1880
WM. STEWART DAILY JOURNAL

Jan 1    I went to N. Vernon and got this book. The weather is very dark and cloudy and a great deal of rain on yesterday and the roads is very muddy.

Jan 2     I went over to Robbin's to take over Charlie horse to have something done for it. I met him going to town, then I came back and went over the creek to shout out some hogs out of the meadow. Rain all of the evening.

Jan 3     I am draining off some water off the wheat this forenoon. This afternoon I and the boys are tearing down the old sawmill frame by the creek. The ground is wet, there has been so much rain.

Jan 4     We are at home today. It has been raining ever since this morning and now it is 2 o'clock and still it rains. The creek is raising fast. Indian Creek is big to ours ago. The big creek is bound to be up.

Jan 5     The creek is high. The weather is very wet. It rains every day and is cloudy dark and dreary.

Jan 6     Nothing done much. The weather is very wet. The creek is high.

Jan 7     I am not doing very much choreing around. Running around some. I went down to Dick Meek's and Chasteen's (?) this forenoon. The roads are very muddy. The ground is full of water.

Jan 8     I went to N. Vernon to mill today. The roads are very soft and muddy. The weather is warm, very warm. The ground has not been froze for several days.

Jan 9      I am not doing very much work. The weather is wet and muddy. It rains most every day. The ground is full of water. Jan 10     This is a very pretty day but very muddy. We went to work.

Jan 11     We went to church. The weather is warm but the wind is high and has the appearance of rain. It rained tonight and after it had rained, at midnight it snowed.

Jan 12     This morning the first snow this winter and a big one it is. The trees are all loaded and the buildings are weighed down with snow and it kept on all day long but it is a melting off some.

Jan 13     This is a gloomy morning. The snow is mostly on yet that fell on yesterday but the sun came out and the snow then melted off some. We went up to John James' today. B. Thompson was there.

Jan 14     We are not doing very much. The snow is still. Some of the snow fell and this morning the ground is froze. B. Thompson went home this morning. We went up to Mother's and took up Tildy.

Jan 15     I went to Vernon this morning to see about selling my hogs and sold them to Smith Water's (Vawter) for 4 cents per pound. Group to be taken tomorrow.

Jan 16     I took my hogs to Vernon today to Smith Water's Vawter's. Thirteen head. The weight of all is 3630 pounds at 4 cents came to $145.20. Average to lot 279 ¼. Very muddy at this time.

Jan 17     I went over the creek on the lower bottom to close or move the water gap fence back from the high water. This afternoon choreing around.

Jan 18     We are at home today, all day. The day is very nice warm and pleasant but very muddy.

Jan 19     We shucked out one load of corn out of the shock and hauled the corn and fodder in. The ground is very soft. We got the corn by the roadside.

Jan 20     I went up to Mother's this morning to settle with her for a sow I got off her. The roads are very muddy and soft.

Jan 21     We went to N. Vernon today to get a barrel of salt. The roads are very muddy. Charlie Gibbs started to Illinois today.

Jan 22     I went to Hardenburgh today on some little business I had there. The roads are very muddy at this time. Very little work I have done for some time.

Jan 23     We butchered out hogs today. The weather is a little cooler than it has been. The ground does not freeze.

Jan 24     We are cutting up our pork and salting it away and grinding sausage meat.

Jan 25     We are at home all but Dick. He went over to Sam Spencer's last night.

Jan 26     I went out to hunt a cow today and got one off Andy Halo(?) for $27. I brought her as far as F. H. Gannon's last night. Got one sow off Jim Spencer today.

Jan 27     I am fixing a shed for my two cows. The weather is warm and pleasant overhead but very muddy at this time.

Jan 28     I am at work at my cow shed today. The weather is very nice and warm and the mud is drying up very fast. It will due by tomorrow to gather corn out of the lower field.

Jan 29     We are gathering corn on the lower field on the late corn where the blackbirds took out. It does tolerably well. The ground is soft in some places yet. It looks like rain dark.

Jan 30     We are at work at the corn till noon and finished that field this afternoon. Hauled in some fodder out of the field by Gudge(?). The ground is soft yet in this field. The rain came on and stopped us at the work.

Jan 31     We are shucking out some corn in the barn that we pulled. It is a very cool day. The wind blows some and the ground is froze some.

Feb 1     This is a very nice morning. I went to Prayer Meeting. The ground is froze harder than it has been this winter. The sun shines.

Feb 2     I this morning sowed some wheat on the lower field on the missed places. The ground is froze hard enough to bear up a team. It looks like snow.

Feb 3     There was a snow fell last night and it is quite cold this morning. It melted but very little today. I am not doing much.

Feb 4     The snow still lays on the ground yet and today it snows some more by spells and is quite cold and stormy. I have my cattle and hogs on the stalk pasture.

Feb 5     Quite cold morning and the snow is on the ground. Some are a sleighing on the roads but it is rough. Not very cold, thaws some every day.

Feb 6     I went to town to N. Vernon with a load of corn. The price of corn is 40 cents per bushel. The roads are rough, it bears up only in places. Thaws every day and freezes at night.

Feb 7     I am not doing very much this forenoon. This afternoon we are hauling up the old sawmill frame. The roads are some muddy and the snow is most all melted off.

Feb 8     Went to prayer meeting. The roads are rough and they thaw some every day and freeze at night.

Feb 9     I went to town to N. Vernon and took up a load of corn to Horten. The road is rough and froze some, it breaks through in places. The price of corn is 40 cents bu.

Feb 10     I am not doing very much choreing around at one little thing or other. The frost is about out and it is warm. There is a little freeze every night.

Feb 11     I am choreing some more today. I am fixing a place for the cattle to get water as they are shut around the straw stack. Rain this afternoon and the wind is high.

Feb 12     I am not doing very much. The weather is soft. We got a great deal of rain. Rain most of the day and the creek will be high tonight.

Feb 13     I shucked some corn out of the shock. It is a little damp for it rained some the night before and today it rained some more and tonight rained very hard. I got some grass seed today.

Feb 14     Went over the creek is high to cross. I went over to church today. We elected our preacher and officers for the year to come. G. W. Thompson for preacher. He missed coming today for the ___.

Feb 15     Went to church over the creek. The creek has been high day before yesterday but is fordable today. The weather is warm in daytime, it froze a little last night.

Feb 16     I went over to Hardenburgh this afternoon to see J. Hendrick on business. The roads are very muddy, the day is warm.

Feb 17     I went over to Jim Stewart's this morning. Hugh and myself on business. He is going to move some of his goods today to N. Vernon.

Feb 18     I took one load of goods for Jim Stewart to N. Vernon. He took all of his goods up today and loaded them on the car. The car is to leave tomorrow.

Feb 19     I am not doing very much today. Choreing around. The day is very cool, the ground froze last night and thaws today. I went up to prayer meeting at school house.

Feb 20     I went up to Uncle Jimmy Green's to see him. He is very sick at this time. I do not think he will get well and his wife is sick too. She is not so bad as he is.

Feb 21     I and the boys are shucking out some corn out of the shock this forenoon. This afternoon hauled it in. Jim Green died this morning.(Findagrave Link James Green)

Feb 22     We went to the funeral of James Green. He was buried today. The road is very muddy at this time. The day is very pleasant.

Feb 23     I and Edy are making some plank fence out by Ewing's, by the bottom along the thicket. The weather is very nice and pleasant. The ground is drying off fast.

Feb 24     The same today at the fence and finished it. The ground is drying off fast and is warm and pleasant. Sebe's moving up to his father's.

Feb 25     Went to N. Vernon to mill and market. The road is dried off so that it is tolerably good going but as we came home it set in to rain and it rained all the way home.

Feb 26     We are at work at the corn in shock. It is damp today. We got in quite a lot fo corn today. The fodder is dry by noon today. The roads are muddy again.

Feb 27     I and Jim Young are at work at the corn shocks till noon today. When it got too dry we quit then hauled in the corn and it set to rain, warm.

Feb 28     We are at work at the corn today and fodder. It is damp. We got in 3 loads of fodder. Then it set in to rain again. The ground is now wet. Very warm.

Feb 29     Went to prayer meeting. Very few out. The weather had got cooler this morning. It is chilly. The ground is froze a little this morning.

Mar 1     This morning I am sowing some grass seed on the wheat on the field above the barn. the 5 acre piece next to Schetgen's. The ground is froze some this morning. This afternoon I went to hunt my hog that ran off.

Mar 2     I am sowing grass seed on the same and finished the piece this morning. The ground is froze. Hung up the meat to smoke.

Mar 3     I am fixing the grape arbor and trimming up the vines today. It rained a good deal today and thundered and is warm.

Mar 4     I am trimming up some bushes and setting out some trees and bushes. It rained tonight. The ground is wet.

Mar 5     I went out to see how much I could get signed for the next year preaching, 1880. The day is nice but muddy. The creek is past ford.

Mar 6     I and the boys are sawing wood and splitting some. It is a very nice day and warm. It rained tonight, most of the time.

Mar 7     We are at home today, all day. The creek is not fordable.

Mar 8     I and the boys are at work at the plank fence on the lease land along the creek where the logs went out. The weather is nice and warm. The ground is wet. We have had a great deal of rain lately.

Mar 9     The same continued today. The weather is very nice today. I bought one sow and ten pigs for $10.00.

Mar 10     We went to Old Vernon to the Tunnel Mill with corn for the sows and pigs. The roads are dry some places and some places very muddy.




Mar 11     We went over the creek to cut down some trees along the creek bank today. The day is cool like tonight it is dark and cloudy.

Mar 12     The same today as yesterday and it began to snow. We came home. It is quite cold and chilly.

Mar 13     Went to church today over the creek. We prayed. Thompson off for his last year's preaching.

Mar 14     Went to church. It is very cool and chilly today.

Mar 15     We are this forenoon throwing down some straw off of the straw stack. Sowed the little wheat field above the barn to clover today.

Mar 16     We are choreing around this forenoon. This afternoon we went over the creek to cut stove wood. It is quite cold and chilly and snow on the ground.

Mar 17     I sowed the clover seed today on the wheat field by the corn crib. The ground is some froze this morning. The wind blows some today. 2 quarts of clover to the acre on this field. Timothy 3.

Mar 18     I and the boys are cutting wood over the creek. The weather is cool at this time.

Mar 19     At the same today. Cutting stove wood over the creek. It is not so cold today as it has been. The wind blows cool all day.

Mar 20     I went to N. Vernon to the mill and market. The road is very bad. I got some medicine off the Dutch doctor today for the first time.

Mar 21     Went to prayer meeting. When I came home Father Gannon's folks were here. Very pretty day.

Mar 22     Went to N. Vernon with three head of cattle that I sold to Charley Brannan for beef. The weight of the three 2395 lbs at 3 ½ + 83.80 oats for the cattle.

Mar 23     Choreing around shuck out some corn out of the shock. Took out the potatoes, cut off the holes and chored around some. Very pretty day.

Mar 24     Sowed a little clover on the lower wheat and tried to harrow it in but it was too wet and quit it and went to hauling in the corn fodder. It is very dry. This evening I plowed the garden.

Mar 25     Commenced to plow for oats today. It snowed some. We plowed the garden on yesterday and planted out our onions on this morning. The ground is froze.

Mar 26     I was sowing some more clover seed on the lower wheat field till it began to rain. The boys are shucking corn out of the shock. The rain came on and we quit. Big rain.

Mar 27     We are choreing around today. We cut down some trees along the creek that was dead on the lower field and fell there in the creek. The creek is high at this time. Big rain fell.

Mar 28     We are at home all day today. The road is muddy and it rained some this morning.

Mar 29     Sowed some more clover this morning but it got so windy I quit it and went to tying up the last five shocks of corn fodder which the boys has just finished for this year.

Mar 30     I am sowing clover on lower or next to the lower field and finished it at noon today. This afternoon went over the creek to help the boys to saw wood.

Mar 31     Went to N. Vernon to mill and market and was gone all day long. I got harness mended and traded for a chill plow at 40 with McMallen.

Apr 1     We this morning hauled in the last load of corn and fodder out of the piece of rye. Then planted the first early roye(?) potatoes. The ground is not very dry yet.

Apr 2     We are making some more plank fence on the lease along the creek.

Apr 3     Sowed a patch of oats this morning for the first. It is wet in spots. This afternoon went up to Mother's and got the vinegar.

Apr 4     Went to prayer meeting today. Not many there today.

Apr 5     Sprinkled on a little clover seed on the wheat that I had left this morning. Went to the election this afternoon.

Apr 6     Was plowing some for oats this forenoon and sowed some this afternoon. Went up to help Hugh to roll logs. Cool day. The ground is drying off right nice.

Apr 7     Plowing and sowing oats today. The day is very cool. The ground froze last night some right smart. We allow to get done tomorrow.

Apr 8     We finished our oats today. This morning the ground is froze some. We went to Vernon this afternoon to pay the tax.

Apr 9     We are planting the rest of our early roese (?) potatoes this morning. Then went to hauling out the manure out of the new ground for corn.

Apr 10     Went to N. Vernon with a load of corn, sold it to Hayne for 45 cents the bu. Got the new spring tooth harrow. Came home and went to church this morning.

Apr 11     Went to church today. This is a very cool morning. The ground is froze some. There is ice on the water. Very cool.

Apr 12     We commenced to plow for corn today for the first. The ground is froze and it is very cool. The ground is drying off fast.

Apr 13     We are plowing and taking off the stalks. Day is nice, the ground is in good order and still drying.

Apr 14     Still at work at the plowing. The day is very nice. Tonight there was a big rain fell and it made the ground too wet.

Apr 15     Choreing around this forenoon. This afternoon hauled some rails up on the corner of Ewing's fence to repair it. The creek is past ford. Big rain tonight.

Apr 16     The creek is high today at noon. The ground is very wet. We are this forenoon making some board fence along the road by the new ground.

Apr 17     We are building some board fence along the road side of new ground on Sullivan land. The ground is wet. It is drying off fast.

Apr 18     Went to Sunday School today. This is the first Sunday this year of school.

Apr 19     Making fence on the same along the road side. The day is very windy today.

Apr 20     Thompson Child's raised his barn today. The day is nice. The ground is drying off fast.

Apr 21     Choreing around this forenoon. This afternoon hauled ton rails up on the corner next to Ewing's fence to repair. Creek is past ford. Big rain tonight.

Apr 22     Commenced to plow again since the rain. The ground is plenty wet enough at this time. The people are mostly at there corn ground.

Apr 23     I am still at work at the corn around plowing. The day is damp. Mr. Spalding his here at work making hen house for the hens to roost in.

Apr 24     Plowed till noon. This afternoon it rained and it was too wet to plow. I went over to Hardenburgh to get my road book and to get some shingles off Hendrick. Did not get any, he was not home.

Apr 25     The creek is higher today than it has been for 3 or 4 years. It rained a great deal last night and more today and on Saturday.

Apr 26     This is a very nice day overhead. The sun and the wind has dried up the mud fast. Today I went to J. Hendrick's and got a load of shingles to cover the porch.

Apr 27     Went down to Leet's(?) today. The boys are hauling out some manure and rails.

Apr 28     Went across the creek to repair the water gaps that the high water took off this afternoon. Went to mill to N. Vernon.

Apr 29     We are making some more fence along the road this forenoon. This afternoon the boys took a load of corn to Dr. Richerson to Vernon.

Apr 30     We are finishing out our plank fence along the road. All we allow to do to it at this present time. Then went down along the creek to repair some.

May 1     Hauling some rails where we made the new plank fence along the road. We are a taking them up home and piling them up. Some of them we repaired other fence with.

May 2     We went to Sunday School. Very nice day. The ground is drying off fast. There is scarcely any corn planted yet.

May 3     We commenced to plant corn this afternoon for the first this year. The ground is only fit yet since the rain.

May 4     We are planting corn today and Mark Spalding came here to work for the first day today. Set in for two months at 12 per month.

May 5     We commenced to plow in the deadnen for corn. The ground is in very good order. The weather is warm and prospects for dry weather.

May 6     Still at work at plowing on the same till noon. This afternoon planted what we had broke. The weather warm and nice.

May 7     Still at plowing for corn. Weather is warm and pleasant.

May 8     We got done the new ground and got it planted this evening. I went to church this afternoon.

May 9     Went to Sunday School and church. The morning is nice. This evening it rained and hailed. F. H. Gannon's are here and Hugh and Mother.

May 10     Went over the creek to plow the 3 acre piece for corn, I and Mark Spalding. The day is very nice. The ground is getting dry.

May 11     We went over on the same as on at work at the ground till 3 o'clock. We got it ready to plant and we planted the most of it.

May 12     We finished over the creek this morning and all done. Then got the logs ready to put in to keep out the hogs and cattle. This afternoon commenced on the lower bottom to plow.

May 13     We are still at the plowing. The weather is very nice at this time.

May 14     Still at the same. The ground breaks up quite lumpy. It takes a great deal to get it in order to plant.

May 15     We rolled and planted what we had broke on the bottom next to Euler's. The ground is getting dry. The weather is cool for the last two days.

May 16     Went to Sunday School this morning. The weather is very nice but it is getting dry and warm.

May 17     I am repairing up the fence on the lease land right by where the old sawmill stood. Got it all done at noon. The corn is the most of it planted at this time.

May 18     We are this morning fixing the water gap over the creek for the cattle to get water. We are most done planting corn. We have about 3 acres yet to break and plant.

May 19     We are still at work breaking. Will get most done today breaking. We allow to finish all tomorrow. It threatens rain for a few days. Went up for Dr. Ritcherson, Maw is sick.

May 20     We got all done planting corn today. It rained a little at noon. Then some little more this evening.

May 21     Big rain this morning and it has been raining most of the forenoon and drizzly all the evening. I went to Vernon to get some medicine.

May 22     Went to the Tunnel Mill and to N. Vernon with corn, oats and wheat to get ground. This is a very pretty day after the rain.

May 23     Went to Sunday School today. Maw is sick, not able to go. Very pretty day.

May 24     We are plowing some ground and are a going to sow some millet on the lower bottom next to the new ground. Sowed some of the seed today, the first.

May 25     We commenced to plow the corn for the first time. Finished sowing the millet on the bottom. Then went to warn out hands to work on the roads.

May 26     Plowing corn today, all day. Mark broke up the patch for beans this afternoon while we were at the corn.

May 27     We are, two of us, plowing corn and Mark commenced this morning to turn under the rye to sow corn and millet. This evening got a shower of rain.

May 28     I am working the roads today and Mark and Dick is a plowing under rye. The day is very nice.

May 29     Nothing much done today. It rained some last night and today it has rained most of the day and is wet. Went to warn out hands to work road.

May 30     Went to Sunday School. The creek is raising some. It raised to deep fording then fell. Went up to Hugh's to see his mare.

May 31     Worked on the roads on the dutch road today. Very nice day. The ground is wet to plow and it rained late this evening.

Jun 1     The boys are finishing up the rye plowing this morning. Then we commenced to sow some corn. It is tolerably wet and it is raining some.

Jun 2     We went to the corn plowing today. Again it is wet in some places. We plowed the piece over the creek this afternoon.

Jun 3     We sowed the rest of our millet seed today. Mark is plowing corn on the lower field. Is over this evening the second time.

Jun 4     Hoeing some corn on the lower field and planted our late potatoes this forenoon. This afternoon commenced to plow the corn on the Sullivan bottom for the first time this year.

Jun 5     We are plowing corn on the new ground. Lawrence and Dick went to town to get some medicine for Joe, he is sick at this time. The doctor has been out once to see him.

Jun 6     We are at home today. None of us went to Sunday School but Dick and Lawrence. Rain this morning and high wind all day.

Jun 7     We are plowing corn on the new ground and finished the second time. Mark is plowing on the low bottoms the first time.

Jun 8     We, Dick and Lawrence are at the corn on lower clover field. Commenced on 3rd plowing this forenoon. This afternoon went to Vernon to mill and to market. Got new shovel plow.

Jun 9     We, this morning, went to plowing corn. We had only got 3 or 4 rows done when it set in to rain and we had to quit. The water is most over the low bottoms from Indian. Very wet.

Jun 10     The boys are hauling out manure in the field. The ground is very wet. Went over the creek to right my water gap after the water. The wheat is most ripe.

Jun 11     We are this forenoon hoeing corn on the lower clover field. The ground is wet, too wet to plow for 2 or 3 days yet. I went up to Hugh 's to get him to come and cut wheat tomorrow. It is ripe.

Jun 12     We commenced to cut wheat today for the first, above the barn with the reaper. The weather is warm, has been warm for three days.

Jun 13     Went to Sunday School. There is church today. There is not much wheat cut yet.

Jun 14     Big rain this morning and the creek is high. This afternoon we went to cutting wheat. The wheat is leaned over, the ground is soft.

Jun 15     Big rain tonight and the creek is high. The ground is soft. We cut some wheat. It is cloudy all day long and rains some.

Jun 16     Went to town of N. Vernon this morning with my hogs that J. sold to Pilner for 3 ½ per pound. Cut wheat this afternoon alone with one rake.

Jun 17     We are still at the wheat and finished the field by the crib at 2 o'clock. Then commenced on the lower field, myself and Mark and the boys is all that is here.

Jun 18     We are at the same. The same help till this afternoon when there came four of the colored men and helped this afternoon. We want to get done tomorrow.

Jun 19     We are at the wheat till noon. This afternoon it came on rain and we quit. We are all done the wheat but the piece by Euler's allow to finish it on Monday.

Jun 20     We are all at home, the day is warm. There is a great many cutting wheat today. The wheat is getting ripe.

Jun 21     We finished our wheat today. I had got very ripe. The day is very warm. We allow to commence to plow corn tomorrow.

Jun 22     We went over the creek to plow corn. Hard time we have not plowed any corn for too weeks before. It has been too wet all through harvest to plow. We are all done our harvest in wheat.

Jun 23     We are at the corn plowing. It is wet enough yet but does very well. The weather is tolerably warm at this time.

Jun 24     At the same till noon today. I went to help Hugh to stack his wheat on the Clinton farm. The boys went to hoeing corn and beets. Spalding is helping today.

Jun 25     I am at work for Hugh stacking wheat today. The boys are hoeing corn on the low bottoms. It is a little showery weather.

Jun 26     At the same as yesterday and got done, his wheat before night. All stacked.

Jun 27     We are all home today. The day is cool and the wind blowed some and blows up a little rain.

Jun 28     We are at work at he corn on the low bottom hoeing and plowing till the rain came on at 5 o'clock and it was too wet.

Jun 29     We are not doing very much this forenoon for it is raining by showers and the ground is wet. This afternoon Mark was mowing some along the fences. I went to the Burgh this afternoon.

Jun 30     Very wet time. We cannot haul in our wheat. It keeps wet from so much rain. It is too wet to work in the corn. The weeds are growing fast.

Jul 1     Not doing very much for it is very wet and rained the most of the day. It is a bad time on the wheat that is out in shock. Most of it is out yet, some has got in and some none.

Jul 2     We, Mark and I, are hoeing corn on the low bottom. It is a wet time and the ground is very wet. Lawrence and Dick went to N. Vernon to the show.

Jul 3     We are over the creek this forenoon at work at the corn thinning and pulling out weeds. This afternoon we worked in the beans. Mark went home to haul in his wheat.

Jul 4     Went to Sunday School. Very nice day.

Jul 5     We are plowing corn down on the old clover field till the shower of rain came. After the rain we went over the creek. The ground is wet to plow.

Jul 6     We commenced to haul in our wheat on yesterday afternoon for the first. Still at the same today. It looked like rain this morning.

Jul 7     We are still at the wheat and got it done today. Mark commenced to cut oats this afternoon.

Jul 8     Mark is cutting oats and I and the boys are plowing corn. Dick is over the creek at the corn by Jerrie's.

Jul 9     I am finishing laying by the lower clover corn today at noon. Mark and the boys are binding oats.

Jul 10     Went to Vernon to mill this forenoon. This afternoon went to church. The boys are finishing the oats and shocks them. The weather is warm.

Jul 11     Went to church and Sunday School. The weather is warm.

Jul 12     I cut the clover and timothy over the creek. Some of it is very ripe. The weather is warm.

Jul 13     We are at the same. I finished cutting the upper end above the ditch this morning. We are hauling the hay home. Hugh is helping.

Jul 14     We are hauling home two loads of hay. Then hauled in some oats this afternoon.

Jul 15     Hauled the rest of the oats this forenoon. This afternoon went up to help Hugh to haul hay but he did not work at the hay. There was a shower of rain at noon which made it too wet to haul.

Jul 16     We are fencing the wheat stacks this forenoon. This afternoon we are at work at the worn on the lower bottom.

Jul 17     We are plowing corn on the lower bottom till noon. Then we did not plow any more this afternoon. I plowed four or five rows in the new ground before dinner.

Jul 18     We are at home today. Tis a very nice day. Jul 19     Went to Levit's mill this morning with three head of cattle for Pilmer at three cents a pound. Traded a part for three of his cattle. After we came home there was a big rain fell.

Jul 20     Choreing this morning awhile then went over to mow some. Lawrence and I hauled the hay in this evening.

Jul 21     Mowed some more this morning. This afternoon put it up. Made one stack over there.

Jul 22     Went over and finished cutting this afternoon. Put the hay all up. Got all done today.

Jul 23     We finished plowing corn today on the new ground and on the lower bottom.

Jul 24     We are plowing our beans, late potatoes for the last time. This afternoon went over the creek to clean out the balance of the weeds.

Jul 25     Went to Sunday School. There was church after Sunday School. Willie Weaver preached.

Jul 26     We are hoeing out some weeds out of the corn today. The ground is getting dry. We need rain.

Jul 27     Went to N. Vernon and old Vernon with a load of corn.

Jul 28     We are hauling out manure this forenoon. This afternoon went up to Mother's. The weather is dry. The corn needs rain.

Jul 29     We are hauling our manure. The weather is dry. Too dry to plow.

Jul 30     Still at work at the manure. We are getting most done. The weather is dry at this time.

Jul 31     Went to N. Vernon with a load of corn. Got 50 cents per bu at the mill.

Aug 1     Went to Sunday School today. Took Mary Barnes over to Marsh's this morning.

Aug 2     Sent Dick and Lawrence to N. Vernon to take up a load of corn to Jake _____. I am repairing up the floating logs to keep the hogs out of the corn.

Aug 3     There was a big rain fell last night and wet the ground right well. This afternoon I went to break up for wheat for the first this year.

Aug 4     Went to help Jim Young to thrash his wheat. The machine is there at his house. He got done his. Dick is plowing for wheat.

Aug 5     We plowed this forenoon. This afternoon went to help John James to thrash his wheat. The machine is to come here next on tomorrow.

Aug 6     Lawrence Burgmyer is helping on yesterday to plow. The machine came here today before noon and thrashed a little before dinner.

Aug 7     We are thrashing yet till noon and finished thrashing the wheat and oats. Number of bushes of wheat 419 ¼, oats 114.

Aug 8     At home myself and Maw. The rest went to Sunday School. Very nice weather.

Aug 9     The machine is at Tom Gudgel's today and we are helping them. It moved over to Sebe Ewing's this evening.

Aug 10     We are helping Sebe Ewing to thrash wheat till 2 o'clock then moved up toe the Clinton farm and thrashed some for Hugh.

Aug 11     Helped Hugh to thrash till noon then they got done with his wheat and moved down to Jerrie Sullivan's.

Aug 12     The machine is at Euler's this morning. We are helping. They got done before noon and moved over to Reed's and got his done then thrashed Woodard's.

Aug 13     The machine is at Harrison Spencer's today. I am plowing on the oats stubble this forenoon for the first. The ground is dry.

Aug 14     We are helping Marsh's to thrash today. They got done. The weather is dry.

Aug 15     I am at home today. I and Maw, the rest of the children has gone to basket meeting up to Green's woods. The weather is dry at this time.

Aug 16     We are hauling over the line fence between Euler and myself. The ground is dry.

Aug 17     We put up the fence on the line between Euler's and myself.

Aug 18     This morning we are choreing around, ____ the hogs out of Robbin's corn. Went to help Jim Marsh to thrash his wheat when the machine got there it began to rain and storm and blowed the corn down.

Aug 19     This forenoon I am helping Jim Marsh to thrash. The storm of yesterday done a great deal of injury to the corn.

Aug 20     Helping Spalding's to thrash today. It threatens rain all day.

Aug 21     I am helping Burkmyer to thrash wheat this forenoon. This afternoon we are plowing on the oats stubble.

Aug 22     Baby born this morning. (NOTE: Bessie born) I went to Vernon last night for Richerson(?). He was not at home so then I got Mitchell.

Aug 23     Plowing the oats stubble for wheat. The weather is warm. The ground is in very good order to plow. Went to Vernon with some corn.

Aug 24     Still at the plowing. The ground is in good order. The weather is hot.

Aug 25     Still at the plowing. We are plowing under the corn and the millet. We will get done in another day more. The weather is very warm.

Aug 26     At the same. We are getting most done.

Aug 27     We are plowing the whet stubble next to Euler's today.

Aug 28     Finished the wheat stubble this morning then took up a load of corn to Vernon to the mill. Corn is 50 cents per bu.

Aug 29     We are at home today. The children went to Sunday School.

Aug 30     This morning I went to warn out some hands to fix the road on tomorrow by Indian Creek.

Aug 31     went out on the road to repair it this morning. We got it done at noon then went to town this evening.

Sep 1     Started to the Association this morning. Started at 2 o'clock from home, went to N. Vernon got on the cars, went to Holman, Scott County.

Sep 2     At the meeting still today. The meeting was held at the church on account of rain.

Sep 3     Still at the meeting. It broke up today and I came home today, this evening.

Sep 4     We went to the harvest home at Hardenburgh today. There was a good many people there.

Sep 5     Went to Sunday School. Very nice day.

Sep 6     We finished digging the potatoes this morning. This afternoon went up to see Margaret Gannon. She is sick at this time. She is some better than she was.

Sep 7     We are cutting corn on the new ground. The corn is very badly down.

Sep 8     At the same. At the corn. The weather is cool and dry.

Sep 9     At the same as yesterday at the corn. The corn is getting dried up. The weather is cool. There is not much wheat sowed yet.

Sep 10     Cut corn till noon then went to N. Vernon to mill.

Sep 11     Cut corn till noon then went to church this afternoon. We got done all the corn we allow to cut this evening.

Sep 12     Went to church today up to the woods of Green's to basket meeting. There was not many there. The day is cool.

Sep 13     Commenced to sow wheat today for the first. The ground is very dry. Margaret Gannon and Elly is sick at this time.

Sep 14     Sowed some more wheat today. Got it all harrowed and commenced to roll this afternoon.

Sep 15     Went up to F. H. Gannon's this morning. Margaret is very sick. They think she will die. Weather very dry.

Sep 16     Hauling out some manure out on the wheat ground. Margaret is very low and three of the children are sick.

Sep 17     We sowed the wheat, a part of it on the little field by the barn this morning and the boys are plowing it in, got part done. Margaret Gannon died tonight. Number of bushels sowed on, 15.

Sep 18     We are finishing little whet field by the barn this evening. No. of bu sowed on 6 ½. We went up to F. H. Gannon's this afternoon.

Sep 19     We went to the funeral of Margaret Gannon. Buried today at Six Mile Graveyard. The weather is very dry at this time.

Sep 20     This morning we are choreing around till noon. This afternoon we are hauling out some manure on the wheat ground on wheat that is sown on lower corn of the field.

Sep 21     We are at the manure hauling till noon. This afternoon commenced to plow in the new ground for wheat. It is very dry. The people are sowing their wheat.

Sep 22     We are plowing yet in the new ground. Got most done. The ground is very dry.

Sep 23     Went to town this morning. This afternoon went back to town with a load of corn.

Sep 24     We finished plowing the new ground at noon. This afternoon sowed the wheat on it. Very dry.

Sep 25     We, this morning, are sowing the piece below the new ground next to Euler's. Got it done at noon. Very dry. Number of bu on the whole piece 8.

Sep 26     Went to Sunday School. Very dry. The wheat won't come up till it rains. There was a good rain this evening.

Sep 27     We took our cattle over the creek to pasture on the meadow where I mowed. This evening commenced to plow the millet on the bottom under.

Sep 28     Went to N. Vernon with a load of corn. We allow to go to Cincinnati tomorrow.

Sep 29     Started to the city this morning. Got there about 7 o'clock.

Sep 30     We are walking over the city today. We started home at three o'clock.

Oct 1     We are plowing under the rest of our millet on the bottom. Got it done and then cleaned up the wheat in the barn.

Oct 2     I went to town to N. Vernon with a load of wheat. Wheat is worth 85cents. There has not been but one small frost yet.

Oct 3     Went to Sunday School. The weather is very nice. F. H. Gannon's folks are mending slowly.

Oct 4     We this morning, are shucking out some corn out of the shock to get the fodder to feed for the first this year. There was a small rain last night.

Oct 5     We are trying to open a ditch down on the bottom. It is very bad work. There is so many weeds it is bad to scrape. Protracted meeting commenced tonight.

PROTRACTED MEETINGS

The second, major variant of the new revivalism consisted of the "protracted meetings" most often associated with the "new measures" revivalism of Finney but which by the late l820s had become the characteristic form of most northern and western revivalism. "Protracted meetings," ordinarily conducted once a year at a time when they would be less disruptive of ordinary life, usually lasted two to three weeks, during which time there would be preaching two or three times each day, addressed especially to the anxious penitents who would gather on an "anxious bench" at the front of the church to be prayed for by the congregation, and prayer and counseling visits by newly converted Christians to the concerned and anxious. Once a person had gone through the experience of conversion and rebirth, he or she would join the ranks of visitors and exhorters, themselves becoming evangelists for the still unconverted around them.

Oct 6     Going to church today and night.

Oct 7     The same continued. The weather is very pleasant and dry.

Oct 8     The same today at church.

Oct 9     Went to old Vernon on business to see George Swarthout and others.

Oct 10     Went to church today. The weather is dry and very nice time for work.

Oct 11      Still tending church every day.

Oct 12     Church today.

Oct 13     Still church today.

Oct 14     Church broke up today.

Oct 15     Went over to Ewing's to help to raze the old crib. Rain today.

Oct 16     Working on the roads today. Working out the taxes.

Oct 17     Went up to Father Gannon's. Very cool day.

Oct 18     The first big frost on tonight. The first to make much mark.

Oct 19     It is snowing this morning. The first snow. It turned to rain. We went to town today.

Oct 20     I went to town this afternoon and took up a load of corn to Tom Foster. Of new corn, the first I sold.

Oct 21     Commenced to gather corn today for the first to crib. It is well fit.

Oct 22     Work at the corn in the shock. It rained some today. The fodder is damp.

Oct 23     We got one load of corn out of shock. We hauled it in then we buried up our potatoes.

Oct 24     Went to Sunday School. Then went over to Marsh's after.

Oct 25     Gathering corn today. Again this is a very pretty day.

Oct 26     At the corn some more today.

Oct 27     At the corn on the lower bottoms below ditch. The corn is badly down. John Wolsifer came to help me today for the first.

Oct 28     At the corn. The weather is damp and cloudy. It threatens rain for several days but it keeps off. Old Peter Schetgen is very sick at this time.

Oct 29     At the corn again on the lower bottom below ditch. Got the lower side done tonight. I went up to see Peter Schetgen tonight. He is very sick.

Oct 30     Rain today. This forenoon I went to town of Vernon and paid my taxes.

Oct 31     I went up to see how Peter Schetgen is. He is very sick at this time.

Nov 1     Went over the creek to gather corn for the first. Got two loads today.

Nov 2     Gathered corn till noon and finished the little piece by the church. Number bu on it, 70. This afternoon went to the election.

Nov 3     Gathered corn over the creek today and got 3 loads. John Wolsifer is helping. The corn is all down.

Nov 4     It is rainy this forenoon. We are choreing around today. The ground is wet.

Nov 5     We are gathering corn over the creek today. There has been a great deal of rain fell on yesterday and it is a dark day.

Nov 6     Rain all night and is still a raining this morning.

Nov 7     Went to Sunday School this morning. This afternoon Peter Schetgen died.

Nov 8     Went over the creek this morning to gather corn. We got done all but one small load. Dick and Lawrence finished it while I went to help dig the grave.

Nov 9     Went to the funeral this morning of Peter Schetgen. This afternoon shucked corn on stock.

Nov 10     We are shucking corn today. It is very wet. It rained a great deal last night. The ground is soft.

Nov 11     We are at the corn today. The wind blew all night and it has dried the ground off fast.

Nov 12     At the corn today and finished on the stalk on the lower clover field and this evening we finished the lower bottom below the ditch and by the old pond. On this piece there was 230 bu of corn only.

Nov 13     Not at work at the corn today. It snows this morning for awhile then it melted off but is very chilly. There is church today and I am there.

Nov 14     Went to church this morning. William Sharp was baptized today.

Nov 15     We commenced to gather corn this morning again but it was cold and turned colder and we quit for the day.

Nov 16     We went to work at the corn today again. Thought we would get it all done that ws on the stalk but we did not get it all done. About 8 or 10 bus yet. It is quite cold.

Nov 17     We brought home the cattle from over the creek. It snowed last night and is cold this morning and snows and blows. Went to N. Vernon with some wheat. It is right cold and stormy.

Nov 18     This is the coldest day I ever saw in this month before. There is about 3 or 4 inches of snow on the ground. It don't thaw only where the sun shines warm against a building.

Nov 19     This is a very cold morning. It is colder than any day. I think last winter it froze hard last night. Too cold to work. I am setting by the stove most of the day. The boys started to school today for the first.

Nov 20     We are hauling up some corn fodder on the sled. The snow is about 3 inches deep and cold.

Nov 21     I am at home. The children went to Sunday School. Jayne preached at our school house today. It is cold. Froze hard last night.

Nov 22     Not dong much. It is cold today. It froze hard last night.

Nov 23     Went to help get wood for the church today. It is not as cold today as it was. It has moderated some.

Nov 24     I am building some plank fence on the line to Jim Euler's and myself so we can pasture it. Snowed all day and tonight at 9 o'clock it still snows.

Nov 25     It snowed most of the night. We went to old Vernon to mill and market. We went with the sled, the snow is deep. It is 9 or 10 inches deep but not very cold.

Nov 26     I am choreing around. The snow is deep at this time and it still snows a little most every day but not very cold at this time.

Nov 27     We, Lawrence and Dick got out the last load of corn that we had on the Sullivan bottoms. It is very snowy but it is not very cold. We put in the cattle this afternoon, then hauled in fodder on the sled.

Nov 28     This is a very dark and rainy day. It drizzled some all day. There was some sleet and ice on the fences this morning and the snow is in a slush melting off fast.

Nov 29     I went to N. Vernon today with a load of wheat for which I got 1.00 per bushel. The first time this new crop, it has advanced slowly along. The snow did not all melt off on yesterday.

Nov 30     I am hauling wheat today again to N. Vernon to J. Hayne at 1.00 per bu. for 100 bus. He is sending it to Madison. The weather is cool. The snow is on, it goes off slow.

Dec 1     Took another load to Hayne today of 33 bu. The road is some icy but they are solid. It thaws some every day and freezes at night.

Dec 2     Went to N. Vernon with wheat to Hayne. I sold him one hundred and 33 bushels for 1.00 a bu. I finished delivering it today. Wheat is only worth .95 today. 1880

Dec 3     I took up a load of corn to N. Vernon today to George Haburg. 25 bu at .45 per bu. Then went down to old Vernon and went on the bond of Schetgen's.

Dec 4     This is a dark day and rains some all day but this afternoon it rained quite hard and it rained all night. Took off the snow and ice off. The creek will be high.

Dec 5     The creek is very high. Higher that it has been for 7 or 8 years.

Dec 6     Tonight it froze up again and is quite cold and I am not doing very much. Old Fan mare got hurt on the fence today.

Dec 7     I am not doing very much. The weather is cold, the ground is froze hard. Our Sunday School with convention will commence tomorrow.

Dec 8     I am not doing very much. The weather is cold at this time.

Dec 9     Went over to the church to hear Rufsel(Russel) talk at the church to the people. The weather is cold, not a good turnout.

Dec 10     Went to the church today to hear Rufsel(Russel) talk to the people. It broke up today. It is a little warmer. Old Fan mare died this morning. Hauled her off before we went to church.

Dec 11     Went to N. Vernon today and sent to Richard Ewing, $56.00 to Springfield, Missouri.

Dec 12     At home today. The day is very nice. Not cold. The ground is bare.

Dec 13     I and John James are appraising the property of Peter Schetgen. The day is a little chilly.

Dec 14     We are shucking out corn out of the shock and hauling it in. It is muddy. Hugh and John Wolsifer is helping.

Dec 15     The same today. In shock as on yesterday and we got in the wet corn on the new ground on wheat.

Dec 16     Today at the shock and got the lower field done and hauled all in. We will quit tonight and not do anymore, only at my leisure. 37 shocks yet on wheat.

Dec 17     I am not doing very much today. Tying up a little Fodder that was done on the new ground and setting some of the fodder the water knocked down. It rains and freezes today as it falls.

Dec 18     Sleet this morning and ice on the ground. We hauled in some fodder in this afternoon.

Dec 19     We are at home today. There is no snow on the ground at this time. Tonight there fell about 3 inches of snow.

Dec 20     I got Jenson to help me to haul in the rest of my fodder that I had out on the lower field. The snow is on the ground about 3 or 4 inches deep but not very cold.

Dec 21     I turned in my cattle in the lower stalk field this morning. The ground is froze. I went over to the Burgh to see John Harrison this afternoon.

Dec 22     I am not doing very much today, choreing around. Loas(Lois?) Gannon is to be married today. The snow melts some today.

Dec 23     Went to the sale over to Julia Spencer's and bought a safe and a barrel of cider for vinegar. It snowed most all day.

Dec 24     Went to old Vernon to mill and market. There is snow on the ground and very good sleighing at this time. I went on the Sleigh to town.

Dec 25     We are at home today and Marsh's folks are here. It snowed today all day some and the sleighing is pretty good. It is very nice winter weather.

Dec 26     I an a part of the men in the district are repairing the road at Indian Creek today. It is cold day, this afternoon it is storm and the wind blows and snows and cold. Marshal Rowdybush married this evening.

Dec 27     Road work today instead of yesterday. Is story day and cold. We got it fixed so people can cross over. I went up to Bush's for dinner.

Dec 28     This is a very cold day and tonight and the wind raised. It is the coldest night, it is severe cold.

Dec 29     This is another cold morning and it is much colder than any day this winter but it moderated some little since morning but is very cold yet. Good sleighing.

Dec 30     We are setting in the house for 2 or 3 days the most of the time. It has been so cold we have not done but very little.

Dec 31     It is not so cold today as it has been. It is getting a little warmer.

Jan 1     I went to N. Vernon today and sent for the Enquirer and also the N. Vernon Sun. There is good sleighing.

Jan 2     We are at home. The day is very nice. It is very nice for winter weather and good sleighing.

Jan 3     I am not doing very much. It is pleasant day. The sleighing is good but not very cold.

Jan 4     Not at work at all but it is very nice winter weather. The snow is deep and it snows every few days.

Jan 5     Not doing very much. It is very nice time to get around. The snow is deep. The cattle has about got all the stalk pasture eat up at this time.

Jan 6     Not doing very much, it is cold and snowy. It is splendid sleighing.

Jan 7     I took up a load of corn to Doc Richerson. 20 bu at .45 per bu…9.00

Jan 8     Went to the sale at Schetgen's today. It is quite cold day and very good sleighing at this time. I went from there over to church.

Jan 9     Went to church. It is very good sleighing at this time and cold. Thompson's brother was at church.

Jan 10     Not doing very much, it is cold and very nice sleighing. Arbram and folks are here.

Jan 11     I took away my hogs to N. Vernon. Sold to Pilmer 10 hogs. Weight of all 2215 at 4 cents per pound. 188.60.

Jan 12     This forenoon not at work. This afternoon I am hauling two loads of wood from over the creek on the sled. Good sleighing.

Jan 13     Went up to Mother's today. It is thawing this morning and at noon it set in to rain and it rained till dark. Then it got cold and snowed some tonight and froze.

Jan 14     It is cold this morning. It froze up last night and the roads are icy. There was about one inch of snow fell on the ground so it is real good sleighing yet.

Jan 15     It is cold this morning. I went down to Doc Gady's to get some medicine for myself. The road is icy.

Jan 16     This is a right cold morning. The sleighing is real good. We are at home today.

Jan 17     It is not so cold now as it has been. The snow and ice is still on and the folks are still sleighing.

Jan 18     This morning it rains and froze a good part of the day. Tonight it is very icy so it is most impossible to go.

Jan 19     This morning it is very slick but it began to thaw and it has been thawing all day and all night. Slowly the snow is going off.

Jan 20     This is a day it thaws and mists rain all the forenoon. This afternoon it set in to rain hard and kept on and raised the creek and broke up the ice.

Jan 21     This morning the creek is gorged with ice and tonight it is still gorged. It is still freezing some.

Jan 22     The creek is still full of ice yet it is settling down. It freezes at night. It will stay till it thaws out or comes more water. The roads are icy.

Jan 23     We are at home today. John James' are here today. He allows to move away tomorrow to the Spalding place.

Jan 24     We are at home, not doing very much. John James moved today.

Jan 25     We are cutting some wood. The weather is cool. The ground is icy.

Jan 26     Went over to Hardenburg today. It is cold. The road is icy and hard froze at this time.

Jan 27     Went to N. Vernon and old Vernon. The day is right cold. The roads are icy. I allow to go to Mary Barnes' tomorrow.

Jan 28     I went down to Mary Barnes' today. It is right cold day. I got there about 5 o'clock.

Jan 29     I am at Mary Barnes' this morning. I paid her one hundred dollars this morning. There is three hundred and fifty dollars more coming yet to her. Interest paid on all till August 1880, no interest since that time has been paid.

Jan 30     We are at home all day. It thaws some today. The ice is still in the creek in chunks. The roads are icy. I came home from Mary Barnes' on last night.

Jan 31     We butchered our hogs today. It rained some all day. Slowly and this evening it rained hard and it is very cool. This will raise the creek again.

Feb 1     I am at work cutting up my hogs and salting them away. I went out to see how high the creek was. It is high within one foot as high as before. The ice is still there.

Feb 2     This is a cold morning. It turned off since the rain. Very cold. It froze hard last night. The roads are icy in places yet. I went down to Bob Dunlap's to see him.

Feb 3     It is still cold enough to not thaw any every day. There is but little snow on at this time. The wheat has but little covering.

Feb 4     About the same as on yesterday but thaws some in the middle of the day.

Feb 5     I went to N. Vernon and to old Vernon to mill and to market. There is a cold wind from the east every day this week. Got my clover seed and timothy seed today.

Feb 6     Went to Ellie Freelen's today. We did allow to go to John James' but they were at Ellie's so we went there. It thaws some. Right snowy today and it is not too cold.

Feb 7     This morning it is not so cold. It is raining and it has been raining ever since and now 3 o'clock and still it rains yet and it is a very cold rain.

Feb 8     Rain all night and this morning. The creek is high. The gorged ice started out of the creek about 8 o'clock this morning. It is all gone about here. It has been raining all day slow and tonight.

Feb 9     This morning the creek yet has not fell much for it rained some all night and is raining till after 2 o'clock today when it quit off. The creek is full banks at this time. Doing nothing at work.

Feb 10     I am draining some water off the wheat. The ground is full of water for there has been much rain. The creek is till high yet, too high to ford.

Feb 11     This forenoon I am draining off some water off the wheat. I went over to the Burgh this evening. It rained tonight and raised the creek so it can't be forded and there is to be church.

Feb 12     This is a very stormy day. The wind is high and snows and blows and freezes. There was to be church today but we did not get over, the creek is too high.

Feb 13     Went to church today. There was no church yesterday. Jim Smith was buried on yesterday. There is to be a meeting held on next Saturday to elect a preacher.

Feb 14     I am not doing very much at this time. It is cold this morning and the ground is froze hard.

Feb 15     About the same as on yesterday but a little warmer today. It thaws some today. Charley Walker took his goods to Seymour today for Missouri.

Feb 16     Went to N. Vernon to mill and market. The day is very chilly, the roads are froze and rough. It thaws some every day and freezes at night.

Feb 17     I am fixing up a place for the three head of cattle to keep them in the shed. Rain last night and it is raining some this morning and it is cool with wind.

Feb 18     I am not doing very much. The weather is cold and chilly. I went this afternoon over the creek after some wood I had over there that had been overblowed. It set in to rain tonight.

Feb 19     Split some wood on John James' land this forenoon. This afternoon went over to the church as this is set for a day to elect a preacher. A. J. Spillman was elected today for the coming year.

Feb 20     We went down to John James' today. The ground is about thawed out.

Feb 21     Alice Simpson and her man and Print and Mother Gannon are here today. It is very pleasant day but very muddy.

Feb 22     I am not doing very much. It freezes at night and thaws in daylight. It is hard weather on wheat. The wheat looks bad.

Feb 23     I went to old Vernon today and took up Charley horse and traded him off for a mare. I traded with Al Burg at the stable.

Feb 24     I am not doing very much. The ground freezes every night and thaws in day time. Very hard on the wheat at this time.

Feb 25     I commenced to sow some grass seed for the first this year on the little field by the barn. I sowed all the piece today. The ground is muddy.

Feb 26     This morning I sowed some more grass seed on the pond field for the first time. The wind raised and I quit. This afternoon I hitched up the new horse that I got for Charley.

Feb 27     We are at home; this is a rainy day up to noon. This afternoon it is faired off.

Feb 28     I am not doing very much these days. It is cold, chilly weather at this time. There is a little snow on the ground that fell last night.

Mar 1     I went down to Weston to a sale at Hutchen's. The day is cool and chilly and a little snow on the ground. The roads are muddy. The snow melts most of the day.

Mar 2     I am splitting some stove wood today up in John James' woods. This is a very pretty day.

Mar 3     I am choreing around repairing some fence a part of the day. This is a stormy day today. It snows and blows all day. Tull Sullivan and Ell Lattimore married tonight.

Mar 4     I am not doing very much. The weather is bad. The snow is on the ground.

Mar 5     We are hauling in from the road some for to burn. This is the last of the old wood to haul in. We went this afternoon to cut some more new wood on John James.

Mar 6     We went up to Mr. Spalding's today. This is a cool day. The snow lays on some little. It thaws some but ti is chilly.

Mar 7     Went to N. Vernon to mill and market. The roads are bad. It freezes at night and thaws in day time.

Mar 8     We are sawing some fire wood this forenoon. It rained about ten or eleven o'clock and we quit and came home. This afternoon rode Sally colt up to Hughes' and back.

Mar 9     We, Lawrence and Dick are repairing the plank fence along the road by the orchard. This is very nice day a little cool. The wind blows some little.

Mar 10     We are cutting stove wood on John James' woods. The day is very nice. Spalding just finished up 8 ricks of stove wood at 50 cents per rick.

Mar 11     We are at the wood today. The day is nice and pleasant. Tonight it looks some like rain. The wind blows at this time, tonight at 8 o'clock.

Mar 12     Went over to church today. This is the last trip for Thompson to come here to preach. Spillman is to preach for the next year.

Mar 13     Went to church today. This is the last time for Thompson to preach here at this church. Spillman is to come on the four Saturdays of this month for the first.

Mar 14     I am this forenoon sowing some more grass seed on the field by the road where the wheat is. This afternoon went to Burg to election held there to vote for the amendment.

Mar 15     The boys are cutting some stove wood. I went over the creek to repair up the fence where the flatings are to keep out the stalk out of Jerrie's field. Very nice day.

Mar 16     We are not doing much this forenoon. It rains some and looks like rain. This afternoon went over the creek to take over some lumber to fence the new ground.

Mar 17     Cutting and cording wood on John James' today. We have got up seven ricks of 20 inch wood and 12 ricks of 16 inch wood.

Mar 18     We are shucking corn out of the shock. Got the lower side shucked and hauled in, the fodder is out. The day is nice. Looks like rain tonight.

Mar 19     Went to old Vernon and N. Vernon today. It rained all the forenoon. I got wet before I got there. The roads are very muddy this afternoon. The wind blows this evening.

Mar 20     We are at home all day. The wind blows hard today. It snowed some last night and it snows and blows hard. It is very disagreeable today.

Mar 21     We are sawing some wood for next winter. This afternoon we are sawing up some logs on the new ground that the water brought in at the time it was big.

Mar 22     At the wood today again. The weather is cool. The roads are bad. Cut the oak tree on Swarthout's for posts this evening.

Mar 23     Sowed some more grass seed this morning. This afternoon at the wood. It froze right smart last night.

Mar 24     I finished sowing grass seed this morning. It froze right smart last night. This afternoon went over the creek to commence the plank fence.

Mar 25     We are making some new plank fence over the creek this forenoon. This afternoon we are repairing some on this side of the creek that the ice broke down. The day is nice.

Mar 26     We went to N. Vernon this morning to market. This is a cool morning. The roads are muddy. There was rain last night and then it got cool and froze.

Mar 27     Went to church today to here the new preacher. He came for the first time this year. Jim Spillman.

Mar 28     Went to N. Vernon and drove two head of cattle that I sold to George Verburg for $36 a head. $72.

Mar 29     We are doing not much of anything today. It is a very stormy day. It snowed all day today and is very disagreeable to be out.

Mar 30     Went up to Mother's this morning. The snow is 2 or 3 inches deep and it snowed all day today and the wind blew right hard and it is still snowing tonight.

Mar 31     Today is clear. The snow melted most of it off but tonight it began to snow again. It is very wet underfoot. We met the committee here today to view the church book of Zion Church.

Apr 1     This is a cold day and very blustery. It snows and blows all day and is cold. Doing very little. The boys are sawing some wood.

Apr 2     Went to Vernon to pay the tax. This is a cold morning. The ground is froze right hard this morning. Snow has not all melted off yet this evening.

Apr 3     We went over to the church this morning for the purpose of organizing a Sunday School. We got on organized today. Robbins, first superintendent. Euler second superintendent.

Apr 4     We are sawing some more stove wood today. We are about done. We have 12 ricks of 16 inch and 14 ricks of 20 inch on J. M. James' woods for next winter. This is a very cold time for the time of year. It snowed by spells all day. Snow on the ground for 4 or 5 days.

Apr 5     We are a grubbing out some dead apple trees and trimming up some of the rest of the. I sowed some clover seed this morning for the first this year, above barn on hill on wheat.

Apr 6     I finished the little field by the barn this morning. The ground is froze right hard. We got in the last of our corn out of the shock today. The ground is soft.

Apr 7     We, Ma and boys went to Vernon. The boys all got a new suit of clothes. The roads are bad yet. The weather cool and wet. Tonight it rained hard. Very cold rain.

Apr 8     Rainy day and not much done today. The creek will be high.

Apr 9     Went to N. Vernon today. The roads are muddy and very bad and cold, chilly day.

Apr 10     Went to Sunday School today. Very cool weather.

Apr 11     We are repairing the fence on the new ground on this side of the creek where the ice and water broke it.

Apr 12     The same till noon then we went over the creek to help Marshal Rowdy Bush to roll logs in the creek. Ellie Freelen went away from here today.

Apr 13     Not dong very much today forenoon. Johnny Schetgen is sick at this time. The ground is wet. It has been so much rain.

Apr 14     Went over the creek to put up some fence to keep out the stock.

Apr 15     Went over the creek again today at the same. Got it done.

Apr 16     Sowed clover on the lower wheat field. The whet looks bad. The ground is wet.

Apr 17     I went to Schetgen's this morning. Cate(Kate) was taken sick this morning and Johnny's crazy at this time. The weather is not so bad.

Apr 18     I went to help H. R. Gannon to raise his barn. The day is warm. The roads are drying off fast.

Apr 19     The first that has been plowed on the place today was the garden and a strip in the orchard and I planted some potatoes in the garden.

Apr 20     I plowed some then set out all of my apple trees. Then went and sowed all of the clover seed this evening. Got all done but a little corner.

Apr 21     Father Gannon died this morning. Planted our early potatoes this forenoon. This afternoon went to N. Vernon and got a coffin.

Apr 22     Went to the funeral of Father Gannon. When we came home we broke some stalks for the first time. Sowed the last of the clover this morning.

Apr 23     We are repairing some more fence on the lease land on the lower end and rolled out the logs. This afternoon went to church. The weather is very nice.

Apr 24     Went to Sunday School and there is church today. Very nice weather at this time.

Apr 25     We commenced to break for corn today. Warm and pleasant. Ground is in good order for work.

Apr 26     We are at the plowing. Weather nice and warm. We have not raked any stalks yet. A little rain tonight, nice raining time.

Apr 27     We are hauling out some manure on the lower field for corn. This afternoon I am making a rake to rake the stalks tomorrow. Very nice weather.

Apr 28     We are this forenoon raking stalks on the new ground. This afternoon it rained at noon for awhile then we went to repair some fence. Ma is sick today.

Apr 29     I am trimming up some apple trees this forenoon and Dick finished breaking the lower field. All we allow to put in corn, we allow to commence to break in the new ground.

Apr 30     I am at work on the new ground plowing some and finished raking the stalks. The weather is very nice and warm. The ground is in good order for plowing. Ma is still sick.

May 1     we are at home today. The children went to Sunday School. Dick went to Vernon after the doctor. Ma is worse sick today.

May 2     Went to N. Vernon to mill and market. It rained and the roads are muddy.

May 3     We are not doing very much. It is wet, too wet to plow. I went out on Tea Creek to try to trade or buy a horse. I traded the mare off to Marshal Bush.

May 4     I went to plowing again on the new ground. It is dry enough. The day is nice.

May 5     Too wet to plow today. We are over the creek hauling some rails and picking up the drift off the meadows. Rain by showers all day. The ground is wet.

May 6     Went to Hardenburg this forenoon. This afternoon went to plowing. The ground is wet enough.

May 7     We are plowing for corn on the new ground. The ground is in good order today. It is a very pretty day but it is warm. John Johnson is helping me to plow today with team.

May 8     Went to Sunday School. The day is very warm and pleasant. I have not planted any corn yet but allow to plant some this week.

May 9     The boys are plowing on the new ground.

May 10     Got Mike horse off Hugh this morning. We then commenced to harrow this afternoon. We commenced to plant for the first on the lower half of the old clover field.

May 11     We commenced to plant the new ground this evening. The weather is very nice at this time and warm, very warm.

May 12     We are at the planting on the new ground. We allow to get done by tomorrow noon if we can. Today has been very hot day. Very warm.

May 13     We got done the new ground at noon. This afternoon Myron and Dick went over the creek to break the stalks. I and Lawrence went to haul in the stack of hay. Very warm.

May 14     I went to Hardenburg this morning. Myron and Dick are hauling the rest of the hay from the stack this forenoon. We commenced to plow over the creek this evening. The old mill fell tonight.

May 15     Went to Sunday School. Jim and Mother are here today.

May 16     We are over the creek at work plowing, harrowing and rolling. We allow to plant tomorrow. The weather is cool.

May 17     We plowed till noon. Got done then planted this afternoon but did not get quite done. Dick went over to plow on the Sullivan bottom for the first.

May 18     Two teams are at work on the ground breaking. Sebe team. We got done planting over the creek at 10 o'clock. This afternoon I went to Michelson's to take Fan.

Mar 19     We are at work on the Sullivan land plowing , harrowing and rolling. We commenced to plant some on this land this afternoon for the first. The ground is getting dry.

May 20     At the same today…planting and harrowing and plowing. The ground is getting dry.

May 21     At the same as on yesterday.

May 22     Went to Sunday School. The weather is dry and the corn is not near all planted yet.

May 23     Still at work at the plowing but it is getting very dry. Myron Gannon commenced to put in one month work on today.

May 24     Still at the breaking yet.

May 25     We are still at the plowing and planting. We allow to get done on tomorrow. The weather is very dry and it is warm.

May 26     We are at the corn planting but we got done this evening. All of the corn for this year. Very warm and dry.

May 27     We this forenoon are breaking up a piece by the house for beans. The boys planted while we went to town this afternoon to mill and market.

May 28     The boys are hauling out some straw around the apple trees and repairing the water gap and plowing the potatoes. Church today. I and Maw went. Very warm and dry.

May 29     Went to Sunday School and church. The weather is dry. The people are not done planting corn yet and it is so dry the corn will not all come up till it rains.

May 30     The first corn plowing for the year is today by Myron and Dick and Lawrence on the old clover field. I am helping to appraise the Schetgen property.

May 31     I am this forenoon helping to appraise and got done at 10 o'clock and went to Vernon and reported. The boys are plowing on the new ground corn, the first today.

Jun 1     A little rain fell on last night and this afternoon it rained another shower. I went this morning to warn the men out to work on the road on Friday.

Jun 2     The boys are hauling out manure on the lower field, this is for wheat.

Jun 3     I am working on the roads fixing up the road. The boys are hauling out manure on the lower field. The weather is cool at this time.

Jun 4     At the same today as on yesterday.

Jun 5     At home today.

Jun 6     On last night there was a very good rain fell. It wet the ground very nice so we this afternoon commenced to break up our stalk ground for wheat.

Jun 7     At the same this forenoon. This afternoon we went over the creek to help Marshal Bush to plow the clover for corn and one team to haul off rails.

Jun 8     Very big rain this morning after 1 o'clock. It poured the rain down and the creek is big. Indian (Creek) is very big. It is about all of the corn under water below Uncle Moses'.

Jun 9     This forenoon I am not doing very much. Looking at the corn, how bad the water had damaged it. It is almost entirely spoiled on the 13 acre piece.

Jun 10     I went to N. Vernon this forenoon with a load of wheat. This afternoon went to the Burg. The ground is too wet to work.

Jun 11     We are choreing around plowing some potatoes and the garden. This is the first since the rain. The ground has been very wet.

Jun 12     We are at home. The most of the day we was hunting for Cate Schetgen. She is crazy and has run off this morning.

Jun 13     We are plowing corn on the new ground. This is the second plowing. The ground is as wet yet as it will bear.

Jun 14     At the same and got done. Then we plowed the corn over the creek next to Jerrie's the first time.

Jun 15     We are plowing corn on the old lower clover field. This is the second plowing. It is wet a plenty since our big rain.

Jun 16     We are breaking up the rest of the lower old clover that is not in corn for wheat this fall. It is very warm at this time.

Jun 17     We are all of us plowing the corn on the Sullivan bottom in patches for the first time. The water has injured it over half. We got it done at noon today. It rained after dinner.

Jun 18     We went in to the new ground corn this morning again, this is the third time of plowing. This afternoon went to N. Vernon to mill and market.

Jun 19     At home today. Sebe, Lis, Mother, Hugh, Frank are here. Mother Gannon and Will are here.

Jun 20     We are plowing corn on the new ground. We allow to cut wheat tomorrow.

Jun 21     We commenced to cut wheat today for the first. It is ripe enough. The weather is cool.

Jun 22     We allow to get the full wheat done today. It is very nice day and cool for harvesting. I have four hands at work.

Jun 23     We are at the wheat today and got done a little after noon. Dick is cutting clover this forenoon for the first. This year we hauled in two loads.

Jun 24     We are plowing corn this forenoon over the creek with the cultivator. It is very nice weather at this time. We took in five loads of clover this afternoon. Myron is helping.

Jun 25     I and the boys are plowing corn on the wet bottoms. This is the second plowing. This afternoon went to church. The weather is nice and cool. The ground is getting dry again.

Jun 26     We went up to basket meeting today, up to the woods on Green's. This is a very nice day. This evening it looks some like rain.

Jun 27     We are cutting wheat on the field next to Euler's and the new ground. It is a very nice day but it is cloudy.

Jun 28     We are taking off the new ground corn. It is very warm. The corn is over three and a half feet high.

Jun 29     We are plowing corn on the new ground for the last plowing. Very warm day.

Jun 30     We are at the same. Got all done on the new ground.

Jul 1     We are over the creek at work at the corn. We are laying it by this time with the 3rd plowing. This is a very nice day and cool.

Jul 2     I went to Vernon today to get the hack and the guards of the machine repaired. The boys are plowing corn this afternoon. They cut the last patch of wheat.

Jul 3     I and Edy, Emma and Joe went to Sunday School. Dick and Lawrence went to Four Corners Church.

Jul 4     We all of us, went to N. Vernon to the celebration. This is a very nice day.

Jul 5      We commenced to haul in our wheat. It is very warm.

Jul 6     We are at the same and got done. The weather is very warm and dry. We need rain at this time.

Jul 7     I commenced to cut grass over the creek today. We hauled in two loads this afternoon. Very warm and dry.

Jul 8     We are still at the hay. Will get the hay done today on the piece above the ditch. Very warm and dry. We need rain bad.

Jul 9     I am this forenoon mowing for G. Euler. This afternoon not doing very much. The weather is very warm and dry. Needs rain very bad.

Jul 10     I am at home, all the rest are gone to Sunday School. Very warm and dry.

Jul 11     I cut grass for Euler till noon. This afternoon cut on my own grass over the creek on the timothy. It is very warm.

Jul 12     I cut and put up hay. Euler is helping to put up hay. The weather is very warm and dry.

Jul 13     We went over the creek and brought over a load of hay and fixed the rest in shock. Then went to the show at N. Vernon. Very warm and dry.

Jul 14     We are mowing some this morning on the same. This afternoon the rain came on and wet the hay but did not rain very much at last.

Jul 15     This morning we are hoeing some in the garden. The boys are plowing corn down on the bottom on the little strip on the Sullivan land. This afternoon went over the creek to shock up some hay.

Jul 16     We are cutting some more grass over the creek and putting up hay all day. It has been very warm today. Still dry, not much rain.

Jul 17     Went to Sunday School. After Sunday School went up to Mother's. There was a little rain fell today but very little.

Jul 18     We are at work at eh hay today again. It is very nice day. The weather is not so hot as it has been but not much rain yet. The ground is very dry.

Jul 19     We got done with our hay today. All done the harvest.

Jul 20     I went over to Hardenburg to take the rest of my cattle that I sold to Haynes of Seymour. We weighed at Swarthout's scales.

Jul 21     We are building a fence along the potato patch and on the wheat stubble back of the barn. A shower of rain last night.

Jul 22     I am choreing around this forenoon. This afternoon went to N. Vernon and took the rest of the old wheat and sold it. The price of wheat is 1.05.

Jul 23     Went to church today, this evening. This is a very dry time.

Jul 24     Went to Sunday School and church. Went up to the school house this evening to church.

Jul 25     We are at work cutting weeds out of the corn. The weather is very dry yet.

Jul 26     The same as on yesterday.

Jul 27     Cutting down some weeds around the fences and plowing a piece for turnips.

Jul 28     At work at the corn over the creek. Cutting out some weeds. Very dry yet.

Jul 29     I went to stack hay for Schetgen's and got done. The weather is very dry.

Jul 30     We went to the Old Settler's Meeting out at Paris today. The weather is very dry yet. The corn is needing rain very gad at this time. This is as dry a time as I ever saw yet.

Jul 31     Went to Sunday School. The weather is warm and still dry.

Aug 1     We are hauling out manure. The weather is hot and dry.

Aug 2     At the same as on yesterday. The weather is very warm and dry. The corn is most gone for the want of rain.

Aug 3     The same today. Still hot and dry. The corn is hurt by the dry weather.

Aug 4     We are hauling up stove wood today and ricking it up.

Aug 5     This morning we drove over to Marshal Bush's, 10 hogs that I sold him on yesterday for the sum of $70.00. Very dry and hot.

Aug 6     The boys are digging potatoes today. I and Edy went over the creek to but weeds. It rained at noon. We sowed our turnips this afternoon after the rain.

Aug 7     At home today. All but the children. They went to Sunday School. Not much rain yet.

Aug 8     We commenced to break up for wheat for the first time on the old clover field where we broke up after the corn was planted. Dry.

Aug 9     The same today. It is very dry. The ground breaks dry and no appearance of rain yet.

Aug 10     Went up to N. Vernon to the Fair today. I, myself only, took up the colt, Sally and got a first premium.

Aug 11     To the Fair again. The weather is dry and hot.

Aug 12     Went to the Fair again today. There is not so many today as there was on yesterday. The weather dry and hot.

Aug 13     We are this forenoon cutting out some weeds out of the new ground corn. This afternoon I went to the Burg to the mill.

Aug 14     We are at home. The children went to Sunday School. The weather is very dry yet. No rain. Aug 15     I commenced to break for wheat on the wheat stubble on the new ground. It is very dry and cloudy. I quit it, we allow to thrash in a day or two. Aug 16     The machine is at Harrison Spencer's all day. Very dry yet.

Aug 17     The machine is at the Herron's this morning, then moved to Euler's and thrashed his and moved over to me and thrashed out 50 buys. This evening.

Aug 18     This morning they got all of my wheat done at nine o'clock. Number of bushels 208, then they went to Spaldings's. Very dry weather.

Aug 19     The machine is at Schetgen's. This morning got done and went to Thompson Childs'. We are helping him Very dry yet.

Aug 20     We are choreing around today. It is very warm and dry but it looks very much like rain at this time.

Aug 21     We went to Hardenburg. Mary Barnes went along over with us. The weather is still dry.

Aug 22     We commenced to cut corn on the new ground. The corn has dried up very much. It is a very light crop.

Aug 23     At the same today again. The weather is very dry.

Aug 24     We went to the Sunday School picnic over at the grove today. Still very dry.

Aug 25     We went to the sale to Mother Gannon's today. The weather is still dry and hot.

Aug 26     Went to Vernon this forenoon, I and Mary Barnes and released the mortgage. The weather is dry.

Aug 27     We are cutting some corn part of the time. Church today.

Aug 28     Went to church. They had the church out in the woods today. Very dry yet.

Aug 29     Went to Vernon to take up Mary Barnes. She is going home. We hauled gravel on the road this afternoon.

Aug 30     Cutting corn today. The weather is hot and dry.

Aug 31     At the corn today. There was a little rain fell at night. It dampened the dust.

Sep 1     We are cutting corn on the new ground. It is very dry yet. We are about done with corn. All we allow to cut up.

Sep 2     I went to N. Vernon with a load of corn. Took it to Conklen, 24 + 39 lbs at .76 per bu.

Sep 3     Went to the harvest home at Hardenburg. The weather is dry.

Sep 4     WE are at home today. The weather is dry.

Sep 5     Went to N. Vernon with a load of corn to Caren. The price of corn is 80 cents.

Sep 6     We are cutting some corn over the creek by Jerrie's. The corn is getting dead. The weather is dry.

Sep 7     At the same till noon when we quit it. We went up to F. H. Gannon's this afternoon. The weather is dry.

Sep 8     We went over to Mrs. Woodward's and Uncle Moses. The weather is dry yet.

Sep 9     The boys are cutting corn for Sebe Ewing's today. I am choreing around. I sold two head of cattle to Sam Spencer.

Sep 10     I was plowing for wheat this forenoon. The ground is very dry, not fit to plow at all. This afternoon went to N. Vernon. Very dry yet.

Sep 11     We went to the Holiness Meeting today. It, last night, sprinkled a little rain. Enough to dampen the dust a little. It is very dry.

Sep 12     We are shucking out some corn out of the shock for the fodder for the horses this forenoon. This afternoon cut up some corn on the lower bottom.

Sep 13     We are hauling in some corn and hauling out some manure on the corn stubble and harrowing in the same field. It is very dry.

Sep 14     I went to Vernon this forenoon. Uncle Moses went up with me. The rain came at last on tonight. It set in.

Sep 15     It is still raining all morning. There has been a nice rain. There has not been so much rain since the 6th of June. Cleaning wheat.

Sep 16     Plowing and harrowing today. The ground is in nice order since the rain. We are getting ready to sow on Monday next.

Sep 17     We are harrowing and rolling, preparing for wheat.

Sep 18     We are at home today. This is a very nice day.

Sep 19     We commenced to sow wheat for the first this year. We are drilling today.

Sep 20     We sowed the corn stubble in wheat today. No. of bushels on this field, 13 ½ of wheat.

Sep 21     We went to N. Vernon this afternoon to trade.

Sep 22     We are plowing still for wheat on the new ground. The ground is getting dried out some.

Sep 23     We are at the same this afternoon. We drilled in a little wheat next to Euler's.

Sep 24     We are plowing on the same till noon. This afternoon went to church. The weather is a little dry again. I have in 12 acres of wheat at this time.

Sep 25     Went to church today. This is communion day at our church.

Sep 26     John Schetgen died this morning at 4 o'clock. Is to be buried tomorrow at 10 o'clock. We finished plowing the new ground today. We are ready to sow it.

Sep 27     We went to the funeral of John Schetgen this forenoon. This afternoon going to sow the new ground to wheat.

Sep 28     We got done sowing the new ground to wheat today. I went to Vernon this afternoon to mill and to doctor for swelled hand. No. of bus, 13 ¾.

Sep 29     We are rolling and ditching the new ground. One team began to break the third field opposite new ground for wheat.

Sep 30     We are plowing with two teams today. The ground is hard and dry.

Oct 1     We are at the same till noon, then one team went to hauling out some manure. There was some rain this afternoon in small showers. It rained some tonight.

Oct 2     We are at home all day. We have company.

Oct 3     We are cleaning some seed wheat this morning. The ground is wet. There has been big rain north and tonight the creek is high over the bottoms.

Oct 4     We are choreing around. The ground is wet at this time. We got an organ on this day.

Oct 5     We went to plowing again today. The ground is in good order to plow at this time.

Oct 6     Went to the Soldier's Reunion at N. Vernon. It is very nice day.

Oct 7     We are plowing with one team and harrowing with one making ready to sow tomorrow.

Oct 8     We sowed the fultz and red wheat mix this morning with the drill on the next lower field of 17 acres opposite new ground.

Oct 9     We are at home all day. Giles(Jules?) Spalding and wife are here.

Oct 10     We are trying to get done our wheat sowing but we did not get quite done. We sowed some and drill some.

Oct 11     We got done sowing this morning and took home the disk. We drilled in aobut 16 acres. No. of bushels on the last field 13 ¾ .

Oct 12     We are gathering some corn out of the shock. It is damp.

Oct 13     We are at the same as yesterday. The weather is damp. It rained a shower this afternoon when we was at work.

Oct 14     WE are gathering corn. The early corn is in good order at this time.

Oct 15     Still at the corn. The corn does not turn out very well.

Oct 16     We are at home today. All day. It is a very pretty day.

Oct 17     We was gathering corn on the new ground.

Oct 18     Still at the same. It is a nice time to gather corn.

Oct 19     We are at the corn in shock. It is in good order till noon.

Oct 20     We are at the corn till noon on the new ground. This afternoon went over the creek by Jerrie's and got the first load this year.

Oct 21     We are still at the corn on the new ground. We went to town this afternoon to mill and market.

Oct 22     We are hauling in some corn fodder this forenoon. This afternoon went to church. Spillman did not come.

Oct 23     Went over to church. There was to be Prayer Meeting but it is rainy and there was not many there.

Oct 24     Went to gathering corn this morning again. It is rainy, drizzly day, all day long. We got done all of the shocks on the new ground today.

Oct 25     We commenced to shuck corn on the lower wheat in shock this morning. I took up a load of goods to N. Vernon for Eliza Spalding.

Oct 26     Still at the corn yet. It is very nice time for the business. There has been no mark of frost yet.

Oct 27     Still at the same.

Oct 28     We did not get in much corn today. It drizzled rain most all day.

Oct 29     We are at the corn today again.

Oct 30     We went to the funeral of D. Hartpense, he died on yesterday. Very nice weather.

Oct 31     We are at the shock corn on the lower wheat today. It has kept damp all day and cloudy.

Nov 1     On the same field. It has been in nice order. We got the corn and fodder all in today out of this field.

Nov 2     We are still at the corn. There was some rain fell tonight.

Nov 3     We are at the corn. One load on the Sullivan bottom and one load over the creek. The ground is very soft today.

Nov 4     We got done the corn over the creek on stalk today. We have got 32 shocks there yet over there.

Nov 5     We are at the corn on the new ground. We got done all of it but one load yet.

Nov 6     We are at home. There is no church today but there was to be a protracted meeting to begin tonight.

Nov 7     We are at the corn over the creek in shock. We got all done over there. It is dark and mists some by spells. The fodder is in good order.

Nov 8     We finished the corn on the new ground and on the Sullivan bottom today. All but one load, one small load yet.

Nov 9     We finished all of our corn we raised this forenoon. This afternoon the boys went hunting and I am choreing around.

Nov 10     We are hauling fodder in. We got all but one load. The fodder is in good order to haul.

Nov 11     We are finishing hauling the last load of fodder home from over by Jerry's. It is damp and mists rain. We went and got a little corn over at the piece that Marsh's.

Nov 12     Went to N. Vernon and old Vernon both to mill and market. It is cool and chilly day.

Nov 13     We are at home today. John James' folks are here and Mike Simons (?) and wife are here. It is a very nice day. The corn is about all gathered at this time.

Nov 14     I went to old Vernon this morning on account of John James and Moses Spencer as I was called to go on the board (bond). The day is cool. The boys started to school for the first.

Nov 15     I am choreing around today. Not doing very much. This is a very nice day but a big frost this morning. The biggest and hardest frost this year.

Nov 16     We went up to Mother's this morning. All of us on a visit. The rest are at school. This is a very frosty morning but a very nice day.

Nov 17     It is rainy and wet. It rains all day, most of the time by showers. The creek is rising fast from noon till in the night. The rain came on and the creek is big.

Nov 18     The weather is wet. Rain all day and night and this night the creek is high. Not doing very much.

Nov 19     The creek is high this morning. It is beginning to fall some. It took out the two big sycamores at the lower field.

Nov 20     We are at home today. All day.

Nov 21     Not doing very much choreing. The weather is bad this morning. It snows most of the day.

Nov 22     I am today a burying up the potatoes. The day is cold and chilly.

Nov 23     I am choreing around, not doing very much. I sold four head of cattle to Marshal and Spencer to ship 3 steers and one cow for $120.

Nov 24     I was helping Schetgen's to butcher their hogs this morning. This afternoon drove up the cattle to N. Vernon to ship. I went up to the city tonight with them.

Nov 25     This morning I got to the city at 4 o'clock and am at the stock yards most all day. The day is cold.

Nov 26     Still in the city until 3 o'clock, I started home. Got home tonight. It is cool.

Nov 27     Went to church today and tonight. Also Brother Spillman is here.

Nov 28     I am at work at the line fence at the line between Louise Lattimore and myself.

Nov 29     I am hauling out manure on the garden and some on the field. Weather very nice.

Nov 30     I took up a load of corn to N. Vernon to Jacob Thennis, 29 ½ bu at .70 per bu. Very nice day.

Dec 1     I am at work at hauling home some fence posts from the Clinton land that Jim made last spring.

Dec 2     I am planting out some plum trees and cherry trees and choreing around. The weather is very nice. Not cold.

Dec 3     Repairing the fence on the line between Uncle Moses and my self this forenoon. This afternoon fixing the levy on the new bottom. Very nice weather.

Dec 4     I went over to Prayer Meeting. The weather is very nice.

Dec 5     I am at work at the levy on the new ground to keep the water from breaking through and washing.

Dec 6     We went over to Little Frank's today a visiting. It is cool and raw wind this morning. This evening it set into rain as we came home.

Dec 7     I went over to Marshal Bush's and he was not at home. Then I went to Charley Hall's and bought a cow from him for $33.

Dec 8     Went to N. Vernon to mill and market. It is cool and frosty this morning but very pleasant day for winter.

Dec 9     I am choreing around today fixing door latches and windows in the house. This afternoon went out to hunt for some calves. It is a cool day but very pretty.

Dec 10     We all went over the creek where Marshal Bush has the corn to stake the fence to keep the water from taking it off. This afternoon hauled up some wood.

Dec 11     I went over for Prayer Meeting. It is very nice weather.

Dec 12     At home a choreing around. It rains some by showers all day.

Dec 13     The same as on yesterday. It rains by showers all day, not very much. At last big rain tonight.

Dec 14     Went over to the Burg today to mill. This is the second time that I went to this mill. The creek is high today.

Dec 15     The creek can be forded but high yet this morning. I went to N. Vernon and old Vernon this afternoon on business.

Dec 16     I went out hunting. I went up by Thompson's, Childs' and Sullivan's. This is a very nice day. Frost this morning.

Dec 17     We are ditching some out on the field by the creek where the water goes down the sink holes, till noon. This afternoon worked on the road.

Dec 18     Went over to Prayer Meeting. There is but very few out. The weather is nice and pleasant.

Dec 19     We went to N. Vernon to trade some. The weather is very nice and pleasant.

Dec 20     Not doing very much. It is rainy time, drizzly and wet.

Dec 21     The same as on yesterday. Rainy all day long. The creek is right smart up. The rain fell very slow all day and at night.

Dec 22     This morning It still rains till afternoon, then it quit. The ground is soaked. The creek is high tonight at dark.

Dec 23     Not doing very much today. The ground is very wet. This afternoon I butchered a hog for our own use.

Dec 24     Choreing around this forenoon. This afternoon went to church over the creek. This is to be the commencement of the Protracted Meeting.

Dec 25     Went to church today.

Dec 26     Went to church today again. This is wet time. There is not much of an attendance. The roads are muddy.

Dec 27     I went over to the Widow Green's this morning to set off the heirs' portions of land and did set it off. This is a very wet time and church is going on yet.

Dec 28     Went to Vernon today to report what we did yesterday. It is a wet rainy time. Church is a going on.

Dec 29     Went to church today.

Dec 30     Went to church today and night.

Dec 31     We went to church today and tonight again.