18th — Jess & I cut corn.
Chillicothe-born Jesse Brown is a young day laborer renting a house in Green Township (possibly on the Bench property). In the 1900 census, it shows his wife Mary M. (Reynolds) and their baby daughter, Pearl E., living with him. It is likely that this is the J. Brown Jesse referred to in his May, 1900, entries. His wife Mary is Jesse’s cousin. She is the daughter of Henry C. Reynolds, brother to Sarah Elizabeth Bench, and fellow veteran who served with Jim Bench.
