September 19-24, 1870 - Transcription
- Title
- September 19-24, 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
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- application/pdf (Portable Document File); 105 KB; 1 page
- Language
- English
- Type
- Text
- Identifier
- September_19-24.pdf
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September, Monday 19
September, Friday 23
Pleasent [sic] but cool nights Started
early for Mason Went by the way
Dansville Father Holt went up with
me The boys went up to cut corn
for John Recieved [sic] of HA Hawley
73,25 to finish paying on his note
stoped [sic] to Mary Grays for dinner
Lent Father twenty dollars for a [illegible] time
Pleasent [sic] but cloudy part of the
day went on to the Fairground in
the forenoon and afternoon I took
down Samantha wreath put into
the box and then brought it and
put it into the buggy and then went
up town and done some trading
and then started for home
September, Tuesday 20
September, Saturday 24
Pleasent [sic] and warm Went over to Fitch
burgh [Fitchburgh] to get some sugar and to
Mr Bachelor after some peaches
to can in the afternoon drew
up a load of wood and made
a box to put Samantha wreath
into to take it to the fair We are
going to the fair tomorrow is all is
well
Cloudy and warm and tired after
geting [sic] home from the Fair Went up
to Johns in the forenoon After
dinner went up to the Buring [burying] ground
to worke [sic] some on our lot I drew
four loads of sand And Father
Holt sat up the Tombstone
Mothers grave and then we went
down to the house and took supper
and then came home
September, Wednesday 21
Pleasent [sic] Started early for Jackson
it was cool in the morning but
it was warm through the day
Went in on to the fair ground
with Samantha wreath and then
put out my team to the [illegible]
house I paid Penny and [Kerig?] 35
dollars to apply on account left 30
dollars in his safe staid [stayed] with Mrs
Richmond and her daughter over night
September, Thursday 22
Very warm There were a great
many people in Jackson to day [sic]
to the Fair We was on the fair
ground all day till nearly sun
down talked some of going home
but gave it up and staid [stayed] all night
There was most every thing [sic] was going
on all night long and many went to jail
[Notes added by transcriber]
- Item sets
- Titus Family Collection
