August 2-7, 1870 - Transcription

Title

August 2-7, 1870 - Transcription

Description

Transcription of Melville Titus' journal entries for August 1870

Subject

Genealogy
Family History
Holt Family
Titus Family

Creator

Nicole Pye, Archivist, Midwest Genealogy Center

Publisher

Midwest Genealogy Center, Mid-Continent Public Library, Independence, Missouri

Date

2014-06

Contributor

Midwest Genealogy Center

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Rights Information

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application/pdf (Portable Document File); 24.8 KB; 1 page

Language

English

Type

Text

Identifier

August_2-7.pdf

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August, Tuesday 2

August, Saturday 6

Pleasent [sic] in the morning
went to mowing and mowed
nine times around and then I
heard it thunder in the west
Andrew went to plowing and I
went to work in the oats till it
rained in the afternoon we went
over to the parsonage a visiting

Pleasent [sic] and warm worked in the
oats this forenoon till ten o clock
and then got ready and started to
go to Mrs Walters funeral and met
on the way C B Delan coming down
here with Father and Mothers mon
ument [monument] I came back with him and
went to Dansville in the afternoon

August, Wednesday 3

August, Sunday 7

Cloudy in the forenoon went to
Mason to day [sic] stoped [sic] to Mary
Grays to dinner Recieved [sic] of Mr
Hawley fifty dollars to apply on
his note Paid Mrs Gray 6,12 cts [cents] for
clover seed Father Holt was quite sick
Nellie Gray came home with us we
stoped [sic] to Fathers when we came home
he was some better

Looks like rain but did not till
after noon We went over to Fitch
burgh [Fitchburgh] to meeting in the rain
we stoped [sic] to Squares when we
came back it rained hard
while we was there Two weeks
more to conferance [sic] and then
there will be changes among
the preachers

August, Thursday 4
Clear and pleasent [sic] went to mowing
in the morning and mowed all of
the forenoon in the afternoon went
to rakeing [sic] and after supper drew
one load and then went to rolling
up hay put up [illegible] for
five loads The days and weeks
are passing by and we are going
towards the grave all the while
August, Friday 5
Pleasent [sic] looks some like rain this
morning Went to mowing in the
forenoon mowed eight times around
the peice [sic] and went to drawing
hay drew in three loads and
went to rakeing [sic] hay while the
boys was unloading and then
drew in two loads in the afternoon

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