Ellen Stabler Diaries

1864. 1st mo. 1st. 1864. 6th day. Cleared off cold, before dinner: father away nearly all day on business for B. Downes: Lucy came home from Burnside after dinner. William at the Cottage after tea.

2d. 7th. day. Clear and cold: Mercury down to 1 this morning. Kate spent the day here: Joe and William both out somewhere after supper: William at Joshua Gilpins I think.

3d. 1st. day. Clear and cold: John Stabler called here before meeting; Joe and William went to S. Brooke's mill dam in the afternoon to skate: Lucy went to Sharon and to the mill dam awhile, then to Phil's to stay all night; Joe at Phil's after supper; William at Sulford to supper.

4th. 2d. day Cloudy, begun to snow by 10 oclock, snowed all day: Mercury 18 early in the morning: Joe went to Washington: Lucy came home from Phil's in the morning; William at Ashton to a "scale meeting" after supper: Cutting ice in the morning

5th. 3d. day Cleared off cold and windy about noon: father went to Higgins after dinner: Joe came home from Washington William at Joshua Gilpins and Uncle E. Thomas [?] after supper.

2d.mo. 14th. 1st.day. Clear, windy, day: Emily came to Meeting from Uncle E. Thomas's and home: Uncle Tom and Debbie called here before Meeting; Mother went to Meeting, I staid at home; Charlie Stabler dined here; William at Uncle Samuel's and Clifton in the afternoon.

15th. 2d.day. Clear when we got up, soon clouded up, begun to snow about 3 o'clock, snowed 'till bed time: father and mother went to Clifton in the afternoon: father went to see B. Downes: William staid all night at Ashton.

16th. 3d.day Cleared off in the morning, windy and cold: some snow flurries in the morning: Gideon and Sarah Gilpin and her sister here to tea. My birth day.

17th. 4th.day Windy, cloudy and cold: Mercury down to 7 and staid so all day: Charlie Brooke here to dinner.

18th. 5th.day Clear, except a few hours about the middle of the day: Mercury down to 3 1/2 in the morning, got up to 17 in the afternoon. Cousin Sarah and Edith Farquhar dined here, Pattie & Mary Brooke came after dinner, staid 'till time to go to the Sanitary Meeting: Lucy went with them she - Joe and William all went to Frank Millers lecture.