October 7-12, 1870 - Transcription
- Title
- October 7-12, 1870 - Transcription
- Description
- Transcription of Melville Titus' journal entries for October 1870
- Publisher
- Midwest Genealogy Center, Mid-Continent Public Library, Independence, Missouri
- Date
- 2014-07
- Contributor
- Midwest Genealogy Center
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- Rights Information
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- application/pdf (Portable Document File); 104 KB; 1 page
- Language
- English
- Type
- Text
- Identifier
- October_7-12.pdf
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October, Friday 7
October, Tuesday 11
Cloudy the most of the day after I
done the chores I carried a bundle of
straw out into the field to cover up
some potatoes and then husked a
basket of corn and then down into the
woods to feed the hogs and then killed a
sheep in the afternoon went to cutting
buckwheat covered up my potatoes a little
before night
Cloudy and misty in the forenoon
went to diging [sic] potatoes Salinda
Fitch and Caroline Parker was
here in the afternoon they went
down on the marsh and picked
some cranberries and the boys and
dug twenty bushels of potatoes
October, Saturday 8
Cool wind southwest Started early
for Vevay to help Mary Gray to
draw sand around her barn Father
Holt was there and Gustuvas and
wife and Byron and his wife John
and his wife and Hiram Burrell
and wife and Harriett and Della
Hawley and Samantha and I
We done a good job for her
Pleasent [sic] and warm for the season
unloaded a load of corn and then
finished cuting [sic] Mr Poxson
clover seed in the forenoon in
the afternoon went over to Squares
and staid [stayed] a while in the evening
I went over to James McCann to see
George Clinton but he was not at home
October, Sunday 9
Pleasent [sic] and warm The boys and
I went to Dansville to meeting at
the Methodist Church in the
afternoon went to a funeral at
the baptist church I took dinner
to Brother Youngs and the
Boys went Mrs J Parks and
got their dinner did not get home
till late in the afternoon
October, Monday 10
Cloudy part of the time and looked
like rain in the evening The boys
and I went to diging [sig] potatoes
to day [sic] we dug twenty five bush [bushels]
and buried them Samantha
went down onto the marsh and
picked three pans full of cran
berries [cranberries] A pedlar [sic] stays here
to night [sic]
[Notes added by transcriber]
October, Wednesday 12
- Item sets
- Titus Family Collection
