30th, went to S.S., Church & BYPU meeting. Ate dinner with Bro. Arthur Wilson. He then came home with me & stayed all night.
Month: September 2018
Saturday, September 29, 1900
27th, 28th, 29th, rained. Cleaned more sheds & made cider.
Wednesday, September 26, 1900
26th, it’s raining. Walter & I cleaned out calf sheds. I went to Prayer Meeting.
Tuesday, September 25, 1900
25th, made cider. Mary Frazier was here most all day. (P. for M. as she past by) I harrowed in the evening. Jno, Geo., & Walter worked on the corn crib roof. As noted before, Jesse does not write out opinions or intimate details about much of anything. Above is one of his few mysterious initials. Did he just mean…
Monday, September 24, 1900
24th, Walter & I picked up apples.
Sunday, September 23, 1900
23rd, Went to S.S. & Church & to BYPU meeting. Bro. Wood from Liberty preached sermon. It rained last night.
Saturday, September 22, 1900
22nd, helped Pa & Mr. Freason take off some cattle. Helped ditch. Gathered some corn. Picked up apples. Us boys went to an apple peeling tonight at Fraziers. There is no Freason (in any spelling variation) listed in the 1900 federal census in Livingston County area. Perhaps he meant Frazier? The Frazier family seems to have moved onto the Bench…
Friday, September 21, 1900
21st, Walter Hunley & I gathered a load of corn. I harrowed across the R.R. for awhile in evening. Frank, Walter Hunley, & I went to cottage Prayer Meeting at Sister E. Stones.
Thursday, September 20, 1900
20th, tore shingles off of corn crib & hauled them down to the house. John, Walter Hunley, Pa, Geo., & I went to Chilli for a load of shingles. This suburbanite never heard of a corn crib outside of the song from The Music Man. While Jesse would never be suspected of hiding a dime novel in a corn crib,…
Wednesday, September 19, 1900
19th, cleaned out stables, fixed some mangers & made cider. Went to Prayer Meeting & lead the meeting.