Page 166 - 1844 Dividing Beef

August the 31 1844 Page 166

Vancamp Dr. to H R L 21 of beef . . . 0.52

george franklin to 16 pounds of beef . . . 0.40

Wm. Klepinger to 9 1/2 of beef . . . 0.19

B Lucas to 9 of beef . . . 0.18

H genings 11 of beef . . . 0.22

H Lucas 10 of beef . . . 0.20

Hide weighing 12 3 ounces . . . 0.98

sep 4 Vancamp got 24 . . . 0.48

george franklin got 22 . . . 0.44

Wm klepinger got 22 1/2 . . . 0.45

Hiram gening got 8 1/2 . . . 0.17

hide weighed 36 1/2 . . . 1.49

Wm simes got 1X0 104 . . . 2.60

Sep 10 Vancamp got of beef 23 1/2 . . . 0.47

gibson got of beef 41 1/4 . . . 1.04

B. Lucas of beef 43 . . . 1.08

Do to 37 pounds of beef . . . 0.74

Wm. Klepinger got of beef . . . 0.09

george Franklin 13 1/2 of beef . . . 0.27

Hide weighing 31 1/2 . . . 1.26

Septe 23 I got of H. genning 23 1/2 of beef . . . 0.47

Sep 31 H. R. Lucas got of Wm. Kleppnger 26 . . . 0.52

D Oogden got of Wm Kleppnger 26 1/2 . . . 0.53

Do to X pounds of salt . . . 0.X

April the 2 . 1845 david Archibald

I got 100 rails of him

Page 158 - 1844 House Raising

September the 17.th. 1843 158

Elem tree hall or do not medle with what does

not belong to you I love to tell a cheerfull tale in

Sat 14 of September 1844 H. R. L

I raised my house and stable M. L

the names of each person at it

Aaron yarnold 1 Wm. Kleppinger 2

'Jesse W Robenson 3 george franklin

4 Jacob snider 5 Egburt Patterson 6

Wm. Patterson 7 James Patterson Jun

8 Vancamp 9 James Shearer 10

Stephen Barnard 11 daniel ogden 12

Benjamin Lucas 13 Pope white 14

Hiram gennings 15 Wm. Mansfield 16

Harmon R Lucas 17 John MC Neel 18

David Pulver dr to harmon R Lucas

for 1 pair of pantiloons price 250

and he was to worke ten days for them

this is 1111

October the 5the 1842

David Klepinger got of beef 31 paid . . . 0.62

Wm. Klepinger got of beef 23 paid . . . 0.46

J. patterson of beef 1.32 . . . 3.96

B Lucas got of beef 1.28 . . . 3.84

J graves got of beef 46 and paid . . . 0.92

J shigley got of beef 52 pounds . . . 1.04

H genings 57 pounds . . . 1.14

Hide weighing 64 pounds . . . 2.87

Jacob pierce got of H. Lucas 4 calves

and is to let him have 3 hundred

rails half white oak rails . . . 3.75

he all so got 1 pair of boots and is

to give me 2 hundred rails

half white oak rails . . . 2.50

Page 146 - Births

Sun 10 .th. 1843 of September 146

Harmon R Lucas was born

July the 12 th. 1819 in

Muskingum Count Ohio

Hester Ann Lucas was born

November the 21 st. 1820 in

Muskingum County Ohio

Francis Asbury Lucas was born in

February the 12 th. 1822

Muskingum County Ohio

Ruey Ann Lucas was born

September the 21 st. 1823 in

Muskingun County Ohio

Mary Jane Lucas was born

March the 6 th. 1825 in

Muskingum County Ohio

Emly Francis Lucas was born

May the 11 th. 1826 in

Muskingum County Ohio

Benjamin Josiah Lucas was born

March the 30 th. 1828 in

Muskingum County Ohio

Susan Brown Lucas was born

November 16 th. 1829 in Dresden

Muskingum County Ohio

Curtis Williams Lucas was born

June the 6 th. 1831 in

Tippacanoe County Indiana

Benjamin Franklin Lucas was born

December the 8 th. 1932 in

Tippacanoe County Indiana

Martha Ellen Lucas was born

May the 3 D. 1834 in

Tippacanoe County Indiana

Journal of Harmon Lucas - Cover

The Journal of Harmon Lucas

The journal of Harmon Lucas measures some 170 millimeters wide by 395 millimeters in length and 17 millimeters thick. The pages are divided by vertical lines at intervals of, counting from the left, 29, 129 and 146 millimeters. There is a margin of 19 millimeters at the top of each page, followed by horizontal lines at regular intervals of 9 millimeters to the bottom of the page, for a total of 44 lines. The folios are folded in half to form quires of twenty pages and sewn together with cord. It is covered, front and back, in thick cardboard. There are 105 leaves surviving, in part or whole, for a total of 210 pages.

I first saw Harmon's journal in the weeks after my grandmother, Zula Lucas Harris, died in 1966. I can only guess how she came into possession of the book. I can safely assume she got it from her father, William Lucas. Before that all is conjecture. Zula died at the age of seventy and was born in Kokomo, Indiana. Zula had one older brother, Chester, and their mother was Rebecca Ridgeway Lucas, who came to Indiana from Tennessee. So they came from the right part of the country, but William could not have been a descendant of Harmon. Harmon had only two girl children, Mary and Jane, neither of whom carried on the Lucas name to any more children. Harmon was born on July 12, 1819, in Ohio, he died on February 26, 1846, in Tippicanoe County, and his widow, Maria, died in Jones County, Iowa 48 years later to the day. Harmon's parents were Benjamin Lucas and Mary Rogers, and he had several siblings. My best guess would be that the book came through Harmon's brother, Curtis, who in turn may have been William's father. I have not investigated my family history all that well. Anyone who wants to do the research for me is welcome. I know that the family, William, Rebecca, Chester, and Zula Lucas, moved to Riverside in Southern California around 1900, and were joined by some cousins who became railroad men and firefighters in Bakersfield, California. Many members of the Lucas family still reside near Lafayette, Indiana. Other descendents have dispersed around the globe, and I have brought Harmon's book from Southern California, through Nevada, to Oregon.

Harmon did not seem very concerned about spelling, punctuation was almost unknown, and he used capitals erratically. He often employed shorthand grammar, and he ended sentences abruptly at the edge of the paper. At the time that he bought and wrote in the book, he seems to have been motivated first by an effort to record the weather. Other observations crept in with time. Then he turned to recording his financial transactions, and working up ideas about the Methodist church. Later still the book became a child's playtoy and scratch pad, with scribbles and ripped pages. Some pages have been torn out entirely! Harmon probably had no idea he was leaving a record for posterity. Given that this is not a photo reproduction, I have still tried to preserve the general format and his idiosyncratic spelling.

The inside of the front cover has been used at various times, by various hands, in ink and pencil, to practice penmanship, to calculate sums, and to take notes. For the sake of completeness, the doodlings recorded there, from top to bottom, and left to right, somewhat resemble the following:

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2035

900 + 900 + 500 + 500 + 700 + 500 = 4000 + 250 + 400 = 5050

300 + 2.800

John Graves wood act 15

Marshfield Postoffice by Thomas Green

125 + 60 = 185

Franklin Poseland

Franklin Joselanel

Mary Mary