29th through Oct. 5th — Built fence all week plus regular chores.
Year: 2019
Saturday, September 28, 1901
23 thru 28th — Drove cattle & hauled sand & rocks & helped on the house. Drilled wheat on Toby place. Fri. Some hobo stole my dinner & had to come in & eat. It would be hard to think that Jesse went over to Dawn, Missouri, to help drill wheat for any half-siblings of his dad. The only Tobey…
Sunday, September 22, 1901
Sun — 22nd — Went to S.S. & ate dinner at Sophia’s Caught a ride in a buggy at Utica & went to Mary’s. She & I came over home about 5 P.M. I did up the work & then we went to church. Drove Nancy Hanks.
Friday, September 20, 1901
20th — Jess Brown & I cut more corn.
Thursday, September 19, 1901
19th — Helped on the new house.
Wednesday, September 18, 1901
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…
Tuesday, September 17, 1901
16 — 17th — Helped on the house. At this point unless a descendant knows anything, this is a bit of a mystery. Is this building a house, or fixing up an old one? Is it one that Jim Bench or someone else just bought, or it is a house already sitting on Jim Bench’s property? Jesse’s daughter writes in…
Sunday, September 15, 1901
15th — Went to S.S. & saw a lot of friends who were glad to see me back. Ate dinner at home. Then took Mary home. Jesse has a habit of not mentioning birthdays. Today is Ma DeLapp’s birthday!
Saturday, September 14, 1901
Sept. 14th — Pa, Charley Gibbons, Geo., John & I went to Chilli. I got some clothes. Mary came home with us. Remember that Mary is living in Chillicothe with her Uncle Ed and Aunt Sallie, helping out with chores and childcare during the week, and then she comes home to her parents’ house at the Bench property on the…
Friday, September 13, 1901
3 A.M. Fri. we got to Emporia where Tom Allen worked. Topeka 4:40. Got to K.C. at 7:15 this morning. Ate breakfast & was transferred in a bus from the Union Depot to C.M. & St. Paul & at 9:50 we are moving on our way to Chilli. Got there at 1 P.M. & got home at about 4P.M. &…