a rented house.

13th, cut weeds in the peach orchard. Frank & Charley plowed corn on the G.W. Place. Frank & I went to prayer meeting at Bro. Lou Peazes. There were about 20 there. Frank and Charley might be plowing for another family for pay.  Living in Green, Livingston County, Missouri, is a man named Loten Pease, or Low Peas as it…

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12th, finished cutting oats on the 70. Got soaking wet in the morning about 8:30.