Sunday, October 7, 1900

7th, Ma, Jen, Maude, Rosa, Hazel, Geo., Jno, Frank, Charley, Mrs. & Maggie DeLapp went over on shoal creek a paw-paw hunting. Didn’t find as much as they could eat. I went to S.S. & Church & BYPU. Ate dinner at Sister E. Stones.

This great-granddaughter blogger admits to not knowing what a paw-paw is.  That link above though takes you to the Missouri Department of Conservation, so that answers that.  The Kentucky State University Cooperative Extension Program has a number of paw paw recipes to peruse.