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Th 14 ) The morning is little cloudy & calm S. W.

Thomas ( William is making Thomas a pair Boots he mostly finished Wm ) them today It has rained a little shower today after dinner Boots ) Thomas ) It is not a season tho it will help crop verry much if it

Rain ) rains every day for several days like it has done yesterday

& today it will make crops much better -- ---------------------------------------- Fr 15 ) The morning is mostly clear calm damp & warm. W.

Mr. Caruthers from Lawrence came last night & stayed all night, Caruthers ) Lawrence ) he give us the particulars of the killing Bennet in Lawrence

County a short time ago.

Jack .25 ) Jo & Jack thined out our young Corn. I paid Jack .50 cents paid ) he will pay back .25 cents of it. ------------------------------------------ Sat 16 ) The morning is clear calm & warm. W.

Puss $2. ) Puss went to Town in the evening drove Bell Mule in the Bugga

I let her have before she went $2.00 Felix .10 cents Corney

Jo 1/2 ) .10 cents Jo worked only half the day

Thos came home from B. B. ----------------------------------------------- 1870 ) The morning is verry warm Mostly clear & calm. W. July ( Sun 17 ) My general health has been verry much the last week as it has

been for some time At times I am much better & other times ( I am quite unwell & verry helpless ) My pen I have been ( ( wrighting with is not doing so well. It has been a quill. ) ( This is a gold pen it don 't do well Neither, the fact is none

Rain ) suits me now to wright with We had a little sprinkle of rain

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some thunder Not more than barely layed the dust. Thomas,

2 daughters, Jesse Harris' daughter & son all eat dinner with

me. William was out at Thomas I had Tomatos for dinner One

Tomatoes ) that was larger than a Tin cup verry considerably all of us for dinner ) could not eat but the half of it Was about the largest I

have recollect of ever seeing. I have a verry goodly number

of them none I see so large

Thos ) Thomas left for Bigby Big. My bowels is verry much out of fix

Self ) like dark sope suds sometimes lite colour - looks like it was

mixed with milk -------------------------------------------- Mon 18 ) The morning is some cloudy calm & warm. W. It has rained

all round mostly S. E. & E. but none here Some thunder

verry warm William has stayed mostly at home fitting his

bridle & one for me that Hamon had cut the leathers out of

it to lead his most favorite specimen a dog (if a dog and a

bitch is all one). We had a fried chicken, potatoes, Tomatoes,

Cabbages &c for dinner No one to help William & me eat it &

we had it all our own way. --- I have fed all 3 of Aleck & Jack & ) Aleck ( Jack's work stock ever since the 10th of July at which time the See 10 July ) sorrel hors was so killed up he was not able to work, done by

the improper conduct of Aleck & Jack. My bowels are not much

Self better. Jo is howing out our young Corn ----------------------------------------- 1870 ) The morning is dark & cloudy looks like rain. W. July ( Tus 19 ) Jo is helping Rich work in his cotton today, he is not so well

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Richd ) pleased about it, he thinks Rich has neglected his crop & helped Jo ) Richd ) & waited on others too much Jack 2/3 ) $.50 ) Jack Patton is helping Richard clean out his Cotton I told

Jack I would pay him he worked about 2/3 of the day which

he charges $.50 ------------------------------------------ Oats ) The morning is clear calm & warm W. Wed 20 ( Oats ) I have X George Burkett, Jack Patton cradling Oats with Jo, Georg Burket ( (paid) 1 day $1.00 ) cutting our Oats Saul Joice also commenced near 11 oclock Jack P. ( 1 day $1.00 ) helping get up the Oats he is tying & shocking &c. Saul Joice ( X 2/3 $.35 ) I stayed all night by myself William went & stayed out at paid ( Thomas's with Fanna she was by herself I was bad off all night

Self ) no one to give me a drink of watter and verry little able to

get it Suffered through the night verry much indeed. I am

better I got on Bell Mule & rode out to where they were a

cutting Oats stayed a little while & come hom verry much

exasted layed down till dinner, got up much refreshed eat

some dinner

Henry X ) A little fall of rain 4.20 weting the Oats that was cut in

the morning som

Henry tyed & shocked Oats 1/2 a day paid 1.50 paid ---------------------------------------------- Th 21 ) The morning is clear damp & a heavy Diew. W.

Oats ) The boys are working in the Oats some cutting & some tying up.

S. Joice ( Jack, Jo & S. Joice $1.00 is cutting Henry X shocked & tyed $1.00 pd ) paid ( up Oats 2/3 of the day making about 1 1/2 days for yesterday & Henry X ) today paid Henry ) -------------------------------------------

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Fri 22 ) The morning is cloudy warm & calm Jack & Andy is at work with

Jo in the Oats & gitting hogs out of the Oats. Dave Blackman David ) Blackman ) with the black horse & Tyger halls Oats after dinner 4 loads

Jack ) of Oats & put them in the corn crib 250 bundles in each load Andy ( paid 4 ) Jack & Andy is tying Oats. Loned David Blackman my wagon to

move with. ---------------------------------------- 1870 ) The morning is clear calm & warm W. July ( Sat 23 ) I took off my flannen shirt this morning it was anoying me Flannen ( shirt off ) verry much in my feeble & weak condition I could not well

keep it on. I fear the consequence. Jo & Jack is halling up

Jack the ballence of the Oats with John Mule & Bell & Jack's

wagon the finished halling all the Oats 11 1/2 oclock they

have halled 3 loads & David & Jo yesterday halled 4 loads,

Oats ) making 7 loads in all & about 250 bundles in a load making all 1750 ( bundles ) in all about 1750 bundles They Oats had been waisted & fed

away from the time they got large enough to feed on, it has

Jack 1/2 ) saved the feeding of Corn. Jack has worked half the day today $1.00 ) D. Blackman ( & I paid him $1.00 D. Blackman got 1/2 wagon too of Oats to feed Oats 1/2 load ) with yesterday when he went home with the wagon

Puss went to Town drove Bell There was much lightening & some

thunder in the forepart of the night but no rain ------------------------------------------- Sun 24 ) The morning is clear some cooler. N. E.

My General health is about like it has been for a long time ( sometimes I feel better & at other times I am quite bad off ) I (

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continue taking the Brandith pills ever day My Bulls Bulls ) Sassa ( Saseparrely &c is all out I must git some more some how. all out ) ---------------------------------- Mon 25 ) The morning is clear & warm Wind S. W.

Jack $1.00 ) Jack Patton is helping Jo cut our Grass today The Grass

(Hungarian) is over ripe there is a verry fine crop of it, Hungarian ) Grass ) & it is verry fine it turning out fine they are cutting it

verry fine We cut our hay last year the 28 & 29 July 1869 ------------------ X Henry ) Henry helpt shock up the hay 2 hours late in the evening Settled ) We did not git done cutting or shocking up today the Hay

Self ) I stayed out in the field nearly all day rode Bell Mule. with

the hay cutters --------------------------------------- 1870 ) The morning is clear calm & quite cool N. W. July ( Tues 26th. ) Jo & Jack is Cutting the hay they got done cutting all shocked Jack $1.00 ( up there is 25 shocks put up finely. Henry with his hands

Henry paid ) helped shocked up he charged me for yesterday work at the off $ ) hay $1.00 & for his work at the Oats & the beef he got is all

settled up and so credited at the proper place. Got $2.00 Sugar ( Coffee ) of Sugar & $1.00 of Coffee ----------------------------------------- Wed 27 ) The morning is clear calm & warm. W.

William went on Fountain Creek this morning Jo is sowing &

Turnip ) harrowing in Turnip seed around the old barn (Summer Turnip

seed) Got a pair of pants patron .25 Cents yard Cut them out pants $1.00) this morning

I worked trying to fix up my old papers I can't handle them to do

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any good & quit without doing but little --------------------------------------------- Th 28 ) The morning is mostly clear warm & calm. W.

paper the ( My subscription for the U. & A. is out today (the Tri Weekly) U. & A. ) I paid $2.00 for it for 12 months to Jim Griffin. Hunters ) Wm & Hamon ) Willa & Hamon came home from hunting and braught some vennison

killed severa deer. Our crops are suffering for rain verry

Turnips ) much Jo is sowing Turnips in the young corn in rows ------------------------------------------------- Fr 29 The morning is cloudy & calm Some cooler. W. It rained last

Rain ) night Some thunder & lightening the are is some cooled the

rain that fell will help tho not enough to do verry much good

Cencis ( Frank Dooley was here he takes in the Cencis in this district Dooley ) he took in our list I give it in ( Jack ) ( $2.00 ) Jack Patton got a sholder of Bacon 12 lbs at 17 cents making

Thomas ) $2.04 cents. Thomas & family went to B. B. this morning ----------------------------------------------- 1870 ) The morning is verry cloudy damp & cool. W. July ( Sat 30 ) It is raining slowly this morning it Rained through the night Rain ( We are having a tolerable season It rained a verry good

shower at night this season will help our crops bring up

our turnips help our lotts & do the farmers much good it

will make our early corn & help our gardens verry much We

needed this rain verry much. If we had not have got it for a

Rain ) week longer our crops in this neighbourhood would have done Jo $1.00 ) but little good It has rained several times through the day ------------ verry good showers this is a good season I let Jo have $1.00

when he left for Town

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Sun 31 ) The morning is dark cloudy & raining. E. 'It commenced rain slowly from the East at 8 oclock We have

Rain ) a good season and it will make our corn corps Rain ) My General health is about like it has been for a long time verry weak & feeble some times better & then not able to scaraly git about stal. I am oblige to take something to keep my bowles open every day It has Rained from 8 oclock until 1 oclock a constant rain a good season ____________________

August ) The morning is verry cloudy & calm. West. Mon 1 ) It is a little cool looks like rain.

Thomas ) & family ) Thomas has not come home I fear there is something wrong he was to have been back Fri night or Saturday. The boys Jack, Andy, Richd, little George & Henry case to the ditch at the Spring to clean it our but the rain stopt them at 10 1/2 oclock They done nothing only got up there spades Rain at 10 1/2) morning ) hows & c. when the rin commenced it also stopt me from going Self ) to Town. Town ) I went to Town after dinner I made a deed of Conveyance to W. J. Porter ) $2000. paid ( William J. Porter for all my lands in Lawrence county for 123 by Deed of ) 3 pieces of ( acres & 31 poles in payment of the $ 2000. of Conferderate money land 123 ) acres in ( I got of him to hire a substitute for my son Thos L . Porter Lawrence ) County made( in the Confederate Armey during the War of the rebellion. This 1st Augt. 1870) See 25 Augt. ( deed bears date the 1st day of Augt 1870 Witnessed by Jack

Porter & George W. Jones the brother-in-law of Jack Porter _________________________

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after 3 in the evening eat there dinner with us and injoyed themselves verry well. W.J. said he would be back in about 10 days he said he had been at w. d. Mayes lately Said a good deal in praise of Martha Jane & the family They went back to Town in the rain Rain ) It has rained verry hard nearly all day ________________________ 1870 ) The morning is dark & couldy & calm W. Augt Mon 15 ) It has raining the most of the night a steady a steady Rain The Rain ( waters are flush a branch running down through the lott & been raining for several days William ( William left this morning upon a hunting tower to the barrens took the 2 horse wagon. Will meet some of the Websters near to Mt. Pleasant said he would not probabaly be bacck before Friday, he took Jhon Mule sent us Websters horse Rain ) A Verry h eavy Rain is falling at 10 1/2 oclock It has rained ) several verry heavy rains through the day The ground is ) running with Watter; the Watters are up Not much Cotton ) made this year I fear ___________________________ Tu 16 ) The morning is dark & verry cloudy & damp. W. The morning some cool I had some fire this morning ( Felix Felix bad cold & cough ) William J. Webster stayed with me last W. J. Webster ) Self ( night I had the cholic last nigh & the cramp also not verry bad. I got in my Bugga & rode around, was at Thomas's an hour or two. The ground is too wet to do any thing. Jack

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went with William yesterday & got back at night & braught

Jim Websters horse in place of John Mule he plowed Mack's

Jack ) horse & Tyger in there turnip patch they sowed turnips they Turnips ) pretended to sow turnips William

Richd ( Richard quit feeding Wm & Hamon's horses today they did not Wm & Hamon ) Jack ( agree verry well & dissolved partnership They have Jack Richd ) quit ( feeding there horses & working with them Richd quit plowing plowing ) his crop of Cotton today ---------------------------------------- Wed 17 ) The morning is dark & foggy & cool & damp - N. E.

We have some fire which is verry acceptable this morning

W. J. Webster stayed with me last night Hamon has gone hunt-

ing with William there was nothing doing in the crops, the

Ground is too wet Mutton ) lamb ) Thomas killed a lamb yesterday evening, I got a fore qr of it

this morning. Verry fine & fat. ----------------------------------------------- Th 18 ) The morning is cloudy & calm damp. S. W.

Wm ) William did not come home from hunting W. J. Webster stayed W. J. W. ) with me last night Not verry well. It rained a verry heavy

Rain ) rain between 12 & 2 oclock

G. Martin ) George Martin came Just at dark & stayed all night & W. J. W. W. J. W. ) did not come home. Fanna braught me some warfles & cooked

Fanna ) Mutton for my dinner today. Joe halled 2 loads of wood after

Wood ) the rain with Bell Mule & Webster horse. William had John

Mule -----------------------------------------

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1870 ) The morning clear calm & damp. Wind high W. Augt ( Fr 19 ) We cleaned out the old Smoke house it is verry wet &

Old Smoke ( salty the dirt looks like it was fully 1/3 salt It tasts houses ) strong of salt it would do to salt pork or beef now Self ( Sugar $2.00 ) verry well. See 26 July ( I went to Town after dinner & got 12 lbs of sugar paid

Wm ) $2.00 William & Jas. Webster came home last night about

sundown. They hunters killed only one deer Campt at

Summer Town Hamon has not got back yet. Will J. W. not D. Blackman ( $.50 ) at home I loaned David Blackman (col) $.50 -------------------------------------------- Sat 20 ) The morning is cloudy coming from the N. E.

The clouds are flying fast from the E. looks like rain ------------------------------------------- Sun 21 ) The morning is verry Fogga, cool. N. W.

My General health is about like it has been I am better

this morning than I was yesterday I stayed in the house

nearly all day yesterday Matta W. Janey, Dilla, Willa &

Leroy all came eat there dinner & spent the most of the

day I was verry agreeably intertained --------------------------------------------- Mon 22d ) The morning is clear calm & cool. N. E.

pulce ) pulce 6 1/2 oclock beat 50 [???? ??] sounds to the minnit

William went to Town Circuit Cort was opened & adjourned No ( Circuit Judge ) Jo is howing out the turnips. --------------------------------------------- ( Tus 23 ) The morning is Clear & windy. E.

Town ) I went to Town after dinner got W. B. Wilson's deposition all