Month: December 2018

30th – Geo. & I went S.S. Ate dinner at Ma DeLapp’s. I went to BYPU in the evening. Then up to Mary’s. Pa came home today & Cora with him.

29th – Geo. & I cut wood, salted cattle, & brought old Diligence home. Went skating on old cut-off & over to Mary’s afterwards. If anyone knows where the cut-off is, please drop a line. Perhaps it is where the Grand River and Thompson River meet?

27 – 28th – Charley & I hauled wood to Mrs. DeLapp’s.

26th – Gathered the last of our corn.

Dec. 25th – Christmas gifts. Geo., Frank, & I went to Utica & then to Mary’s.

24th – Geo. & I brought cattle down & put them on “55”.

23rd – Geo. & I went to S.S. & to Church. Bro.Wood did preaching. We went to BYPU.

22nd – Frank, Charley & I gathered the rest of the corn on the old place. John & Pa went to Aunt Lizzies & Aunt Vina’s today. Does anyone know what and where is “the old place”?

21st – Gathered corn.

20th – George Bench came today.  He & I gathered corn.  Charley got 7 loads this week. Cousin George Albert Bench was up visiting from Chickasaw Nation (Oklahoma), where he and his wife Amy and kids are documented in the 1900 federal census.  George is the son of Julia Ann Reynolds, sister of Sarah Elizabeth Reynolds Bench, and Samuel Wiley…

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