Sunday, June 16, 1901

16th – Wrote a couple of letters. Went to S.S. at 3:00. John & I went to Castella in the morning. In the evening after supper Pearl, Roy, Ray, Olga, Ella, Bill & I went down to the Sulphur Sprung. Who are Ella and Bill, and where is the Sulphur Spring? Send us an email and let us know.

Friday, June 14, 1901

14th – Tamped & placed ties. Put on joist plates & etc in the morning. At 12:15 the boss came out & told Tom, Mahoney, Giro & me to go up the R.R. towards Castella & put out a fire that had broken out in Sweet Briar camp. Well, we reached the fire a half hour later & a half…

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Friday, June 7, 1901

Fri. 7th – They cut the hrs. to 10 each day & wages to $1.80 a day. Today is Jesse’s parents’ anniversary. Sarah Elizabeth Reynolds and James J. Bench got married on Thursday, June 7, 1866, in Dawn, Livingston County, Missouri. Sarah was 17 years old, and James was 22. John M. Jarvis conducted the ceremony. In 1901, it would…

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Saturday, June 1, 1901

The next Day Tom went hunting & killed a deer. The deer dressed out about 75#. Then we had a fine feast indeed. Well, Tom killed the deer about 2 mi. up Sweet Briar Creek a way back in the mts. & brush & packed it pretty near home to Callies – packed it within about a quarter of a…

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Friday, May 31, 1901

May 31st – I worked at a brick machine, the one that Tom was hauling brick at. That night our noses bled half of the time. In Jesse’s day, there were a lot of local brick factories. Both Utica and Chillicothe had one, and it employed a lot of men in the community. The same is true for Shasta County,…

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