December 1-5, 1870 - Transcription
- Title
- December 1-5, 1870 - Transcription
- Description
- Transcription of Melville Titus' journal entries for December 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); 24.0 KB; 1 page
- Language
- English
- Type
- Text
- Identifier
- December_1-5.pdf
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December, Thursday 1
December, Monday 5
Cool and pleasent [sic] We went
up to Johns and Harriet went
up with us I came down to the
cider mill with Byron and
then went down to Mr Markeys
to see him about getting some
timber for rails and wood I
brought a strap of timber for 10
Look like rain Went down to
put some glass into the school house
for school commences this morning
it comenced [sic] to rain before I came
home and rained hard I went up
to the school house after Lina in
the afternoon to help her home in
the rain wind blowed hard from the
west and felt as so it would be cold
December, Friday 2
Pleasent [sic] but cool wind in the west
The boys and I went out into the field
and sorted potatoes and buried 50
bushels in one pit and drew the
small ones into the cellar the
boys drew up a load of wood
and then Samantha and I went
to Fitchburgh and stoped [sic] to
Squares a little while
December, Saturday 3
Cold frose [froze] the hardest last night
has this season started early for
Chelsea arrived there a little after
eleven o clock Alpha went down to
Unadila a visiting I staid [stayed] in
Chelsea till after three and then
started for home got home little after
eight o clock and was glad to get
December, Sunday 4
Cool did not go any where [sic] to
day [today] the horse being tired I
drove them yesterday to Chelsea
so we all staid [stayed] at home I find
we are on the last month of the
year and soon it will be gone
from us never more to be recalled by
us and with it many has gone
[Notes added by transcriber]
- Item sets
- Titus Family Collection
