Mar 1 Jim Wohlford & Mr Kennison killed hogs

2 Effie & Bonie come & staid till Sun eve

3 Mr Hale’s son aged 16 & named Mead died

4 & was buried at Battle Creek Cemetery

1 Mr Eager sold out to Campbells Bro

5 Mr Hale & daughter Gertie ate dinner here

Sun 3 Bro Bass preached at Eureka at night, & appointed Winnie as agent for a paper home & state

Mar 6 Winnie & Pearl go around to get subscribers for her paper! It is cloudy & looks a little like
rain. Dora is picking for Dorrie

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top margin Mog went with Nell to Mr Poers (?) 20 Mar 1907

1907

Mar 7 They are still picking for Dorrie

8 Bonie came after me said Effie was sick

I went, & had a good rain that night. Bonie’s phone had(?) batteries burned out night of rain
by lightning

Mar 9 I still am with Effie

10 Mog come after me Effie is a whole lot better

9 I got a letter from Kate Sparks, & a letter from my machine man, Smyth

Mar 11 Nell come up with a mule colt

Mog plows south of the house

12 Planted potatoes

11 Mr Eager teams started to Tye, Taylor Co to move, Emmett & Price driving

13 They finished picking for Dorrie

14 We put out our fruit trees

Myself, P & W spend the eve at Mr Eagers

14 We had a big frost & freeze, killed most of the fruit

15 Fred Duncan & Jule Campbell rented the south field by the road for cotton and commenced
to plow there with 4 horses

15 Had a musical at Mr E

16 Mog goes to Moran, I send some butter & eggs. Send off $2.40 in payment in full for 3-1/2
doz flavors

Send $1.00 to Theo Noel for med

16 It is blowing a cold south wind

Bonie & Effie come Sat eve & go home Sun eve

Mar 17 Was Bro Taylors day but he did not come

18 Mr Eagers family leave for their new home

21 Dorrie & Fritz (?) goes to Albany with Dorries cotton

20 Dora & I spend the day at Mrs Keiths

23 Dorrie got home Sat night

Emmett & Price comes in after another load

24 Dorrie & Ida was here

23 Mog goes to Moran & gets tin roofing for buggy house

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top margin I set hen 29 Mar

turkey eggs 28

“ “ 1 Apr

hen 4 Apr

Mar 24 We had a nice shower after dark a little

25 Mog harrows in forenoon, & goes to John McK to help with a colt

24 Mildred goes to Marvins to see a sick child


26 Mog commences to tear away the cellar top to put on another

25 Pearl & Winnie helps Lottie paper their parlor

27 I sent a letter to Kate Sparks

28 John Womack sells out to Cadells & Mooves to Mr Keiths. Fannie sent me 18 turkey eggs &
gave Winnie 11

I herd by mail carrier my machine was at Moran

28 It is lightning & thundering tonight

Lottie Fritz & Dick come to set awhile

28 Rained a little

29 We finish cellar, & a party at Reno’s

29 Good fry night had a frost but not hard

30 Bright & lovely day

Mog goes to Moran after my machine & gets it, but one leg broken off

31 Bro Bass preaches at Pence school house & will preach at night through the week

It is cold all day & night still cold

Apr 1 Is cold, dry & cloudy

I send of a letter to Smyth about my machine

Dora & I went to Bonies

2 and came home

3 Bro Bass preaches at Eureka at night, & stays here all night

4 It is rainy & cool, no preaching tonight

5 Bro B preaches tonight

7 He preaches Sun eve, Dora Mog & Ruth go Bonie & Effie come, he goes home & E stays

8 Pearl sews for Effie & Winnie is sick

9 I wash for Effie, Dorrie starts to Albany for his cotton

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top margin Mrs Kennison went to Gorman 4 Apr

John Womack mooved to Moran 8 Apr

Winnie still sick 10 & P had a bad headache

1907

Apr 10 Bonie comes after Effie in the eve

Dorrie stays at Bonies Wed night

11 He gets home today got Dallas foot cut with wire. We had a big mess of fish

Lottie Dick & Frits come & sit till bedtime

Fred Duncan put three head horses in our pasture the 8th

12 School closed at Pence School & the girls Lottie & F & D and Dorrie & Ida went over to
entertainment

13 Emmett comes in from Tye Mog goes to Moran & gets me a new oilcloth and eats dinner with
the Editor

14 Winnie & Emmett go to Bonies it is still dry & cold Mrs Will Kennison come home the 13th &
the old lady went to her home

9 News come Sam Walker was about to die with appendicitis, but 13 say he is better

13 He was better

14 Emmett starts for home, but had a talk with me before he left Effie comes down with Emmett
& Winnie Sun & takes Winnie home with her

16 Mod Pearl & myself go to Cisco

It rained a little that day but a norther in the eve

17 Trusty died suddenly today & Dorrie gave us another one black spotted & we call him Trusty
too

Apr 17 Mr Nolan died at 9 pm

18 was buried at Shady Grove cemetery we all went

19 Dora & I go to creek & wash

20 Mrs Henry was here canvassing for books

I took one $100 book and Dora one

Mog & Dorrie caught a fine mess fish
 

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top margin D H Cook & C C Veale married 17 Aug 1908

Apr 20 out of Mr W’s tank

Waxy found a colt Sat night

20 Bro Taylor was at Dorrie’s Sat &

21 preached Sun at Eureka

It is cloudy & misty

22 Winnie comes home, & P & Lottie was making their grey dress skirts A chicken peddler come
& I sold 3 doz chickens 25 cts apiece $9 total

23 Mog goes to Moran I send for med for Winnie, awful windy today still dry

Mog puts Mr Greens horse in our pasture

May 13 Mog, Pearl, Winnie, & myself go to Cisco to get Winnie’s outfit to marry

17 Emmett & Gertie come

May 19 Emmett Eager & Winnie De Bartley were united in marriage Rev T.M. Price officiating

Bro Taylor preached at Eureka & Pence School house in the eve there was singing at Mr
Myers Sun night

20 Mon eve Emmett & Winnie go to Bonies

21 Ice Cream supper at Mr Wohlfords

22 Emmett & Winnie comes in at noon

Come by Moran & got a trunk, she sold her cow & calf to Bonie for $20.

23 My dear dear child left me & the old home to find a home among others. Oh!how my heart
went out after her, when I saw her fair young face disappear in the distance, gone gone my
baby girl. May God in His infinite wisdom watch over her & Emmett & guide them & come

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home again to see Papa Mama Pearl & Aunt Dora

Mog took them to Moran & Dick & Pearl went to Cisco with them

26 May Sun & Winnie gone, & Oh so lonesome

24 It rained & hailed

May 27 Mog commences to plant cotton north of the house, it being his first, he planted up to the
garden

At night we had another rain

28 A big rain & misted all week

June 2 Bro Bass preached at Eureka

3 Mog finishes breaking north of house

4 He plants more cotton and finishes the north field. Cotton up pretty

5 Cloudy, Mog plants the field south of house in cotton.

4 We get a letter from Winnie

5 An “auto” passes here 4 men in it, it broke down while(?) crossing Jack branch & we had 3
men for dinner & they paid $1.00 for their mials

Sun

2 June Bonie come after the cow he got from Winnie, & he and Dora traded the cow & calf for old
Georgia & $10.

2 Bonie brought our family & Dorrie’s a ticket to Floyd Chany (?) and Miss Mabel Morris’
wedding the 30 June next.

2 Bro Geo Leach of Gorman staid all night here

June 8 Bonie come for Dora to stay with Effie till he could attend a stock sale at Cisco

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Original content: Hospital fee, Oct. 1, 1902 - $25.00 by cash

top margin Nell bit at Leo and made him jump so he broke his shoulder the 10 of June

Mrs. Pence is real bad off with heart trouble.

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