Month: October 2018

31st still raining. Pa & I sorted apples. Geo. & I hauled straw & covered the apples & potatoes in the evening. One of Pa’s cows died yesterday & I went over & skinned her. Pa gave me half what the hide came to which was $1.52. Plug $1.52 into the inflation calculator, and it says that $1.52 in 1900 has…

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30th still raining & still sorting apples.  

29th, still raining. Pa and I sorted apples.

28th, raining. Went to S.S. & BYPU meeting. Ate dinner at Jesse Brown’s. Jno & I went up to Mary’s. Went to Baptist Church.  Got home about midnight. Chillicothe-born Jesse Brown is a young day laborer renting a house in Green Township.  In the 1900 census, it shows his wife Mary M. (Reynolds) and their baby daughter, Pearl E., living…

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27th, made 60 gal. cider. Mary came home & I went up to see her. Got home at 12:30.

Oct. 26th, hauled 6 cords of wood.

25th, hauled 6 cords of wood. Verse one of JUST AS THE SUN WENT DOWN.       After the din of the battles’ roar, just at the close of day, wounded & bleeding upon the field two dying soldiers lay.       One held a ringlet of thin gray hair, one held a lock of brown. Bidding each other a last farewell,…

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24th, hauled 6 cords of wood. Went to political speaking.

23rd, Geo. & I hauled wood to Chilli. Hauled 4 cords.

22nd, rained. Hauled some lumber in the morning & cleaned out stables in evening.