Apr 3d -
Mr. John Ferguson
No 133 Wabash Avenue
Detriot Mich
Mrs L M Beebe
19 Park Ave
N Y
George Tyson
Jackson
Mr J p Mc Kerrow
56 leverette St
Detroit
Mr. J M Fitch
21 Rowland St
J p Mc Kerron
Leverette St
Detroit
Mr J M Fitch
21 Rowland St
Detroit
Mrs Elizabeth Oconer
No 243 Brush St
Detroit
Mrs Mit Beers
Beswick
Siskigou Co.
California
Mrs E Parish Onronta
Otsego Co
N Y
Mrs Schuyler Rhodes Serila
N Y
My husband present 1842
1852 May 17th & 19th - frost
June 4th 22d - frost
July 11th - frost
Sept 13th - frost
1853 Nov 1st - Snow
1855 Apr 30th - Cherry trees in bloom
May 7th & 8th - Snow 9th 16th frost
June 2d & 3d - frost
Oct 7th - snow
1856 Aug 25, 29, 30th - frost
Sept 1st - frost
Oct 30th - Snow
1857 May 5th - snow
1858 Oct 7th & 8th - Snow
1859 June 4, 10, 14 - frost
July 3d - frost
Aug 28, 30, 31 - frost
Sept 1, ,4 & 5th - frost
Oct 21 - Snow, 3 inches deep
1861 July 1st, 12th - frost
Nov 22d - snow
1862 March 31 - thunder lightening
Apr 22 - Snow
May 21 - 23 - frost
Aug 15th - frost
Oct 8 -11 - 12 - frost
Nov 27 - Snow
1863 May 5th - rain & snow
Aug 29th & 30 - frost
1863 Jan 1st - verry cold
May 10th - rain & snow
June 6th 12 - 13 - frost
Oct 8 - snow
Nov 4th & 10 - snow
1865 Apr 22 - 23 - Snow squals
Oct 28th - snow
1866 Jan 19th - thunder lightening rain
May 1st - frost & snow
6 - 23 - & 24th - frost
Aug 15 - frost
Oct 23d - Snow squals
Nov 21 - 22 - snow
1867 Apr 21 - Snow
July 12 - frost
Aug 27 - 30 - frost
Nov 29 - Snow
1868 March 1st, 2 - Snow & blow storm
14th - thunder lightening rain and hail the largest I ever saw cleared off warm
16th - thunder lightening verry warm
Apr 2 - Snow in the morning
4th - Snow squals all day
8th - Snow squals
22d - Snow at night
24th - Snow in the morning
Oct 8th - Snow squals
Dec 4th - Snow Storm
1869 March 28th - thunder
Apr 1st - Snow
Aug 6th & 31st - frost
Oct 23d - Snow
1870 Nov 8th - first snow squals
1871 June 7th & 15th - frost at night
Nov 21st - Snow winter set in
Dec 19th 20 - verry cold
22d - thunder and rain
1872 March 31st - Snow storm
Apr 14 - Snow storm
22 - 23 - Snow in the morning
Nov 7th - first snow storm
1873 Feb 3d - fog
March 26th - Snow storm
Apr 1st - snow storm
3d - 12th 21st 22d - snow in the morning
Oct 21st - first snow storm
28th - Snowed all day
30th - Snow
Nov 11th - 18th - Snow storm
1874 Feb 13th - 19 - fog and thaw
Apr 5th - Snow storm
20 - Snow in the morning
30th - Snow storm
Oct 30th - Snow at night the first
Nov 19th - Snow at night winter set in
1875 Feb 7th - Mercury 24 degrees below zero
9th - 24 below zero
25th - snowed all night
March 1st - snowed all day and all night
3d & 5th - Snowed all day
11th - snowing hard
14th - thaw and lightening
15th - thaw and rain
16th - 13 below freezing and snowing
19th - Snow at night on the morning of the 20th snow 4 inches deep
1875 March 20 - bright sunshine mercury 5 deg below zero in the morning
Apr 16 - 17 - 19th - Snow squals all day
May 1st - Snow storm 3 inches deep
3d - Snow all gone in the afternoon
Aug 22d - frost at night
Oct 16th - Snow in the morning
29th - thunder storm
30th - Snow at night
Nov 28 - a little snow winter set in
Dec 4th - thaw and rain til the 6th
17 - mercury 1 deg - above zero
20th til 24th - rain 25 thaw
26 - rain & snow
31st - mercury 64 above zero
1876 Jan 1st & 2d - Mer 45 above zero
5th - 37 above and raining a little
9th Sunday - mercury 52 above morning
10th - mer 8 above zero in the morning
17 - mer 44 above zero at 3 o'clock afternoon
18 - 48 above and raining all day
23d - 35 above
27 - mercury 65 above at breakfast with door open
28th - mercury 34 above and raining
29 - 17 above and snow squals 7 above zero in the morn 28 evening
31st - 39 above in the afternoon at 2 o'clock
Feb 1st - 35 above in the morning, 10 above evening
2d - 1 above zero in morning
9th - 39 above zero raining & fog
10th - 44 above evening rain and thunder
11th - 48 above forenoon
13th - 53 above 2 o'clock afternoon
21st - 40 above 4 o'clock afternoon raining
22 - 27 above snow squals
1876 23d - 7 below zero at sunrise 14 above at 11 o'clock
27 - thunder lightening hail at night
March 6th - mercury 45 above zero
12th - Snow and thawed all day about 4 inches the most at any time during winter
17th - mercury 26th (deg) and snowing all day first sleighing
18th - mercury at zero in morning snow at night
20th - Snow 6 inches
th - 35 above snowing 4 inches thawing
28th - Snow all day and drifting
29th - 26 above snow squals and drifting 12 inches deep
Apr 12th - merc 71 above snow all gone today
Aug 19th - frost at night did not hurt any(thing)
Oct 8th - frost killed flowers the first
Nov 3d - froze up winter set in moderately
8th 9th 10th - verry cold
10th - snow
1877 Feb 4th - fog all day
5th - fog and frost on trees all day pleasant til March 3 every day
March 8th - Snow enough for sleighing
20th - snowed all day and night
21st - the snow is two feet deep
25th - snowed all day
26th - thawed
Apr 1st - raining thunder lightening
Nov 5th - first snow storm this season
6th - our wind mill raised
12th - Snow all gone verry pleasant
Dec 1st - muddy all this month
20th - wee ate breakfast with door open
24th - Robert Cummin plowed his garden
1878 Jan 1st - froze up - 12th thaw mud
31st - snow all day
Feb 1st - Snow all day
2d - Sun shinning bright
Apr 13th - Roger planted potatoes
18th - made garden, pears, peach, apple trees in bloom
May 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15th - frost first three weeks
Sept, 21st - frost
27 - 28th - first snow
Oct 27 - 28 - snow
Nov 27 - Snow 9 inches deep I set a peach pit at the north west corner of the house
1878 Jan - mercury 12 deg below zero
Apr 3d - Snow squals all day
May 2 - 3 - frost
Nov 1 - 2 - 5th - snow
27 - Thanksgiving day raining mercury 4 degrees below temperate
29 - raining mercury the same
Dec 16th - Snowing all day 8 inches fell
1880 - pleasant winter no sleighing one week mud mud
Feb 29th - thunder lightening
March 6th - Thunder lightening
11th - Snow squals in the morning
Apr 10th - Snow squals all the afternoon lay on the ground all day Sunday
16th - rained all day and snowing at 10 o'clock at night
17th - going fast
May 3d - Peach & cherry trees in bloom
4th - Pear, plum, & apples
July 7th - Robert Cummin commenced cutting wheat
13th - Mercury 96 on the east stoop at 4 o'clock P. M.
12th Aug - Roger bought 1 barrel of white sugar in Detroit 284 lbs 10 cts pr lb
1880 Oct 6th - first frost
16th - hard frost formed ice, did not kill my dahlias which is in full bloom, lifted the roots
17th - Snow squals on Sunday
18th - Snow squals all day hard frost
Nov 6th - snow all day about 10 inches
18th - mercury 12 above zero 8 o'clock morning Mr Haviland went for Kittie in the cutter in afternoon for the first time, but verry poor sleighing
19th - 14 above zero
20th - 16 above
21st - 8 above zero - 5 above 5 o'clock afternoon
22 - 2 deg below zero at 7 o'clock morning
23d - 12 deg above zero 6 o'clock morning
24th - 20 deg above zero at 7 o'clock morning
25th - 14 above
28th - 32 above at noon
29th - 24 above morning
1880 Dec 2d - mercury 35 above and thawing
4th - thawing wee had a Scenery at the school in the evening
5th - mercury 34 above in the morning 12 o'clock noon, freezing, evening 8 o'clock 20 above
8th - 44 above morning
9th - 10 degrees above morning
10th - 14 above in the morning
11th - 18 above morning - 33 above noon
25 - mercury 30 above zero and has been for one week
27 - merc 10 - above at 4 o'clock afternoon
28th - mer 2 deg below 7 o'clock morning on our east porch - 9 below outside at 10 below at night
29th - morning - 14 below zero
30th - 2 below
31st - 6 below morning at 7 o'clock
1881 Jan 1st - mercury 4 deg above morning bright sunshine all day mercury 20 above at 3 o'clock afternoon and a beautiful sunset 10 above at 12 at night
2d - 11 above 8 o'clock 34 above at noon
3d - 18 above at sunrise
4 - 20 above 8 o'clock morning
5 - 12 above at sunrise 20, at 8 o'clock and snowing
6th - morning mercury 26 above 5 inches snow
8th - 16 above morning 2 above 10 o'clock evening
9th - 6 above 8 o'clock morning
10th - mercury at zero 8 o'clock evening
11th - 2 above morning
12th - 10 above morning 26 above evening
13th - 36 above morning
14th - 8 above morning
15th - 4 above morning snow 12 ins afternoon
16th - at zero 9 o'clock evening 4 above morning 12 inc(h)es snow
1881 Jan 18th - mercury 8 deg below zero morning good sleighing
19th - 8 degrees below zero good sleighing
20th - 6 below bright sunshine all day
21st - 14 above morning and snowing
22d - 30 above morning, snowing snow 18 inches
23d - 20 above morning pleasant
24th - 24 above splendid sleighing
25th - 20 above
26th - 18 above snow squals all day
27th - 8 above morning snowing a little
30th - 32 above thawing a little
31st - 17 above and snowing I found Perley Sheldon in a snow bank
Feb 1st - 4 deg above morning snowing
2d - 2 below zero it is bright sunshine
3d - snow two feet deep on the level 8 below morning bright sunshine
4th - 2 below
5th - 12 below zero morning bright sunshine
6th - 14 above morning 28 above evening
7th - 30 above at 10 o'clock morning
1881 Feb 8th - mercury 40 above thawing and raining a little
9th - 42 above and raining the snow is going fast Roger & I attended Bell Olmsteads funeral at Mr Betterly house
10th - 36 above snow going fast
11th - 32 above
12th - 28 above with snow squals
13th - 20 above
14th - 6 above morning I took Roger & Kittie to schoolin the cutter to Byron
15th - 16 above morning
16th - 20 above
17 - 22 above
18th - 26 above and snowing I took Kittie in the cutter ti school this morning, Albert Davis staid here with Roger M last night
19th - 20 above morning 30 above at noon 6 inches snow on the level
1881 21st - 28 above morning
22d - 32 above morning thaw all day
23d - 6 above morning
24th - 2 below zero morning, 14 above at 3 o'clock afternoon and snowing hard, Mr Haviland & Mr Burnett went to Perry in a carriage to adjust a loss by fire. I wish they had the cutter
25th - 4 above this morning 1 foot of snow fell last night Roger will wish he had his cutter this morning
26 - 16 above morning, 40 above at noon thawing
27 - 44 above and raining, froze at night
28 - 14 above I took the children to school in the carriage water verry high snowed in the afternoon
1881 March 1st - Pheebees singing this morning mercury 10 above morning
2d - 6 above morning, 30 above 11 o'clock forenoon
3d - 20 above and snowing hard 10 inches snow fell during the day good sleighing mercury 30 above 9 o'clock evening
4th - 20 above morning
5th - 30 above snowin(g)
6th - 32 above bright sunshine thawing
7th - 44 at noon thawing
10 - 28 above morning thawed all day Roger & I visited at Mr Redmans
11th - 16 above morning 30 at noon
12th - 20 above and cold, snowing hard at 10 o'clock
13th - 34 above at 10 o'clock and snowing 6 inches of snow on the ground
14th - 32 above and thawing
17th - 28 above morning beautiful
18th - 32 above thawing beautiful day
19th - 34 above snowing and blowing hard at 12 o'clock raining
20th - 42 above snowing & thawing
1884 March 24 - Kittie is broke out with measles
21st - 30 above Hellen Reynolds is here sewing day
23d - 32 above thawing, beautiful day
25th - 40 above thawing beautiful verry pleasant til to day 30th
30th - 25 above and snowing morning
31st - 28 above snowing 6 o'clock evening Mr Braydon & Mr George Fisher yesterday the Union School closes to day in Byron March 31st 1881
Apr 2d - Roger M is breaking out with measels 3, 4th and 5th, 6th, 7th verry bad is verry hoarse
Apr 3d - 20 above Roger M broke out with measles
4th - 20 above to day he is verry bad and sick
5th - 20 morning I washed, my cloths froze while hanging them out, bright sunshine
12th - 32 above two inches of snow fell last night Alice is over the measles to day I went to see Roger B he is broke out with measles the snow is gone 5 o'clock afternoon that fell last night
13th - morning more snow last night all gone by 10 o'clock thawing fast
14 - a beautiful day along the fences there is snow that fell last winter
17 - Easter Sunday mercury 60 above and some snow along the North orchard fence it looks like rain it commenced (to) rain about 5 o'clock the first spring rain, Some snow and ice yet
1881 Apr 21st - the snow is all gone to day
25th - evening it rained thundered and lightening a little for the first this spring I set my plants out this morning it is warm and pleasant
May 10th - thunder shower Apples Peaches Pears bloom
16 June - the night of June 16 wee had a terrible thunder storm
21st - the first time wee noticed the commet
19th - heavy rain
July 5th & 6th - mecury 94 in shade
8th - raining in the morning
Aug 3d - Mercury 120 in the sun at 11 o'clock, at 1/2 past 3 98 in shade
4th - mercury 101 at half past 12 on our east porch, Kittie and I went to Byron with Nellie McKerrow
Aug 4th - Mercury 111 at 1/2 past 12 1/2 past 2 100 in the shade
5th - 1/2 past 10 - 125 above 12 o'clock in the shade 4 o'clock afternoon 100 on the porch at seven evening 90 warmer day I never experienced
9th - mercury 90 at 4 o'clock afternoon
12th - 1 p. m. 100 on the east porch
28th - mercury 98 at 1/2 past one on the east porch I attended 1st Bapt church text John 7th 17th if any man will doe his will he shall know of the doctrin whether it be of god or whether I speak of myself
29th - mercury 99 at 2 o'clock in shade Kittie and I washed
30 - mercury 98 1/2 past one and cloudy
31st - mercury 1 o'clock 100
1881 Sept 5th - 1/2 past 3 afternoon 96 in shade
6th - 12 noon 100 in shade, at 5 afternoon 96 in shade I am feeling poorly to day
7th - mercury at 10 o'clock 126 morning and at 11 o'clock 101 at 4 o'clock 96, about 11 o'clock it became verry smokey, 9 o'clock evening 64 dg
10th - mercury 126 all forenoon commenced to rain in the evening it was cold enough for frost wee did not have any
14th - Kittie & I went to Fenton to get her Picture taken and trade wee called on Mrs Douglas at Linden wee took dinner at Kinzans
15th - it is raining nicely this morning I reset my calla it has been resting 6 weeks I set a bed of tulips
1881 Oct 1st - it rained a good deal last night Johnie Duncan left for Detroit to day Kittie has come to stay with Maz Barnum to night
4th - hard frost the first this fall
5th - my Husband has gone to Lansing to the State Fair
7th - he returned home it rained all that night and the next forenoon
th - Mr Colderwood Set a Pump across the road for $13.50 cts
Nov 3d - mercury 40 above first hail Shower of the season Bernard and Pa has gone home it rained all last night 2 o'clock it is snowing hard the first of the season
9th - we attended Mr James Sickles funeral
1881 11th - Mr Haviland and I attended Mr & Mrs Dr Aleen silver wedding wee had a verry pleasant afternoon till about 4 o'clock when it began to rain and snow and kept on till wee got home then it turned to rain and lasted most all night Mr Crow Son & Daughter Emma was here when wee came home
13th - Roger M came home
16th - left for lansing
17th - mercury 50 above raining a little
18 - commenced snowing 2 inches fell
19th - snow squals all day winter has set in, Mr Haviland put the cows in the stable to night for the first (time) this fall
24th - Thanksgiving Sunday was verry cold and the next day cold
1881 Nov 27 & 28th - verry pleasant mercury 40 in the shade at 10 o'clock the snow about gone and roads good
29th - verry pleasant Mr Haviland and I went to dinner wee met Mr & mrs S. R. Kelsey in Byron Johnie is verry poorly
th - mercury 50 on the front porch
Dec 1st - is a beautiful day merc 50 Mr Haviland and I went to Ida's visiting how muddy it is
2d & 3d - pleasant but muddy
7th & 8, 9, 10th - froze the road rough
11th - cold I went to Gaines to meet Mrs Duncan
12th - Mr H's birthday Alice & I took Mrs Duncan and Johnie to Gaines for Detroit poor Johnie I shall never see again
Dec 13 - mercury 52 above and raining Mr Rollin Pond is here and staid last night
25th - mercury 40 above a green Christmas it has been fine all through this month no snow sometimes muddy. sometimes froze up
26 - hawing to day - mercury 40 above
27 - mercury 48 above rain shower evening
28 - 48 above heavy shower evening
29th - beautiful day bright moonlight Mr & Mrs Goodspeed spent the evening it froze through the night
30th - Roger M and I went to Fenton on the carrs wee took our Horse and Carriage to Gaines I bought a clock $6.00 dol I bought him a Suit of cloths for which I paid $20.00 it snowed a little, oh how rough
1882 Jan 1st Sunday - mercury - 16 above a little snow on the ground I received a letter from Nellie Mc Kerrow last evening wee are all going to take dinner with Robert & alice to day
2d Monday - 8 above 1/2 past 8 morning Crommie came in last night it is a bright beautiful day
3d Tuesday - 26 above and snowing 10 o'clock about 1/4 inch of snow
Wed 4th - 2 above morning, 16 above 4 o'clock afternoon
Thur 5th - 2 above zero Mr H went to Corunna
F. 6th - 22, above
S. 7th - 32, above Kittie went to Ellas
S. 8th - 50 above morning raining and thawing it is Sunday
9th - 30 above freezing
10th - Mr Haviland went to Corunna will return today - 11th on train 3 o'clock
11th - 38 above about 3 inches of snow fell last night it is thawing fast
1882 Jan 13th Friday afternoon & evening - mer 36 above thawing all day in the evening it blowed and snowed a little Mr Haviland Kittie & I visited at Dr Seymores got there at 4 o'clock left at 9 - got home at 10 o'clock met the Rev Mr & Mrs Benton Mr & Mrs Close Mr & Mrs Brower Mr & Mrs Miner and Josie Mr & Mrs John Williams wee had a verry pleasant visit
15th - mer 22 above
17th - 10 above zero bright sunshine
18th - 8 above morning bright sunshine
19th - 10 above morning runn up to 22
20th - 30 above 10 o'clock morning beautiful day
21st - 40 above - about 3 inches of snow fell last night it is going fast to day
23d - 4 above morning
24th - 4 below zero on the east porch
1882 Jan 24th - 4 below zero on our east porch at eleven o'clock wee received a telegram that John Duncan was dead he died 20 minutes past 4 in the morning, wee went on the afternoon train of the same day to Detroit
26th - wee attended his funeral it rained all day
27th - wee returned home
28th - mercury 38 above zero quite cloudy
29th - 22 above
30th - 22 above morning
1882 Feb 1st - mercury 38 above in the afternoon
2d - 38 in the afternoon I took my Husband to Gaines this morning it is a beautiful day, I called on Mrs. Peck and on Ida, yesterday Mr & Mrs Clark Mr & Mrs Winins Mrs Welch and Rev Robert and Alice Ella & Eddie were here, wee had a pleasant visit
3d 4th 5th 6th - averag(e) 36 above
7th - 52 above at 11 o'clock forenoon, yesterday the 6th I received Mrs Kitsons Mary and Joseph Mc Farlands Pictures Cabinet size they look splendid
13th 14th 15th 16th - mercury from 46 to 56 each day with beautiful sunshine
10th 11th & 12th - Hellen was here and made Kitties Serge dress they left 16th verry muddy roads
13th - Robert Cowan and Lissie came
1882 Feb 17th - mercury 48 above beautiful
18th - 22 above growing cold Robert & Lissie came the 13th and left the 16th it is verry muddy
19th - 20 above morning ground froze up 30 above zero 9 o'clock evening
20th - 40 above morning and a fog rained a little last night 44 above in the afternoon; Kittie & I attended Church to day, it is quite muddy Februarys fog will freze a dog in June
21st - 34 above morning snowing thawing til noon it began to freze snowed a little all day about 2 inches fell, Cutters are out this morning Alice and I called on Mrs Peck to day
22d - 30 above snow squals Alice & I went to Byron and traded then went to Ellas met Mrs & Mr Johnie Williams and Charles Davis they had been to Pontiac
1882 Feb 23 - thawing Mr Haviland has gone to Corunna from there to Saginaw, Mr Betterlys horses rann away from here at noon, there has been several Sawlogs passed here to day there is about 4 inches of snow
26th - mercury 40 above zero thawing Kittie & I went to church
27 - a beautiful day 48 above Mr haviland & I went to Byron I Signed the deed to Robert Cummin farm the eighty across the road it is verry muddy Alice and & called on Mrs Sheldon to day
28th - 48 above the snow all gone Mr Haviland and I are to spend the day to Frank and Ellas with others; this evening is the Presbyterian Donation it rained all the afternoon and night it is awful muddy
1882 March 1st - mercury 60 a beautiful day
2d - 60 - a beautiful day Robbins and blue Birds are singing
th - 60 temperature at 2 o'clock afternoon Kittie Marth and I attended church
6th - 40 above
7th - cold froze up road verry rough Mr Haviland & I went to Byron wee took dinner with Mr & Mrs Sheldon when the mail come I received little Georg(e) Mc Farlins Picture from Reno
8th - Mr Haviland went to Corunna
9th - mercury 34 above raining and freezing the trees and bushes are all frosted and look beautiful
10th - and muddy
12th - mecury 36 about 1/2 inch of snow fell last night but is fast disappearing it is Sunday morning
1882 March 13th - a little snow 1/2 inch fell last night
14th - Snow most gone verry muddy Snow fell last night 3 inches
15th - mercury 34 - 4 o'clock afternoon snowing a little and thawing Ella and Eddie is here this week
18th - merc 50 - rain the first thunder this Spring. the Snow all gone
19th - a beautiful Sunday morning all mud mud
22d - mercury 22 above morning about 2 inches of Snowfell last night; Allen Norris was buried yesterday the 21st there is snow squals to day
23d - mercury 50 at 12 o'clock; the snow all gone it is a beautiful day mud, mud, mud my Calla is in blom to day for the first this Spring
1882 Apr 17th - Monday afternoon between 20 minutes to three o'clock Lizzie Donegan Died
18th - She was buried, funeral Services by Rev Mr Benton at the Methodist Church John Text 11th Chapter & 25 verse I am the resurrection and the life
22 - Mr & Mrs Mc Kerrow came from Detroit to make us a visit
25 - Mrs Mc Kerrow and I went to Detroit I bought my Carpet and Curtains, Wall paper and a good many other things I staid one night with Mrs Mc Kerrow one with Mrs Duncan I called on Mrs Ferguson
27th - I returned home
29th - Mr Mc Kerrow mad(e) my flower beds by the house
1882 May 5th - verry cold the neighbors and friend of George Runnyon went to Gaines to meet the remains of Mrs Powell Mr George Runnyons Sister Wee met Mrs Wood at Gaines
6th - quite Cold Mr H and I will attend the funeral to day
8th - thunder & lightening at night with rain
9th - quite warm with a little rain Peach & Cherries trees in full bloom Mr H and I are going to Mr & Mrs Burnetts to day
10th 11th 12th - rain rain all this week
14th & 15th - frost at night verry cold wind north east attended Ara Comstocks funeral
22d & 23d - frost at night My Guypure(?) Lace Curtains were $3.50 per window
1882 May 27 - Kitties birth day rained all day
28th - Mr Haviland & I attended Mr Tafts babys funeral at the Methodists Church the Sermon by Rev Mr Benton text John 5th Chapt 28th 29th verse Ella Frank and Eddie came to dinner, wee have finished house cleaning yesterday the Apple trees are in full bloom late Cherries and Pears
30th - Mr Haviland & Kittie went to Corunna on the morning train Harry Sterling came in the afternoon
31st - Roger M and Minna went to Owosso Harry left with them for Gaines they all returned on the evening train
1882 June 1st - a beautiful day
2d & 3d - rain all day
3d & 4th - rain all day
5 - Mrs Truman Rowley & Son called on us - Robert washed sheep down at Bernards received a package of papers from Mr John Conny Amsterdam
6th - Sent a letter to Mrs P. L. Mc Farlin Reno Nevada I set my flower crocks in the ground to day
th & 8th - Mr Haviland and Myself attended the State Pioneer Meeting at Lansing it was verry pleasant Mr H bought the 3d Volume of the Pioneer Society wee returned home the 9th
23d - Mr H, and I went to see Fannie Douglass
1882 June 23d - Mr H, and I went to see Fannie Douglass I bought a Settin of eggs of Mr Rider and Set them the same day the Brown Leghorns
28th - I took Mr H to Gaines he is going to Corunna I bought 3 iron Spoons
30th - Mrs Duncan came from Sister Mary Cowan's 1 pair of english Sparrows came this Spring for the first
July 12th & 13th - Mr T Hopkins visited us and played Croquet he is 84 yrs old
15th - Mrs Moor & Mrs Kinney visited us from St Johns
1882 18th - Robert commenced cutting Wheat
23 July - Mrs Duncan left here She staid three weeks
24th - Mercury 92 at 2 o'clock afternoon Kittie and May Mc Kerrow went to Church, from there to Minnie Mc Cafries
27th - Mercury 90 at 4 o'clock afternoon Minnie & Emma went huckleberrying
Aug 1st 2d 3d & 4 - rain every day Robert has three loads of Wheat out
4th - Kittie & May Mc Kerrow has gone to Detroit to day Mr Haviland took them to Gaines
6th - Mrs Oconnor & Kittie Vanburen came from Detroit
1882 8th Monday - I took Mrs Oconor and little Kittie to Mrs Mc Coughnas I went to Byron and was cuaght in rainstorm
15th - Kittie Sterling and Baby came
17th - Mr Haviland Mrs Oconnor and little Kittie Vanburen went to Detroit it was verry warm; and thunder Showers it has rained every day this month so far
20th - Mr Haviland & Kittie returned home he bought one barrel of Sugar for 9 5/8 (cts) pr lb granulated 5 lbs of tea 55 cts pr lb 30 lbs of coffee 15 cts pr lb it amounted to $30.74 cts
1882 Aug 30th - Mr Haviland and I attended Mr Dicksons funeral Sermon delivered by Rev Mr Benton John 14th chapter 2d verse, in my Fathers house are many Mansions, I go to prepare a place for, you it is verry warm
Sept 5th 6th 7th - Mr Knapp and Mr Lee Shingled our house it is verry warm
6th - Mrs Amanda Carpenter and little Nellie visited us from Owosso
7th - Mr Haviland took them to Gaines Mr Mc Kerrow & Mr Knapp is playing Chequer(s) this evening
1882 Sept 18th - wee are going to the State fair if it dont rain
19th - Mr Haviland and Kittie & myself left home stoped at Owosso with Mr & Mrs George Carpenter in the evening wee attended the minstrels
20th - wee went to Jackson and attended the State Fair it was splended wee Stoped at the Hurd house
21st - wee bought Ella a gold watch Roger M a Silver one after dinner wee started for Angola Indiana where wee arrived at 3 o'clock wee took the Buss to Mrs Jossie Clarks where wee staid all night and had a nice visit
1882 22d Friday - Mr H hired a Carriage and livery to take us to Robert Cowans and Lizzies were well
23 - after dinner Robert & Lizzie tok(e) us to Mrs John Cowans
24th - Mrs Cowan & Eddie took us back to Roberts there was a light frost Sunday morning
25th - Robert & Lizzie took us to Angola at 1/2 past 12 o'clock wee left for Ann arbor where wee took a Carriage to Mr Michael Cowans
26th - Mr & Mrs Cowan Lizzie Kittie Mr Havd and I visited the museum the young students lecture room
1882 Sept 26th - the Home apathy Hospital it was just opened for Patients there was 19 beds were fitted for Women Patients after tea Sister Mary & Lewie came for me I went home with them
29th - Mr Michael Cowan took Mr Haviland and Kittie in his Carriage and came to Sister Cowans
30th - Patric Cowan took us to Plymoth where wee took the Cars for Holly from there to Gaines wee came home from there in the Stage
Oct 2d - Monday wee first saw the commet Kittie and I got up in the morning
1882 Oct 9th - Mr Haviland jambed his leg
10th 11th 12th - Mr H & Roger M is picking Apples
12th - Mr H & I attended Mrs Swicks funeral
17th - frost at night the first of the Season to hurt vines I took in my flowers Kittie went to Owosso to the Institute
18th - Mr & Mrs Mc Caughna Mr Gilbert Cole and Wife visited here
19th - Kittie went to Owosso to attend the Institute
22d - A hard frost mercury 4 deg below freezin(g)
30th - A hard thunder storm last night
1882 Nov 6th Sunday - Mr & Mrs Sheldon Frank Ella and Eddie were here to dinner Kittie and Emma went to Church it is quite cold
7th - it is raining a little this morning and warmer it is Election day and quite pleasant
8th - is warm and pleasant no frost last nigh(t) mercury at temperate best
Oct 7th - Mr Haviland jambed his leg with a plank while laying a floor in the hog pen, he attended Election yesterday but walks with a cane
1882 Nov 13th - merc 32 freezing yesterday it was temperate 60 wee had east door open til after dinner it was Sunday I mus(t) bring in my Artimcha there is a little Snow flying the first this fall
14th - 28 above Alice and I went to Byron
15th - 32 Becca is here
17th - a heavy frost, Northern lights the beautifulest I ever saw at 5 o'clock the commet looked like a sword fish this morning
18th - mercury 18 above zero after 7 o'clock morning
19th - 42 above in the afternoon
23d - 36 above morning
24th - 30 above morning I received a letter to day from Sister Rasanna mailed Nov 18th
1882 Nov 26th - Snowed a little all day about 2 inches fell the most that has fal(l)en this season winter has set in
27 - is a beautiful day
30th - merc 30, it is Thanksgiving and quite cold Emma Brookins fell off the horse and got hurt
Dec 1st - mer 40 the snow most all gone Dell Stuart is laying a floor in the cow barn Jim Mc Caughna is Splitting wood with Roger M Mr Brookins came this morning and took Emma home wee received our Carriage spring from Detroit to day
4th - how it does snow at 4 o'clock afternoon
5th - Bernard Roger B & Roger M butcherd our three hogs to day it is a beautiful day
1882 Dec 6 - Mecury 28 above I Smoke(d) glass to see the transit of Venus but failed to see anything unusual Roger M and Bernard took 2 of our hogs to Gaines to day and sold them to Mr Bush for $6.75 pr hundred the two weighed 527 lbs
7th - Merc 3 above zero at Sunrise about 2 inches of snow fell last night that is as much as has been on the ground at any one time so far it is a bright sun sunshine to day verry cold
8th - Mercury at zero this morning
9th Saturday - Kittie and I went to Fento mercury 10 above all day
10th - Sunday it snowed a little
1882 10th Dec - mercury 26 above this morning Kittie and Emma went to Church in the cutter for the first time this winter it thawed a little all day snow 4 inches
11th - 30 above it thawed all day til bed time
12th - 26 above morning my Canary laid an egg this morning it is Mr Havilands birth day he is 70 yrs old
13th - Mr Haviland went to Corunna
14th - he returned home
17th - mercury 20 above Kittie & Emma went to Church it is poor sleighing there is no water in our cistern
18th - mercury 4 deg below zero 1/2 past 8 this morning the lowest it has been this winter Frank Ella and Eddie was here yesterday the sun is bright this morning verry clear
1882 Dec 19th - mercury 16 above looks like a thaw wee received wedding card yesterday from Mr & Mrs Fitch to attend their Daughter Idas wedding Dec 27th no snow
20 - mercury 32 all day thawing rained all night
21st - merc 42 thawing birds singing
25th - Monday it is Christmas day mer 38 above
26th - mer 36 all day on the east porch
27th - 36 this morning
29th - 36 in the shade cleared off it has been cloudy for Several days the Snow most gone Kittie and Emma has gone to visit Miss Ines Jennings they went in a Carriage no snow only in small patches
1883 Jan 1st Monday - mercury 14 above this morning Robert Alice and Martha was to dinner
3d - mercury 16 above no snow
4th - 4 above morning Minnie Huffacre remains has just been carried past she died the second, I took Mr Haviland to Gaines this forenoon he went to Corunna
th - 14 above about 4 inches of snowfell last night I just heard Charles Upright is dead, Mr Downers Stage driver
9th - Merc 12 below 8 o'clock morning at zero at 12 o'clock at night I took Mr Haviland to Gaines in Carriage Roger M Kittie & Emma joined the lodge at Byron Ella attended with them & Roger B Haviland
10th - mercury 12 above this morning no sleighing this month
1883 Jan 11th - mercury 20 above at noon Mr Haviland returned on the morning train Mr Drake made a short call 4 above morning
13th - 38 above and thawing morning Roger M has gone to Bancroft for a load of lumber
14th - baby Cummin born 20 m(inutes) to 7 o'clock evening
17th - mercury 32 and thawing about 4 inches of snow fell last night it is snowing a little Mr Haviland (&) I are going to Byron in the Cutter this afternoon My Canary is sitting for the third time this winter
18th - pleasant Stewart Douglass came here
19th Friday - cold Ida & I went to see Franny
1883 Jan 20 - mer 32 thawed all day til 12 o'clock at night, it began to grow cold
21st - mercury 6 below zero in the morning and 4 below all day
22d - 16 below zero at sunrise 18 below at 9 o'clock, Roger M froze his right ear going to Byron School morning
23d - 12 below at sunrise
25th - 8 above at sunrise
27th - 32 above & thawing Mr Haviland & Roger M is filling the Ice house
28th - mer 28 above white frost the ground covered with ice and will bear me up
30th - mer 38 thawing raining at 3 o'clock afternoon Robert has just come with the last load of ice to fill the ice house
31st - mer 18 above morning our thaw has caught cold
1883 Feb 1st - 10 above all day
2d - 16 above and snowing in the afternoon Roger M has hauled his dead horse to the woods
3d - 20 above, a sleet rain and snowing a little about 12 inches of snow fell last night
5th - 4 above morning 14 above noon Mr Haviland & Mr Close went to Corunna a bright clear cold day Mr Hathaway called this morning Roger M is hauling wood to the Schoolhouse about 21 inches of snow beautiful sleighing
6th Tuesday - Sister Mary Cowan came with Barney from Franses
7th - Sister and James went home that afternoon
1883 Feb 9th - Mr Haviland has gon(e) to Corunna Roger M and Kittie has gone to Morris it is a beautiful day mercury 28 in shade
6th - Mr Haviland and myself attended Mrs Mc Young funeral rev Mr Benton officiating Text Reve 22d Chap 5th verse and there shall be no night there and they need no candle neither light of the sun
9th - mercury 6 below zero at 8 o'clock morning
11th - 20 above at 8 o'clock morning
12th & 13th - 10 above at sunrise I received a letter from Reno it is a beautiful morning and looks like a thaw 32 above all day Mr Haviland and I are going to take dinner with Mr & Mrs William Knapp at Byron to day when wee came to Byron our cutter gave out
1883 14th - 34 above, raining the trees and ground is covered with ice Mr Haviland has gone to Gaines to get the cutter fixed Ida went to see Francis last night my pink Hyacinth is in bloom to day
15th - mer 38 all day and thawing Mr Haviland and myself went to see Francis wee met Dr Spencer of Howel there
16th - mercury 48 above a heavy fog raining and thawing it thundered and lightend this morning, fog in Feb frost in june wee are married 46 yrs to day
28th Sunday - merc 26 all day Alice & Robert was over to dinner and baby for the first time, it is 5 weeks old
1883 Feb 19th - merc 32 above a good deal of the snow gone
21st - mer 26 above attended Mrs Will Whittles funeral at Byron
22d - mer 30 above all day thawing is beautiful to day Mrs Lair and Mrs Hamilton visited here to day the sleighing is poor the road is ice, snow is gone in places my Canary commenced sitting to day for the 4th time this winter
23d - school closed to day Mrs Mary Winans visited here to day from St Louis cromy came in this morning She went 14 days over her time
1883 Feb 24th - John & Virginia Forshe two children & Mary Jane Cowan visited here, it rained all the afternoon and froze the ground is all ice they left Sunday to visit Francis
24th - Roger M has inflamatory Rheumatism
27th - 20 above verry cold sowed a little, Kittie went for Hellen
28th - 40 above at noon a beautiful day and thawing, wee have two new milch cows Mr Haviland has gone to Mr Friends Auction to day Hellen has finished Kitties Cashmere dress
1883 March 1st - mercury 68 at 10 o'clock forenoon Roger M a little better wee heard of 5 children of Mr Condons that died of Dyptherie at Gaines within the last 2 weeks
7th - mer 36 snowing and thawing it snowed 3 inches last night Roger M is out in the Kitchen
8th - mer at zero morning 30 at noon and 10 above at bed time
9th - 42 above at 2 o'clock afternoon and thawing my canary has one little bird it is dead Emma has a runnround on her fingers
15th - quite cold I attended an auction in Byron, Miss Bell Carpenter of Owosso came home with Kittie and me I bought 1 table cloth 4 towels 1 doz Napkins for which $5.00
1883 March 17th Patrics day - mercury 46 at 5 o'clock afternoon Kittie Bell Carpenter Emma Brookins & Ines Jennings has gone to Byron two in the Carriage and two on foot the snow is most gone the road is quite dry
18t - merc 46 above morning 6 above at 9 o'clock night snowed all day 2 inches snow fell it grew verry cold Miss Willoby spent Sunday with us Teaches at Byron Kittie took her there in the afternoon it was verry cold
19th - 10 above morning
20th - 8 below in the morning
23d - it snowed last night about 3 inches and is snowing to day Roger M is better he churned for me this morning I received a letter from Bell to day
1883 March 31st - Mr Haviland and Kittie went to Corunna to commence school Hellen is here making Kittie a dress it is finished
Apr 1st - Mr H has gone to take her home it is Sunday Roger M is poorly with Rheumatism
2d - was town meeting it was a beautiful day on Monday
4th - mer 60 above the snow is all gone it rained a little last night there is a little ice at the north door it looks like rain
6th - Mr Haviland has gone to Corunna Alice took him to Gaines Roger M is poorly Snow fell 2 inches this evening
7th - a beautiful (day) the snow is gone at 5 this afternoon
1883 Apr 10th - Mr Frank Hand and Mrs Virginia Bell came from California to visit us
13th - Mr & Mrs Chafee made us a visit
16th - wee took Mr and Mrs Frank H Bell to Gaines on their homeward trip took little Kittie at the same time She went to Corunna to School
8th - I received my Hyderanga from D M Ferry Detroit
17th - Dr Ruggles came to see Roger M he is verry poorly I sit up with him last night Mr Theodore Gall was here to dinner to day
22d - Roger M is some better to day
30th - I set my Dahlies and gladiolus
1883 1st May - I sowed my flower seeds
2d - Mr H and I went to Byron and went to Ellas afew minutes Roger M does the milking now and is gaining nicely
3d - a thunder storm last night and rained this morning
8th - it is thundering Roger M has gone to Gaines for Mr Vandebush to come and plaster the cistern I Set my orange tree in the ground this morning and one geranium
th - Mr Haviland Kittie and miss Holms came on the evening train returned 8th yesterday Monday to their school it has rained one week
13th - there was quite a frost last night
14th Monday - Showers all day our cistern is fixed to day and water running in it
1883 May 15 - Mr Haviland put a new pump in our cistern, it has rained Monday, hard to day a number of showers I sent a letter to Mr John Conney to day
18th - Kittie & Miss Emma Carland came from Corunna on the evening train
19th - Roger M Kittie Emma and Miss Carland went to Byron they were caught in a rain storm the nearest to a cyclone wee have had this season it hailed a little and bleu awful the rain fell in torrents
18th - Mr H planted potatoes to day
20th - Cherries & Plumb are in bloom the three girls has gone to Church to day
21st - mer 36 above zero two snow showers this morning it is verry cold Kittie and Emma went to Corunna
1883 22d May - mer 40 above zero several snow showers to day Mr Haviland and I went to Byron I had to bring in all my plants last evening it was so cold mercury 36 above
25th - mercury 80 above this afternoon Mr Haviland and Emma has gone to Corunna I finished papering Roger M's room, Roger M is planting potatoes Apples Pears Peach is in full bloom to day
27th - it is Kitties birth day and Sunday Mr Haviland and I attended Mr Nobles Funeral to day it is beautiful every tree and bush in full bloom
28th - Roger M took Kittie to Corunna in the Carriage
29th - Robert Cummin finished planting corn
30th - Mr Haviland finished making garden in the yard my turkey hatched 15 little ones
1883 June 1st - Mr Haviland Kittie and Julia Cummin came from Corunna it is a beautiful day
4th - Kittie returned on the morning train
5th - verry warm hard rain
6th - raining at noon verry warm
8th - Kittie & Miss Fife the Principal in high school came and returned last evening it raines every day it is Sunday
10th - morning I received a letter from Mrs Beers in Kansas
13th - Wednesday Mr Haviland and myself attended the State Pioneer meeting at Lansing wee returned Friday on the morning train Mr H going to Corunna and I came home
15th - Kittie Ella Nichols Mr H came (home)
June 19th - quite pleasant with light showers Mr Sheldon called
21st - Mr Haviland and I attended the County Pioneer Picknick
22 - Kittie School closed for the summer vacation
25th - Kittie and I washed She and her pa has gone to Byron it is cloudy and rained a little all day it raines most every day Mr Haviland and I went to Detroit and returned the 29th wee bought our furniture $100 dollars Looking glass $36.00 and Kitties dresses $83.00 and a croquet set paid $1.00
July 1st - wee received a paper from Mrs Conney Amsterdam with John Coneys death he died the 20th of June
1883 July 3d - Jimie Duncan and Mr White his comrad came from Detroit and returned the 4th Hellen finished Kitties white dress
4th - Kittie Rosie & Gracie went to Gaines it rained verry hard it raines every day
14th - rained verry hard at night
20th - Mr Haviland and I attended old Mr Eulers funeral he was 81 yrs old the Sermon was delivered by Elder Benton Methodist min of Byron text John 14th Chap 1st verse let not your hearts be troubled ye believe in God believe also in me 2d vers in my Fathers house are many mansions I go to prepare a place for you wee took dinner at Ellas
1883 July 20th - wee took dinner at Ellas and started for the funeral when it began to rain and kept it up til wee got home wheat is generally ripe, and a good deal of hay is uncut
22d - little Lillie died 9 year ago to day, 5 o'clock afternoon it is raining hard and rained all night
23 Monday - rained all day all night
24 - rained all the forenoon it has cleared off and my washing is dry Wheat is suffering wee have none cut yet hay that is cut and out is spoiled our field south of the barn is cut and rotting in the field Railroad surveyors passed on our west line
1883 July 25th - Robert Cummin commenced to cut wheat it is verry late harvest and looks like rain rilroad surveyors passed on our west line yesterday
29th - Kittie and I attended church
Aug 2d - Kittie went to Milford Mr Haviland quit milking the red cow her time is up th(e) 9th
3d - wee went to Byron to day Roger M came home Robert finished hauling in wheat to day from our west field it has sprinkled a little this afternoon the first since one wee(k) ago to day
Aug 9th - My two sisters came to visit me Sister Mary Cowan and Rosanna Ray from California
21st - Sister Mary & Rosanna and myself visited Francis
1883 Aug 21st - the red cow came in
th - night frost
25th - Roger Sisters Mary & Rosanna and myself went to Corunna and had our Pictures taken wee took dinner at Smiths Hotel and tea at Mr Cortes Ponds
27th Monday - Mr Haviland and sisters left for Detroit and AnnArbor
28th - Miss Annie Willoughby came to visit Kittie from Owosso
31st - Miss Ida Holms come to visit Kittie from
1883 Sept 1st - Miss Ida Holms left for Corunna
2d - Sunday old Mr Rolstone visited us Kittie and Anna Willoughby went to Church
4th - Roger came from AnnArbor
7th - I went to AnnArbor
8th - frost hurt corn bad
9th - hard frost hurt corn bad
10th - frost, I came from AnnArbor
19th - Mr H and I went to Detroit it rained when wee arrived wee went to the Griswold Hotel to dinner from there to the Rubber store where wee bought a rubber coat and gossimer for which wee paid $1.75 each wee staid at Mrs Duncans that night the
1883 Sept 20th - rained in the forenoon wee spent it at Mr Mc Kerrows went to the State Fair in the afternoon it was very nice every thing wee staid at Mrs Duncans that night
21st Friday - Mr H bought his writing desk I bought Kittie a Jersey jacket 2 prs worsted stockins and a number of other things to numerous to mention yes and dear little Eddie suit of cloths
27th - Mr Haviland has gone to the county Fair at Owosso will be home 27th to day I will go to Gaines for him
1883 Oct 3d - Mr Haviland and Roger M went to Bancroft for lumber and Mrs Runnyon and little Elsie visited me
4th - I made 4 cans of jellie to day
20th - I finished 6 cans of peaches
23d - Mr Haviland and I went to Mr Dan Wiltsies funeral the same evening Mr & Mrs Pond came from Corunna
24th - they went home after dinner
25th - Mr H and I attended the Soldiers reunion at Gaines I bought Kitties gray dress Kittie and miss may Rose come on the three o'clock train
1883 25th - Mr John Morris of Morris staid with us over night Mr H Kittie and minnie Rose has gone to Byron to get her dress cut I just heard of Mrs Cooney being found dead in bead(bed)this morning to bad to bad
26 - Mrs Cooney died
th - Mr Haviland & I attended Mrs Conneys funeral at Gaines they took the remains to Flint to put her in the valt when I came home I went to Byron for Mrs Gill Cole to make a dress for Kittie I took her home Oct 31st
Nov 1st - the first 2,cts Postage stamp came into use and I used one
1883 Nov 7th - I bught my Dolnan to day the first time the ground was froze this year Mr Haviland and I went to Fenton and bought a cook stove for which he paid $30.00 for stove shovel tongs, and hook pipe
12th Monday - Mercury 18 deg above zero the ground was frozen and the first snow this fall
15th - mercury 12 above zero morning the ground is froze and looks asif winter had set in but it has not
16th Friday - mercury at zero at sunrise Kittie and Miss Hones came on the evening train Mr Haviland was called as a juror to Detroit in the United States district court, he returned home 17th Saturday
17th - mer 16 above at sunrise
19th - mer 45 above beautiful day Mr Haviland went back to Detroit
20th - mer 50 raining
1883 21st - thunder & rain last night 60 morning mercury 58 at noon looks like rain
23d - Mr Haviland & Kittie came home I went to Gaines to meet them it was verry muddy
th - raining mercury 50 in the morning Mr H went to Detroit and Kittie went to Corunna
27th - frost last night merc 10 morning Roger M & Roger B is butchering it is quite pleasant to day
1883 Nov 28th - Mr Haviland came from Detroit Kittie came from Corunna Roger M and Kittie attended Alice Steffres and Mr Dunnings Wedding in the evening
29th - Thanksgiving day was beautiful Francis & Will Christie was here
30th - Mr Haviland & myself attended the first aniversary of the Reverend & Mrs Davis at Mr Judson Coles house Roger is fixing a hen house
1883 Dec 1st - verry pleasant mercury 44 above
2d - Mr Haviland & I attended Mr Edward Kanous funeral at his house Elder Horton preached the sermon Romans 8th Chapter 8th verse
3d Monday - Mr Haviland went to Detroit and Kittie went to Corunna the roads are good no snow yet
4th - mercury 34 thawing a little I have just written a letter to James Haviland Kentucky and a postal to dear little Kittie I am all alone oh how lonely I be no one will ever know
7th - a beautiful day, Kittie miss Holms miss Hathaway came from Corunna on the evening train they left Monday morning
1883 Dec 12 Wednesday morning - mercury 64 in the sun it is Mr Havilands birth day a beautiful sunshine and splendid roads
13th - mer 36 at sunrise 50 at 1 o'clock afternoon
Dec 14th - bought our pup he was 2 months old
15th - mer 10 above at sunrise
16th - 12 above at sunrise and snowing a little at noon thawing Kittie and Roger M has gone to church
17th - 2 dgrs above zero Kittie has gone to Corunna to school this morning winter has fairly set in now
18th - 12 deg above this morning at sunrise Roger M took 9 turkies to Byron sold them alive f(or) 7 1/2 cts per lb about one 1/2 inch of snowfell last night
19th - 2 deg above zero
21st - Kittie and miss Eagan came from Corunna on the morning train and Mr Haviland went to Corunna
1883 Dec 22 - Mr Haviland came home miss Nettie Kanouse & Mary Dyre come to visit Kittie they all went to Gaines with miss Eagan and met Mr Haviland the three girls has gone to Church mercury is 10 above zero it is snowing and sleating and verry cold
24th - 28 above at 4 o'clock afternoon the eves are running about 2 inches of snow on the ground with a crust
25 - Christmas 24 degres above Frank Ella & Eddie came to dinner, Alice and baby was over alittle while
th - 30 above at noon a beautiful day and thawing a little
1884 Sunday Jan 6th - mer 12 deg below zero morning
Mon 7th - 1 below morning about 8 inches snow good sleighing Mr Haviland went for my washing to day to Byron
Tues 8th - 2 above morning 10 above at night Mr Haviland went to Corunna Tues morning
Wed 9th - 6 above at sunrise it is a beautiful day Roger M has gone to Gaines to get a load of oats at Mr Bushes
10th - Mr Haviland and Kittie came home on the evening train it is verry cold
12th - mer 6 above morning, Mr Cummin took dinner with us Kittie and I went to Byron and bought her veil it is beautiful sleighing
13th Sunday - mer 38 above and thawing at 11 o'clock forenoon, Kittie & Roger M has gone to Church
1884 Jan 14th - Mr & Mrs James Cummin are here
17th - merc at zero morning 22 above at noon
18th Friday - merc 26 above all day
19th Sat - 2 above morning
Mon 21st - 4 below at sunrise Mr Haviland took Kittie to Gaines and has gone to Byron with my washing
22d - 26 above all day
23 - 14 above snowing all day growing cold evening wee commenced a paper sack of buckwheat flour for breakfast Mr Haviland & Roger M has gone for feed to Byron
24th - mercury 14 below in the morning Mr Charles Fox spent to day with us old Mr Drum called
27th - 22 above morning it is a beautiful Sabath morning
1884 Jan 27th - there was a surprise party here last evening for Roger M & Kittie the evening was spent verry pleasant
28th - Mr Haviland has gone for my washing for which he paid $1.25cts
29th - Mr Haviland and I attended Mr James Fishers funeral Sermon delivered by Rev Mr Horton Baptist mercury 28 above evening wee went to Mr Sheldons to dinner it was beautiful sleighing it rained a good deal last night wee met Mr & Mrs Smith there
30th - merc 40 above and raining a little the snow is going fast
31st - 20 above Mrs Sheldon Frank Ella, Eddie & Mr & Mrs Smith of Fenton visited us
1884 Feb 1st - mer 12 above at sunrise 38 at eleven o'clock thawing it is a beautiful day there is waggons on the road for the first time in 8 weeks old Mr Walker visited us to day he is 83 yrs old, he is quite (a) smart man
2d - mer 32 above Roger M went to Gaines for Kittie last evening
4th - Mr Haviland took dear little Kittie to Gaines this morning in the Carriage Roger M is going to draw hay from Dwight Stewarts, 3 ton my calla has one blosom to day
5th - Mr & Mrs Harder is here Mer 30 morning raining every tree and bush covered with ice and a fog at 10 o'clock fog and ice all gone and mer 34 above
6th - ground all covered with ice
1884 Feb 7th - mercury 26 all day Mr Haviland went to Corunna returned afternoon
8th - merc 30 above on the east porch and thawing a little Ida Haviland was here this afternoon I received a letter from Mrs Orlo Phelps of Merril Wisconsin to day I saw the commet last evening for the first time a light fog at noon 8th Feb(u)rary a frost in june Kittie came on the evening train
9th - She went to Gaines and got my cashmer dress it was sent by Express Mr Dan Euler was buried to day; Kittie & I went to Church to day in a cutter there is about 3 inches of snow on the ground all ice under it merc at zero this morning it is a pleasant Sabbath day
1884 Feb 11th - 16 above zero morning thawing at noon Mr Haviland took Kittie to Gaines this morning he has gone to Byron with my Washing
12th - 26 above zero at 4 o'clock afternoon it has rained and froze on the trees and bushes the ground is a glare of ice I wrote a letter to day to Sister Roseanna and one to Mrs Kitson and Mrs Orlo Phelps and a postal to dear little Kittie I got 7 eggs for the first in a good while it is raining hard mercury 32 deg at 9 o'clock evening and a fog
15th - Kittie miss Holms miss Jennie Hathaway came from Corunna they bought the sad news of the death of Mr Cortes Pond
17th - Frank Ella & Eddie came to dinner it is Sunday with mercury 38 all day thawing raining a little toward evening
1884 Feb 18th - mercury 36 above and a fog February fog will freeze a dog Roger M took Kittie miss Holmes and miss Hathaway to Gaines this morning, Mr Haviland and myself are going on the 1,35 O'clock train to attend Mr Cortes Ponds funeral
19th - merc 26 above all day rained hard in the evening snowed before morning
20th - 8 above morning
21st - 28 above James Mc Caughna took Mr Haviland to Gaines this morning
22d - Mr Haviland & I attended the Pioneer meeting at Corunna once more, wee took tea at Mrs Ponds it was verry lonely without Mr Pond
24th - mer 20 and snowing a fine snow
25th - Mr & Mrs Kelley called here
1884 Feb 25th - Roger M took Kittie to Gaines
26th - mer 32 thawing, 15 teen Carriages and sleighs has just passed and the Hearse with the remaines of young Isaac Middlesworth who died in Newjersey wee have just heard of the death of Mr John Burns & of Mrs Galt of Byron
26th - Roger M & Roger B has runn the wheat through the fanning mill Mr Haviland is writing letters to Lorenzo & Thomas Hopkins to day
27t - mer 32 above thawing fine snow Roger M is going to Issa Stephens wedding
28th - 10 below zero morning Roger M and I attended young Isaac Middlesworth funeral Sermon by Rev Mr Strong methodist
1884 Feb 28 - mer 10 deg below zero morning
29th - 18 below at 7 o'clock morning the lowest I registered this winter
28th - Roger M & I attended young Isaac Middlesworth funeral at Byron Sermon delivered by Mr Strong at the Methodist Church Tex John 14th C 2d verse let not your hearts be troubled text & verse I go to prepare a place for you 1st verse
March 1st - 2 below zero this morning there is cutters & Carriages on the road so it is good wheeling as sleighing. My dear little Kittie has just come over from Gaines with Mr George Eddie
2d - mercury 10 below zero at 7 o'clock morning this morning Jennie Stowel came home with Kittie & Roger M last night from a surprise at Mr Shads
1884 March 3d - Mr Haviland took Kittie to Gaines
4th - merc 6 below zero
5th - Hellen Reynolds came here to day to make my Cashmere dress Mr & Mrs Wellman & her Sister Mrs Goodall made us a visit and a pleasant one it was
7th - Kittie came fron Corunna Kittie Hellen & Roger M went to Frank & Ellas to a suprise party snow fell about 4 inches mercury 14 above zero there is cutters out this morning
9th - mercury 30 at 12 o'clock Hellen & Kittie has gone to Church to day Hellen finished my dress yesterday it is good sleighing snow 4 inches deep it is a beautiful day and thawing
1884 10th - mercury 14 above in the morning Mr Havil(and) took Kittie to Gaines in a cutter I received a letter from Mary A Mc Farland Reno
11th - mer 34 morning, 48 at 12 o'clock and thawing fast the first ground thaw, the snow is going fast
12th - mercury 22 above morning, froze up blowing hard wee heard Mr Charles Davis was buried yesterday Kittie came home on the stage sick this afternoon
14th - mercury 28 above morning Kittie is better I went to Byron to day called at Mr Gales, he was dead and laid out then Ella and I went and called on Mrs Dr Allen She is verry low it is a beautiful day
1884 March 17th - merc 48 above at 5 o'clock afternoon it is a beautiful day, the blind man Mr Mc anter was here I bought a book Notes on Ingersol by Rev L A Lambert for which I paid 31 cts the snow is all gone, the roads are splendid
18th - Mr Haviland & Kittie went to Mr Plat Gales funeral, Mrs Eddie came to visit us to day so I did not go
19th - it is raining a little all day to day and quite warm
th - Mr Haviland took Kittie to Gaines it is the last week of school there in Corunna Mr Mason came on the Stage in the afternoon, Mrs Eddie went away after tea, Ethen Grout took dinner with Roger M it is raining quite hard since noon the frost seems to be out of the ground
1884 March 26 - Mr Haviland and I attended Mrs Dr Allens funeral Sermon preached by Rev Mr Strong Methodist Text, 14th Chap John in my Fathers house are many Mansions - there was a large funeral it was a verry unpleasant day a little rain, water verry high over the causeway I called on Mrs Sheldon
27th - it is a beautiful day I covered Mr Havilands arm chair with cretone and made a cover for a cushion
28th - Kittie & miss Holms came from Corunna
29th - Hellen came to sew for Kittie to make a Cashmere bask and her Armure dress
1884 Apr 1st - warm rain all day with a little thunder & lightening Mr Haviland went to Corunna and back on the afternoon train it hailed and snowed a little
2 - mercury 28 above miss holms is doing her washing
5th - Kittie took miss Holmes to Gaines and met Kittie Seymour She came home with her Hellen went to Church 6th with them to day it is a beautiful day Roger M shot drive this morning Plants
7th -
received from D M Ferry plant
1 mock orrange 1 Yucca
1 Forsytha Fortuni Rose of Sharron
1 Spira vanhouts 1 J H Skinner
1 Tea rose 1 Amearyles bulb 1 Helitrope
1 Carnation 1 Fuschia, Exquisite
1884 Apr 9th - I took Kittie & Pa to Gaines this forenoon She was going to Detroit to the doctor to have her throat (looked at) when I came home Mr Mc Kinney & Roger M was doctoring the Red Cow she died this afternoon Roger M is skining her now, I set my plants this afternoon
21st - it is my 63d birth day the ground froze last night and it is cold this morning Mr Haviland gon(e) to Gaines to send an Express to Detroit for Kittie Mr Roberts has come to plow for oats Mr Haviland went and got Agnes Dolikonto to come (a)nd live with us
22d - Roger M plowed the garden
23d - Mr Haviland set his multiplier onions & blak seed
26th - Kittie came (from) Detroit
30th - set potatoes
1884 May 1st - warm rain thunder & lightening the first wee had this spring miss Mary Dyar staid here last night
Apr 29th - Mr Henry Shaunts son shot himself Tuesday morning - will be buried to day
7th - Mr Haviland & Kittie went to Detroit to have her throat treated Roger M is hauling Wheat to Gaines selling to Bush for $1.00 pr bush(el) he bought a bag of sugar
8th - She, Kittie had one tonsil cut out
11th - one Plumb tree in bloom and few Peach blossoms
13th - I went to Gaines to meet Kittie, She came from Detroit
15th - Mr & Mrs Green Mr & Mrs Fuller Fanny, Ray, Kittie and Charlie Fuller visited us
25th - Hellen came and made Kitties blue cashmere gingham
1884 May 21st - mercury 80 4 o'clock afternoon verry warm Mr Haviland Kittie & I attended Mr H L Cooks funeral to day it was sad held in the M E Church deliverd by Rev Mr Horton Text
29th - the morning of the 29 a very hard frost so it made ice it injured the fruit verry much
1884 June 4th & 5th - Mr Haviland & I attended the State Poineer Meeting at Lansing wee staid at the Commercial
5th - returned home in the evening
8th - Sunday mercury 92 in the shade at 3 o'clock afternoon
9th - 82 morning a cold wave passed over, by evening mercury was 50 Mr H came from Corunna on the evening train, I sent him his overcoat and I built a fire on the harth in the fireplace it was verry accptable I mailed a letter to Mat Mc Farlin
th - Mr Bullard is here to work in the garden
17th - mer 92 in shade I am making my gingham dress Kittie is making a callico for herself
1884 June 21st - Mr & Mrs Hiberd was here
25th - cold and raining Aggie went home
26th - Roger M & Kittie went to Corunna this morning for her Household goods I received a letter from Mrs Beers little Eddie Sheldon is here visiting us wee are having a verry pleasant visit
30th - merc 88 at 3 o'clock afternoon Mr Haviland has gone to Corunna I sent a letter to Mrs Oconor to day
July 10th - Mrs Oconor & Lizzie Vanburen came from Detroit
14th - Mattie Duncan came from Detroit
15th - Jossie & Sarah Ferguson came from Detroit
20 - wee dug our first mess of new Potatoes
Aug 1st - Mr Haviland got hurt by falling off a logg he was crossing
1884 Aug 3d - Mrs Oconor & Lizzie Vanburen has gone to Detroit to day
5th - mercury 56 in the morning 6 o'clock I built a fire on the hearth Mr Havilands arm is verry black and painful Doctor Ruggles is her(e) to see him
7th - Mrs Theodore Gale and 2 Children are here from Lansing
10th - Dr Knapp of Fenton came out and set it
14th - merc 92 til 3 o'clock
15th - mercury 29 (92) til 3 o'clock afternoon Mrs Gale & children left for Lansing
17th - verry warm Nellie Mc Caughna is here it is Sunday mercury 100 in the sun is 112 on the east porch
18th - mercury 86 above 3 o'clock afternoon
19th - mercury 88 5 o'clock afternoon it is 112 in the sun
1884 Aug 21st - mercu 88 3 o'clock afternoon Hellen is here sewing Kittie & Roger M has gone to a Picknick I have just finished canning 52 qts of Pears
25th - Mr Roberts threshed oats
26th - Bernard is threshing to day Mr Haviland is improving slowly little Eddie Sheldon is here to day the farmers ar(e) taking their Wheat
Aug 26th - the farmers are taking their Wheat to Gaines and selling it for from 75 to 80 cts Wool bought from 25 to 27 (cts) through the State; the lowest it has been since the war Sugar is from 6 to 9 cts the lowest has been in 40 yrs
29th - Robert threshed the Wheat over west
1884 Aug 29th - Robert Cummin threshed the Wheat in the west field to day Roger M is hauling our share this afternoon I received a letter from California to day
Sept 1st - Kittie commenced attending School in Byron
3d - Mrs Beebee of Rochester N Y and Mrs Kelsey of Corunna visited us
4th - I took Mrs Beebee to Byron to day wee took dinner with Mrs Sheldon Mr Haviland is verry poorly he was hurt
5th - wee went to have it set but failed
6th - Mr Nichols & Harry was here to day
7th - mercury 104 in sun 89 shade it rained nicely to day Ella Frank Eddie is here
1884 Sept 9th - mercury is 119 in the sun 1/2 past 1 o'clock Mr Haviland Bernard and I went to Fenton to have his arm set it was a terrible opperation Dr Knapp failed to set it Mr H is verry feeble
12th Monday - 46 dg above at sunrise frost
13th - 46 morning light frost
15th - Dr Knapp from Fenton was here he thinks Mr Havilands arm is some better
19th Friday - at 3 o'clock afternoon said to be a slight Shock of earthquake the motion was east and west it shook Mr Haviland & myself in our rocking chairs there was a low rumbling noise as of distant thunder
1884 Sept 22d Monday - Mr Haviland and I went to Detroit, wee stoped at the Griswold Hotel
23d - wee went into St Marys Hospital to be treated, in 24 hours he was dead
24th - 5 minutes past one o'clock he died, oh my god what a scene
28th - Sunday he was laid away the text was Samuel 20th Chapt 18th verse and thou shalt be missed because thy seat will be empty delivered by Elder Horton and assisted by Elder Strong Revelations 22d Chapt was read by Elder Horton Psalms 15th Chapter 1st verse Lord who shall abide in my tabernacle who shall dwell in thy holy hill he that walketh rightiousness and speaketh the truth in his heart
1884 Oct 8th - a verry hard frost last night for the first of the season
9th - a hard frost Rev F Strong & Wife staid here last night their two daughters Edith & Louesa are here to day they helped Roger M to pick up 30 bushels of Potatoes this afternoon on his ten acres
18th - Robbie & Letta finished digging the potatoes in the garden, there is 56 bushels they are verry nice it is beautiful weather
21st - Bernard Kittie & myself went to Corunna returned the 22d in the evening it hailed in the night
23d - hail showers are passing over
1884 Oct 23d - Mrs close Mrs Sickles and Mrs Peck visited here to day mer 36 evening
24th - Roger M Lettie & myself put one hundred bushels of Potatoes in the cellar Floid Crandal staid here last night and is helping Roger M to unload some more Snow squals all day
25th - mer 32 morning froze last night Kittie and I went to Byron I went to the grave yard Frank and Ella came, oh that lonely place but I long to be there beside of my dear husband
27th - I received my first papers from Judge Harper
28th - Bernard and I went to Byron
30th - merc 52 quite pleasant I lifted my Dahlie roots to day
1884 Nov 4th - it is election day merc 34 this mor snowing and thawing it is 6 weeks to day since my poor husband went into the Hospital
5th - mer 42 at noon Dan Mc Caughna is putting in my wood Roger M is splitting the logs put in our cook stove this morning
Thursday 6th - Bernard & I went to Morris and stoped at John Morrises I called on Mr & Mrs Innis of the same place
Saturday 8th - Bernard Ida & myself went to Mrs Douglass at Lindon
Wednes(day) 12th - Bernard & Ida has gone to her Fathers on a sorrowful visit Roger M has gone to Vernon with a load of turnips mer 42 quite pleasant
1884 Sunday Nov 16th - a beautiful day Ella & I went to pas grave it relieved my heart it has been a beautiful month
14th Saturday - Kittie & I called at Mr Isaac Barnum to see Father Crawford - 16th he died 14th wee went to see Fannie Christie wee found her confined to her bead
Nov 13th - Mrs Michael Cowan died was buried Sunday
18th - Bernard came from Washtenaw
19th - I attended Mr Robert Crawfords funeral to day it is a beautiful but cold day 23d my poor husband died 8 weeks ago to day
19th - merc 22 deg above this morning 31 this evening
24th - mercury 11 above morning a little snow fell last night
1884Nov 27th - Thanksgiving day Ida & I went to see Francis Christie wee found her verry low I sit up with her that night, Mrs Trip & Mrs Close set up with me, Dr Spencer came from Howel to see her
30th Sunday - Kitti & I went to pas grave
Dec 1st - Mercury 28 a little snow on the ground the road is clear and good
Nov 19th - Patric Cowan died wee received a Telegram Bernard and I started Thursday 20th staid at Brighton that night; Friday 21st wee got there and went to the grave yard, there was a large Funeral, wee met J A J Ray there from California he has been here and gone wee went to Mr Havilands grave and to Ellas, they came and spent the evening
1884 Dec 5th - merc 54 above a fog this mornin the snow is all gone frost out of the ground
6th - merc 54 and raining all the afternoon Kittie & Letta has gone to visit Anna Denore I an all alone God help me no one will ever know my lonliness
7th - merc 42 morning it rained all night looks colder, Kittie is going to church
9th - Roger Kittie Bernard Ella & Frand & myself went to Corunna
10th - mer 38 above no snow on the ground in the evening Sister Mary & Lewis came
11th - Bernard and I went to Detroit wee took dinner at Mrs Vanburens then went to Elmwood Cemetry and wandered among the tombs looking for a Monument to suit me, wee went to Mrs Duncans and staid that night
12th - my dear husbands birth day Mrs Duncan went with us to an office
13th Saturday - wee came home no snow
1884 Dec 15th - mercury 38 above morning about 6 inches of snow fell last night, the sleighs are not out the most snow that has fallen this winter I am verry poorly with a cold Roger M & Roger B butchered my pig it weighed 157 lbs he went to Gaines and bought 5 gallons of Kerrosene 1 lb of Tea 2 lbs of Raisins it is snowing a little all day about 8 inches
16th - Hellen is here making dress for Kittie
17th - Mercury 10 deg below zero morning
18th - merc 18 deg below at sunrise
19th - 12 deg above at noon 8 inch snow Mr Hills of Jackson has been here 2 days soliciting order for monument Bernard gave the order
19th - paid to day for the Shiawassee American $1,50 cts to the agent Hellen is here sewing
1884 Dec 20th - mer 8 below zero morning
21st - 16 above at sunrise - 26 a(t) 12 o'clock noon
23d - 4 above morning - 18 above afternoon Mr Newman hung our lamp to day Kittie has gone to take him home
24th - mer 10 above and snowing 20 above at 3 o'clock afternoon sunshine beautiful about 12 inches of snow on the ground
25th - Christmas mercury 4 below morning 16 above afternoon
27th - mer - 12 above morning commenced raining about 3 o'clock Nellie Mc Kerrow came to day Mr & Mrs Burnett visited us to day Mr Frank brought Nellie Mr John Esmond Glennen from Dewajac
28th - mer 42 above and thawing
29th - 48 above at noon
30th - mer 48 above morning and raining 9 o'clock evening 50 above
1884 Dec 30th - Nellie Mc Kerrow Kittie and myself attended Mrs H L Cooks funeral Elder D Horton Preached the funeral Sermon text psalms 46 chap 10 vers be still and know that, it rained hard wee went to Pas grave the snow is all gone
31st - mer 50 at sunrise it is 14 weeks to day since Pa died oh my dessolate home, and my heartaches for Mrs Cooks family as I see them passing by this morning what a sad home to go to without Father or her mot(her) our large horse legs are swolen
1885 Jan 1st - mercury 24 above snow squals but the ground is bare Kittie & Nellie has gone to Byron Frank Ella & Eddie came and spent New years day with us the first in 47 years but what my husband was with me, Roger M Kittie and I ate our Christmas dinner alone, what a change how sad I feel, but I am trying to keep up an outward appearance before the children
2d - 8 above zero morning there is no snow; our big horse is better
3d - 10 above morning, 26 above 3 o'clock afternoon Frank Ella & Nellie Mc Kerrow came to dinner, Kittie took Nellie to Gaines, She bade us farewell, blessings on her, she is so good, there is no snow on the ground but froze up
1885 Monday Jan 5th - mercury 40 at 4 o'clock afternoon I took Kittie to Byron this morning I went to my dear husbands grave I knelt and kissed the soil and talked, no one but God was nigh I bade him farewell, felt thankful I was 14 weeks nearer him I called on Mosely Royce, he is near the edge of the river, will soon cross over he cannot lie down
6th - mercury 46 this morning and raining I have just heard old Mrs Austin is dead, and Mr Holmes, Mrs Shafts father, and have read a letter from Mary Ann that her mother is not expected to live it was dated Dec 30 that was her 10th day
8th - merc 44 3 o'clock afternoon; Mr Kitson died I have just written a letter to Robert Ferry one to Mary A Mc Farlin and one to Nellie Mc Kerrow
1885 Jan 9th - merc 42 at noon Roger M got us two loads of turnips
10th - 18 morning sun came up bright is lovely weather like fall, ever since the snow went of(f), 28th of December, it began to go the 27 with rain then thaw wee had 2 weeks of good sleighing
11th - merc 38 12 o'clock noon
12th - thawing in the morning, froze up night before
13th - mercury 4 above zero fell 28 degres in 4 hours
14th - merc 12 above morning no snow on ground, roads verry rough
15th - mer 22 above 9 o'clock evening I attended Mosely Royces funeral, to day, funeral sermon preached by a stranger to me Text 7 chap of Acts 55 & 56 verse and he being full of the Holy Ghost looked up steadfastly into Heaven, I took dinner with Ella, Frank, Ella & I rode to Byron 2 inches of snow fell last night
1885 Jan 16th - merc 12 above this morning about 4 inches of snow fell last night
17th - mer 12 above; snow fell last night ther(e) is 18 inches this morning Roger M has gone to Byron to get the Cutter fixed, there has not been any sleighing since 3 weeks to day it is Saturday Kittie, & Lettie is home
18th - merc 6 below morning 8 above at 2 o'clock afternoon
19th - merc 14 below at sunrise, Roger M took Kittie to Byron School in a Cutter the snow is deep and drifted. I received my first Freepress Weekly this morning it is dated Jan 14th Bernard and Ida came up yesterday
20th - mer 2 below morning 4 above 4 o'clock
21st - mer 2 below morning Lettie has gone over home and I am all alone I am weeping, my dear husband is gone 17 weeks to day from me oh how lonely
1885 Jan 22d - mer 10 below this morning I went to Bernards to day for the first time since Pa died
23d - 2 below morning I went to Byron in the Cutter in about 5 minutes after I got home Mr & Mrs Foot came to visit me it is snowing this afternoon and good Sleighing, Kittie Frank Ella Eddie came and staid all night
24th - 26 above morning 34 above at 11 o'clock and thawing on the east eaves
25th Sunday - mer 32 morning thawing and snow squals Miss Tompson & Miss Riker staid here last night they are the Byron Teachers they and Kittie has gone to church the sun shines lovely at times
26th - merc down to zero this morning and snow squals Lettie took Kittie to Byron this morning Roger M has gone to help Mr Good Speed butcher a beef
1885 Jan 28th - merc 18 below zero at sunrise it is 18 weeks to day my dear husband died oh how lonesome I am; God help me merc 8 above 5 o'clock afternoon Jack Roberts is helping Roger to day I rode down to Bernards with Mr Borden and met Mr & Mrs Christie there
29th - merc 8 below zero this morning
30th - 12 above morning Lettie took Kittie to School this morning mer is 28 at 10 o'clock forenoon
31st - merc 10 above morning it is a beautiful day Roger M is hauling logs to sawmil for plank for bridges at the Barns
1885 Feb 1st Sunday - merc 26 above morning
2d - 8 below morning verry cold Letta took Kittie to Byron School
3d - merc 22 above morning Roger M is going to take a load of Potatoes to Durand to day ther(e) is 18 inches of snow on the ground a white frost on the trees and bushes fire in Byron the Lodge was burned
4th - merc 32 above morning Roger M is going to Durand with another load of Potatoes to day Rebecca Mc Afee is here visiting
5th - merc 10 above morning Roger M has gone to Durand with his last load of Potatoes
6th - merc 20 deg below zero at 7 o'clock morning
7th - merc 6 above zero this morning
3d - the lodge was burned in Byron at night
8th - Kittie and I went to Mr Burnels and made a visit it commenced to snow at 3 o'clock
1885 Feb 8th - merc 16 above zero, 18 inches of snow on the ground a beautiful Sabath morning
9th - 12 above morning it has snowed all day the snow is 2 feet deep the most that has been on the ground at one time this winter, Roger M took Kittie to school this morning it is a lonely day for me it is 45 yrs to day since I arrived on this Farm, how quick the time has fled, it is 20 weeks to day since I and my dear Husband went to Detroit oh I wish it was onely a dream I am so alone , oh so lonely
10th - merc 8 below zero this morning cleared off snow is verry deep it blowed and drifted through the night
10th - 12 below blowed & snowed all day
11th - mercury 26 below morning verry cold the lowest I recorded in yrs the snow is over 2 feet deep on level
1885 Feb 12th - mer 2 below zero this morning Ella Atherton staid here last night
13th - 16 below morn
14 - 16 below
15th - 14 above morning it has been the coldest week this winter, there is more snow on the ground than has been for years at any one time, 2 feet on the level and drifts some one has shoveled the road in places between here and Byron, and the street there and on our east and west road
th - Sunday merc runn up to 34 staid there till after 9 o'clock evening it (dr)mizzled a little rain then mercury rann down to 4 degrees below zero
16th - mer 4 degrees below zero Ella Frank & Eddie came home oh it was so lonely 20 weeks to day Sunday since my Dear husband was laid in the grave, how I long to be there he is under the deep deep snow
1885 Feb 17th - mer 14 below this morning I went to Bernards staid til after dinner
18th - 10 below this morning, it is now 10 o'clock mercury is 32 in the sun and looks beautiful Roger M fed the last of the turnips this morn that was in the cellar so wee are wishing for a thaw wee hope it will come soon I received a letter from Mrs Bell Califor(nia) and Mrs Duncan last evening I answered Mrs Duncans
19th - merc 6 below this morning looks like more snow, I am going to attend David Cargils funeral I attended David Cargils funeral at the Methodist Church Sermon preached by Elder Withy text 2d Corrinthians 9th verse, whereoff wee labor, that present or absent wee may be accepted of him
20th - mer 6 below
21st - 8 below zero this morning it is a lovely day Roger M is going for a load of feed for cattle
1885 Feb 23 - 6 below zero, it is a beautiful morning Letta took Kittie to Byron this morning
24th - merc 12 above this morning 36 above at noon and thawing a little wee are glad to see it Roger M has gone to Gaines to get 2 barrels of flour to send to the Detroit friends Mrs Duncan & Sarah Ferguson
25th - merc 2 above runn up to thawing
26th - mer 12 above morning and thawing
25th - Mrs Hattie Close and Husband spent the afternoon and staid to tea I hear Mr Jo Shaft is dead
27th - I attended Mr Shafts funeral Sermon by Elder Withie Text 2d Corrinthians 4th Chap 17th verse for our light afflictions, which is for a moment
28th - mercury 28 above zero morning thawing all day Mr Lock came from Lindon made us a visit, Roger M hauled plank to day
1885 March 1st - mercury 42 thawing
2d & 3d - 42 and thawing
4th - quite cool but thawing
5th - thawing all day, there was a man here selling varnish for the Carriage - I paid 75 cts for 1 pt I must reduce one third with boiled linseed oil for the top
4th - Roger M and I went to Gaines he took 30 bushels of wheat and sold it for 73 cts pr bushel, I took 24 lbs of butter sold it for 14 cts pr lb to Bush
6th - thawing
th - thawing Id(a) and Barny took tea with me
8th - mercury 2 below zero morning Josie Minor came home with Kittie last evening
9th - 20 above morning, Frank Ella Eddie Mr & Mrs Dudly came Sunday Monday Lettie took Kittie and Josie to school
1885 10th March - mercury 10 above zerro this morning Roger M got in a load of turnips oh how lonely I am it seems my heart will break, I have just been playing how I long to be there oh yes Lord in thy good time take me to my dear Companion
11th - merc 4 above morning 32 above afternoon
13th - merc 4 above morning verry cold
14th - merc 18 above
12th - I went to see Mr William Knapp I found verry poorly he is 84 yrs old he is the second man I saw after wee moved on this farm and he took dinner with us Mr Daniel Kitson was the first man I saw he took dinner with us the first Sunday
14th - thawing and rained a little Kittie went to see Miss Mary Sayer
15th - thawed a little verry cold
16th - merc 2 degr below zero froze up there was an Eclips
1885 March 17 - verry cold mercury 12 deg below zero morning
18th - mer 10 above and snowing a fine snow Frank Karrer has come to help Roger M put some hay in the cow barn Mrs Wolfin & daughter is here visiting
19th - merc 4 below this morning verry cold and blowing there is snow squals all this afternoon
20th - 8 below zero
21st - 10 below
22d - 4 below zero Sunday the snow is deep and crusted and will bear up for people to walk on it has been verry cold all through this month so far
23 - 2 deg below
24th - 30 above at 8 o'clock morning I received a letter yesterday from Mary A Mc Farland Reno and one from James Cowen Dakota
1885 March 26th - mer 26 above morning Kittie is better and is dressed for the first time this week She has not been to school this week, School closes to day Thursday Margret was over yesterday
25th - Frank Karrer finished splitting 16 cords of wood to day for me he cut and split 52 cords of wood this winter for me
26th - mer is 48 above at 4 o'clock afternoon the snow is going fast Roger M is hauling rail logs for Rails along the north field I have finished sowing my carpet rags for Ella to day
28th - mercury 26 above morning thawing all day
29th - mer 18 above morn, it is Sunday 6 months to day my poor husband was laid in the grave; 6 months of sorrow for me it is hard to bear
1885 March 30th - merc 30 above zero morning and snowing hard from the south
31st - merc 36 above morning it is a lovely day I heard a Robin this morning for the first Mrs Barnun came and spent the day with me the snow is going fast mercury is 44 at 5 o'clock afternoon to day is the lamb
April 1st - it is a beautiful day the snow is going fast I am all alone God help me that is the widows portion but it wont be long now til I go to him that has gone before me
2d - I took Kittie to Gaines She went to Fenton on the 10 o'clock train returned on the evening Roger M met her it rained a little She bought our black and white callico dress and other things
3d - mercury 24 above it froze last night and is cold this morning
1885 4th - mer 18 above morning it is thawing Frank Karrer is helping Roger M tag the sheep this afternoon; Letta Wolfin is here it is Saturday
5th - Easter Sunday Frank Ella and Eddie came to dinner
6th - I took Kittie to Byron this morning the school commenced it is Town Meeting to day and a beautiful day
7th - mercury 56 at 9 o'clock evening thundered lightening and a shower
8th - merc fell during the night to 32 above it is quite cool this morning
6th - I went to the cemetry this morning where I could give vent to my grief
8th - Roger M is going to Byron with corn and oats for feed
9th - merc 26 above this morning froze last night
10th - mer 26 above Mr & Mrs Christie came here visiting and told us of poor Jack Wolfs death Roger M went to Pat Crosbys for a load of hay
1885 April 10th - Roger M went to Patrick Crosbys for 1/2 ton of hay for which he paid $5.00 dol
11th - mer 32 above this morning it snowed about 3 inches last night and is thawing fast to day, the snow had about gone onely along the fences, road was quite good, it is Arbor day but I think there will not be many trees planted to day, Kittie has come home she says old Mr Camp died this morning Mr Swick called
12th Sunday - Kittie Roger M and I attended Jack Wolfs funeral 1/2 past 10 I went to Ellas to dinner at 2 o'clock Ella Frank and I attended old Mr Camps funeral
13th - it snowed a little last night but is most gone this afternoon, I went to Barneys a few minutes to day Roger M has a sore throat and is sleeping by the stove Mercury is 34 this afternoon Mrs Barker is washing
1885 Apr 14th - mer 32 above at 3 o'clock afternoon snow squals all day Roger M went to Byron for his mill feed
15th - mer 34 this morning about 3 inches of snow fell last night a man has just passed in a cutter it is thawing Miss Mary Anderson is boarding here this week
16 - mer 38 the snow is all gone Frank Ella Bernard and Ida was here this afternoon Roger M turned the cows and wethers out this morning the hay is running short
17 - mercury 36 it is cold plenty of (?) is at our north door Roger M is taking oats to the sheep in the west field this morning
19th Sunday - morning mer 46 above it is the first Spring day, wee heard frogs croak for the first time this spring there is ice at our north west door and some snow in the woods
1885 Apr 19th - merc 38 mor 76 2 o'clock afternoon I took Kittie to school this morning I went to the cemetry this morning if I could onely lie there to but I can kneel and kiss the soil that cover all I had earth oh my soul it is 7 months to day since I led him away from his home it was the dearest spot on earth to us both but how dessolate it is now I called on Mrs Dr Webster she gave me a cap of honey and some figs her Brother Jardon sent her from California, he said remember Mrs Haviland blessings on them there is a little snow on the west sid(e) of Charley Hunts hill, I let the fire go out in the stove and had the door open all the afternoon for the first this spring I bought 14 lbs of maple sugar of Mr Vanuokin
1885 22d Apr - it is spring sure enough Roger M & Bernard are plowing where he is building a fence along the north field when he began to drag the horse began to bleed at the nose
28th - a hard frost at night
29th - ice in the morning
30th - I went to see poor Francis she is poorly I called on old Mrs Kelsey and Rose it rained a little wee are house cleaning Vanderburgwhite washed for us
May 1st Friday - Roger M finished the fence along the road and plowed the garden and put the seep in the north orchard
2d - he is putting manure on the south orchard it is cool the grass is growing slow it froze to night
3d Sunday - morning froze ice on water
1885 May 3d - the first lamb was droped
4th - I took Kittie to Byron this morning I went to the cemetry to visit my dear husbands grave I long to be there
5th - I went to Corunna, I visited at Mr Nichols
6th - it rained all day I came home on the Stage I was surprised to hear Dickey Peck was dead called to see him he seemed cheerful sit up and talked all the time I was there he died at 6 o'clock
7th - a poor man called for alms name John West Cheboygon Co
8th - verry cold it snowed towards evening the ground was covered went off some in the night
9th - snow squals this morning
1885 May 9th - Hellen Reynolds is here sewing for Kittie; Eda and I attended Dickey Pecks funeral at Gaines the 8th
10th - it froze last night Kittie and Hellen gone to church
13th - I went to Gaines and got Kitties silk dress pattern gloves & curtains Roger M got a barrel of salt
10th - our first living lamb wee have lost
16th - Mrs Barker & I cleaned the cellar I sowed my flower seeds this forenoon Kittie Mc Caughna visited here last night she and Kittie has gone to Byron
18th - Bernard Roger B & Roger M has gone this morning to draw stone for the fondation of the monument I saw the first blossoms on the Plumb trees this morning
1885 May 19th - Mr Middlesworth dug the pit for the monument
20th - Bernard Roger M went to the yard Mr Hanner filled it and made it ready. I went to Ellas and made a visit came to Byron got my crape Bonnet of Mrs Clark for which I paid $4,00 dol for it and a sundown
21th - I went to Corunna returned in the evening
22d - I attended old Mr Tafts funeral sermon delivered by Rev Mr Withie Methodist
24th - Ella and Frank came to dinner Hellen is here making Kitties silk dress
29th - Hellen finished sewing this morning, I took her and Kittie to Byron she sewed 11 days for me her bill was $8.25 cts I bought some crape of Mrs Clark for my silk dress
1885 May 31 - old Mrs Eddy was married in church at Gaines to Mr Knight
June 1st - I took Kittie to school then I went to the cemetery I thanked God I was 8 months nearer him
2d - Roger M washed the sheep
3d - Ida and I went to Gaines I bought curtain poles for my west windows
4th - it rained all day
6th - Roger M and Kittie went to Owosso to a circus
7th - Roger M Kittie & I went to see Fanny Christie wee found her verry low I sit up with her, it rained thundered lightening and hailed wee could not get home til this morning
8th - verry cold so wee had to build a fire in the cook stove mercury 44 when wee got home this morning 60 above at noon
9th - Mr John Lock has come to visit us he is verry feeble. I received a letter from Mrs Beers Beswick Siskagou Co California
June 12th - Ida and I went to see poor Francis and staid all night with her
17th - I went to see Francis she is poorley the sheep shearers finished to day the two men that is setting the monument is here to dinner to day Mr George Tyson Jackson and Frank Rumsey
21st - Kittie & Ora has gone to church it commenced to rain about 1 o'clock Willie Mc Caughna hoed my Potatoes yesterday Mr Moore & Roger M cultivated his corn
26th - Barney Ida and I accepted the monument this morning it looks splendid Roger M & Moor planted beans till it commenced to rain there was a nice shower
1885 June 28th - Roger M Kittie & I attended Herbert Withies funeral at Byron he was drowned while bathing in the river God help his poor mother
29th - I got Mr Middlesworth and Mr Swick to fix up the graves Roger M hauled the sand I went to Ellas to dinner
July 2d - Mr Middlesworth & Mr Swick finished graveling the yard and fixing the graves they look nice I spent what time I had with Mrs Welch & sister Lemon
1st - Roger M went to Fenton he bought a suit of cloths two shirts for which he paid $20.00 dol I went to Lindon to see Mrs Douglass she died July 4th I bought a basket of strawberries
1885 July 6th - Kittie & I went to Ly(i)nden to attend Mrs Douglass funeral they are passing away one by one, Mr Goodspeed commenced to cut my grass Mr Kirkendale is here helping Roger M cut grass
7th - Mr Hills is here came on the stage
th - I went with him to the cemetery to day then rode with him to Ellas then rode home in the stage
10th - Mrs George Runnyan Mrs Will Kitson, Ella Beckwith Mrs Hocum of Lynden visited here Mr Rosencrans Colonel & Major Anderson called to get right of way extended one year and solissit subscriptions
11th - Mr Frasier, Mr Kirkendol is helping Roger M in the hay
1885 July 11th - Mr Jack King is here he made a cellar door and a small barn door & fixing doors on cow barn and built 2 bridges at the red barn
20th - mer 96 in shade at one o'clock Robert is cutting Wheat Roger M is going through his corn
21st - Mrs Archie Mc Caughna & Mrs Mary Euler is here
22d - Kittie and I went to Gaines
28th - I gave my Note for $100 dol for R R
29th - our Jack horse died Roger M came from Salsberrys
31st - I sold the two yr old steers to James Christie for $90,00 dol
1885 Aug 1st - one year ago to day my dear husband received his death wound, I went to his grave this morning how I long to stay there, I will go a few more times then I will stay there to
4th - Bernard and I went to Linden and bought a carriage for which I paid $125 dol
5th - I went to see poor Francis
6th - I am going to sit up with her to night
15th - Kittie went to Wall Lake and I went to Corunna on the 10 o'clock train I returned on the 3 o'clock I met Mrs Rossiter at Gaines;
19th - I recieved a letter from dear Kittie and one from Mrs Beebe
1885 Aug 20th - Mr Vandeburg finished the cistern to day Don Mc Caughna helped Roger M Mr Con fixed the conductors Frank Karrer is here cutting oats, and I am verry tired
25th - pas Florida tree had one blossom I bought the Mrs Douglass horse of Dr Harper Executor of Mrs Douglass Estate paid $90,00 dol I staid with poor Francis
30th - I went to see Francis poor sufferror
Sept 1st - I went to Gaines and traded at Mr Mason, I met James Stanton he came on the carrs from Lindon when wee came home it rained and hailed mercury went down to 58 it is showery Roger M started to plow with the new hors(e) Kit and his colt he and James Stanton is going to Byron with colt on carriage there was quite a frost
1885 Sept 1st - I subscribed for the Shiawassee Journal Kittie has not come yet I hope she will never relize how sad and lonely I am
2d - Roger M has gone to take James Stanton to Gaines Bernard sold 10 of my sheep to Mr Close for 19 shillings pr head which amounted to $23.75 cts I went to Gaines to meet Kittie it was a happy meeting I bought a lamp to present to Ella Goodspeed
8th - I attended Mr Gil Coles funeral
17th - Mrs Shad was buried in Byron Thursday sermon by Rev Benton from Saline
18th - Mr King finished I paid him 85.85 A number of men was at work on the R Road track the first openning
19th - I sit up with poor Francis last night it is Sunday afternoon
1885 Sept 22d Tuesday - I went with Roger M to see the Rail Road track he has a man getting out ties while I was there; 16 Germans came along the track from Durand looking for a job all in one gang
24th - my dear husband died one year ago to day
25th - Mrs Mc Kinney and I went through on the Railroad track from their west lane; north to Roberts ditch
26th - Ida and I went and sit up with poor Francis she is a great sufferer
28th Sunday - my Dear husband was buried one year ago to day and my darling sister died in California
29th - Ida and I went to see poor Francis wee prepared her two rooms Bernard white washed
1885 Sept 31st - I have just been over on our west line what a sight to see men and teams on the R Road I met John H Mc Lane contractor from Durand to Howel and through to South Lions, I did not meet P Willson Mc Lane & Willson are the contractors Loue Row Forman of 42 Polanders, Charles Sumner Constuction Boss he had 13 span of Horses and men to work them along our west line oh what a sight I never expected to see. Edward Woodruff Bridge Contractor Wm Prindle boss of a gang of men
1885 Oct 1st - Ida and I went to the track with my Carriage then wee went on the track as far as Mr Roberts fence there was gangs of men and 12 span of horses wee came back to the road got in our Carriage drove over to Ellas men were cutting down their cherry trees and digging out their Pear trees and gangs of men at work south of there, wee heard the sad news of Mr Tubs being found dead in the pasture where he went to milk
4th - Robert Cowan and Lizzie has come from Indiania this morning they have gone to see poor Francis
6th - hard frost last night
7th Wednesday - morning Mr Christie has come Francis is worse
1885 Wednesday Oct 7th - Mrs Francis Christie died
8th - wee started with her remaines from her house to the school house where the sermon was delivered by the Methodist Minister Text Genesis 23 Chapter, death and burial of Sarah at 10 o'clock wee started arrived at Whitmore Lake 8 of us staid their
9th - wee started at 7 o'clock arrived at Sister Marys at 11 o'clock. wee had dinner, friends come to the house at two o'clock wee went to the cemetery and laid her poor painless body in the grave til the resurrection morn, wee shall know each other there oh God give her soul rest,
10th - Robert Cowan and I started at half past 9 o'clock took dinner at Brighton arrived home at half past 8 o'clock, oh my dessolate home that once was so bright and fair
1885 Oct 17th - Kittie has just put on a new pair of shoes Mr Hilbard thrashed my oats to day I had 93 bushels. Kittie, Aggie, Mrs Joslin, Flora and Mrs Dibles went to the R Road to see them drive piles, the road bed along our fence is ready for the ties
26th - Bernard and I went to Corunna on the 10 o'clock train, returned on the afternoon train, I called on Mrs Nichols, she is some better Mr Elijah Newman was buried to day
26th - Roger M got 24 barrels of apples
27th - it is raining this morning
28th Wednesday - Ida, & Fannie Crosby visited me
29th - is verry cold, Mrs Rusts little girl will be buried this afternoon
30th - the hardest frost this fall mercury 12 deg above zero
1885 Nov 1st Sunday - the ground is covered with snow this morning the first this fall and raining a little
7th - it rained every day this week mercury ranged from 32 to 42 til this morning, it is 62 and cloudy I am sending a letter to Mrs Beers by Roger M, this morning, it is Saturday
9th - Mr Sheldon & Ella was here
11th - I went to Idas a little while
12th - I went to Byron called on some friends, I visited my darling husbands grave, where I told all my sorrows, and it relieved my sad heart, I went to Ellas to dinner, after wee done up the work wee went on the R Road track north to the bridge, met Mr Haywood Mr Downer constuction boss was verry pleasant, wee went south to Mr Foxes job, Ella and I returned
1885 Nov 12th - mercury was 60 above in the evening I had the door open til 7 o'clock in the evening when it commenced to rain and blow
13th - cold it is freezing mercury 32 above Josie Miner came home with Kittie
14th - Mrs Richards, and Miss Holden one of the Byron teachers visited here Mrs Louisa Monroe, and sister Miss Edith Strong, visited here the roads are verry bad.
15th - Frank Ella and Eddie, went over to the R Road, to see the sink
16th - white frost morning, rained on night
18th - raining and roads verry bad, and thundering mercury 50 above zero this morning
19th - one year ago to day Patric Cowan died it has cleared off nice this afternoon
th - I attended Mr Wm R Knapps funeral sermon delivered by Elder Withie Methodist minister at Byron Text 14 Chap 13th verse blessed are the dead that die in the Lord
1885 Nov 20th - it rained all day the roads are terrible I went to the cemetery and visited my dear husbands grave, once more I love to linger there; for I shall soon be with him
21st - it has cleared off nice
22d Sunday - it verry glomy and freezing all day
23 - gloomy and spitting snow, and thawing Roger M took my darling Kittie to school this morning, I feel sad and lonely for her my tears are falling as I penn this, Kittie forgive ma; wee are both wrong
25th - Aggie & I went over to the Railroad and saw them lay the ties and iron along our west line, wee met Mrs Mc Kinney wee staid til the engine got on Mr Mc Kinneys black embankment, wee left at 4 o'clock at 6 o'clock wee saw for the first time the engine, with head lights going to Durand, it looked grand in the evening
24th - I heard old Mr Lamb died verry sudden
1885 Nov 26th Thursday - Thanksgiving day oh how lonely wee are but one more has passed
27th - evening Kittie and May Barnum came and two young men to visit Roger M wee heard old Mr Pratt is dead, lives near Argentine
Sat 28th - Dan Mc Caughna Sr & Dan Junior is here filling my wood house it is a lovely day, the carrs has just passed
29th - it is a lovely Sabbath day, wee ate our dinner with the door open, and mercury at 50 all day, Mr Bush has just passed with his Hearse old Mr Pratt was buried to day our spotted cow came in to day
30th - Roger took aload of wood to Byron, he brought back a load of sawdust for the tank
1885 Tuesday Dec 1st - the roads are awful muddy mercury 42 deg, it rained a little last night I went to Byron this morning, Kittie is poorly but did not wish to come home, I visited my dear husbands grave once more before the deep deep snow covers it, how sad was the parting; if I could onely stay with him; and be with him; this earth has lost all its charms for me; it is a beautiful world,
2d - merc 40 Roger M is plowing south of barn
4th - the roads very muddy, mercury 42 all day Roger M took a load of wood to Byron and broke the reach of the waggon. Kittie came home with him it commenced to snow at 5 o'clock snowed all night
5th - snow is 6 inches deep this morning it is Saturday morning it looks as if winter had set in for good Roger M got in the sheep this morning for the first, there has been splended pasture all fall, I close this Diary one pa presented me, I give it to Kittie Saturday Dec 5th 1885
taken from the houshold
Bakers Molasses Cookies
2 cups molasses 1/2 cup sugar
1 cup shortening 1 cup buttermilk
2 small teaspoons soda
1/2 teaspoon of ginger & cinnamon each
mix at night rollon your board in the morning,
with out kneeding before cutting take one egg and beat
add one tablespoon of molasses take a little rag rub it over;
then cut, put in the oven they are nice
Paint for lettering granit monument
Silver white paint in tubes
thin with turpentine
C W Hills Jackson
1885 Dec 5th - Roger M brought in the sheep and fed the first hay, I must collect in my chickens to night there is 6 inches of snow
1884 Aug 29 -
Mr George Rays address
Main Prairie Solarno Co
California
Mrs Kittie Stirling Address
193 Frazier St
Toledo Ohio
James Cowans Address
Tower Citty Cass Co
Dakota
Rollin Ponds receipt for cold
1/2 pint Bourbon Whiskey
1/4 oz Sweet Glycerin
1/4 lb Rock candy melted & put in, make a syurp
Kittie Haviland
Oct 25, 1884.
1885 March 5 - bought one pint varnish for the Carriage reduce one third with boiled linseed oil for the top
1884 Aug 6th -
Cholera Morbus Cure taken from the Free Press
1 cup hot water
Add 1 tablespoon cider vinegar
1 teaspoon of common salt
mix together take 1 table spoon full every 30 minutes if vomiting is severe drink hot water after every paroxyson of vomiting
Dr F Woodruffs cure for Cholera Morbis Newyork Citty
Mrs Lucy M Beebee
No 19 Park Avenue
Rochester N Y
Mrs Catharine Good boddy Addings
Chamberland P O Brule Co
Dakota
1884 Apr 7 -
A disenfectant for Contageous desease
7 parts sulphur
2 parts saltpeter
1/2 prt pulverizes camphor
fill an iron kettle half full of ashes
put the material in it
close the doors and windows then set it a fire
keep the rooms closed for three or four hours
taken from the Free Press
29th - Miss Louis Bennet finished my rag carpet of 35 yds it cost 30 cts pr the whole $10.63 cts Metalict Caskut
1883 July 16th -
Mucillage from Household
take equal parts of gum tragacanth and arabic with sufficient water to dissolve it
Fadded green blinds oil with a brushing of Linseed oil
Sept 10th -
Mrs Borden of Toledo recipe for liver
1 pt gin
1 oz extract dandelion
1/2 oz extract golden seal
1/2 oz Mandrake
1883 Apr 13th -
Virgina Bells Cough Syrrup
10 cts Licoirice
10 cts rock candy
2 teaspoonful cayene pepper
1 1/2 cup of water
boil to a syrrup
Perry Kadsels cure Rheumatism
Sassafras
tag Alder
black ash bark
wild cherry bark
equal parts
May 15th -
by John Kitson for Celia
Rheumatism recipe taken from a paper it consists of
the drippings of white pine half coffee cup
1 teaspoon flour
sulphur
small tablespoon lard
boil 10 minutes dont let it boil over
1883 Jan 21st -
another Catarrh remedy from the Houshold
2 parts of loaf or granulated sugar
2 parts of fine salt
1 part sulphur
1 part Borax
1 part Camphor gum
Pat Crosbys Cure for Rheumatism
one 1/2 pt gin
one tablespoon of sulphur
let stand two days and shake well
1 spoonful 3 times a day cured him in two days
1882 Nov 1st - For Brights disease of the Kidneys J B Henion prescription Warners Safe Kidney and silver cure the remidy which he used
19th - Catarrh remedy from the household Equal parts of gum Arabic gum Myrrh and bloodroot made into a powder and used as snuff salt water tepid and used as a gargle will often relieve and loosen the phlegm
Ida Havilands cure for Asthma and pain in Stomach Equal pts Sweet oil Turpentine Ammonia, bathe at evening for two or three times then miss
1883 Aug 13th 1882 -
Mrs O Conor recipe for caked breasts
1 oz beeswax
1 oz camphor gum
1 oz sweet oil melted together
Emma Brookins Cookies
1 Egg
1 cup sugar
1 cup Sour cream
1/2 cup Shortning
1 Teaspon soda
Nutmeg to taste
Kittie Haviland
1882 Apr 1st -
Molasses Doughnuts
1 cup molasses
2 Eggs
1 cup buttermilk
1 teaspoon soda
1 table spoon melted butter
Miss May Mc Kerrows Plumb Pudding
1 cup of suet
1 cup molasses
1 cup sweet milk
1 cup raisins
3 eggs
1 teaspoonful of spices
Bakers Molasses Cokies from the household
2 cups molasses
1 cup shortning
1 1/2 cup sugar
1 cup buttermilk
2 smal teaspoon soda
1/2 teaspoon ginger and cinamon
Ginger Cookies from Household
1 cup sugar
1 cup molasses
1 cup shortning
1 cup boiling water
1 teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon ginger
stir together well, add flour to role nicely bake in a hot oven
Sugar Cookies without Eggs
2 cups sugar
2 cups butter
1 cup sour milk
small teaspoon soda
spice to taste
Brown Bread
4 cups meal
2 cups flour
3 cups sweet milk
2 cups sour milk
1 cup molasses
2 teaspoons soda
1 teaspoon salt
pore into basins steam 2 hours - then put in the oven til brown
Mr O Conors Chillie recipe
20 Tomatoes
20 green pepers
1 onion
2 tablespoonsfuls of ginger
2 tablespoons of mustard
1 cup of brown sugar
salt to taste
all kinds of spices
boil till thick
1 pt of vinegar
Sugar Cookies Mrs Cole recipe
1 cup of thick sour cream
1/2 teaspoon soda
2 eggs
1 cup of sugar
w(h)en rolled out dust on a little sugar and role again lightly two or three times
Websters Strengthing bitters
3 oz Columbo root
3 oz Peruvian bark
3 do Goldenseal
3 do Cammomileblows
3 oz cloves
Mr Harry Sterlings coppied a cure for Dyptheria
3 Fluid oz Tincture Henbane leaves
1 Fluid oz Wine of Antimony
1 teaspoon every 3 hours
21 Apr - 1881 -
Household recipe taked from the Household
3/4 ounce of Borax to a lb of soap melted in without boiling makes a saving of soap and washing
Diarhea
1 table spoon ground mustard
1 teaspoon of soda put in a teacup of boiling water
take in three doses of 1 half hour between
Rheumatism
1 oz gum myrrh
1 pt Alcohol
bath freely
Rheumatism
1/2 pt Alcohol
1/2 pt vinnegar
2 oz cayene pepper
bath freely
Mr Martin recipe for Rheumatism
2 oz Sweet spirits Nitre
2 oz oil of Juniper
1 oz oil of Sasifras
2 oz Spirits Turpentine
1 oz Laudnum
1 pt Alcohol
Shell Edging
set up 9 stiches
slip off the first stich
knit the second
turn your thread and narrow
turn your thread twice and narrow
then knit plain
the next time across make two plots
the next time make three
at the end of the needle slip 6 stiches one over the other and the shell Edging is made
set up 9 stiches
make your fagoting and bead stich
and two plots
slip and bind 3 stiches and the work is done
Tidy
set up 96 stiches
narrow the first 8 stiches
the next 8 turn your thread and knit single
the next 16 stiches norrow
the next 8 turn your thread and knit single and so on until you come to the last 8 stiches which narrow
then knit across plain
then backwards
then plain which makes 3 times
then commence and narrow as at first
Palm leaf Edging
set up 11 stiches
slip off the first stich
knit the second
turn your thread and narrow twice
turn your thread twice and narrow twice which makes the plots
turn and slip the first stich
knit the second
knit the first stich of the plots
seam the second seam the first loop which makes the bead stich
the next loop turn your thread and knit two stiches together which makes the faggot stich then knit as before making your plots opposite each other leaving 1 stich at the end of the needle
slip and bind off to 11 stiches
Ginger Cake Household recipe
3 cups molasses
1 of sour milk
not quite one of shortning
1 teaspoon of soda
1 teaspoon of ginger
a little nutmeg
taken from the household
Cookies
1 1/2 cup of white sugar
1 cup of butter
1/2 of cream
2 eggs
1 teaspoon of soda
mix soft
Cookies
1 1/2 cups white sugar
1 cup of thick sour cream
the yolks of two eggs
one teaspoon of soda
little salt
mix cream and sugar before putting in the egg
Mrs Lottie E Dormons Cream Sponge Cake
break 2 eggs in a cup
fill up the cup with sweet cream
1 cup of white sugar
beat eggs sugar & cream together good
Cream Sponge Cake
break 2 eggs in a cup
fill up the cup with sweet cream
1 cup of white sugar
beat eggs sugar & cream together good
then beat 1 1/2 cups of flour in which two teaspoons of cream of tarter has been mixed
dissolve 1 teaspoonful of soda in a verry little hot water
season to taste
a pinch of salt
Ginger Cake
1 cup warm water
1 of shortning
2 of molasses
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon ginger
2 of soda
Mrs West
Fried Caked - Alice recipe
1 cup sugar
1 cup sweet milk
2 eggs
2 teaspoonsful B Powder
2 of C - T - V
1 of soda
5 spoons of lard
little salt
Ginger Cookies
2 cups of molasses
1 of buttermilk
1 shortning
2 teaspoons of soda
1 teaspoon of ginger
Ida's Recipe
4 eggs
2 cups sugar
2 of flour sift
2 teaspoons of baking powder with flour
2/3 cup of warm water
season with lemon
Alice recipe
Cookies
1 cup white sugar
1 cup of brown sugar
1 of butter
1 of sweet milk
the yolk of one egg
1 even teaspoon soda
a little salt
Mrs Hermon
Mrs Wormleys Ginger Snaps
1 cup of molasses
1 cup of brown sugar
1 cup shortning
1 table spoon of soda dissolved in 1/2 cup boiling water
1 table spoon of ginger & cinnamon
2 eggs
knead quite soft
Mr Martins recipe for Rheumatism
2 oz sweet spirits of niter
2 oz oil of Juniper
1 oz Laudnum
2 oz Spirits of Turpentine
4 oz Alcohol
Mrs Aldermans recipe for eye water
1 grain of White vitrol
1 grain sugar lead
1 dram laudnum
4 oz soft water
Dr Websters Liniament for scalds and burns
1 pt of vinegar
1 pt spirits turpentine
the yolk of 9 eggs
1880 May 3d - Miss Louise Bennet finished my rag carpet 33 yds it cost me 33 1/2 cts pr yard
money out
Ellas Sweet Cucumber Pickles
take ripe cucumbers pare them
take out the seeds
slice lengthwise for the table
put in a crock with water a little salt let stand 24 hours
drain quite dry
make a syrrup of 3 lbs brown sugar 1 qt vinegar 1 oz cassiu buds
when boiling hot put in cucumbers let boil 20 minutes cover tight
Ginger Cake recipe from the household
3 cups of molasses
1 of sour milk
2/3 cup of butter
1 teaspoon soda
nutmeg
ginger
Dr Websters Gargle for sore throat
take 1/2 teaspoon of capsicun it is cayene pepper
one teaspoon of salt
1/2 teacup of vinegar the same decoction of Oak bark
steep a few minutes strain
add two drachms of fluid of golden seal
use it 5 or 6 times a day
H Webster
Coachineal Color
for 1 lb of woolen cloth or yarn
melt in warm water 1/2 oz cream tarter
1 oz pulverized coachineal
add 2 oz muriate of tin
stir until it scalds then put in the goods 1/2 hour
1889 21st - History
Michigan was organized as a Territory in 1805 and admitted as a state, January 26th 1837
Mrs Eddys recipe for Hop bitters
2 oz of Hops boil til the strength is out strain add
boil the hops in 4 qts of boiling water strain
2 oz mandrake Extract
2 oz Extract of Buca
2 oz Yellow dock Extract
2 oz black Cherry Extract
2 oz Dandelion Extract
1 lb of loaf sugar
1 pt of gin to preserve it
strain the hops and put all together while it is warm I strained it in a crock when cool bottle it take 1 tablespoon every morning
Address
Mrs Rev B Church
East Saginaw Mich
in care of Sawer Smith son in law of Mrs Church
Mr N T Hough
H S Andrews
Bay Citty
Mrs H T Kenrick
74 Orchard St
Detroit
C W Hills Jackson Mounument
Man 214 & 216 Mechanic St
South
Color blue for blue cotton carpet rags
5 lbs of rags
4 oz coprice when boiling hot put in your rags let them and drain 15 minutes
take them out and ring out of a strong suds back to the coprice two or three times always wet goods before putting in any die
then mak(e) a die with 4 or 5 Prusiate of Potash 1 ounce oil of vitriol come to a boil drop in the goods for 30 minutes airing a few times
Yellow
for 5 lb of goods
7 oz sugar of lead dip the good 2 hours
make a new die with 4 oz Bishromate potash dip and air until the color suits you
Green
to color green dip your blue rags in yellow die
Miss Bennets recipe for brown
to color Brown for carpet for 10 lbs of rags
1 lb Japonica or catechen
1/2 lb of Bichromat of potash
dissolve the Japonica in a little water then add enough for the die
color in Iron, dissolve the potash in the washing boiler
let the goods remain in the catechen die for 20 minutes
boil all the time
take them out and drain
then put them in the potash water which must be boiling hot
for a dark color leave in 15 minutes
for a light not more than ten minutes
wrins in two or three waters
add one ounce of blue vitroe to the catechen
this die makes a tan color
for mader Red
1 lb madder for three lbs woolen cloth or yarn
let madder come to boiling heat
with water to cover goods one hour
never boilin constantly stiring
rinse out your boiler
dissolve 2 oz coachineal pulverized
in clean soft water bring to a scald
put the cloth in one hour airing often doe not wash the cloths or yarn after coloring
always wet cloth or yarn before putting in a die
washing fluid
1/2 oz Carbonate of ammonia
1/2 oz Carbonate of potash
1 pound Babbots potash
1 coffee cup fluid to a boiler of clothes
1881 Address -
W R Knapp
Bear Valley Minasota
Mrs O Conor
243 Brush St
Aug 21 - Roger M went to Lansing wee received a letter from him 25th
Nov 13th - he came home made a visit left for Lansing 16th
Dec 25th -
he came home Mr Theodore Gale address
Lansing
No 110 Chestnut St South
Mrs John Wyks
Cambridge Shire
England
received your letter of Jan 14th the 31st 1882
Mrs Ella C Fitzgerald
Ithica Gratiot Co
in care J A Guthree