Volume 2: 1834-1843 and 1864-1867

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My Corn ) We halled 7 lodes of Corn out of the Glade lott field My

Jack Corn ) Wagon Jack halled 2 loads for me & 2 for himself

Boots Corn ) Boots halled 1 load for himself

Richd Trotter ) I paid off my note to Richd Trotter $45.65 Cents -------------- The weather has moderated all hands at work We halled up Wed 9 some wood & halled up the ballence of the Corn out of the Corn 13 lodes) in the Glade ) Glade lott field two loads, making in all out of this field lott field ) ---------------- 13 Wagon loads Boots halled himself 2 load of Corn to day & Boots Corn ) ------------------- 1 for me. Jack Corn ) Jack halled 2 loads for himself & 1 for me.

Chickens ) Our chickens are all dying with Cholery dying ) pork We resalted our Meat & packed it down It has not taken the McCutchen Sault verry well. McCutchen repacked Meat 1867 Jany ) The morning the wind is in the N. W. has turned verry cold Th 10 ) Wind blowing verry cold indeed We are trying to get up some Circuit Court Wood. The Circuit Court is in Session this week Huckey is

Atto Genl (William leaves, of a morning, before sun rise).

Billy Billa is not at work to day gone to the burrying of Ott Smith

Ott Smith ) who was shot & killed by a Negro in Town yesterday. killed ) Thomas L Porter & George Martin came here yesterday a little Thomas L. ) Geprg Martin ) uneasy about a fuss they had got into with a Negro at Maryanns

on Tuesday.

Boots. Boots halled one load to me & for himself to day.

Corn We halled 3 loads of Corn, field next Town put it in Cedar Crib.

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------------------- This morning is cloudy The Wind is quit blowing & some Fr 11 moderated tho cold yet Childres Esqr & Alford from Childrfess ) Alford ) Lawrence County came last night & stayed all night William

William did not come home last night but stayed in Town. Cort is in

Judge Ward ) Session Ward Judge. We halled 7 loads of Corn out of the

field next Town put in the Cedar Crib, & 3 yesterday making

10 loads to this time

Dilla M. ) This is Dilla M. Porters birth day, if she was living she Porter 66 ) would be 66 years old -------------------- The weather has moderated the wind is from the East. Cloudy Sat 12 Rain & sprinkling rain. We are loosing many of our chickens about

Chickens ) 5 every 24 hours the game ones are mostly dying We had a dying of ) Cholery ) greate many but they are thined out It is a disease like

Chickens ) Cholery they are purged to death & dye in a few days after 25 or 30 ) Dyed of ) they are taken We have not found any releaf for them yet. a day ) We have lost some 25 or 30 to this time Rains Our little fource is getting Wood to day It is still drizling William rain all day dark & cloudy all day. William got home to night

near mid night high winds almost a gale during the night.

The Circuit Cort is in Session -------------------- (See the 11th Inst.) The morning is cloudy Wind S. W. high Sun 13 Old Winds turned warmer This is my birth day, Seventy five years 75 1st Jany old. I once came to the County with my father (in the Winter) 1st 1897 Jany 1807 Just 15 years of age lacking 13 days. I had come

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out to this place in the October before & brought our little

Stock of Cattle & went back & Helpt the family move to Duck

river. My father had been living in Davidson County North

side of Cumberland River near Nashville up-to-that-time All

had great work

Mag Puss & ) Yesterday at dinner Mag & Puss went to Town friday & coming the bog Owl ) home they ancountered a terable horned owl The feathered one

retreated after a hard struggle & fight into a hollow root of

a large Oke near to Mr Rankins pawn they stopt him up & came

for help Men & boys repaired forth with for another fight

in the succes? of the attacting party all over & like the mountain

in labour out crept a screech owl. The victory was verry greate. 1867 Jany ) The weather has turned quite warm and this morning the Wind Mon 14 ) is changing from the S.W. to the N.West & turning cold It

Rain commenced Raining slowly this morning & is getting to rain faster.

It has rained but verry little for a month. We Cleared out Shelling ) Machine ) the passage in the Corn Crib this morning & carried & fixed up

our Shelling Machine there, took it out of the potato house &

shelled a bag of Corn this morning. I paid off Webb Wilks the

Webb paid ) ballence what I owed him $8.35 Cents See Recpt upon his Act. off $8.35 ) in the Book.

David B raden ) I mailed a letter dated 9th Jany directed to David Braden Indian opoles ) Indianopoles Ind inquiring the whereabouts of Jno M. Moore

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Jno M. Moore & J. D. Bain respecting the Judgt I have against him & McBain

Doct Matthews Doct Matthews went through the field pulling down the fences

I got after him & he left on towards Town.

Corn Billa We halled 3 loads of Corn not verry full ones field next

Town Billa Charley & McCutchen worked

Jan Th 15. This morning the ground is froze the Wind is from the N.W.

William tho more calm than it was last night A heavy frost. William

did not get home last night The Cort is on the State docket

Billy & the Clerks verry busy We are trying to get up our Corn

Richd Billa Charley & McCutchen & working 3 Mules at work

Corn We halled 7 loads out of the field next Town

Bernet Ezekiel Bernet stayed with us last night & went home to day

Preston Preston is halling up his Corn putting it in Ol Suckays house ----------------- This morning a frost the wind blowing from South but quite Wed 16 cold & clear. McCutchen, Billa, Richd, Dan & Plim all engaged

halling Corn out of the field next the Garden We halled 8

Corn loads of Corn to day out of our field Boots halled one load

I shaved & ) & Preston halled one for me & one for his self. I shaved this put on clean ) closes ) morning my beard was verry long My lips & face was verry

sore with fever blisters and It was a verry hard Job to git

it done When I finished my face was verry bloody. I put on

clean shirts also -- --------------------- The morning is verry cold ground frose hard The wind is Th 17 from the N. James Gillespie came home with William last night

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at 9 oclock We are all hands gitting Wood. McCutchen, Billa

hands Richard, Plim & Dan. They halled wood to dinner 3 loads &

Cold then halled 3 loads of Corn. I think this is as cold a day

as has been this winter. We sorted our apples those that was

Apples on the floors They were a greate many rotten We got out a

flour barrel & a hamper basket full of Good ones Puss Sweet

& all the little ones helped sort them 1867 Jany ) The wind is from the N. E. extreamly cold the coldest of Fri 18th ) the Winter. I think last night the coldest night that has been

Cold, cold this Winter. William did not get home last night I paid off

William William Patton for his 7 days work this morning $3.15 & he has

Billa $3.15 ) quit work. McCutchen Richd Dan & Plim has gone to gitting paid off ) wood too cold to gather Corn this morning Halled up 5 loads McCutchen & ) others -- ) of Corn Corn I have closed a settlement with Mr McCutchen as follows, McCutchen ) Settlement ) he sawed 4 days cross cut saw 75. Cents $3.00 $12.43 ) he rived & shaved 850 shingles at 18 3/4 Cents pr 100 -- 1.57he worked 17 days at 46 1/4 Cents pr day (12 dollars pr month) -- 7.86 Making Twelve dollars 43 Cents - - $12.43 5.00 Credit with $5.00 paid $7.43 Corn We have finished this evening halling the Corn out of the

field next Town & have gathered out of it 36 loads 3 making in all out of that field 108) 108 ) barrels of Corn )

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