Page 124 - May 21, 1840 - Setting Onions

May the 21. 1840 Pag 1. 24

Thu 21 Clear this morning quite cool and windy

but got cloudy and rained some of the

time I set out my bed of oniones 1840

Fri 22 Clear this morning quite pleasant I

drawd 11. loads of rails 38 at a load

quite nice all dday I unyoked my oxen

Sat 23 Cloudy this morning and raining some

but got clear and nice for a while then it

got cloudy and rained some I drowd four

loads of rails 40 at a load till noon in

the after noon I helped E. Timmons to

spay four shoats I plowed some of my garden

Sun 24 Cloudy this morning and rained some

it broke away and got some pleasanter

I went to meeting and at four oclock

I went to meeting again it rained some

before night again after night I went

to Mr. Genings to prayr meeting

and comming home I got lost it did

rain very hard tremendiously dark

Mon 25 Cloudy this morning and raining

some three or four times in the day

I planted 19 rows of potatoes and finish

setting out my onions the sun shoen

out some of the time Harmon

Tue 26 Cloudy this morning and raining

some and continued so all day I built

fence part of the day it rained all

day quite smart Harmon R Lucas

Wed 27 Cloudy this morning and rained till

noon in the after noon it broke away

I haled stakes till noon in the after

noon I laid up fence I got 90 pannels

up after night I went to a school

meeting we got 14 dollars made up

Wm. burch J. Klepinger M. Mahen

J. grooms Mr Mendenhall manegerss

adam best secutary or Librarian

Page 117 - April 12, 1840 - Whipper Wills

April the 12 . 1840 . Page 1. 17

Sun 12 Cloudy this morning and rained

quite hard after night it ceased at haf

past nine oclock I went to love feast

was intermishen the space of 15 minuets

then publick preaching Maria and

Venatta Patterson Wm Klepinger

and Samuel Klepinger too at 5

oclock we went to meeting again

it lasted till in the night it got

clear before night rite smart out to

day .S. Klepinger staid all night

Mon 13 Clear this morning quite pleasant

with the exception of a heavy frost

it has the appearance of being a

fine day I got up some wood and

at eleven oclock I went to the

meeting again Elizabeth Patterson

and John grooms at night I went

to meeting again Wm Campbell

preached at night on this ocation

quite a favorable meeting it broke

at 12 oclock after meting it

rained quite hard no more 1840

Tue 14 Cloudy this morning and it

rained some little it has the

appearance of continuing to hold

out it soon quit and got clear

I cut some timber for rails after

night I went to meeting again

house full quite a good meeting

I heard the whipper wills 1840

Wed 15 Clear this morning with a havy

frost on I went up to Jacob Klepinge

and Pulver worked out taw days

it got some cloudy in the evening

I groubed some of the time and

some of the time I made stakes

we got to talking on politicks

but we Dident hit to gether

on the subject at all no not

Page 41 - December 23, 1838 - Soldier of the Cross

December the 23. 1838 Page 41

Sun 23 clear and quite coald morning meeting

commenced at nine O. clock at noon

Wm groomes and wife and daughter

and Elvila and Gearge pierce and

Wm Simes and wife James Servison

and wife and James pierce all ate diner

meeting ended at nine O. clock and

Wm grooms and wife and daughter and

Micheh Hair staid with us 1838

Mon 24 clear this morning I sent my not with

Hair which I held against Fraisure

and company I cut some rail timber

and after night it snowed som

Tue 25 cloudy this morning Father went

down to James pierces after oats

I drawed wood father got hom with 58

Bushels I done nothing of eny conciquen

it snowed som in the evening H R

Wed 26 clear this morning and quite coald and

Father started up to Logans port

I done nothing all day after night

I went over to Salem meeting house

in the evening it had the appearanc

of snow late in the evening 1838

Thu 27 Cloudy this morning but broke a

way and turned out quit nice I

shot five hogs for old Mr. Shigley

I made a sled two quite pleasent

Fri 28 cloudy this morning at eleven O clock

it snowed I drawed wood over to the

Meeting house John G Smith got

insualed at somthing or other at

night thier was ingin school at Salem

thiir was 20 out I kiled one praire hen

Am I a soldier of the cross a folower

of the lamb and shall I fear to on

his cause or blush to speak ahis nam

and must this feeble body faint

Page 40 - December 18, 1838 - Love and Praise

December the 18 1838 Page 40

Tue 18 cloudy and very coald all day Father

came back from mill I killed three hens

Wed 19 cloudy and tremendisly coald and

Father started up to Logans port and

after night their was meeting over at

Salem meeting house their was the

minister and ten hearers I killed 4

hens and drawed wood too H.R. Lucas

Thu 20 clear and very coald it clouded up and

got some coalder in the afternoon it

got clear again and got som warmer

I drawed wood and went up to Jacob K

and bought two calvs I am to give him

nine days work for them I counted up

how meny chickens I had killed which

made forty in number from the first

of September ttill the last of Dec 1838

Fri 21 cloudy partley all day I went down to

Harrison Ville in the afternoon after

night it rainde some father got home from

Logans port but dident sell out his

load he got home at three O. clock P M

Sat 22 clear this morning cut clouded up and

the frost flew it got very coald I went

down to Harvey Stretches after money

I got 1.50. cts quarterly meeting commened

at Salem old Mr. Adam Shigley departed

his life at six O. clock in the evening

I went over at the meeting after night

James Servison and wife and Wm

groomes and wife and daughter and allso

Thomas smith and James Pierce staid

all night with us at present 1838

a charge to keep I have a god to gloryfie

alas and did my saviour blede and did

my savrer die when all they mercies

O my god my rising soul surveys

transported with the view Im lost

in wounder love and praise 1838

Page 38 - December 10, 1838 - Father Hunting

December the 10. 1838 Page 38

Mon 10 cloudy this morning early but soon

broke away it was very cool in the morning

it got quit warm and pleasent the Balen

of the day Father started out to Mr.

Groomeses to hunt game which is about

sixteen miles off I took down my over

Coat to Miss. Eeveline Conley to make

she has three Dollars for making a

coat Mr. Simes killed his hogs I

came home and fikced my stables a

Samuel Klepinger went to school

for the first day to Mr. Barnes 1838

this night I counted up the days since I

commenced my Book keeping the number

was two hundred and forty seven days

Tue 11 clear this morning and thoughed rite

smart quite pleasent all day I made

a stable done and in the afternoon

I helped Timmons tare down his house

James Pierce was hear to day and

Thomas Smith came out from Ohio

the tenth of the month and father came

home with hime I killed one praire hen

Wed 12 clear and some cooler than it has been

for two or three days past I helped

Timmons raise a house after night

their is meeting over at Salem

meeting house Mr. Wood exhorted

Father land home from hunting and

killed nothing a tall so no more at

this time hoping no insinuation too

Thu 13 clear and pleasent all day I thrashed

corne after night there was a

singing school over at Salem mete

ing house I killed two praire hens

and one quail Thomas Smith

and James Pierce came up to the

singing school there was rite smart

of a congragtion out to night 1838

aman of words and not of dead

a charge to keep I have a god