September 1-6, 1870 - Transcription
- Title
- September 1-6, 1870 - Transcription
- Description
- Transcription of Melville Titus' journal entries for September 1870
- Publisher
- Midwest Genealogy Center, Mid-Continent Public Library, Independence, Missouri
- Date
- 2014-06
- Contributor
- Midwest Genealogy Center
- Rights
- Rights Information
- Format
- application/pdf (Portable Document File); 104 KB; 1 page
- Language
- English
- Type
- Text
- Identifier
- September_1-6.pdf
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September, Thursday 1
September, Monday 5
Warm and dry Finish unloading
a load of hay that was on the wagon
while the boys done the chores Alpha
went to plowing and Andrew and I went
to cuting [sic] corn Mrs Bachelor and Mrs
George Douglass and Mrs Muscott was
here to help Samantha sow [sic] Rained this
afternoon Andrew went to take Mrs Muscott
and Mrs Douglass home
Cool for the time of year Started
for Dansville early to attend the
Stewards meeting and to get
Martha We took breakfast to
Brother Lowels Went up to
Fathers in the evening to get his
stove to take to camp meeting
School meeting to night [sic]
September, Friday 2
Cloudy and cooler Andrew went
to plowing Alpha and [I] went to
cuting [sic] corn in the forenoon in the
afternoon he went down on the marsh
to pick some cranberries But he did
did [sic] not feel well so he did not stay
long he came up and had the ague
I did not go to cuting [sic] corn after supper
September, Saturday 3
Looks like rain I cut some corn
till it rained then went to work
in the barn cleaned up the floor
and cleaned some oats and some
wheat for seed In the afternoon
Andrew finished plowing the summer
fallow I cleaned up six bags
of wheat Shall run it through
the mill again
September, Sunday 4
Pleasent [sic] and cool went up to
Fathers and Hariet [sic] went home
went to meeting in the afternoon
up to the School House and
heard the new preacher I think
he will be well like[d] and may
he do much good during the
comeing [sic] year
[Notes added by transcriber]
September, Tuesday 6
Pleasent [sic] and warm worked all
the forenoon to get ready and
loaded up to go to camp meeting
Started in the afternoon for
the meeting and when we arrived
there we found that they had
moved the ground So I had to
move my tent up onto the ground
We staid [stayed] in Brother Glenn tent
over night till I could build mine
- Item sets
- Titus Family Collection
