1838 Poetry and 1920's Recipe Album and 1903-4 Journal
of Charlotte Mathews Copeland
 

In about 1910, Charlotte Mathews Copeland sits with her brother Joseph's grandson, Walter Hurelle at Joseph's home in Otsego.

Envelope dated October 6, 1887 addressed to Honorable George M. Copeland, the second husband of Charlotte Mathews.

The portrait of George M. Copeland as retrieved from Ancestry.com.

Hattie Elliott, a friend, sends a postcard dated December 25, 1910 to Charlotte Mathews Copeland. The photo shows her previous residence when she was living with her second husband George. After he died, she moved back to Wisconsin and  eventually lived with her niece, Della Mathews Hurelle and her husband Elmer Hurelle.

Charlotte Mathews was born on December 17, 1814 in Ithaca, Tompkins, New York. Charlotte, at the age of 89, wrote a unique daily account of the lives of the Mathews family in Otsego, Wisconsin in 1903 and 1904 in her first husband's, Garrett N. Hanson 'Account Book.'

According to her obituary, she traveled west with her parents Joseph and Mary Mathews in 1849 from New York to Wisconsin. In that same year she married Garrett Hanson, a pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. They traveled the area preaching the gospel and visited with people in their homes. He died in 1857 and she later remarried George Copeland of Clarendon, New York in 1870 and for over twenty years preached together until he died in 1892. She moved back to Wisconsin joining her other brother, William Mathews until he died in 1897. Charlotte then moved in with her younger brother, Joseph and his wife Josephine.

The 1900 census lists her living with her brother's family, Joseph in Otsego.  According to the U.S. Census in 1905 and 1910, she then moved and was living with the Elmer and Della (Joseph's daughter) Hurelle family and Joseph's widow Josephine Pease, also in Otsego.

A devout Christian, she commonly wrote scripture next to her daily journal entries. She outlived much of her family and at and the age of 97, died on 20 November 1912 and is buried in Columbus, Wisconsin.

Joseph Ward Mathews, Charlotte's brother, was born March 17, 1833 in Ithica, Tompkins County, New York and died May 10, 1906 in Otsego, Wisconsin. His gravestone still stands in Otsego. On March 1, 1848 Joseph Mathews acquired 80 acres in Otesgo, Portage County, Wisconsin Territory. The area today is an open agricultural field. He was on the Board of Directors on the Joint School District No.1 of the towns of Otsego & Hamden from July 1, 1889 to July, 1892. He also help vote in the construction of a new school, voting on 8-4-1890.

The journal measures 6.25 inches wide by 7.5 inches tall an .5 inch wide

The journal first started as an account book with entries from April, 1843 and 1845 by Garrett N. Hanson, the first husband of Charlotte Mathews Copeland.

January 1, 1903 - the first entry in her journal describing life in rural Wisconsin. View the complete text of the journal below. The book is filled with daily accounts, news paper clippings, prayers, and lists.

The first page of the book is titled "Garrett N. Hanson's Acct Book April 1843" and follows with Charlotte's pages written over fifty years later in 1903.

In 1857, after Garrett's death, Charlotte, lists her husband's accounts within the journal's pages and lists Joseph Mathews as receiving $10.00.

May 11, 1904 - Northwestern Christian Advocate newspaper clipping in Charlotte's Journal advertising the "most wonderful stove ever invented."

June 27, 1845 - An interesting view into an early American library accounted for by Garrett N. Hanson - the first husband of Charlotte Mathews - which Charlotte later used for her 1903 and 1904 journal.

Old dried leaves that remained flattened in the pages of the journal

Read Charlotte Mathews daily 1903 - 1904 Journal about the various Families in Otsego, Wisconsin:

The following is a text version of Charlotte's journal. She strung her ideas and sentences together without punctuation and misspelled many words. Some have been corrected for clarity some not. She wrote in cursive and in pen and ink. Words bled through pages and were sometimes smudged and unreadable. She was also 90 years old in 1904.

Despite the trouble deciphering the text and making my own errors, the names and places give a glimpse into the daily life of a middle class farming family in Columbia County, Wisconsin in 1903 and 1904.

Enjoy reading! - Dave - July 18, 2022
 

Garrett N. Hanson’s
Acct Book
April 1843
(Charlotte’s first husband)

Charlotte M. Copeland 1903
January

(Back of title page)
Clarice
Lettice
Mildred

1st Thursday  pleasant rise half past six am
Brother Joseph to Otsego  Clara Henton here to dinner.
Adella to Mr. Charles Wrights to Nite Society
Have a lovely day for New Years

2nd Friday morning foggy rise five am  Brother
Joseph to Rio  Adella to Mrs. Denver Heaths (Carrie E. Mathews)
Brother home half past one pm  brought me two letters
One from Rev. Benn Copeland Gemeses  one from Rev.
R. W. Copeland Bergen York State

3rd Saturday Cloudy snowed some last night  rise half past
six am  do my Saturday work   Elmer came and
Brought our mail to diner

4th Sunday Clear in the morning  rise seven am  all
stay at home to read  tried to storm  saw several
teams (horses) go by

5th Monday  pleasant  rise six am  do some washing
the rest of my work get very tired  write two letters
Kate and Joseph do washing  quite a  moderate today

6th Tuesday Cloudy rise seven am  do my mornings work
send a letter for the advocate and one to Rev. Benn
Copeland Genesee NJ  write to Watson Copeland
Joseph and wife to Otsego  Mr Keefer brought
a quarter of beef this evening

Psalms 4-
For this God if our God for ever and ever: he will
be our  guide even unto death.

January 1903

7th Wednesday  windy and cold  rise seven am
do my ironing  Joseph cut up his beef
the wind does not abate  weather cold

8th Thursday wind still blowing cold  rise half
past  six am  the sun tries to shine
wind blew loud all day cold  Joseph shovel snow

9th Friday  pleasant cold and windy rise seven am
Sew on my quilt  Elmer caled  wind blew all day

10th Saturday  Pleasant and more mild rise seven am
Mrs. Carrie Heath (Carrie E. Mathews) spent the day at home
Spencer Heath came and took tea with them

11th  Sunday  Snowing  more mild   rise seven am
Cold and stormy all day  we all stay at home from
Church  read and converse  pleasant in the house

12th Monday pleasant but cold 10 below Zero  rise seven
Elmer called and brought the mail and letter from
Mrs. Boswell  read and do some mending

Joseph clean chimney

13th Tuesday Cloudy weather cold  rise seven am
after breakfast my chimney commenced burning
Joseph let fire go out Joseph cleaned chimney and
Chimney stove pipe  done some mending on Joseph fur coat

14th Wednesday  clear  some cold  rise seven am
Joseph to Otsego to find a man to work for
him  got my quilt together  done some washing
the weather more mild

And now Lord, what wait (?)before? My hope is in thee.

January 1903

15th Thursday  cloudy   rise half past six am
Elmer came  Mr. Brossard and helped Joseph kill
His hog and get it in back room  pleasant day

16th Friday Clear  rise after seven and do my work
Mrs. Hendericks came  was here to dinner and
Mrs. Cora Henton (Cora L. Mathews) came home afternoon
Elmer went to Mr Shultz and purchased some
More chickens for himself and his Father

17th Saturday  pleasant rise six am and do my
Saturday work  done some mending and read  wind north
West cold  surprise party to Mrs. Flint Taylors
this evening  Mr. Taylor is moving to Rio

18th Sunday  pleasant  rise seven am  cold came
thermometer below zero  weather moderate after
noon all stayed at home from church  Mr. Denver
Heath and wife (Carrie Mathews)  spent evening here very pleasantly

19th Monday  pleasant  wind south west  same cold   rise seven am
Allen King came to work for brother Joseph at
Ten dollars a month  Joseph to Otsego  Adella to her
sisters Mrs. Heaths and letter from Etta Copeland Clarence

20th Tuesday cloudy  looks like storm  rise seven am
Joseph to Fall River to get feed ground  took 23 roosters
gets per pound home 3pm

21st Wednesday  cloudy  rise seven am
Mr. Andrew Jonson to tea  weather more moderate
our folks wash to day   rather poor sleighing

January 1903

Clean Chimney

22nd Thursday  cloudy  trying to snow  rise seven am
Mr. Andrew Johnson  stayed all night and to
breakfast  Joseph clean stove pipe and
chimney & I cleaned up & sweep
J. H. Mathews caled   Mrs. Lennel Wright died this morning

23rd Friday pleasant & cold  rise seven am
I spent the day at Mr. Jay Hentons  a
pleasant visit  Mrs. Carrie Heath spent the day at home
a letter from Mrs. Kate Copeland Bergan

24th  Saturday  some cloudy  rise six am
Miss Sardy Goodman spent afternoon with
Adella  Mrs. Mathie Wright & daughter caled

25th Sunday  Cloudy  rise seven am  Miss S Goodman
spent the night here with Adella
Elmer caled   the funeral of Mrs. L. Wright to
day at the house  one pm

26th Monday  Cloudy  rise six am  the clouds disappeared
about nine am  xxxxxxx
Joseph & oxen draw wood for summer wash

27th  Tuesday  pleasant  rise seven am do some ironing
Allen (hired help) away to day to help his Uncle F. Taylor move
Joseph to Otsego  read and sew

28th Wednesday  foggy  rise six am  kindle the fire & go
back to bed until almost seven  am  get up
and get ready for breakfast   read & sew
foggy all day  have a heavy mist all day

January 1903
29th Thursday  cloudy & foggy  rise half past five
& kindle my fire then go to bed   rise half past six
foggy all day  rather a lonesome day  wind changing

30th Friday  clear & cold  wind in the cold corner   rise 7 am
sew on quilt & get ? had no company to day
have a great fire in Rio this morning

31st Saturday   cloudy  rise six am and start my fire
return to my bed  rise  7 am weather quite cold
last day of January 1903   Joseph to Otsego get the mail
Allen (hired help) after dinner went to Rio to see where the fire was

February, 1903

1st Sunday  pleasant rise seven am
Joseph & Adella attend church 2 pm but few out
read &  Advocate & my Bible

2nd Monday  rainy  riser six am prepare my washing
I do some washing & sweep & read  Kate & Joseph do
The washing  Joseph afternoon make a on Mr.____

3rd Tuesday  some cloudy  rise six make a fire and go to
bed rise seven am do my ironing & mending the
wind blew hard all day & snowed at evening  finished
reading my book

4th Wednesday  Cloudy and snowing  lone starting fire
six am rise seven am wind blew hard all day
and snowed a part of the day  drifted badley

5th Thursday  pleasant rise six am& start fire
Mrs. Matie Wright & daughter here to diner   write a letter
To Mrs. Etta Copeland Clarendan  Still & quiet all day

"Thou, O' Christ, art all I want."


February, 1903

6th Friday  pleasant rise half past six am
Joseph to Otsego for mail  Adella to her sisters
Mr. Denver Heath & his wife spent evening here
Wrote letter to Mrs. R. W. Copeland & one to her
Daughter Edith

7th Saturday  cloudy rise seven am & do my
work sweep and clean & then read the papers
Snowed some

8th Sunday pleasant rise seven am &
start my fire  Joseph and Adella to church 2 pm
home all day read

9th Monday morning cloudy  clear at 10 am do my
washing & clean up   Elmer came &  took Prince (Horse)
to draw wood  Adella went to Carrie Heaths
Allen cutting down trees & cutting up in stove wood

10th Tuesday pleasant rise five & start fire & go to
bed rise seven am thawed roads bare  Joseph
and Allan in the grove cutting wood

11th Wednesday  cloudy start fire five rise seven
Joseph to Otsego & his wife went to J. A Mathews

12th Thursday morning same cloudy   start fire six
rise seven am Joseph & Adella went to the
City of Columbus  Mr. Denver Heath & wife
Caled. Mr. D. Heath hired Allen King to work
for him for the summer

In the lord put, & my trust , hour day ye to my soul,
feel as a bird to your mountain?

February 1903

13th Friday pleasant start fire six rise seven
wind in north west Joseph to Otsego   a party
to Mr. Denver Heath this evening

14th Saturday pleasant start five am rise seven am
read most of the day after doing my Saturday
work  Joseph go for Adella   Allen King was trimming
a tree & his ax slipped &  flew back & cut his
face several inches  he went to the doctor

15th Sunday cloudy start fire six rise seven am
cold wind in the north west all stay at home from church

16th Monday pleasant start fire five rise half past six
got my things in soaking  to be ready for washing
Joseph clean chimney and I clean up & do
some washing & get up to day get tired

17th Tuesday Clear and old  rise seven am
Joseph doing chores alone  this cold weather  iron
read & sew oh how cold

18th Wednesday  clear  windy  rise half past six am
Thermometer 18 below zero here some 21 below
we carry coals down cellar to keep it from freezing
home   thankful we all shall be to have the weather
more moderate Allen King got our mail for me

19th Thursday cloudy rise half past six am  cold
wind in the south  weather more moderate
Allen came & worked  Miss Clara Henton to dinner

20th Friday pleasant rise seven am  Elmer & wife called
Allen got through with work  wrote a letter to Mr. Lewis L
Copeland  Sociable to Mr. Mores to night a quilt contest Miss
Mattie Wright drew the prize  they made 21 dollars by their supper
(At Sociables, single men bid on suppers to raise money for the church)
 

February 1903

21st Saturday  cloudy  wind north west  rise half past
six am  windy all day quite cold  no calls

22nd Sunday pleasant  weather more mild   rise seven am
wind raised & blew hard all day & cold
all stay at home from church

23rd Monday cloudy  rise six am start fire five am
Joseph and Kate wash and I do some wash
my windows & clean up things

24th Tuesday  pleasant rise six am  start my fire
sent letter to the Office to Mr. Lewis  Copeland
Boston  Joseph to Otsego for mail

25th Wednesday pleasant rise six & start my fire
Joseph to Otsego to have his buggy tonuge (tongue) fixed
Finish my ironing read & sew

26th Thursday  pleasant  start fire five  rise six am
a pleasant day  Nite Society met today at Mr.
Charley Wrights  Joseph to Otsego receive my interests

27th Friday rainy rise six am start fire
clear afternoon read and sew Joseph not well has
the Neuralgia

28th Saturday  snowing rise half past six am
wind blew hard all day do my Saturday
work read and sew  last day of winter

Trust in the Lord for ever;
For in the Lord Jehovah is
Everlasting strength.
The Lord reigneth let the earth be glad
 

March 1903

1st Sunday clear and cold rise half past six am
windy  all day all stay at home from church

2nd Monday cloudy  rise six and start fire  rise for good
half past six  weather more moderate
Joseph & Adella to Otsego  heard quite a number
Of persons sick  some with gripp (flu)

3rd Tuesday  cloudy  start fire six  rise seven am
not very well to day  read and sew  weather mild

4th Wednesday  cloudy rise  half past four start fire rise
seven am Joseph to Otsego  Adella & her mother
tied a comforter  snowed & rained

5th Thursday morning cloudy rise six am
commenced making a comforter for Miss Adella
Mrs. Cora Henton & son Earl caled

6th Friday cloudy start fire five rise half past 6
Joseph to Otsego to see Elmer  he is sick with
Gripp  pieced one block  foggy & rain  same all day

7th Saturday  foggy &rain rise six am
Joseph to Otsego found Elmer better & all of
The rest of the sick  pieced another block  clear
afternoon sun shines

8th Sunday pleasant five start fire rise half
past six am  Mr. J. A. Mathews caled  all staid
home from church  read

9th Monday cloudy & foggy  rise six am Joseph &
Kate wash & I do some washing & clean up after diner
Joseph clean stove pipe & chimney & then sweep
& clean up the soot & dust  very tired

1858  Charlotte Hanson   Administratrix
in Acct with the estate of late G. W.
Hanson

Acct to Rec & not paid
G. Chesters  Acct for fencing in G.zar    6.00
Acct of L.L. Helsy & Co.                        7.04
Old Acct of Do   Do                                2.00
Acct of Chapin & Sheppard                  49.94
Note with interest held by ‘    ‘              53.53
Account of C. W. Dean                           9.12
Account of W. Adams                           30.00
For half line fence                                 55.00
D Axtell’s bill                                         5.00
Chadbourne fees                                       .75
D. D. Kels for appraisement                    3.00
Acct with Trustees of M. E. Church      15.00

Faith, Hope, and Charity

The first link united the beleiver to
God;  the second united the troubled
present with the blessed future;
the third blends the spirit of man
with the spirit of Jesus.
------
the Lord is my refuge and my foretrees
My God in him will I trust

March 1903

10th Tuesday  raining  rise half past six am
Adella visit Miss Sadie Goodman  spent the
Day there  pieced two blocks for comforter

11th Wednesday  foggy & misty rise half past six am
Joseph to Otsego  some paper Adella to her sisters
Mrs. Cora Henton  Bert Mathews caled

12th Thursday  foggy roads muddy  rise six am
Andrew caled  also Bert Mathews & they cleaned stove
Pipe & chimney  I read & sew

13th Friday  fogy again  rise half past six am
Joseph and Adella to Otsego  foggy left at ten am &
Pleasant the remainder of the day  read & do sewing

14th Saturday  rainy  rise six am & do my morning
work  Joseph & wife went to Otsego to see Elmer Mathews
Miss Bell Wright called  cloudy all day

15th Sunday fogy rise half past six am  all stay
at home from church  J A Mathews & wife & children
call  they have a pretty little girl they call her LuLu

16th Monday  fogy & rainy rise six am Joseph to
Otsego have half dozen lemons  damp & wet day
Have a shower half past five pm  Some thunder & lightning

17th Tuesday  foggy & rainy rise six am  do my ironing
& then sew all day on the quilt pieces  cloudy all day

The Lord regin reigneth  let the Earth be glad

March 1903

18th Wednesday  foggy & rainy  rise half past six am
weather became clear at nine am very warm day
Andrew Johnson came to work for Brother Joseph
Finished the blocks for Adella comforter
Have a hard thunder & rain evening

19th Thursday cloudy rise six am thundered after
midnight & rained last night  Joseph to Otsego
he found Elmer worse  swept & cleaned my bed room
a warm day for March

20th  Friday raining rise six am  sweep & clean my
room very tired  write a letter to Mrs. E. A. Boswell
cloudy all day makes one feel lonely & Andrew
gone away until Monday  weather growing colder

21st  Saturday pleasant morning  rise half past six
the sun crosses the line to day Joseph to Otsego
for the mail  wind south west and cold
send letter to Mrs. Boswell Vorona, NJ.

22nd Sunday pleasant  rise half past six am
Mr. Denver Heath & wife spent the day here

23rd Monday fogy rise six am start fire
Joseph & Kate wash & I do some washing &
Put a quilt on the frames  Mrs. Carrie Heath
Spent the day at home  rained 4 pm & then
turned to snow six pm & colder

24th Tuesday Stormy  rise six am  wind blowing
quite hard  several inches of snow on the
ground  not many passing  by  finally the
wind went down  afternoon weather no

March 1903

25th Wednesday  pleasant  rise six am
Spent fornoon in mending   Joseph to Doyle
Town & when he returned brought the mail

26th  Thursday  pleasant rise six am  cloudy afternoon
Joseph & wife to Otsego caled on Elmer found him
about the same  quilt same Nite Society meet at
Mr. M Heaths to day   rained evening

27th Friday cloudy rise six am wet & damp
quilt a part of the day Mrs. Matie Wright  brought
our papers for us from the Office

28th Saturday  cloudy rise six am  & do my Saturdays
work  Joseph & wife to Otsego to see Elmer  find
no better  Caled to Mr. Denver Heaths & found him sick
with gripp  then they caled to Mr. Jay Hentons  Kate
stayed there until four pm Joseph caled for her

29th Sunday  pleasant heavy frost last night  rise six am
Miss Bell Wright staid with us while her folks
went to the funeral of Mrs. Bush at the house
no preaching at the church

30th Monday pleasant  rise six  am  get my clothes in
soak  Joseph & Adella went to Otsego to see Elmer  found
no better  a letter from Amelia Hoyt  ND

31st  Tuesday  pleasant rise half past five am send
letter to Mrs. Amelia Hoyt & Charley Hoyt ND
Mr. Andrew Johnson came to work for Joseph
Joseph & Adella went to Elmer  found him more comfortable
A warm day last day of the month 1903

With long life will I satisfy Him, and thou Him
My salvation

April. 1903

1st Wednesday  a thunder shower  rise before six
Andrew grubbed (pick up wood in the grove)
To day Joseph to Otsego to see Elmer
Found him more comfortable  clear  a part of the day
cloudy four PM Thunder & rain all the evening until
Twelve

2nd Thursday  clouds & foggy rise six am & windy
quilt nearly all day  Joseph & Andrew to work
getting ready for Spring Work

3rd  Friday  cloudy & windy quite cold rise six am
Joseph to Otsego to Elmer  find him some better
more appetite for eating  have my paper & read it

4th  Saturday pleasant & cold rise six am
Mrs. Carrie Heath caled   Adella went home with
her Joseph to Otsego to see Elmer  Andrew to Rio
Joseph & Adella went to Otsego to see Elmer eve

5th Sunday cloudy & cold rise before six am
all stay at home from church Matie drove up to
see how Elmer was  Joseph & Adella not well

6th Monday cloudy  rise half past five am
Joseph took Adella to Elmer's to spend the day
Anna went to Rio  the day cold & windy  done wash

7th  Tuesday pleasant the sun shines  rise half past five
Joseph to Otsego to vote  Elmer not do so well
Andrew Johnson  returned six pm.

8th Wednesday pleasant  rise half past five am
Joseph & Kate wash afternoon  Joseph clean
Chimney & stove pipe  I clean up afterwards  tired

April 1903

9th Thursday  rise half past five am  ironed
& then quilted some  Mrs. M Wright caled & Adella
went to Otsego to see Elmer  he is about the same   volume Piollni
Andrew commenced ploughing to day  finished the first
planted potatoes

10th Friday  cloudy winds rise half past five am
Andrew sow onion seed to day   have the world to read
Quilt some  commenced rained 2pm

11th Saturday foggy & rainy rise half past five am
Joseph & wife went to Otsego to see Elmer about
The same  had a hard shower of rain at noon

12th Sunday  cloudy  thundered & rained hard last night
rise six am  Joseph went to see Elmer  found him
about the same  all staid home  from church  rained
Mr. J  A Matthews took diner with us

13th Monday  rainy  rise half past five  rain nearly
all day  do my washing & ironing  Andrew  Johnson
to tea  read & sew  wind north east

14th Tuesday  cold & rainy  same  snow on ground
rise half past five am  rain all day by spells & windy
Adella went to Elmer five pm  he is about the same

15th  Wednesday cloudy & windy  rise half past five am
Andrew came back afternoon  Dr. Meecher & D. Pease
Dr. Andrews performed an operation on G. B. Mathews
of Otsego this afternoon  Brother Joseph went there
twice  afternoon the weather became clear & the sun shone

April 1903

16th Thursday Clear & some cold  rise half past six
Rev John A. Copeland came to visit me & took dinner
with as   a pleasant visit  left four PM for Columbus

17th Friday pleasant  rise half past five am
Joseph & Adealla went to Otesego to see Elmer &
found him better  Joseph bought some or 2 pigs?

18th Saturday  pleasant some clouds flying  rise half past 5
Joseph & Wife attend Church  Denver & Carrie
caled  Sprinkled several times

Sunday 19

20th Monday cloudy rise half five am &
Joseph Wife & Adella went to Columbus  home
Half past four I got dinner & done up the work

21st Tuesday  some cloudy snowed this morning  the ground
quite white  rise half past five am  Elmer better  he
beginning to set up  Joseph took a pair of crutches
to him

22nd Wednesday pleasant rise five am  finish my
waist  Mrs. Loven pased away this morning at
Rio  the daughter of Dr. A. Pease six am

23rd Wednesday pleasant wind south  rise five am
Joseph & wife went to Otsego evening  returned
After nine pm

24th Friday  cloudy rained eight am  Joseph & wife
& Adella left at quarter past eight for Rio
to attend funeral of Mrs. Loven  Miss Bell
Wright came nine am to stay while her
folks went the funeral  our folks return half
past 2 pm  rain by spells  weather grew colder
afternoon & very cloudy

April 1903

25th Saturday  cloudy  rise half past five am
a pleasant day  Joseph to Otsego  Elmer better  he gets
out to his meals  Adella went to Carries'

26th Sunday  pleasant  Joseph & Adella to Church
Andrew came to tea

27th Monday  pleasant rise five am & do my
washing  Kate & Adella cleaned their bedroom
Joseph & Adella to Otsego  evening carry things up
Stairs  take off my flannel sheets

28th Tuesday  pleasant  rise 5 am  carry things up stairs
Mrs. Kate Henton came to help clean house  oh how tired
she helped put carpet in the front room for Adella & they
cleaned my bedroom & set it to rights  how tired I am

29th  Wednesday  cloudy rise five am & go to work to gets
things in my bed room for cleaning the room
Mrs Kate Henton finish my room at noon after dinner
Left for Mrs Jay Henton's to help her  hear that
Elmer has been out doors  Andrew plough garden
& Joseph get out more strawberries

30th Thursday  rainy rise five am  have a fire  windy
Snow hard morning storm all the forenoon  wind
blew hard  Mrs Carrie Heath came & took dinner & tea   clear
afternoon  put up my pictures & some other articles
Andrew away all the afternoon  Joseph plant
onions

I will say of the Lord He is my refuge and
My fortress, my God, in him will I trust

May 1903

1st Friday pleasant cold rise five am
have a fire  I get my things all of them downstairs
& in their places  wash & do up two curtains &
put them up  have some mail brought
Andrew ploughing for corn

2nd Saturday cloudy & cold rise five am
cut out some work & read  rain noon Andrew away
Joseph to Otsego

3rd Sunday pleasant & cold rise five  start fire &
return to bed  rise half past five  all attend
church 2 pm but myself  I stay alone

4th Monday  cloudy & rainy windy rise half past five
Mr J A Mathews wife & Adella  to Columbus it
rained by Spells all day  rinsed up the cloths
& ironed & then read & sewed  I washed
& my chimney smoked all day  Kate washed
and the wind blew hard all day

5th Tuesday cloudy rise five am & do my
ironing & rinse up what clothes I have in water
Mr J A Mathews wife & Adella go to Columbus
return five pm  have showers of rain by
spells all day rain six pm hard

6th Wednesday cloudy rise five am doing
some ironing & mending  finish a pair of
base mats for Carrie Heath  Joseph &
Andrew five pm go to Otsego to Elmer to
put up some fence for a chicken yard

May 1903

7th Thursday pleasant a frost  rise five am
do some ironing & more mending  Kate & Adella
cleaning Mrs Matie Wright caled

8th Friday clear & cold for May  rise five am
Joseph White washed the dining room over head
Kate & Adella done the cleaning & put down Carpet
I finish my quilt & take down the window curtains

9th Saturday pleasant weather  more mild  rise five am
Joseph up stairs & wash the curtains through two
Waters  Mrs Matie Wright caled & Adella went to
Otsego with her  Mrs Bell staid here  I put a
quilt on the frames  Joseph to Otsego

10th Sunday pleasant & weather warmer rise half past
five am Joseph & Wife & daughter attend church
2 pm & I stayed alone  Mr Denver Heath & Wife
took tea here

11th Monday Cloudy rise five am  looks like rain
I get my curtains up in the line & they get dry &
do some washing & they get dry  very tired
Andrew commenced planting corn

12th Tuesday pleasant rise five am Joseph Wife &
Adella Mrs Carrie Heath to Columbus home all
little after three pm I got dinner & done up the work
Andrew to Otsego for mail

13th Wednesday some cloudy  rise before five am
iron window cutains Mrs Cora Henton caled  have
our first greens for dinner  quilt some  cold day
Joseph & Adella take a ride eve.

May 1903

14th Thursday pleasant  some cold   rise five am
Mrs Cora Henton & Adella attend the Nite
Society at Fred Picks   quilt & Kate
wash window curtains  Joseph plant
sweet corn

15th Friday clear  heavy dew rise five am
quilt & sweep my bed room  planting potatoes
a pleasant day

16th Saturday pleasant rise five am some
quilt & read the papers  Joseph took Elmers
Swing Chair to him & put it up for him

17th Sunday  pleasant  rise five am  Carrie came
to & took diner  Andrew returned noon a bog with
him thundered and looked like rain  Joseph, Adella
& myself attend church 2 pm

18th Monday  pleasant & warm rise five am
do some washing Joseph & Kate wash  have a
dash of rain after five pm  quilt some

19th  Tuesday  cloudy looks like rain  rise five pm
do my ironing then quilt  a windy day
 Joseph & wife to Otsego to see Elmer evening

20th Wednesday  pleasant & quite cool rise five am
quilt all day  Joseph & Andrew to Otsego evening
A wedding at Mr. Pulver at noon  Mr. Law
Young to Miss Mary Pulver for a tour take
a four train at DoylesTown for Milwaukee.

May 1903

21st Thursday  cloudy  rained last night rise five am
finish my quilt quarter to eleven am  take it off
the frames & sweep & set all things in their places
have a thunder shower two PM  rained quite hard
& all the afternoon

22nd Friday have a thunder shower before six am rise five
the weather was   so the men could work  have chicken
for diner  cloudy six pm

23rd Saturday cloudy & thunders  looks like rain  rise five am
after 2am have a hard thunder & lightning with rain
& hail & wind hard storm  Joseph to Otsego for mail
Andrew left after tea

24th Sunday cloudy looks like rain rise five am &
take my bath  Joseph and Wife & daughter attend
church 2pm & I staid home  Kate sprained her
ankle

25th Monday  foggy & wet rise five am  a shower
forenoon do some washing and crochet & read

26th  Tuesday  have a hard thunder shower five am
the water stands on the ground in hollow places
have hard thunder shower between one & 2 pm  it
black in the west same wind with the storm
finish the lamp mat

27th Wednesday  the sun shines but how long  cant tell
we had two or three showers to day & then the sun shine

28th  Thursday morning pleasant  rise five am Adella
& her mother took a ride & made a call
the nite Society met at Mrs Tompkins this afternoon
Joseph took some hay to Elmers

May 1903

29th Sunday pleasant & same cold  rise five am
sweeping bed room Mr. Elmer C. Mathews &
Wife took diner here Mrs Fred Pick caled  a
moment  quite a cold day

30th Saturday cloudy & cold  rise five am
Joseph to Otsego for mail  Andrews birthday
He went to Rio  cold & windy  sweep & dust my
room

31st Sunday cold & windy  same cloudy  rise five am
& start fire  Carrie Heath came home & took
diner  Joseph & Adella & myself attended church
2pm had a good sermon Presiding Elder
preached & administered the Lords Supper
the wind blew hard all day.

June 1903

1st Monday cloudy & cold  rise five am
Joseph & Kate do washing & I do same & bring
In some wood  wind blew hard all day do some
ironing

2nd Tuesday cloudy have a fire  rise five am
finish my ironing  Mrs Carrie Heath spent
the day home  do some mending  Adella made a call

3rd Wednesday  pleasant morning  rise five am
leave home a few minutes after seven for Columbus
do my trading  leave from home eleven  arrive 1 pm some
tired after my ride

4th Thursday  pleasant  wind north west  rise five am
attend to some work & wash some yarn & repair a
waist & do other work  Adella got her waist
a Pois? a beauty  wrote a letter to Charlie & Amelia Hoyt

5th Friday cloudy  looks like rain  rise five am
s goes to her sisters Mrs C Heaths  quite cloudy
all day  crochet some & read the papers

6th Saturday pleasant & cold rise five am
work on a lamp mat  school picnic at Mr.
Pulvers yard Joseph to Otsego evening Adella
Came home  sent letter C A Hoyt NH

7th Sunday  pleasant rise five & take my bath
Joseph & wife attend Church 2pm  have a light shower
afternoon Denver Heath & Carrie came home  evening
thermometer up to ninety in shade

June 1903

8th Monday pleasant rise five am
Joseph & Kate washed flanel sheets & bed
spread  I done some washing  Adella come home

9th Tuesday pleasant rise five am  quite
chilly  finish lamp mat for Adella  do some
ironing & read some

10th Wednesday cloudy & rainy  rise five am
Adella & her mother ironed my curtains &
Put them up  washed an old skirt

11th Thursday cloudy & rainy rise five am
do some ironing  wash shawl & skirt  finished
vase mat  Adella came home evening

12th Friday  pleasant frost this morning  rise five
have a fire in my room  sweep & dust bed room
& the room  read & sew

13th Saturday pleasant morning  rise five am
read papers & work on my skirt  Bell Wright
& Clara Henton came & practised for childrens
day  Joseph to Rio for lumber for waggon house

14th Sunday pleasant some windy  rise five am
Mr J A Mathews & wife & children came & took
Diner Carrie came & spent afternoon
Joseph & daughter & myself attend church 2pm
Looks like rain

June 1903

15th Monday pleasant warming & dry  rise five am
we need rain Adella & her mother washed dresses
& done some washing  Thermometer up to ninety
in the afternoon  Adella & Mother ironed their dresses
& I done some ironing  finished my skirt

16th Tueday cloudy looks like rain  rise five am
E C Mathews &  came & Adella went to
Columbus  Elmer spent the day here  Joseph
commenced his carriage house

17th Wednesday pleasant  quite cool  rise five am
Joseph & wife washed  Adella returned half past nine
Miss Bell & Clara caled & Mrs Matie Wright caled
Joseph & Andrew drawed gravel on the road afternoon

18th Thursday cloudy  looks like rain  rise five am
done my ironing  Joseph worked on the road until
noon  have a shower at five pm

19th Friday  some cloudy cold rise five am
George & Earl Henton & Harold Mathews took diner
here  rained hard at noon  all the afternoon
commenced building my quilt

20th Saturday Cloudy has the appearance of rain rise
five am  Andrew came about eleven am & said
Denver Heath would be here in time to set Tobacco
plants   had them all set by five pm
Adella went to church to practise for
Childrens day

June 1903

21st Sunday  some cloudy rise five am
& take my bath  all of the family attend
church  children day  church looked nice &
the children done well

22nd Monday cloudy rise five am breakfast at
six am leave for Columbus fifteen
minutes after seven  leave Columbus twenty
minutes after ten  arrive home half past twelve
have two showers afternoon

23rd Tuesday pleasant  rained in the night  rise five am
Joseph to Rio  his wife went to Carrie Heaths  I
Done my washing & done some crotching (crocheting)

24th Wednesday  pleasant wind in the North rise five am
I done my ironing & other work  Joseph &
Adella went to Columbus  Elmer caled Mrs
Cora Henton caled & Clara and Bell Wright

25th Thursday pleasant  rise five am  Adella
went to visit her sister Mrs Heath  Andrew
left after diner  Mr. J A Mathews wife &
children caled

26th Friday  pleasant  rise five am  Joseph
to Rio for Lumber  finish a lamp mat
sent it to Mrs Carrie Heath  Adella
came home evening

But Godliness with contentment is
great gain

June 1903

27th Saturday cloudy rise five am
Elmer to diner & Adella goes home with him
Kate does some painting & I work on lamp mats

28th Sunday  cloudy  rise half past five am
Joseph & wife & Adella attend church at
Otsego have our first pease for tea  Joseph &
wife call to see Clara Henton  She had chicken
pox

29th Monday  pleasant rise five am & get my
clothes  Joseph & Kate do the washing  I do some
Sadie Goodman & her aunt Mrs  Ms Kay
spent the afternoon here

30th Tuesday  rainy Thundered & rained all the better
part of the night  rained part of the forenoon
have a hard thunder shower half past 2pm
thermometer up to ninety

The Lord is my refuge and my fortress my God
In Him will I trust

But the Lord is my defence:
and my God is the rock  of my refuge

we bear witness that the Father hath sent the
Son to be the Savior  John 4th 14th

July 1903

1st  Wednesday  cloudy with thunder & some
rain  rise five am  weather warm  do my
ironing finish one lamp matt Thermometer
up to eighty eight Joseph to Otsego evening

2nd Thursday  pleasant  looks like rain rise five
sweep my bed room & finish the lamp matt
& gave Mrs Matie Wright one lamp matt

3rd  Friday  raining  rise five am  sweep
& dust my room  Joseph repair fence
Andrew leave after tea for Rio to
spend the fourth

4th Saturday  cloudy  looks like rain  rise five
have a hard shower after twelve at night
Joseph & Wife & daughter to Columbus to spend
The fourth  home after six   I spent the day alone
finish reading second volume of Rollins history

5th Sunday  pleasant rise after five am
Joseph & Adella & myself attend church 2 pm
have our first new Potatoes for tea have
company evening

6th Monday  pleasant rise five am  do some
washing  write a letter to Ross W Copeland
Kate & Adella can cherries  Joseph Adella
To Otsego after tea  Elmer & wife call
Send lamp matt to Mrs Cora Henton

I will rejoice in thy Salvation  Psa  __ 14

July 1903

7th - Tuesday pleasant rise five am - leave for Columbus half past eight am return quarter to four pm - Elmer spent some time here - very hot day Thermometer up to ninety two

8th - Wednesday come cloudy rise five am - have a hot day - thermometer up to 98 - afternoon 2 pm Joseph and Andrew pick cherries

9th Thursday cloudy - looks like rain - rise five am - have a hard thunder shower at noon - rained again between five and six and all the evening

10th - Friday cloudy looks like rain rise five am - Joseph to Otsego bring home the Mail - I have a letter and papers form Charley and Amelia Hoyt - rain half past four pm -do some ironing

11th - Saturday pleasant rise five am -Joseph to Otsego do some f—ey work  - clear all day

12th - Sunday pleasant rise half past five am - Joseph and wife and Adella attend church 2 pm - pleasant day I staid home

13th Monday - pleasant but cool - rise five am - Mr King cut Joseph hay this forenoon - Adella and her mother went to Otsego afternoon - Joseph and Kate washed - I done some

For by grace are ye saved, through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.

July 1903

14th Tuesday - pleasant rise five am - Mr King and Andrew drew and stocked hay for Joseph - Adella came home this evening

15th Wednesday - pleasant rise five am - finish my scarf - Adella attend Sociable at Mr Tompkins evening

16th Thursday - pleasant rise five am - Joseph got up clover hay - afternoon sweep my bedroom and done some mending - thermometer up to eighty at noon

17th Friday - some cloudy rise five am - Mr King and Andrew draw hay until it rained - put up window curtains in front room, up stairs and washed hall window and put up curtain - have a hard rain storm afternoon - Mr D James fell from a load of hay broke collar bone

18th Saturday morning - clear rise five am - Miss Adella attend the Sunday school Pie Nick at Mrs C Wrights - Joseph bunched his hay up afternoon - thermometer up 80 at noon

19th Sunday pleasant rise half past five am - Joseph and Adella and Mrs Copeland attend church 2 pm - quite a good congregation

20th Monday clear - rained last night - rise five am - done solve washing - Joseph and Kate washed - Josep-h put up his clover hay afternoon - Andrew worked in the onions afternoon - read my book - done some mending

July 1903

21st Tuesday cloudy rise five am - the clouds went away and had a fine day - done my ironing - Joseph had his clover hay Stacked

22nd Wednesday - pleasant rise five am - Joseph making doors for his buggy house - Adella and her mother call on Mrs Matie Wright - do some mending and read the papers and finish the Books

23rd Thursday - pleasant - rise five am and do lots of mending - get ready to go to Nite Society and say at home - Mrs Mathews went with Mrs Henton to Mr David James - Mr King helped Andrew plough corn afternoon - Joseph got in his hay

24th Friday pleasant rise five am - get my wood box out of doors to clean - Joseph to Otsego and his went to Mrs Carrie Heaths - Miss S Goodman went - afternoon here - thermometer ninety

25th Saturday pleasant rise five am - paint my wood box and two chairs then the papers - Andrew leave after tea - Thermometer over ninety - Thunder - looks like rain at tea time

26th Sunday cloudy wind in the East - rise half pat five am - attend church with Joseph and Adella - Mrs Carrie Heath spent the afternoon here - Mr Bert Mathews and family called evening

27th Monday - cloudy rise five am - I do some washing - Joseph and wife do their washing - have a shower forenoon - paint my wood box again and two chairs

July 1903

28th Tuesday pleasant rise five am - leave house half past nine am for Mrs Wrights and take my dress to Miss Lewis and take dinner with Mr and Mrs C Wrights - home four pm - have a hard thunderstorm six pm

29th Wednesday - pleasant morning rise five am- Joseph and Adella went and picked Whortel berries forenoon  - washed my white paint and done my ironing and painted two chairs

30th Thursday - pleasant quite cold rise five am - Joseph to Columbus 4 pm - Joseph took me to the dress makers - ironed my white waist

31st Friday - pleasant but quite cold - rise five am - Andrew left for Rio - painted two chairs and worked on my cape - a chilly day

Thou Christ, art all I want

Love worth no ill to his neighbors therefore love is the fulfilling of the law

The Lord reigneth! Let the earth be glad!

August, 1903

1st Saturday some cloudy - rise five am - Joseph take me to Miss Lewiston to see about my dress - Mr Fadness commenced reaping oats

2d Sunday cloudy rained last night - rise six am - Joseph and Wife called on J A Mathews forenoon - Joseph and Adella attend church 2 pm

3d Monday Cloudy looks like rain - rise five am - do some washing - Andrew returned after diner - a shower after four pm

4th Tuesday cloudy rise five am - sweep my bed room and cleaned it - Joseph to Columbus - Clear and had fine evening moon shone

5th Wednesday - have a hard thunder shower at day light - rise half past five am - Joseph moved his hen house forward - had our first green corn - all attended the Sociable at Mr Moore’s house - well filled ice cream cake

6th Thursday some cloudy rise half past five am - Ladies and Society of Hampden Church met here this afternoon - there were forty ladies hers to tea

7th Friday pleasant rise five am - paint a chair and then read and work on my cape - Joseph to Otsego for mail

August 1903

8th Saturday - Cloudy rise five am - Adella to Otsego and brought home the papers - not very well read - have the appearance of rain five pm

9th Sunday - sun shines - foggy 5 am - rise six am - a cool and pleasant day - Joseph and Adela attend church - no sermon the minister attend for funeral of Mrs L Oakly

10th Monday cloudy rained last night - rise five - Joseph and Kate wash and I do some washing - we are alone - Andrew away - work on cape

11th  Tuesday pleasant rise five am - I done my ironing - Joseph purchased eleven cords of wood today for three dollars per cord

12th Wednesday pleasant foggy rise five am - Joseph went and paid for my wood - Adella called on her sister Carrie

13th Thursday cloudy rise five am - quite cold - finished my cape - Joseph took Adella to Mrs Matie Wrights and then went to see about the threshers coming

14th Friday pleasant rise five am - the Engine and Threshing Machine came morning and threshed the oats through a little after eleven and then went to Mr Kings at six pm - looked like rain

15th Saturday rainy rise five am - have a hard thunder Shower last night - thunder nearly all night - go and get my dress afternoon - paid 2 dollars for making - J H Mathews and wife call - Joseph to Otsego for mail

August 1903

16th Sunday - pleasant rise six am - Joseph and Adella attend church 2 pm - read the Advocate and my Bible

17th Monday pleasant rise five am and make preparations for my washing and do it - Kate and Adella done their washing - Mrs Carrie Heath spent the afternoon here and took tea

18th Tuesday - pleasant rise six am and do my ironing work - Elmer Mathews came home and spent the day - took the skirt of my old dress to pieces to repair

19th Wednesday - some cloudy rise five am thundered and looked rain last night - done my ironing - Adella went to her sisters - Mrs Henton and (blank) helped her - worked on my dress skirt

20th Thursday pleasant rise five am and sew on my skirt - Mrs Mathews and daughters attend Nite Society at Mrs Coled afternoon

21st Friday cloudy rise five am - finish my skirt - Joseph to Otsego for mail - we had a few drops of rain about noon

22nd Saturday cloudy rise five am - made an apron - rained all the afternoon - Joseph to Otsego for mail

23rd Sunday cloudy and rainy - rise half past five am - rained all day - wind in north afternoon - Some colder - all staid home from church - we had a call evening Mr and Mrs Fadness - Adella played (the organ) and they sung

August 1903

24th Monday rainy - have a thunder and rain at midnight and the latter part of the night until day lite - rise half past five am- Kate washed and I done some air clothes got dry

25th Tuesday pleasant rise half past five - rained last night - I done my ironing - Joseph and wife went to Otsego brought mail

26th Wednesday cloudy rise five am and do my mending and finish binding (border) my bed quilt - Mr Denver heath and hired man Carrie and helped Andrew with his tobacco - rained rated half past four

27th Thursday rainy and rained all night - rise five - sew and read - afternoon ripped up a garment - cloudy all day

28th Friday cloudy and rainy - rise five am - rained last night again and all day - sewed on my lead tick and read some

29th Saturday raining this morning - rise five am - Joseph to Otsego for mail - Adella goes to her sisters Mrs C Heaths - cloudy all day

30th Sunday cloudy rise six am - Joseph and wife attend church 2pm cold and cloudy all day

31st Monday - sun shines for the first time in week - rise five am - have a fire in my room for a week - damp and cold - Andrew left after diner - done some washing and finished my straw tick - quite warm - last day of August of 1903

September 1903

1st Tuesday - pleasant rise five am - have a fire in my room - do my ironing and mending - Joseph to Otsego evening

2d Wednesday cloudy rise five am - Andrew came down home noon - he had four. Men help him in his tobacco - afternoon and to Supper - I pared apples and potatoes for her

3d Thursday some cloudy rise five am we had four men here to work in the Tobacco and they got it in the shed all safe

4th Friday rainy thundered and rained all the latter part of the night rise six am - Joseph to Otsego - work on my dress and read the papers

5th Saturday - some cloudy rise half past six am - sewed on my dress - done my mending work

6th Sunday cloudy rise six am - Joseph and wife went to Denver Heath to see how they were - Joseph and Mrs Copeland attend Church 2 pm - Elmer Mathews and wife took tea here

7th Monday cloudy rained last night rise half past five - finish my dress and reading my book - Joseph to Otsego - Mrs Cora Henton been home — — Elmer Mathews Called

Make haste to help one, o Lord my Salvation.

9th Wednesday clear had some foggy - rise five - clean the bedroom upstairs - cloudy and damp all day - rain some at noon

10th Thursday cloudy rained last night - rise five - repaired my chair cushion - Joseph and wife went to Mrs Carrie Heaths 1pm home 4pm

11th Friday pleasant rained morning - rise half past five am - Joseph took his wife to Mrs Carrie Heaths and spent the day there and I got diner and tea - done up the work tired

12th Saturday sun shines - rise half past six - Joseph to Fall River - Elmer Mathews to diner - Joseph bring home a basket of peaches for once - repair my sofa cushion - rained evening

13th Sunday pleasant rise six am - Adella came home last night - been to Mr and Mrs Heath- a sun this morning nine am - Joseph took his wife there afternoon - all staid home from church

14th Monday cloudy rained again last night - rise half past five am - Andrew Johnson came at noon - done my washing - cloudy and rainy all day

15th Tuesday - rainy - had a thunder rain last night - rise half past five am - Joseph and Adella went to Mr Denver Heaths to see how they were - quite comfortable - Sewed 6 rags and read

September 1903

16th Wednesday cloudy cold rise half past five am cloudy all day - sweep and dust my room - Joseph and Adella go to Mr D Heaths all comfortable

17 Thursday quire pleasant rise half past five am - Elmer Mathews and wife went to Columbus and done some business for me - Miss Adella attend the Nite Society at Mr Goodmans - Andrew cut and got his Tobacco under cover

18th Friday pleasant cold - have a frost - rise half past five am Miss Sadie Goodman spent the afternoon and to tea and evening

19th Saturday pleasant rise five am - Mrs Goodmand staid all night and to breakfast - Joseph and Adella went Mr Denver Heath afternoon - found them comfortable - home four pm

20th Sunday pleasant rise six am - Joseph and Adella attend Sunday school - no preaching today the minister to conference - fine day

21st Monday pleasant rise five am - Joseph and Adella to Columbus 10am - Mr Denver Heath cam and said their baby had passed away this morning - Mr Palmer’s last night at ten pm and got dinner and done up the work - very tired - Joseph bought me a basket of peaches 30 cents - Miss Bell Wright called - Joseph and Adella went to Mr Denver Heaths - I got dinner and done up the Supper work

22d Tuesday clear rise five am - Joseph and Adella attend the funeral of Mr and Mrs Denver Heaths baby at ten at the house

23rd Wednesday - cloudy and windy - rise half past five - the weather grew colder all day - at night had to have a fire - Mrs Mathews came home four pm - Elmer Mathews here to tea

24th Thursday pleasant some frost - rise half past five - Adella go to her Sisters - Elmer Mathews here to diner and tea - work on my scrap book

25th Friday pleasant but cold and windy - rise half past five - Sweep and dust my rooms - Adella returned evening

26th Saturday pleasant rise before five to get ready to go to Rio - leave home eight am for Rio - commenced raining before noon - came home in the rain - done some trading and it rained till night

27th Sunday morning clear rise six am - I put on my winter flannels this morning - Joseph and Adella attend church 2 pm

28th Monday some cloudy rise half past five - do some washing - proves to be pleasant day- heavy frost last night - read and do some sewing

September 1903

29th Tuesday pleasant moderate rise half past five am - do my ironing and morning work - Rev F James and wife called and took dinner - a pleasant visit - left half past two pm - Joseph to Otsego to have his horses shoe set and his wife to Carrie Heaths

30th Wednesday cloudy and rainy rise half past five am - mend my old silk waist and read and sew - Elmer Mathews here and brought some corn - cloudy all day

Col 2 6—
And ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him
James 1st 12 verse
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tired he shall receive the crown of life, which the lord hath promised to them that love him
Peter 1 15
But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of consideration; because it is written be ye holy; for I am holy

October 1903

1st Thursday - cloudy and rainy rise half past five - work on Adella comforter - Elmer here to dinner - rain by spells all day

2nd Friday cloudy and wet - rise half past five am - Elmer here cutting his corn and Joseph to Fall River with butter and onions

3d. Friday still cloudy rise half past five - Mr F A Mathews and wife came and he took his horses and put them on Brothers Surrey and Adella and her went with them to Columbus to do some trading - rained five afternoon

4th Sunday pleasant morning - chilly rise six and Joseph and Adella call to see Carrie Heath 2 pm - Joseph and Adella attend church- Andrew came home and a young man with him

5th Monday pleasant - heavy frost last night - rise half past five am - do some washing - tired after — picked two pails of kindle wood

Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift

October 1903

6th Tuesday pleasant rise five am - kindle my fir - Joseph to Fall River with chickens - done most of my ironing eleven am - we started for Mr Elmer Mathews  and had a pleasant visit - home before it rained

7th Wednesday - rainy - rained and thundered all night - rise six am - done more ironing - tired - Joseph to Fall River with chickens - Andrew away hunting instead of working

8th Thursday - cloudy and cold - rise half past five am - Mrs Mathews and Adella and Mrs Copeland attend the Nite Society at Mr and Mrs Fadness and large company present - commenced a comforter and quilt

9th Friday pleasant and cold - rise half past five am - Adella and her mother call on Mrs Carrie Heath - Joseph and wife call to see Mrs Cora Henton - Adella went to Mr Goodman and to Miss Sadie Goodman and spent afternoon

10th - Saturday pleasant rise half past five - Adella spent the night with miss Sadie Goodman returned 8 am - Joseph to Fall River - finished tying comforter and took it off the frame - Andrew digging potatoes and putting them in the cellar

October 1903

11th Sunday pleasant rise six am - Mr and Mrs Denver Heath came home to dinner - Joseph and Mrs Copeland attend church 2pm

12th Monday morning - foggy rise half past five am - do some washing - Joseph to Otsego to get his horse shoes set - Adella to her sisters Carrie

13th - Tuesday cloudy - looks like rain - rise half past five am - Joseph to Fall River with onions - ironed my few things evening - Mr Riter came with some ladies and Adella and practiced for the funeral of Mr Sonards at Hampden Church 10am

14th Wednesday foggy rise half past five - Joseph and Mrs Copeland attended the funeral of Mr C Tillostan at the Hampden Church ten am - Rev Mr Colling preached

15th Thursday - foggy and rainy - rise half past five am - Andrew left he and his hired man - Joseph to Otsego - rained four pm

16th Friday cloudy rise six am not very well - Joseph purchased some chickens today - Andrew returned ten am - I am poorly all day - Phs ch 4th 4th verse - Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, rejoice

17th Saturday cloudy - rise half past five am - we are alone all day - Adella came home six pm - windy all day wind north

18th Sunday - pleasant rise six am - Adella and her mother attend church 2pm

19th Monday pleasant rise half pat five am - do some washing - Joseph and Kate wash clothes - dry and get them in - Andrew away with onions - read and do work

20th Tuesday pleasant rise half past five am - Joseph to Rio with onions - Elmer called and Adella went home with him

21st Wednesday - pleasant rise half past five am - Joseph making preparations for banking his house for winter - Adella returned home - Mr Webb took supper here staid

22nd Thursday pleasant but windy - rise half past five am - Mr Webb staid all night and took breakfast - cloudy and windy all day - finish my bed tick (down fill ?)

23rd - Friday cloudy and cold - rise half past five am - Elmer here to diner - Joseph to Otsego - Adella to Carries

24th Saturday some cloudy rise half past five am - Joseph to Columbus with onions - Elmer here to dinner - he is working corn - Joseph home half past three - a pleasant day - some windy and cold

October 1903

25th Sunday pleasant rise six am - Adella and her mother attend church 2 pm

26th Monday pleasant rise half past five am - do some washing - clean closet under stairs - Elmer here to dinner

27th Tuesday pleasant rise half past five am - Joseph and wife and Adella went to Columbus and I got dinner for Elmer and Myself - partly cleaned my bed room

28th Wednesday - pleasant rise half past five am -sweep and clean my room about eleven am - I fell and hurt my face cut a gash between my eyes  - Adella and her mother clean front room

29th Thursday pleasant rise half past five am - do my ironing an make my bed - read - Adella and her mother cleaned dining room and put up stove in parlor

30th Friday some cloudy rise half past five am - ash window and do the rest of my work this evening - Joseph moved the stove from the kitchen in the dining room

31st Saturday foggy rise half past five am - wash window in hall and clean the rest of the hall - Joseph and Elmer to Rio - Adella attended a ghost party at Mt W More evening last day of October 1903

November 1903

1st Sunday foggy rise six am - Joseph and Adella attend church 2pm

2d Monday foggy rise half past five am - I do some washing this morning and cleaned up - Joseph worked the machine for his wife with the washing cleared and had a pleasant day - clothes dry - Adella went to her brothers evening attend the lecture

3d Tuesday foggy rise half past five am - do my ironing and then mend some clothes  - Joseph purchased a new suit of clothes and he went to Otsego - Adella attend a lecture this evening

4th Wednesday foggy rise half past five am - do some mending - read paper - Adella returned about three pm  - a clear day after the fog left - — letters?

5th Thursday pleasant rise half past five am - Adella and her mother attended the Nite Society to Mr Charley Wrights and I got the dinner for our folks - Elmer called - a letter from — am

6th Friday some cloudy and cold rise half past five am - windows froze last night - sew on my blocks for comforter and read papers

7th Saturday pleasant - rise half past five am - cold and hard frost - Joseph to Columbus - house half past four pm

8th - Sunday pleasant rise six am - Joseph and Adella attend church two pm - Mr Elmer Mathews and Wife made a call evening - Mr Orlince M Lewis died ten o’clock this morning

November 1903

9th Monday cloudy rise half past five am - Write a letter to Rev Arthur Copeland Syracuse NY. - Elmer drew his corn home - Joseph took his cows from the pasture to the barn - Adella went to her sisters Mrs C Heath - done some mending - cold - put my flannel blankets on my bed

10th Tuesday pleasant rise six am - Andrew returned this morning - Mr Lewis funeral today - Joseph helping Elmer - sent letter to Office - Joseph done some banking to the house

11th Wednesday rainy rise half past five am - the rain turned to snow and cold

12th Thursday cloudy and snowing - rise half past five am - Andrew took his potatoes to Rio - 45 cents per bushel - Joseph done some banking to the house

13th Friday pleasant and cold rise half past five am - Joseph and wife went to Otsego and Kate stoped to Mrs jp Hentons and took dinner and I got dinner

14th Saturday pleasant  rise six am and do my Saturday work - Joseph put up his storm doors - have some papers - Columbus papers gave an account of the death of Mrs F T Lewis and funeral

15th Sunday pleasant rise six am - Joseph went to Denver Heaths to see how his wife was - she was better - all staid home from church - cold and windy - afternoon cloudy

November 1903

16th Monday cloudy and foggy - rise six am - send paper to Arthur Copelans Syracuse NY 1704 Genesee Street the death and funeral of Mrs FJ Lewis - wind changed and grew colder and snowed - Joseph finished his banking of cellar - cold - done some washing

17th Tuesday some cloudy and windy rise six am - I done my ironing - Adella came home this afternoon - cold and windy - how cold

18th Wednesday pleasant -out cold rise six am - Elmer here to diner - work on my book - Kate and Adella to the bench of plants out in —?

19th Thursday pleasant and cold - rise six am - kindle fire - Joseph his wife and Adella and Mrs Copeland to Mr Moores to the Nite Society

20th Friday pleasant cold heavy frost rise six am - Joseph and wife washed -  Adella and her father went to Otsego - I finished the block for the aid society

21st Saturday - cloudy and windy rise six am - I done some ironing and Saturday work and then read - Allen King helped Andrew husk corn today

22nd Sunday pleasant and cold rise six am - Joseph and Adella attend church 2 pm -  afternoon cloudy

November 1903

23rd Today snowed last night - rise half past five am - Allen King and Andrew helped Joseph kill his hog - cold and windy - done washing and ironing

24th Tuesday pleasant and cold rise six am - worked on my blocks for comforter

25th Wednesday - cloudy and colder rise six am - repaired my dress waist - Mrs Carie Heath spent the evening here - Andrew finished his corn

26th Thursday pleasant and cold rise six - a day of Thankgiving at quarter of ten am Brother Joseph and Wife and daughter and myself started for Mr Crowleys Wrights to spend Thanksgiving - returned four pm - had a good dinner

27th Friday cloudy rise six am - looks like storm - write a letter to Etta Copeland - Joseph to Otsego - lamp oil has gone up

28th Saturday cloudy and windy rise six am - Snow some forenoon - Andrew finish stocking stall - finish my dress waist and read the papers

29th Sunday cloudy and windy rise half past six - all stay at home from church

30th Monday pleasant and cold rise six am - do some washing - very tired - we had a young fellow to dinner - Joseph and Kate washed

December 1903

1st Tuesday some cloudy rise six am - Andrew to do Joseph chores for him - Joseph and Adella went to Columbus - ironed some

2d Wednesday morning cloudy rise seven am- finished my ironing - Mrs Cora Henton and Mrs Carrie Heath spent the day here

3d Thursday cloudy snowy lat night - rise six am - commence working a doyle (doily) for the society
Joseph put up some paper on my screen door

4th Friday pleasant rise six am - Joseph to Otsego - Adella to her sisters - snow afternoon

5th Saturday cloudy and cold rise six am - Joseph clean my chimney and I cleaned up and very tired - Adella went to Otsego to sing at the funeral of Miss Sickels at one pm - Mr Brown preached the sermon

6th - Sunday some cloudy - rise half past six am - Joseph and wife and Adella to church 2 pm and Mrs Copeland staid home

7th Monday pleasant rise before six am - I do some washing - Joseph take wife to Mrs Carrie Heaths - She spent the day there

8th Tuesday some cloudy rise six am - Brother Joseph to Fall River to get feed ground for his cows
Finished the doyle and done some mending - snowed by spell all day

December 1903

9th Wednesday cloudy rise seven am - Joseph and I went to Otsego and I done some trading and after we returned - Joseph took Adella to Carrie

10th Thursday more pleasant rise half past six am - Sweeps dust from bed room - Andrew drawing wood from the grove for Joseph - Elmer called - making stocking bags

11th Friday cloudy rise six am - Mr Fredwig drawing wood for Joseph and me - pay four dollars for drawing the wood - day was pleasant - work on stocking

12th Saturday looks cloudy rise six am - Stormy all day - Adella returned home after three pm - growing colder

13th Sunday pleasant - cold below zero - rise early and — forenoon return to bed - Mrs Mathews plants froze last night - twenty below zero - so cold - we all stay at home

14th Monday pleasant and cold rise six am - below zero - work on the stocking bags

15th Tuesday - looks pleasant - cold rise six am and do my work and sew and read - Matie Wright called

December 1903

16th Wednesday pleasant weather - more mild - rise six am - Joseph to Rio and done some trading - sew and read

17th Thursday - pleasant rise rive am and build my fire and return to bed again until six - My birthday - Brother Joseph to Fall River - have an apple and some Hickory nuts given me

18th Friday pleasant rise five and build a fire and return to bed again until six am - Joseph and Adella went to Otsego - home by noon

19th Saturday foggy and very damp - rise before six -  start fire and return to bed almost seven before I got up - Andrew commenced stripping tobacco today

20th Sunday cloudy and cold rise seven am - Brother Joseph and Adella attend church 2 pm - a young man here for supper he will do chores and go to school

21st Today pleasant weather more moderate rise before six am - I done some washing and Kate and Joseph washed - Andrew left after breakfast - very windy all day

22nd Tuesday pleasant colder rise six am - finish the stocking bags for Christmas - Andrew Johnson took dinner here - a letter and photo from Mr Frank Baker Mineapolis - Winter Solstice this afternoon after six pm

23rd Wednesday pleasant rise six am - sent a stocking bag to Mrs Cora Henton - a stocking bag to Mrs Addie Mathews - Mr Slitran sawed wood here today

24th Thursday some cloudy - rise six am - Brother Joseph to Rio - he got 25 cents per dozen - Christmas Eve - we exchange presents - wind changed from south to north west colder

25th Friday Christmas - the day our Savior was born - may we remember him in all of our doings - rise a little after five - start fire then return to bed until after six am and cold - Snowed all the forenoon - afternoon clear

26th Saturday clear and cold rise six am - thermometer below zero - very windy all day

27th Sunday still cold and windy - rise after seven am - all stay at home from church - Mr an Mrs Denver Heath here to tea - evening Mr and Mrs Elmer Mathews here

28th Monday cloudy and Snowing - rise seven am - do some washing - write a letter to Mr F H baker Minneapolis Min - Snowed all day - Mrs Will Bush died

December 1903

29th Tuesday cold and windy rise six am - sent letter today to Mr F A Baker Mineapolis - write to Mrs Boswell - wind in north - cold and blustery - singers met here to practice for the funeral of Mrs Will Bush at the Hampden Church at ten am

30th Wednesday cold and cloudy - snowed - rise six am - the funeral of Mrs Will Bush at the Hampden Church at ten am - Joseph cleaned chimney today and then I cleaned up - done some reading - sent letter to Mrs Boswell East Orange NJ

31st Thursday cloudy rise six am - the last day of the year of 1903 - Mr JW Mathews and wife and Mrs C M Copeland took dinner with Jay Henton and Wife -Joseph had Carl go up and clean chimney

January 1904

1st Friday pleasant rise six am - Brother Joseph and Wife and Adella and Mrs C M Copeland visited Mr Elmer Mathews and wife and took dinner with them

2nd Saturday some cloudy rise six am - cold - Joseph took Adella to mr Goodmans and spent the afternoon - read

3rd Sunday pleasant but cold below zero - rise seven am - all stay home from church

4th Monday - pleasant cold rise five and build fire and return to bed - 26 below zero - do some washing - Joseph and Kate wash - I get very tired

5th Tuesday pleasant weather more moderate rise six am and build my fire and return to bed again - done my ironing and commenced Cora Hentons lining for the comforter - Miss Moore called for Adela to go with her for company in her collecting dues for phones

6th Wednesday pleasant rise six am - Brother Joseph and Wife and Mrs C M Mathews and took dinner with them - returned home four pm

7th - Thursday some cloudy rise six am - snowed by spells - Joseph to Otsego to pay taxes and Adella to Miss Carrie Heaths - Andrew Johnson here to tea and stay all night

8th Friday some cloudy - rise half past five am - Sweep my bed room and do some mending - Joseph to Otsego - Mrs Cora Henton and Mrs Carrie Heath called

9th Saturday pleasant - some colder - rise five - start fire returned to bed again rise half past 6 - Sweep and dust my room - very tired - read some afternoon - not very well - receive a card to attend the Dedication of Fall River Church the 10th of January

10th Sunday cloudy rise seven am Cloudy all day - all stayed at home from church - the church at Fall River was dedicated

11th Monday cloudy - looks like storm rise six am - so some washing and read some and sew some - our folks had a call

12th Tuesday - Snowing rise six am - do my ironing and commence a black (back?)  for Cora quilt - Joseph to Fall River - damp snow squalled by spells

13th Wednesday cloudy rise six am - send letter to Rev Arthur Copeland Syracuse - sew on quilt and read papers

14th Thursday some cloudy rise five am and start fire return to bed and rise half past six foot good - finish two blocks for quilt - our folks have some calls

15th Friday cold and pleasant rise seven am - sent letter to Rev Benjamin Copeland Geneso NY - the day thus far cloudy

16th Saturday windy and cold rise six am - sew an quilt and read - not many going by

17th Sunday weather a little more moderate - res seven am all stay at home from church no one called

18th Monday cloudy looks like storm rise six am - I do some washing and sew and read - a very windy day unpleasant

19th Tuesday pleasant and cold rise six build fire - returned to bed rise seven am do my ironing and the sewed on the quilt and read some

20th Wednesday cloudy weather more moderate rise seven am - a tramp attempted to call the dog hindered him from coming - Joseph cleaned my chimney this morning and then I cleaned up - very tired after diner - laid down commenced snowing four pm

January 1904

21st Thursday cloudy and snowing - colder six am snowing all day - do some work up stairs - sew on quilt

22nd Friday cloudy looks like storm rise six am - do my morning work and then sew on the quilt - weather growing colder

23rd Saturday - cold morning - pleasant rise six am - Mr Denver Heath and wife called and Adella went to Columbus - weather growing colder - 27 below zero this morning

24th Sunday pleasant rise six and started fire and returned to bed until seven thermometer 26 below zero - all stay home from church

25th Monday pleasant colder rise seven am - water froze in my bed room last night - this morning thirty six below zero - below zero  all day - oh how cold

26th Tuesday pleasant 26 below zero rise and build fire and go to bed again rise seven am - at noon twelve above zero

27th Wednesday pleasant rise early start and fire and return to bed rise seven am Thermometer 28 below zero cold - Mr I A Mathews called - have chicken for dinner

28th Thursday pleasant cold rise five am - start the fire - returned to bed rise half past six am for the day - Sew and read - quite a moderate day

29th Friday pleasant but cold rise five and start fire returned to bed rise seven am for the day - twenty below zero - Mrs Cora Henton took dinner her and Mr CE Mathews called  - done some washing

30th Saturday looks foggy rise start fire and return to bed rise half past six am - I do some ironing and finished the blocks for Mrs Hentons quilt

31st Sunday cloudy start as usual and retire until seven am weather more mild - Joseph and Adella got partly ready for church - the wind commenced blowing hard that gave up and staid at home - last day of January of 1904

February 1904

1st Monday -  pleasant at seven Thermometer at sixteen below zero - sent Mrs Hentons blocks for quilt home and ripped an old skirt - sent letter to Mr Jenings and Pie Chicago

2d Tuesday cloudy and trying to snow rise five start fire rise seven am - Carl went to Columbus today - Thermometer down to zero in morning wind blew hard all day

3d Wednesday windy and trying to snow rise seven am - do some washing and do some other work - Thermometer 12 below zero

4th Thursday cloudy and cold rise seven am do some ironing and then read - cut some carpet rags and sew them - Mrs Mary Wright and daughter called evening and Carl (hired help) played on his violin

5th - Friday cloudy weather more mild rise six am - sone some more ironing - out and sewed a ball of carpet rags - Adella spent the day at her brothers - Joseph to Otsego - rained

6th Saturday cloudy storms rise six am - Andrew came to breakfast and went to work in the Tobacco - Carl helped him - foggy all day - done some mending and cut some rags

7th Sunday snowing rise six am - growing colder and windy - all stay home from church - Mr Elmer Mathews and Wife made a call - Andrew and Carl here all day and they had a call evening

8th Monday - pleasant and cold rise six am - Thermometer eighteen below zero - morning Joseph clean stove pipe and chimney - this afternoon Andrew Johnson and Carl Stripping tobacco - do some ironing this morning

9th Tuesday cloudy looks like storm - rise half past six - above zero morning - Mr J A Mathews drawing posts for brothers tobacco shed - finish my apron mend some

10th Wednesday - pleasant rise six am - start fire five am - eight below zero this morning - Andrew Johnson finished stripping tobacco this afternoon - finished mending my skirt

11th Thursday cloudy rise half past six am - Andrew left after dinner - Carl to school today - done some ironing and sewed a ball of carpet rags - Oyster Supper at the Hampden church tonight

12th Friday pleasant morning rise six am - sew a ball of rags - read and do some mending - cloudy afternoon

13th Saturday cloudy rise six am - the weather moderate all day sweep and dust - melt two pails of snow - sew some and read the Advocate

14th Sunday cloudy and windy - wind in the north - rise six am - Start fire return to bed rise seven - all stay at home from church - cold and windy Mr _____ died this evening at Otsego

15th Monday the sun shines - cold and windy - rise six the fire and return to bed - rise seven am Thermometer thirty below zero morning - sew on night gown - eight below zero all day - Della went to Mr Denver Heaths 5 pm

16th Tuesday pleasant and cold rise half past six am - Thermometer 20 below zero this morning - Mr Moore drove cattle to the cars (train cars)

17th Wednesday pleasant rise six am cold wind in the south east - finish my night gown - cloudy afternoon - do some reading

18th Thursday cloudy and has snowed some - start fire five am - rise seven and weather more moderate six above zero - Della came home at half past eleven

February 1904

19th Friday pleasant rise six am - do some washing - Joseph and Kate washed - Mr CE Mathews and wife took dinner here - six below zero

20th Saturday foggy rise six am 0 12 below this morning - rise do my ironing and my morning work - clear nine am pleasant day

21st - Sunday morning cloudy rise seven am - we have a wet snow all day - Thermometer 20 above zero - all stay home from church - read and take a nap

22nd - Monday -pleasant rise half past five - start fire return to bed rise half pat six am - do some washing get tired - carry some carpet rags to Mrs Mathews - they weighed seven pounds and then ripped a skirt to cut in carpet rags

23rd Tuesday cloudy looks like storm rise half past six - do my ironing - Joseph to Fall River to get feed ground - Tobacco men here wanted it delivered tomorrow - Thermometer above zero - Della spent the day with sister

24th Wednesday pleasant rises am - sweep my bedroom - Mr J H Mathews took Mr J W Mathews and Mr Andrew Johnson Tobacco to Rio for them - they got a good price for it - Thermometer 2 below zero - wind in the North west and cold

February 1904

25 Thursday cloudy and cold rise six am - not very well - Nite Society today meets at Mrs Fred Picks - sew carpet rags six below zero

26th Friday - cloudy snowed last night rise six am - ten above zero this morning - sew and dust my room - Mrs Carrie Heath here to dinner - Mr J H Mathews called

27th - Saturday cloudy rise six am Thermometer above zero this morning - wash my windows and do my Saturdays work - papers state Rochester have a fire today

28th Sunday cloudy looks like storm rise six am- weather more mild - snow melted today - Mr J H Mathews and wife and 2 children took dinner here today Thermometer 28 above zero

29th Monday cloudy and snowing rise six am colder wind in the north snow all of the forenoon clear at noon - melt two pails of snow - cut and sew rags for carpet - last day of February 1904

March 1904

1st Tuesday cloudy rise six am weather more mild Thermometer 28 above zero this morning - melt 2 pails of snow - Joseph to Otsego forenoon

2d Wednesday - foggy morning rise six am Thermometer 28 above zero - have a thunder shower half past four pm with lightning and the wind changed in the north

3d Thursday - clear and windy rise six am cold wind in the north and blowing a gale Thermometer at zero - wind went down late afternoon - cut and sew hit and miss

4th Friday pleasant and cold rise six am Thermometer above zero 14 Mrs Mery Wright and daughter here to dinner - Della went to sisters Mrs Carrie Heaths

5th Saturday cloudy  some colder rise six am - Mr J A Mathews called - Adella came home nine am - She attended a surprise party last evening at Mr Goodmans - Joseph to Otsego afternoon

6th Sunday cloudy some foggy rise six am - very damp day all stay from church today weather moderate

March 1904

7th Monday the sun shines - rise six am - my cold some better - Della went to Mr Denver heaths - Mr C E Mathews called - melter two pails of snow - sew some rags for carpet

8th Tuesday pleasant rise six am - Della returned home ten am - finish sewing carpet rags - almost sick with a cold snow - melting fast this afternoon - Joseph to Otsego

9th Wednesday cloudy morning - rise six am my cold not much better - do not do much work - Joseph to Otsego - weather colder froze

10th Thursday cloudy cold and windy - rise six am - rained all day -finished my apron - my cold some better - do not cough as much as I did

11th Friday cloudy some cold rise six am so some mending - Mrs Carrie Heath spent the afternoon home - some better but cough

12th Saturday cloudy and weather colder rise six am - do my Saturdays work and very tired after dinner - Della says we will clean your stove pipe and chimney - Joseph cleaned it and I cleaned up I was very tired almost sick

Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin

March 1904

13th Sunday some cloudy rise six am all stay home from church - have our first eggs for dinner - looks like storm

14th Monday snowing ground covered with snow rise six am I washed my flannels and melted a snow (pail) to fill my pitcher with water - Joseph and Dell done some washing - Joseph had a quarter of beef brought this afternoon - snowed all day

15th - Tuesday - weather colder and pleasant rise six am do some washing and melt some snow and finish a pair of wristlets for Brother

16th Wednesday pleasant and cold rise six am - the snow gives some - do some ironing and mending - the paper gives news of the Japps victory

17th Thursday cloudy and snowing rise six am done some washing and done some ironing and melted some snow - Mr CE Mathews and wife called and Adella and Mrs Hanna Mathews called at the school

18th Friday some cloudy rise six am - write a letter to Mr F A Baker Mineapolis Minn - Joseph to Otsego purchase a pail - Della visit her sister Carrie Heath - commence snowing at four pm

19th Saturday cloudy looks stormy rise seven am - the snow went fast today - wind northwest grew colder five pm

March 1904

20th Sunday pleasant cold rise six am - the sun crossing the line today 7 pm - all stay home from church - weather changed to colder and th wind blew from the south east

21st Monday stormy and the wind blowing hard rise six am - done som mending and then put a new binding on a flannel blanket - my Advocate came today - had some thunder and lightning - rained hard last night

22nd Tuesday some cloudy rise six am - cleared ten am sun shone - done some washing - very tired - finished the blanket and done some sewing

23rd Wednesday pleasant weather moderate rise six am - do my ironing an write a letter to Charley Hough and finish one block - Joseph to Fall River

24th Wednesday some cloudy rise six am - sweep my bed room and then sew - cloudy all day - commenced raining four pm - had a hard thunder shower

25th Friday some cloudy rise six am - sweep and clean my room - Joseph and Kate wash - wind blew quite hard all day

26th Saturday - cold and windy clear rise six am - Miss Sadie Goodman spent the afternoon here with Della - finish another block for my quilt

March 1904

27th Sunday pleasant but cold rise six am - all stay home from church - Carl away visiting home late

28th Monday cloudy all day rise six am - do some washing - very tired - Joseph having some wood drawed up from the grove

29th Tuesday - cloudy weather more moderate rise six am - finish my blocks for my quilt - Miss Clara Henton and Harold Mathews to dinner - Joseph and wife took the carpet rags to the weavers

30th Wednesday cloudy rise six am - tried to rain - Carl finish drawing wood up from the grove for Brother Joseph - do some ironing - Joseph and Della go to see about the carpet - rained all the afternoon

31st Thursday foggy and wet - rise six am - received a letter from Rev Mr and Mrs James of North Prairie - cloudy nearly all day

April 1904

1st Friday cloudy weather moderate rise six am - sew and read cloudy all day - our folks had a call - wind changed and grew colder 4 pm

2nd Saturday cloudy and cold rise six am - recieved my paper at noon finally - it cleared and the weather was pleasant

3d Sunday pleasant and cold rise six am - Joseph and Della attend church 2pm - Easter Day - Mr Henry Hanson called here afternoon

4th Monday pleasant weather more moderate rise six am I done some washing - Joseph worked the machine for Kate washing read the papers

5th Tuesday cloudy rise six am today is Town Meeting - Joseph and Della to Otsego - Carl cleaned my chimney this morning - sone some ironing after cleaning up - some chickens - Joseph sold 2 hogs and a call

6th - Wednesday some cloudy rise six am - carl leaves today for Mineapolis - Della spent the afternoon with Miss Sadie Goodman Mrs Cora Henton made a call - Joseph took a calf and two hogs to Doylestown

April 1904

7th Thursday morning foggy rise six am - Joseph to Otsego at ten am - Joseph drive over with us women to Mrs Hendricks and Mr Stones spent the day with them and had a nice time

8th Friday cloudy and windy rise six am clear a part of the day grew colder after four pm

9th Saturday cloudy wind north rise six am - snowed last night the ground white this morning rained and sleet all the forenoon

10th Sunday cloudy morning rise six am - Elmer Mathews called and took dinner - Della attended church 2 pm cold and cloudy

11th Monday rise half past five am - ground covered with snow do some washing tired

12th Tuesday morning pleasant rise five am - do some ironing - Mr King and Son came and killed Joseph two hogs for him - Andrew Johnson commenced grubbing the grove for brother Joseph

13th Wednesday cloudy morning rise five am - the sun came out and was pleasant - Joseph cut up his pork salted it - I basted a block today

April 1904

14th Thursday cloudy and cold rise five am snowed by spells all day - snowed hard at six pm - pieced on block - sweeped and dusting

15th Friday cloudy snow on the ground - quite deep this morning - rise five am - the wind blew hard all day - Andrew left afternoon - finished another block

16th Saturday pleasant rise half past five am - finish another block sweep and dust read the papers the day was clear and cold

17th Sunday pleasant and cold rise half past six am- Joseph and Della attend church 2 pm -  there were more out than there had been of late

18th Monday cloudy rise five am - I done some washing - tired - Joseph turned the washing machine for his wife and they done their washing close dry Mr Jay Henton front home a new Surry today

19th Tuesday pleasant rise after five am - done my ironing - Mr J A Mathews came and got his Fathers Surrey and took his family to Columbus - Della went with them a cold day

April 1904

20th Wednesday pleasant but cold rise five am do my morning work and then read and sew - Joseph to Otsego afternoon - della to her sisters

21st Thursday pleasant a frost this morning rise five am - Joseph and wife and Della went Fall River to do some trading home half past one pm

22d Friday some cloudy and cold rise five am rain nearly all day sew and read

23d Saturday morning foggy rise five am - do my Saturdays work and sew and read - rain half past four pm a thunder shower

24th Sunday cloudy has the appearance of more rain rise five am take my bath - Joseph and Della attend church 2 pm Mrs Carrie Heath called at the door

25 Monday cloudy and windy rise half past five am - do some washing and then sewed on the blocks - Della and her mother cleaning the rooms up stairs

26th Tuesday pleasant the wind does not blow as hard - rise five am do some ironing before breakfast - Della and her mother cleaned her bedroom - pieced a block for Matie comforter

27th Wednesday pleasant - Joseph heard the Prairie Chickens for the first time this spring - rise half past five am - Andrew Johnson came this morning ti finish his grubbing - Della and her mother cleaned their stairs took u p carpet and put it down again

April 1904

28th Thursday pleasant quite cold rise five am - Mrs Carrie Heath came at noon - Allen Goodman helped Andrew Johnson grub today two pm - Joseph took four of us to Mr Fadness to the Nite Society - a good turn out

29th Friday pleasant quite mild rise half past five am and take a walk in the yard - piece two blocks - Joseph and Dell to Otsego evening

30th Saturday - some cloudy rise half past five am do my Saturdays work and get in some wood - Joseph to Fall Rive - Allen King here to work - a warm day

May 1904

1st Sunday pleasant rise half past five am - Joseph and wife and Della attend church 2 pm - Mrs Copeland staid home alone

2nd Monday pleasant rise five am -Elmer here to dinner. - Joseph had a boy here to help him pick up chips - afternoon Joseph took Elmer to Rio home six pm

3d Tuesday pleasant rise five am - Allen King has ploughed for early potatoes and is now planting them and will plough the garden - done my ironing  - feel tired and I took my flannel sheets off my bed and have ten blocks for comforter

4th Wednedy pleasant rise five am - cleaned the closet under the stairs - Joseph and Kate washed - a warm day- Kate had to sew some more red for her carpet

5th Thursday pleasant out rise five am - finish the blocks for comforter and carry some things up stairs from my bed room - have thunder and some rain afternoon

6th Friday pleasant and smoky rise five am - have thunder and some rain 8 am finally cleared and Joseph and wife and Della went to Columbus and returned half past four pm - Allen to tea - I staid home alone - thundered and rained evening

May 1904

7th Saturday cloudy and rainy - rise five am - rained hard last night - I have kept quilt today not very well - Mrs Mathews had her new carpet fetched home today and they moved the stove this evening  - rained all the forenoon

8th Sunday cloudy rained again last night - rise little before six - forenoon cloudy and some sunshine - commenced raining pm and rained hard all the afternoon - all staid home from church

9th Monday clear and pleasant rise half past five - Mrs Mathews making a net carpet - Brother Joseph to Fall River - Allen King too tea here this afternoon

10th Tuesday pleasant quite cold rise five am - Brother Joseph to Rio -  Done some work on my scrap book - Mr CE Mathews to tea

11th Wednesday rainy - rained last night - rise five - Della and her mother cleaning their buttery - Joseph white washed it for them - Allen King ploughing for potatoes

12th Thursday pleasant  morning rise five am - Della and her mother cleaning kitchen - rain at noon hard thunder shower a little after six- evening done some work on my scrap book

Since by man came death, by came also the resurrection of the dead

13th Friday morning pleasant  rise half past five am - rained hard last night - Brother Joseph to Otsego and Della to her sisters Mrs Heath to practice some hymns for Sunday school

14th Saturday pleasant  wind in the north - rise five am and do my Saturday work - Della went to Mr Goodmans to practice for Children’s Day - May Young had a daughter today

15th Sunday pleasant  and cold rise five and take my bath - all went to church but Mrs Copeland- Mr Denver Heath and wife took tea here and Della went to Mr Call and Elmer Mathews

16th Monday pleasant  and cold rise five am and do some work - do my washing and get in some chips for my fire (kindling) tired

17th Tuesday morning pleasant  rise five am - Joseph and wife to Rio - Mrs Mathews had 5 teeth out home one pm

18th Wednesday looks like rain rise five am - Brother Joseph to Columbus to do some repairing to the house - home half past five pm - Miss Sara Goodman took tea here and Della went home with her - Joseph purchased some oil cloth for me for the hall

May 1904

19th Thursday cloudy rise five am - build fire - finish two pair of wristlets - Joseph burnt brush all forenoon - Della and her father went to Otsego

20th Friday pleasant rise am and go out and take the morning air - Joseph and Della go to Rio - a warm and a fine day

21st Saturday pleasant rise half past five am - Della and her Father went to Mr Denver Heaths to Mrs Kate Henton to come and paper the dining room and help about cleaning and put down carpets

22nd Sunday raining and thunder - rise six am - Clear at nine am - all went to church 2 pm - Mrs Copeland staid home - rained five pm

23rd Monday morning pleasant rise five am - Joseph and Kate clean cellar - I cut out some work - Joseph and Dell went Otsego evening

24th Tuesday - pleasant rise five am - do some washing - Joseph turn the washing machine for his wife for the washing - rained afternoon - put some of my clothes in water for the night

25th Wednesday cloudy some foggy rise five am - Joseph went to Columbus nine am - done my ironing and some mending and cut out two aprons

26th Thursday rainy looks as if we would have a stormy day - rise before five am - weep and dust the rooms and finish one apron - Della and her mother commenced papering the dining room - Allen King using our team (horses?)

27th Friday pleasant rise before five am - Joseph have ground sloughed for sweet corn - Mr Fadness planting the corn - Joseph and Della to Otsego and to see if they can get some on to paper the dining room and put down carpets

28th Saturday - pleasant rise five am - Della and Clara Henton went to church to practice for Children’s Day - Joseph planted sweet corn

29th Sunday pleasant  morning rise half past five am - C E Mathews took dinner with his folks - I attended church 2pm with brother Joseph and Della

30th Monday pleasant  and colder - wind in the North east - rise five am - read the Book through and then sew - Joseph to Otsego evening - Della to her sisters

31st Tuesday pleasant cold rise five am - Mr Goodman insured Brother Joseph house and things and took dinner here - I sewed om the quilt and read - Mrs Matie Wright called and had a pleasant chat

June 1904

1st Wednesday pleasant some cold rise six am - Mrs Kate Henton came 1pm and prepped the dining room - Mr Faumand came afternoon with a new Organ - Allen preparing for planting potatoes

2nd Thursday pleasant quite warm rise half past four am - Mrs Kate Henton cleaned my bed room and my other room - I took care of the things - helped move them

3d Friday cloudy foggy rise five am - Mrs Kate Henton came Wednesday 1pm and staid and helped clean until Friday day noon - I am trying to get things in place again - I am very tired - rained afternoon and at evening - Stella King called

4th Saturday cloudy and rainy rise five am - Brother Joseph to Rio this morning - Della to church to practice for Children’s Day - rained some this afternoon - finished getting my things in order again

5th Sunday some cloudy rained again last night rise four am and take my bath and go to bed until after five am - had one or two calls - Joseph and Della attend church 2 pm

6th Monday some cloudy rise five am - wash some clothes through water and put them on the grass - Della and her Mother sweep and clean the room and hall upstairs - I put up the hall window curtain - Joseph went to Doylestown and brought home a load of shingles.

7th Tuesday cloudy has the appearance of rain - rise five am rinse up the cloths - Mr Elmer Mathews and wife took tea here

8th Wednesday pleasant rise half past four am - done my ironing - Joseph to Fall River this forenoon - a letter from Charley Hoyt and Amelia - Della and her mother washed window curtains

9th Thursday pleasant rise five am - Joseph and wife and daughter attend the Nite Society at Mr Halls - a pleasant afternoon about thirty were there  - I staid alone - wrote ad letter to Mrs James

10th- Friday pleasant rise five am - send letter to Mr and Mrs James North Prairie Wis - Mrs Carrie Heath spent the day at home - Joseph to Rio afternoon - Della put up the curtain to the big window

11th Saturday pleasant rise five am - Della put up the curtain to the south window - Joseph put up the screens to the windows - sweep and dust - Della and Clara Henton went to church to trim and practice for Children’s (Day)

12th Sunday pleasant rise half past five am - attend church 2 pm Children day a good congregation - a goo- the children all done well

13th Monday pleasant and warm rise five am - do some washing - Joseph to Doylestown for lumber - rain 6 pm and thunder storm after six pm - a paper from Arthur Copeland Syracuse NY

June 1904

14th Tuesday morning pleasant rise five am - left home ten am for Mrs Denver Heaths and took dinner there returned four pm - Elmer came home to dinner and took home two quarts strawberries

15th Wednesday - cloudy rained last night - rise five - Joseph to Doylestown for a load of lumber and afternoon to Otsego and Della went with him

16th Thursday pleasant rise half past four am - Joseph and Della and Mrs Copeland left home for Columbus half past seven am returned after two - Allen King setting Tobacco today

17th friday pleasant quite cool rise five am - Joseph to Doylestown for a load of lumber- Joseph picked strawberries Della helped him and Kate canned them after tea - Joseph and Della. Took some berries to J A Mathews and went to Otsego

18th Saturday pleasant rise five am - Joseph to Rio this morning - afternoon Joseph and Della picked Strawberries and I helped pulled them and then Della and her mother canned them

19th Sunday pleasant rise six am - Mr Elmer Mathews here to dinner - thermometer up to 90 vey hot day all stayed home from church to day

20th Monday pleasant rise half past four am - Allen King helped Brother Joseph lay foundation for his shed - had a hard thunder storm at noon - lasted until three pm - done some mending and finished my towels and then cut my skirt and sewed ready for sewing on the facing

21st Tuesday some cloudy rise before five am - Joseph draw a load of lumber - Mr Ludwig drawing the heavy lumber - finish my skirt

22d Wednesday cloudy  rise before five am - the great Picnic is take place at Fall River today for Woodman - Brother Joseph, wife and Della attend the picnic at Fall River

23rd Thursday cold and some cloudy rise five am - Joseph ploughing his early potatoes and sweet corn - Joseph to Otsego with strawberries - sent by him for some sugar - Della and her mother picked strawberries this afternoon - Joseph this afternoon canned some strawberries three pint canned and two fell? Canned - Joseph and Della went to Crowley Wrights with some strawberries after tea - Kate had a call evening

24th Friday pleasant rained last night rise five am - do some washing - Joseph turn the machine for washing - rained 4 pm - they sent strawberries to Mr I A Mathews - thermometer over 90

25th - Saturday cloudy rained again last night - rise 5 - Joseph to Rio forenoon - Allen King set Tobacco afternoon - George and Earl picked strawberries afternoon - wind in the north afternoon - quite cool

June 1904

26th Sunday pleasant rise five am - Joseph and wife and myself attend church 2 pm - Elmer Mathews and wife called and AA Mathews and wife called and several others called

27th Monday pleasant rise half pat four am - since up my clothes and do some ironing and then do some reading afternoon - help pull strawberries - Joseph and Della call on Mrs J Henton and Mrs C Wright

28th Tuesday pleasant rise five am - do my ironing and mending - Miss Bell Wright came and picked strawberries and her mother called for her - Mrs James Goodman and Miss Sadie Goodman called and spent the evening

29th Wednesday - cloudy rained this morning - rise half past five - Allen King finished setting Tobacco - cut my sack and partly made it

30th Thursday pleasant morning - rise five am - the Nite Society met at Mr Crowley Wrights - we all attended - forty took tea - returned home six pm

July 1904

1st Friday pleasant rise five am - have a fire in my room read and sew - Della have a call - Harold Mathews take dinner

2d Saturday pleasant rise five am - finish my sack and read my Advocate and the other papers - Joseph to Rio morning and to Otsego evening

3d Sunday - pleasant but cold - rise half past five - have new pease (peas) for dinner - rained this morning - Denver Heath and Carrie Heath to tea - rained and thundered and lightened hard evening

4th Monday cloudy looks like rain - rise five am - Joseph went to the Doctor for his wife she is sick - Mr and Mrs Denver Heath called afternoon - we had ice cream and cake

5th Tuesday - pleasant warm rise five am - Mrs Mathews some better - sits up some - sew on the quilt

6th - Wednesday - cloudy wet weather - rise five am - covered a cushion - Joseph to Otsego - Mrs W Wright called - rainy day

7th  Thursday - pleasant rise five am Allen King ploughed potatoes all day

8th Friday - raining wet day - rise half past five am - send a letter to Charley and Amelia Hoyt - Bert Mathews called - still cloudy at eleven o’clock - not very well

July 1904

9th Saturday morning foggy - rise five am - I am not very well - Mrs Mathews better - they have several call - have our last strawberries

10th Sunday pleasant rise five am - Joseph and Della attend church 2 pm - Mr Presideing Elder preached and then the sacrament

11th Monday - pleasant at five am but cloudy at seven - looks like rain - rise five am -have a pair of sheets washed - put some clothes on the grass and commence repairing my every day dress- Joseph to Fall River - Della had a call

12th - Tuesday - pleasant wind in the northwest - rise five - Joseph went to Rio - home one pm - sew on my skirt - afternoon Joseph plow potatoes for Allen

13th Wednesday pleasant rise five am - finish my skirt - Miss Sadie Goodman and her cousin Maggie Goodman spent the afternoon and took tea with Della - very cloudy after 4 pm

14th Thursday - cloudy and rainy - rise five am - rained last night - thermometer at noon 90 - done my ironing and sewed on my dress waist

15th Friday pleasant - rise five am - put a new pair of sleeves - Joseph to Fall River - Della called on Miss Jenie Wright - Thermometer at noon 90 - take off my flanes (fleece?) skirt for the first time this Summer

July 1904

16th Saturday pleasant and warm - rise five am - Joseph to Otsego - Mr King cut Brother Joseph hay - thermometer up to 86 afternoon - Della attend ice cream social to Otsego evening

17th Sunday pleasant rise six am  - take my bath - Joseph and Della went to church - there was no church Sabbath School - thermometer up tp 99 - almost a hundred - there where a great picnic at a Mr Tangers and on the Border day we therein clear and no rain wind blew hard

18th Monday - pleasant - weather more moderate - rise five - Joseph is having his hay put in the barn - Thermometer ninety - six o’clock cloudy and then thundered and lightened (lightning) - finally the wind blew hard - wrote letter to Mrs J F Boswell and George Boswell Ocean Grove

19th Tuesday Cloudy rained last night - rise five am - Mrs Cora Henton and daughter called afternoon - I went to day Miss Sadie Goodman - Joseph his hay all in the barn - sent letter to Mrs J F Boswell Ocean Grove N.J.

20th Wednesday pleasant rise five am - put quilt on frames and done my ironing - Mr Elmer Mathews and wife called and Mr Bert Mathews and Wife and daughter called and brought some cherries

21st - Thursday - pleasant rise five am - finish my quilt and other work for tea - had a raspberry cake

July 1904

22nd Friday pleasant rise five am - finish the comforter - Sweep my bed room - Joseph drawing in some hay - Mr Elmer Mathews took dinner here.

23rd Saturday pleasant - rise five am, sweep and dust my room and read - do some other chores - Joseph finished getting in his hay

24th Sunday pleasant - rise six am - no meeting today at the Hampden Church - a Troup called at tea time - Joseph gave hime his supper

25the Monday - pleasant rise five am - done some washing - Joseph turned the machine for Kate and they done their washing - done some sewing

26t    h Tuesday - rainy morning - rise five am - clear nine am - Mr C E Mathews here to tea - Joseph to Rio - the quire (choir) met here to practice for funeral to Mr Hefer of a child of her sister

27th Wednesday pleasant rise five am - I done my ironing - Joseph to Otsego - finished my skirt and read the paper - done some mending

28th Thursday - pleasant rise five am - do some mending and wash my skirt - Joseph purchased some wood - paid seven dollars and a half for it - Ice cream Social to night at Mr James - good moms? this evening

29th Friday - cloudy - rise half past five - iron my skirt and then work on it - Mrs Carrie Heath came and staid to tea - commenced rainy six pm

30th - Saturday - rainy - a hard thunder and rain - the latter part of the night - rise five am - rained nearly all day - finished my skirt and read my Advocate paper - states Mr Lewis taken worse

31st Sunday - pleasant morning - rise half past five am - We all attend Church today at two pm - a very pleasant day - Thermometer 86

1st Monday - pleasant rise five am - Brother Joseph and Della go to Columbus 8 am - get home three pm - Mrs Mary Wright and daughter called and I gave them their comforter that I finished

2nd Tuesday - pleasant morning rise half past five - Commence putting quilt together - Brother Joseph and wife and daughter and Mrs Copeland spent afternoon took tea with Mr Call and Elmer Mathews and wife

3rd Wednesday - pleasant rise five am - Miss Della call on Mis Lelia Moore - Mrs Thompson Call Brother Joseph draw a load of wood for me

August 1904

4th Thursday morning cloudy - rise five am - tried to rain several times - Joseph turned the machine for washing - they washed my flannel blankets

5th Friday - looks smoky - rise five am - done my ironing - worked on my cloth cape and read some - Joseph drawed a load of wood

6th Saturday - some cloudy - rise five am - sweep and dust bed room sitting room - Della went to her sisters Mrs Henton and help her - they are threshing - got through and left six pm

7th Sunday pleasant - rise five am - clouded and it rained at half past twelve - Joseph and Della went to church - had Sunday school - no meeting - Mr J A Mathews and Wife and children to tea - two ladies called evening

8th Monday pleasant morning - rise five am - Della went to her sisters and spent the day - Brother Joseph to Rio and I done some washing

9th Tuesday cloudy - looks like rain - rise five am - do my ironing - finished my cloth cape - rained one pm and again six pm

10th Wednesday - cloudy morning - rise five am - put the quilt on the frames and done some tying

11th Thursday morning foggy - rise five am - Joseph took Della to her Sisters Mr D Heaths - Rev Mr Conlin called - Della returned evening - take the quilt from the frame

Books in Library (written by Garret Hanson)
June 27th 1845

Volumes
6    Clarks Commentary                  $22.00
1    Bible Dictionary Watson’s            3.50
1    “            “    Buck’s                        0.75
1    Donnegan’s Lexicon                     5.00
1    Greek Majora                                2.00
1    Anecdotes etc                                1.13
1    Classical Dictionary                      1.50
1    Virgil Cooper’s                              2.00
1     Hall’s Lectures                             0.38
2    Sermons Wesley’s                         4.00
1        “        Morris                             1.00
2    Theological Institutions Watsons  4.00
4    Fletcher’s Works                           7.00
1    Algebra Days                                1.25
1    Survey Davies                               1.75
1    Legendre Davis                             1.75
1    Bible Index                                    0.50
1    Logick Hedges                              0.50
———                                            ———
28                                                     $60.00

No of vols  Books in Library 1845 (written by Garret Hanson)

1    Latin Grammar Andrews         $1.00
1    Latin Reader                                .87
1     Horace Anthon’s                      2.00
1     Livy Folson’s                             .87
1    Methodist Harmonist                1.00
1    Account Book                             .34
1     Abethodist Magazine                 .25
1    Letter Writing                             .13
1    Speakers Guide                          .12
1     Manners and Customs               .50
1    Sketch Book                               .50
1    Hulls Grammar                           .75
1    Olmsteds Philosophy                1.00
1     Natural Philosophy - James       .75
1    Smiths Geography Atlas           1.00
1    English Composition                  .31
1    Porter’s Analysis                        .75
1    Com Chemistry                        1.00
1    Book Keeping                            .50
___                                                 ____
19                                               $13.64       

No of vols - Books in Library 1845 (written by Garret Hanson)

1     New English Reader or Manual  0.38c
1    Intellectual Powers                       0.42
1     Greek Grammar Fisks                  0.75
1    Greek Reader                                0.87
1     Panorama                                     1.00
1     Greek Lessons                              0.30
1    Greek & Latin Testament              1.25
1     Latin Dictionary                           1.00
1    Adams’ Arithmetic                        0.25
1    Bobb’s Spelling Book                   0.10
1    Christian Perfection                      0.38
1    Holy War                                       0.25
2     Browns Concordance                   0.38
1    Theological Compend                   0.30
2    Bibles                                            1.50
1    Hymn Book                                   0.30
1    Methodist Discipline                     0.18
1     Life of Stoner?                             0.50
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20         Total                                    $10.11

Vol 67    Cost                                    $83.75

August 1904

12th Friday - cloudy morning - rise five am - finish the quilt - Mrs Matie Wright and daughter called and took the quilt home - Joseph and Della went to Otsego - Mr Elmer Mathews called - Thermometer 96 - done? wash

13th Saturday - have thunder shower this morning - Miss Bell Wright spent the night here - Mrs Cora Henton call and Bell spend the day here - done my ironing

14th Sunday - pleasant morning - rise half past five am - all attend church 2 pm - paid one dollar missionary - 2 dollars fo salary for minister

15th Monday - pleasant morning - rise half past five am -at half past six am thundered and looked like rain - commenced to rain seven am - cleared at ten am - done my washing - Joseph to Rio afternoon

16th Tuesday - pleasant morning - rise five am - three carpenters came half past seven am to build the Tobacco Shed - Joseph to Otsego and to the neighbors to come and raise the shed - Mr Ritters baby died yesterday

17th Wednesday - pleasant - rise five am - breakfast half past six - three carpenters to work on the shed - had it all raised by nine o’clock am - funeral today of Mr. Ritters child at Otsego - Joseph called and brought Miss Ward here to make a dress Della

18th Thursday - pleasant - rise five am - do some work in my bed room - Miss Ward made Della skirt and sleeves - four carpenters here for dinner and two for tea - Miss Ward went to Mr Pulvers after tea - do some sewing on quilt

August 1904

19th Friday- morning - cloudy - rise five am - rained seven am - Miss Ward finished Della dress this afternoon  - Brother Joseph took Miss Ward home after tea - had my door fixed so I could open an shut without any trouble

20th Saturday - cloudy - rise five am and do my morning work and then read and sew - the carpenters went home for the Sabbath

21st - Sunday - foggy and some cloudy at noon and looks like rain - it thundered at one pm - we gave up going to church and all staid home - we had sprinkle that was all the wind went in the north and it partly cleared

22nd Monday - Cold and pleasant morning - rise five am done - done some washing and some work in my bedroom and done some mending - the carpenters finished the shed - Della attended a party to Mrs Wards

23rd Tuesday - morning some cloudy rise five am- Joseph painting Tobacco Shed - iron some and do some mending not very well

24th Wednesday - pleasant rise five am - done my ironing not very well - Mrs Carrie Heath spent the day at home - Della went home with her and then they would attend the chicken pie Sociable at C Wrights

25th Thursday - windy - pleasant rise five am - Joseph took his wife and Della and Mrs Cora Henton to Mr Effing to Nite Society - a good number out - I staid home not well

26th - Sunday Morning - pleasant rise five am - not so well - lie on the lounge all day - sick at night

27th Saturday worse - send for the Doctor - he came two pm and said I had Erysipalas pretty bad - how my head did ache

Erysipalas (Skin infection) Erysipelas is an infection of the outer layers of skin caused by a bacterium called Streptococcus pyogenes. Symptoms include pain, redness, and rash and, often, fever, chills, and malaise. Erysipelas also can cause swelling and blockage of the superficial vessels of the lymphatic system. Although potentially serious, erysipelas usually can be treated with antibiotics

28th Sunday - pleasant some - better the doctor came and said my fever was gone - lay a bed all day

29th Monday - pleasant - have to keep my bed - some better - Kate wash Joseph turn the Machine for her

30th Tuesday - pleasant - Still in bed - some better

31st - Wednesday - some cloudy - some better - not able to set up only long enough to have my bed made

September 1903 (1904)

1st Thursday - pleasant - my head fells (feels) better and felt rather poorly - lie a bed all day

2nd Friday - pleasant - sill (still) in bed - some better - had a call

3rd Saturday - quite warm - my head fells some better - I think I shall try to set up tomorrow

4th Sunday pleasant - set up to eat my breakfast and to eat my diner and tea - Miss Della went to the meeting of the Norwegian Church

5th Monday - pleasant - set up same - Joseph turned the machine for his wife and washed

6th - Tuesday - cloudy - rise and dress myself and set up - Mrs Carrie Heath spent the day at home - Joseph and wife went to Rio to see the dentist

7th - Wednesday - foggy - looks like rain - rise early and dress - have my breakfast and the comb my hair- Allen King drew tobacco in the shed - set up a part of the day

8th Thursday morning - foggy rise early and dress - have my breakfast and comb my hair - Mr Taylor called - Miss Della attend Nite Society at Mr August Shultz - 36 out to tea

9th Friday some foggy early this morning - rise early - Joseph and his son Bert drew gravel on the road all day - my head ached all day

10th Saturday - pleasant - did not rest good last night - Adella and her Mother went to Columbus - home half past four - Joseph staid with me

11th Sunday - some cloudy- wind in the north - quite cold - rise and open the house and aired it and then built fire - cold day - lie down half past nine - rise eleven am - no caller - alone all day (aired house out because of sickness?)

12th Monday - pleasant and cold - rise five am and open and air the house and kindle the fire - Joseph and son Bert Mathews drew gravel on the road forenoon - Mrs May Wright called to see me

13th - Tuesday - rainy cold and damp - rise five am - build fire and open the house and air it  - Joseph and Pat Mathews finished the road - Tax? Sent for Doctor Pease - he examined my head and said there was no eyrisipalas now about me - gave some medicine to cure the shard pain

14th - Wednesday - some cloudy - rise five am and rained - build my fire and opened the house and aired it - Joseph went to -some- wood he purchased - my head better

15th Thursday - pleasant rise - wash five am and build the fire and take a walk - I am better - less pain in head - Joseph and Della to Columbus - have some peaches bought

16th Friday - looks like a fair day - rise half past five am - I go to my meals - Joseph draw a load of wood - Mr CS Mathews take tea here

17th Saturday - pleasant morning - rise five am - Joseph draw a load of wood  - Della went a Hazel nutting this afternoon - ladies called

18th Sunday - rainy and cloudy - rise five and take my bath - thundered half last night - all went to church today but Mrs Copeland - She stayed at home

19th - Monday - cloudy and cold - rise six am and have fire - wash some things through two waters - Joseph turn the washing machine and they wash my clothes

20th Tuesday - cloudy - looks like rain - rise six - the wind has changed to the north and the weather is cool - finish my washing this morning - Della and her mother has done my ironing - cold and windy all day

21st Wednesday - pleasant but cold - rise six am - last night a very cold night - Joseph drew another load of wood to cary another cord to be but can’t draw on account of a hornets nest - Joseph paid the druggist 3 dollars today

22nd Thursday - pleasant and quite cold- rise six am - sweep and dust my room - Della and her mother attend the Nite Society at Mr. Jay Henton this afternoon

23rd Friday - cloudy cold - rise before six - today the sun crosses the line to go south - sweep my bed room - a letter from Charlie and Amelia Hoyt - Mr Elmer Mathews and wife take tea home

24th Saturday - looks like clear weather - rise half past five - a hard thunder storm last night - rained this morning - Joseph had a man and two boys cutting corn for him

25th Sunday - foggy - rise six am - Joseph and wife and Della attend church 2 pm - Denver Heath and wife called - Rev Mr Caulin called - rained hard five pm and all the evening

26th - Monday - cloudy - looks like rain - rise six am and do some washing - tries to become clear- Mr Buehan and his two boys here cutting corn and to supper - Joseph and Della went to brother to Rio to see about her tooth

27th - Tuesday - morning foggy again - rise six am - Della went to her sisters Mrs Carrie Heath - We three to supper - finded a doyle (magazine or newspaper)

28th - Wednesday - rainy morning - rise six am - Thundered and rained hard later part of the night- Joseph turned the machine for his wife for the washing - I turned my foot blanket

29th Thursday - morning pleasant rise half past six - Thundered and rained hard last night - Joseph sold his Tobacco today - commenced a stocking bag

30th Friday pleasant - quite cool - rise half past six am -  finish one stocking bag and read my advocate - Miss Bell Wright called

October 1904

1 Saturday - pleasant - rise half past six - Joseph and Della to Rio - I done my Saturday work

2nd Sunday - cloudy - rise before six and take my bath - rained toward morning and looks like rain - finally cleared and was a fine day - Elmer Mathews and wife called - Mr. Call and wife and daughter Iva and a young lady came and took dinner here left four pm

3d Monday - some cloudy - rise six am - Mrs James died last night - done some washing and other work - sewed some

4th Tuesday - cloudy and rained this morning - rain the night - sweep my bed room and dust the things- several meet here - practice for Mrs James funeral tomorrow at ten ash the house and then to the Baptist Church Otsego

5th Wednesday - rainy and same foggy rise six - Joseph and Della attended the funeral of Mrs James in Otsego - swept and dusted my room and hall and washed my windows - very tired

6th Thursday - morning pleasant - rise half past five - the ladies came eleven am to the Nite Society and had dinner - left four pm - finished their sewing for some rugs - Mrs John Foster caled

7th Friday - some cloudy - rise after six am - Joseph and wife to Carrie Heaths - send letter to Lewis Copeland to Washington DC by 10 cents stamps - finish a stocking bag

8th Saturday - cloudy - looks like rain - rise six am - Joseph and Della to Rio to have her tooth filed - do my Saturdays work and read and sew

9th Sunday - foggy and rainy - rise six am - the rain left ten am - Joseph and Wife attend church 2 pm

10th Monday - some cloudy - rained last night - rise half past six - do some washing - Joseph worked the machine for washing for his wife - rained again this morning - finish a Doyle and read the Advocate

11th Tuesday - morning cloudy - rise six am - done some ironing and cut out some work - Joseph to Fall River afternoon

12th Wednesday - cloudy morning - rise six am - done my ironing - Mr Allen King here to work for Brother Joseph - afternoon work on stocking bag - Mr Charley Wright married this evening to Miss Sarah Davidson

The Compass

Lines written by a sailor on a Blank Leaf of his bible
“While down the streams of life I sail
Christ be my ship and Grace my gale;
Hope be my anchor while I ride,
This Book my compass o’er the tide.”

Sleep dear sister, take thy rest,
God called you as he thought best;
’Tis hard, indeed to part from thee,
But Christ’s Strong arm supports me, sister.

Hand to Hand Combat Dr. Tyler
How is it that a man so kind to his fellow
Creatures has always been so unkind to
His Savior as to refuse him his heart?”

The Angel Song.

Peace on earth, good will to men.”
Hark! What mean those holy voices
Sweetly sounding the skies?
Lo! The angelic host rejoices;
Heavenly hallelujah and rise.

Listen to the wondrous story,
Which they chant in hymns of joy:
“Glory in the highest, glory,
Glory be to God most high!

“Pease on earth, good will from heaven
Reaching far as man found:
Souls redeemed and sins forgiven;
Loud golden harps sound.

“Christ is born, the great anointed;
Heaven and earth his praises sing;
O receive whom God appointed,
For your Prophet, Priest and King.

“Hasten, mortals to adore him;
Learn his name and taste his joy;
Till in heaven ye king before him,
Glory be the God most high!”

The best hymn of John Cawood cb 1775 died 1852

13th Thursday - cloudy morning - rise six am - Joseph took Della to her sister Mrs Carrie Heaths home to tea - Mrs Matie Wright Called

14th Friday - cloudy morning - rise six am - Sew on the bags - Della called on Mrs Young & Mrs Pulver

15th Saturday - foggy - rise half past five am - Joseph took Della to her Sisters Mrs Carrie Heath - finished my bags - Mrs Cora Henton & daughter called

16th  Sunday - cloudy - rise six am - Della came home this morning - Mr Andrew Johnson took dinner here - Joseph & Wife & Della went to Church 2 pm

17th Monday - pleasant - rise half past five am - Brother Joseph & Mrs Copeland left at eight am for Columbus - returned three pm taking tables for the first time

18th Tuesday - foggy - rise six am - Della Spent the day with Elmer & Anna Allen - putting Joseph’s potatoes in the cellar - finished the stocking bags for Mrs Cole

19th Wednesday - pleasant rise six am - Della & her mother called on Mrs Matie Wright also on Mrs Carrie Heath

20th Thursday - some cloudy - rise six am - answered Etta Copeland letter - Joseph & Della to Columbus today- they got home after three pm - Allen put some more potatoes in the cellar

21st Friday - cloudy - rise six am - Joseph and Della went Mrs Carrie Heaths and found she had no girl - Joseph started out to find one - went to two places and did not get one - have a hard shower four pm - home five pm

22nd Saturday - some cloudy - rise six am wind in north west colder - Joseph and wife went up to Mr Denver Heaths to help them but they did not need them - Della came three pm - finished my chair cushion

23d Sunday - pleasant - rise six am - we all attend church 2 pm

24th Monday - some cloudy - rise six am - Joseph and Della go to Mr Denver Heaths to help them move his father’s farm and he carried the three women down in the Surrey and went and got his pigs - two pigs bought off Denver - I done some washing - Mr Andrew Johnson took dinner here today

25 Tuesday - pleasant - rise six am - do some ironing - repair a night gown - Joseph gone for Della - a Harvest Social this evening to Mr. Fadness - Dellia attended the Social

26th Wednesday - pleasant rise six am and do my morning work and then sew - Joseph went and gathered garden vegetables for Mr Denver Heaths and carried them to his house for him

27th Thursday - pleasant - rise six am - preparing for banking his house - Mr Elmer Mathews took dinner home

28th Friday - pleasant - rise 7am - I did not wake - over slept - Joseph turned the washing machine after dinner - Joseph cleaned my chimney and I cleaned up - very tired - Joseph and Della went to Mr. Denver Heaths

29th Saturday - pleasant - rise half past six - do my ironing and read my Advocate - Della and her mother called and Mrs Lincoln - Joseph to Otsego and bring home some squashes a bag of shavings (wood shavings)

October 1904

30th Sunday - some cloudy - rise six am Joseph & Della attend church 2 pm - Mr Denver Heath & wife took dinner here today

31st Monday - foggy - rise half past five am - do my washing - very tired - Della & her mother called on Mrs Jay Henton - Joseph drew two loads of wood

16 Calico .06.    .96
2 Hose .35         .70
3 rib .7               .21
Ball cotton         .05
3 thread .05       .15
                        ——
                         2.07
4 goods .15        .60
                        ——
                         2.67
                         2.15
                        ——
                        4.82
                          .85

November 1904

1st Tuesday - pleasant - rise before six am - do my ironing - Joseph & C E Mathews to Columbus - home half past two -  bag shavings

2d Wednesday - pleasant - rise before six - Joseph to Rio  - home two pm - Mrs Cora Henton called - a fine day

3d Thursday - pleasant - some smoke & foggy morning - Joseph got some paper fo the hall door to keep the wind out - yesterday Della went to her sisters to spend the day - Joseph fixed my Steps

4th Friday - pleasant - rise six am - Brother Joseph & Wife went to the funeral of Mrs. Holverson & Mr Henry Peters and Della came home half past eleven am - one quart oil fifteen cents - oil one quart

5th Saturday - cloudy - rise six - sweep & clean up Stairs  - both rooms - Joseph to Rio with chickens - read  & rest quite tired

November 1904

6th Sunday - pleasant - rise half past six - Mrs Carrie Heath came half past ten & spent the day - Joseph 7 Della attend church 2 pm

7th Monday - Same foggy - rise six am - done my washing & washed a piece of carpeting - Joseph & Della went to Columbus received a new book

8th Tuesday - rainy - rise six am - Joseph to Election for Governor & for President - mend my waist & mend my foot rest

9th Wednesday - cloudy - rise seven am - Joseph & wife went to Mr Denver Heaths & took diner - Miss Della had a picture of the house taken - Miss W (Ward) and came at noon to sew for Della

10th Thursday - cloudy & cold - rise six am - sew on the quilt - Joseph take Miss Ward to Mrs Cora Hentons - cold & windy all day

11th Friday - same cloudy & cold - rise half past six am - Mr King help Joseph to draw potatoes to Doylestown  - Mrs Stone called -  Mr King helped Joseph move his stoves - evening ground froze

12th Saturday - pleasant - rise half past six am - cold - Joseph to Otsego afternoon - they finished putting up their stoves

13th Sunday - pleasant - rise almost seven - all day stay home from Church - so windy - have a call from Elmer Mathews & wife

14th Monday - pleasant - rise half past six am - Joseph goes to help Elmer move today to Rio home four pm - do some washing - move the couch & the table in the corner & have — cactus in the big window

15th Tuesday - pleasant - rise half past six - done some ironing - made two pin cushions for grab bag - Joseph turned the washing machine for his wife

November 1904

16th Wednesday - pleasant rise half past six am - do my ironing - finish two gents pin cushions for grab bag

17th Thursday - same foggy rise half past six am - Joseph took Della to Rio to Elmer Stathens - a pleasant day

18th Friday - pleasant - rise half past six - do my morning work & then commence some Christmas presents  - a fine day - clean the chimney after dine a calf today

19th Saturday - pleasant - rise half past six - sweep & dust - very warm day - Joseph put wood in the wood house

20th Sunday - cloudy - rise six am & take a bath - Joseph & wife went to church 2 pm - rained in the morning - clear at eleven am - Allen King shot a coon today on Sunday

21st Monday - pleasant - colder - rise half past six - Joseph to Rio for Della - return 2 pm - so some washing & read in the Dozzyman daughter

22d Tuesday - pleasant - rise half past six am - do my ironing - Joseph fill my half with wood

23rd - Wednesday - cloudy - some windy - rise a little after six am - wind blew hard afternoon

24th Thursday - pleasant - quite cold - rise half past six am - Thanksgiving day & May at home a blessing to us all - We had out Thanksgiving diner alone  - Mrs Cora Henton called Della - went home with her - returned half past four pm

25th Friday - cloudy - rise half past six - put my flannel sheets on my bed - Della got her things for the grab bag ready for the sale for tonight

26th Saturday - some cloudy - rise half past six am - do my Sat work & read the Advocate & other papers

November 1904

27th Sunday - cloudy - rise seven am Joesph & Della went to church 2 pm - a cold wind south west

28th Monday - cloudy & cold - rise seven am - I done some washing & then read - have a day of sharing

29th Tuesday - same cloudy - rise half past five am - do my ironing - Joseph turned the washing Machine for his wife & they washed - wind in the north west afternoon - Della went to her sister

30th Wednesday - pleasant bur cold - rise half past six am - finished my ironing & then mended the rest of the day & done some reading - Joseph put up their storm doors

1904 December

1st Thursday - cloudy weather - quite moderate - rise 7 am - Commence a stocking bag - no mail today - have share rib for supper - finish my mending

 2nd Friday - snow on the ground this morning - wind north east & snowed all the forenoon - Joseph went to Mr Thomas to get some medicine for Prince - Della came home four pm

3d Saturday - pleasant - rise seven - do my Saturdays work & then read the rest of the day - Joseph to Fall River - Miss Stella King called & lent her two ‘Advocates’

4th Sunday - pleasant & cold - rise seven am - all day stay at home from church - read my bible

December 1904

5th Monday - cloudy & cold - rise half past six am - snow on the ground - Joseph took me to Otsego & I done some teaching - home eleven am - after diner Joseph cleaned chimney & stove pipe

6th Tuesday - pleasant - same windy - rise six am - finished my washing & swept my room & dusted & wiped up - Joseph & Wife went to Rio to Dr Heaths to see about her teeth - home after five pm - I brought in my wood

7th Wednesday - same cloudy - rise seven am - do my ironing & help Joseph to put a paper on my hall door - weather moderate

8th Thursday - pleasant - rise seven - cloud a part of the day - finish some of my Christmas presents - Joseph & wife called on Mrs Carrie Heath & on Mrs Mary Wright

9th Friday - some cloudy & colder - rise before seven am - Joseph to Doylestown to purchase wood for me - he purchased four cords 3 dollars & a half per cord - Della went to Mrs Jay Hentons Mrs Mary Wright & daughter called - tried to snow but did not amount to much - sent two bags - one to Bell & another to Clara

10th Saturday - pleasant - rise before seven am - do my Saturdays work - finish my Christmas presents & read my Advocate - cloudy the latter part of the day

December 1904

11 Sunday - snowing rise five am - have breakfast seven am - snowed all day - all stayed at home from church - read the Bible

12th Monday - Stormy all day - Mr Jay Henton & Allen King helped Joseph kill his hog - wind most east till night - changed to north - colder

13th Tuesday - pleasant - rise half past six - build my fire - done my washing & work - weather grew colder afternoon

14th Wednesday - pleasant & cold - do my ironing & mending - Joseph went to Mr Thomas with Prince (horse) & Dellano went to her sisters Mrs Carrie Heaths - thermometer 16 below zero

15th Thursday - pleasant day - rise five am - Mr Ludwig & Allen King help Joseph kill his hog - repair my night gown - sweep & —— fourteen above zero this morning

16th Friday - morning foggy - rise six am - build my fire & return to bed - rise seven am - Joseph salted his pork

17th Saturday - snowed last night - snows same this morning - rise six am - my eighty ninth birth day - ironing some white aprons & other articles - Thermometer above zero this morning

18th Sunday - pleasant - rise six & start fire & return to bed & rise seven am - all stay at home - wind changed to —— & snowed some & grew colder

December 1904

19th Monday - pleasant - rise seven am - 8 above zero this morning - the wind blew quite hard - the thermometer at noon went down to zero - write a letter to Charley Hoyt & Wife & mend my mittens

20th Tuesday - wind - raised half past five & blew hard - the wind is blowing a perfect gale & takes the snow with it - rise half past four am send letter to Charley Hough There in the morning above Tera but went down as the wind blew harder - wind went down with the sun & there weather warmer

21st Wednesday - weather mild - rise has past five am Joseph & Wife went to Rio & got home 2 pm - received Mr & Mrs Boswell pictures

22nd Thursday - morning pleasant & thawed all day - Sun crossed the line today morning - I did not do much today - Swept my bed room

23rd Friday - rise half past five am - cloudy and warm - Joseph turned the washing machine for his wife & done their washing - received Christmas presents & Sent some to Mrs Cora Henton

24th Saturday - Cloudy & colder - rise after six am - a letter from Rev B Copeland and one from Rev Arthur Copeland - Some Christmas presents - washed my windows - the weather is colder - the ground froze last night

25th Sunday - cloudy & cold - rise after seven - this is the day our Savior was born - praise God for his goodness to the children of this world - have our Christmas diner with oysters & read our Bible - very thankful to our Heavenly Father keeping us thus far & having another Christmas

December 1904

26th Monday - cloudy - rise half past six am - do some washing & the rest of my work - Storm all day & very slippery - received a package in mail from North Dacotah - done some ironing

27th Tuesday - Cloudy & Storming - quite cold - wind blows - Same rise seven am - I have done my ironing & mending - Stormed all the morning - wind blew hard - Snowed afternoon & grew colder - a large limb blew off the Maple tree by the gate - Allen took the tobacco today

28th Wednesday - the Sun Shines - the wind does not blow so hard as last night - afternoon thermometer 2 below zero  - snow drifted badly - George Henton came & done some shoveling for his Grandfather - Alen King called

29th Thursday - pleasant & cold - men shoveled out the roads - Bert came & helped Joseph about the limb of the tree that (broke) in Storm & took dinner here - I went out & got some Kindle wood & I cut out Some work

30th Friday Morning - pleasant rise half past six am - Swept & clean - cleaned bed room & my room - Allen King Commenced Stripping tobacco - warm all day

31st Saturday - pleasant rise six am - do my Saturdays Work & then melted some snow & read my Advocate - Joseph went to Otsego had his horses shod - Miss Stella King spent evening here & I lent her two Advocates - last day of 1904.

Newspaper clippings and unsent letter

Otsego, Wis.
January 5th 1903

Mr Jenning & Prye

Sirs,
Please send
Advocate and find Postal Order
of 1 dollar sixty cts.  Please send
me a receipt that you received
the pay for the North Western
Christian Advocate

Yours &c

Mrs C M Copeland

Stove ad

Poetry

Addresses and article

Newspaper:

The Canada Presbyterians

The Statistical reports made to the Presbyterian General Assemble in Canada showed that almost 10,000 members had been added during the year on profession of faith, and 71 churches and 27 manses had been erected. The Committee on the Century Fund announced ….

(Back inside cover)

Mrs C A Boswell - Verona New Jersey
Rev Arthur Copeland - 1704 Genesee Street, Syracuse New York
Mr F A Baker - 2116 Aldrich Avenue South, Minneapolis, Minn.
Rev R W Copeland - Genesee, Co Bergen, New York
Rev Benjamin Copeland - Genesee, New York

The Sheperds Song 23d Psalm

Mrs Ella Engle - Enderline ND

Doyle Town Wis
R F D No 1
Doyle Town Wis
R F D No. 1.

Corner Work
By Mrs M G Platz

Read 1838 - 1844 poetry from Charlotte Mathews' Album (December 17, 1814 - November 20, 1912), reused later her by her niece, Della Mathews Hurelle's (November 21, 1879 - November 25, 1973) for recipes, accounting and home remedies from the 1920's.

 
 

1920s Milk for Colt and 1830s Album title page 1830 - 1840s Album dedication 1844 poem to Miss Charlotte Mathews and her poem copies 1838 poem to Female Lovliness - Ithica, New York 1920s recipe for Butterscotch Pie and 1839 love poem from Ann B. Castle - Ithica 1830s woods lithograph 1838 friends poem to Miss Charlotte Mathews from George A. Woodruff - Ithica 1920s recipe for Penn. fruit cake from the radio 1841 poem on affection from M. A. Betknap 1920s recipe for Elsies Loaf Coffee Cake (Good Fruit Cake) and 1843 poem to Cousin Charlotte 1920s recipe for Elsies Loaf Coffee Cake (Good Fruit Cake) and 1843 poem to Cousin Charlotte with photo 1926 and 1927 Accounting of Ziegler's Milk in quarts 1838 poem to Miss Charlotte Mathews and 1830s lithograph of Katrina Scheyler 1927 Milk tally, Molasses Cake recipe from radio and 1838 peom to Miss C. Matthews from C. Cushman 1920s recipe for Baked Boston Brown Bread and 1844 poetry to Charlotte from J. S. Dodson 1927 Accounting of Mrs. Zieglers Milk in Quarts 1927 Accounting of Mrs. Zieglers Milk in Quarts and 1843 poem to Elizabeth Rodgers to Miss C. Mathews 1920's recipes for Oatmeal Cookies - Olive's and asparagus 1800s Charlotte poem re-write and 1920s Zieglers Milk 1920s recipe for Baked Boston Brown Bread with cooking splotches, flour and 1800's lithograph titled "Pleasant Thoughts" 1920's cure for piles and Mrs. Hurelle's Cream Doughnuts 1844 poem from C.W.F. 1920's Mrs. Bates Fruit Cake and Mati's Soft Drink recipies and Astrology news clipping 1920's Aunt Cora's Sour Cream Cookies (good) and Ada's Molases Cookies recipies 1920's Jelly Roll Cake (Good) recipe and 1845 rememberance from pastor B. Hawley - Ithica 1928 Zieglar's Milk and 1845 poetry from E. W. Hanley 1920's remedy for Typhiod Fever 1800's French lithograph titled "The Lost, Found' 1920's Brief notes - Glow worm raids instrumental and 1849 C. Hanson (1st Husband) selected (missing clipping) 1920's song - "End of the Road" and 2 Layer cake recipe and Ham and Potato recipe from the radio 1920's recipies for Happiness (acts of kindness), Spiced Lemon Sauce, Whipped Cream Pudding, Hot Biscuits, Pea Salad and Vera's and Stebbins' Pickles 1920's recipe for Gum Drops and preparing cauliflour 1920's recipe for Raisin Tea Rolls 1920's recipe for Chocolate Frosting 1920's recipe for Potato Pancake and 1844 poem from George P. Fisher and scroll doodles Album end papers

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