5th — Frank & I went up to the “70” & got an old cow & calf & took them to the Toby Place. Put all 20 old cows & 17 calves in Toby pasture, watered them & then gathered corn. This is a recurring mystery! Where is this Toby pasture, and is it owned by a half-sibling of Jim…
Year: 2019
Monday, November 4, 1901
4th — Snowed last night. Fixed fence & gathered corn. Pa & John hauled the apples off today. There were 70 Barrels. 37 barrels of number ones — $2.75 each & 33 barrels of number twos — $2.00 each. Each of the grade-one barrels were worth $2.75, which has the same spending power as $83.07 in 2019. Thirty-seven grade-one barrels…
Friday, November 1, 1901
Nov. 1, 1901 — made cider, watered cattle, gathered load of corn. Took a load of wood to town.
Saturday, October 26, 1901
20 thru 26th — Picked apples & corn. We now have 406 Bu. of apples. Pa sold 11 head of steers this week. $333.00 for them. “Old Oct. purty nigh gone”. Raining this morning. According to the inflation calculator, $333 in 1901 has the same spending power as $10,058.91 in 2019. Each cow would have brought in $30.27, and that…
Sunday, October 20, 1901
15th thru 19th — Picked apples all week. Sat. Evening Mary & I went to Pa Fraziers & stayed all night & until 4 Sun evening. Then went to BYPU at 7 P.M.
Monday, October 14, 1901
Mon. 14th — Picked apples in the forenoon & helped John in afternoon.
Sunday, October 13, 1901
[Saturday, October] 12th — Pa, Mary & I went to Chilli. Got our license & Oct 13th, 1901, Mary & I were married by Bro. Wood at Utica Baptist Church just after service, just before benediction had fallen. Then we drove over to Mary’s (Drove Old Buck) ate dinner there. Came back home. At supper at 5 P.M. Frank, Jen,…
Friday, October 11, 1901
11th — Finished drilling wheat. Frank has been drilling wheat & rye for several weeks.
Thursday, October 10, 2019
10th — Drilled wheat on Cosner Place. Jesse is likely referring to James Harvey Cosner’s farm. While some of his siblings lived in Livingston County a few decades before, it’s Jim and his son Henry Ward Beecher Cosner who managed a farm in the area for so many years.
Sunday, October 6, 1901
Oct.6th — Went to SS. but there was none on account of rain. Went to Chilli. in afternoon to Uncle Edd’s & brought Mary home. She & I went to BYPU meeting at Utica at 7 P.M. I led the meeting. After meeting I took Mary to Mrs Lidy’s to stay this week & make her new (W) dress. Jesse…