Page 176 - 1854, Other Writers (Ireland?)

64 Henry Meyers Dr

to fenage . . . .10

to Cash for george Emerson . . . .20

to board . . .

to plank . . .

7 Bushels Corn paid

to hog - paid

to Coffin - paid

Cr to 50 Cash - paid

Cr to 2 bushel Corn - paid

Dr

Sept 1854 Clemant Lane Dr to J W Ireland

to a fee in the Case of Lane Vs Morrow

before Justice jonson . . . $5.00

Cr on the above paid . . . 3.00

Cr to Cash . . . .50

Dr to one pr shoes 70 cts . . . .70

Benjamin Freeman agent for

8gels boy and St John to assisting

in the Collecting money from

sawes Froffman to 1 37 05 fee . . . $5.00

Marsan Tike fo fee paid . . . 5.00

10 + 20 + 85 + 50 = 155

27 x 5 = 135 - 50 = 85

466 / 8 = (long division)= 5825

250 + 70 = 320

orchy to one day by frank

board himself

9 to one day

10 to 1/2 day

12 to one day

19 to 1/2 day

12 = to One day by frank with dalley

169 + 172 = 341 181

570 - 350 = 220

1800 - 1440 = 360

144 x 12 = 288 + 1440 =1728 + 72 = 1800

570 - 250 = 320 - 230 = 90

221 x 10 = 2210

341 / 21 = 16

221 / 21 = 10

Clear to Day

178 + 182 + 30 = 390

169 + 172 = 341 + 30 = 371

250 / 21 = 11

243 / 21 = 11

Page 175 - 1845, Lucas - 1853, Ireland

Mr. Nolten Dr to H R Lucas .

J 1845 two hundred and ten rails 240

the H1 / 4.3 2l 41 H 3 b 42 S 4 b 43 S 5 l 43 A 6 b 41 A

711A b HB 511 H 8 l 51 9 b 50 10 b to A 50 11 l of

H 52 12 b of A 50 1.35 2.35 35 . 55 50

16 46 55 59 50

. . . = 13.56

for 1 2 year old heifer . . . 4.00

for 2 bushels of potatoes . . . 1.00

for 20 bushels of oals . . . 4.50

for 2 1/2 bushels of eals . . . 0.55

for 2 bushels of oats . . . 0.44

for feching things from town . . . 0.50

Wm. Ireland feb 1853 to

Cash . . . 20.00

grue to Cash . . . .50

to cash . . . 2.00

to cash for ad petter . . . 5.00

to cash for Wm snider . . . 35.00

. . . = 62.50

to Cash to gow for waggon . . . 01.50

. . . = 64.00

to pare boots . . . 2.50

to Cash . . . 20.00

. . . = 86.50

Ballance due Wm . . . 3.50

Wm Dr to 22 bushels corn . . . 5.50

Cr by 1 Dr Mits fr frank . . . 1.00

to tea & salaratts . . . .60

140 - 45 = 95 - 75 = 20

6500 + 2000 = 8500

70 - 45 = 25

6500 + 2500 = 9000 - 8650 = 350

6500

70 - 45 = 25

140 - 75 = 65

Page 173 - 1852, James Ireland Writing?

Dec 9th 1852 James W Ireland and

William M Mansfield settled all

these accounts in fall and I owe

Mansfield for one days gathring

Corn and Mansfield is to bucher

hogs 1 day

to Frank husking corn 2 days to self 1 day . . . 1.87

to Mansfield hold Corn . . . 1.00

to Nate at Mcormicks sale 2.64 fo lag chare

to cash paid to winer for scholling . . . 1.33

Jack Smith Dr to 12 bush Con

at 28 cts per bushel . . . 3.36

to 2 hats . . . .87 1/2

to 1 pare shoes . . . 1.25

to 1 pair pants . . . .62 1/2

. . . = 6.11

Cr to Isaac working 21 1/2 day . . . 7.52

at 35 cts pr day

george Enis on Dr to balance due

on settlement oct 1853 . . . $11.42

5h May Cr to stocking shovelplow . . . .75

to one days Clearing . . . .75

to one 1/2 day in Clearing self s west . . . 0.75

Dr to 4 galons Molases . . . 2.00

Cr to stocking Cradle . . . 1.50

Dr to 1 Pair shoes . . . 1.25

to 1 pair boots for self . . . 2.00

Cr to waggon wheal . . . 1.00

to boys 1 day thrashing . . . .75

Dr to one day thrashing 2 horses . . . 1.50

to pare boots for charles . . . 2.00

Cr to boys husking Corn

3 days Each . . . 2.25

Cr to stocking shovelplows . . . 1.25

one to be paid by M Rooney at 75

Dr to 456 ft sheeting at rage . . . 9.12

24 x 12 = 48 +240 = 288 + 12 = 300

456 x 2 = 912 - 675 = 237

Page 165 - Expenses

Debrah ann &seland 165

1 skein of silk price . . . 0.06

1 paper of pins price . . . 0.12

1/2 pound of all spice . . . 0.06

1/2 pound of saleratus . . . 0.06

50 I paid paid father . . . 0.50

4 bushels of brand . . . 0.16

5 pounds of coffe . . . 0.50

2 pounds of rice . . . 0.10

20 pounds of nails . . . 1.25

1 gallon of molases . . . 0.40

1 gallon of vinigar . . . 0.15

1 bushels of green aples . . . 0.15

1 sack 12 cts . . . 0.12

1 bushe of apples green . . . 0.25

8 pounds of eight peny brads . . . 0.55

1 1/2 pounds of four penyes . . . 0.11

1 pound of six pennys . . . 0.07

45 I paid Bostick the amount . . . 0.45

1 pound of tobaco for Wm. Kle . . . 0.12

2 pounds of eight penny brads . . . 0.12

3 pounds of eight penny nails . . . 0.18

3 pounds of sugar at ten cts . . . 0.30

1 haulter the price of 12 cts . . . 0.12

1 bowl of candle wick . . . 0.10

4 bushels of brand 4 cts per bus . . . 0.16

92 I got in cash 92 cts . . . 0.92

1 pair of coarse boots No 10 . . . 2.50

1 pair of coarse shoes No 10 . . . 1.00

6 pounds of cotten yarn . . . 1.12

3 1/4 pounds of cotten yarn . . . 0.71

1 1/2 yards of gingum and spool . . . 0.25

1 set of a nitting needles and . . . 0.06

15 pounds of iron 4 1/2 cts per pound . . . 0.68

28 pains of glass at 3 cts per pain . . . 0.84

14 bushels of unslcked lime . . . 1.50

1 pint of tar at six cts . . . 0.06

1 sive the p price was 31 cts . . . 0.31

4 pounds of whilening 6 cts perpo . . . 0.25

1 pint of lint seed oile . . . 0.18

3 peck of peches at 1 dollar per Bu . . . 0.80

1 pound of salaratus at ten cts . . . 0.10

1 cream mug 5 cts . . . 0.05

1 pair of buts and screws . . . 0.20

Page 145 - Marriage and Death

145

Harmon R Lucas was Maried on

the 1.st. of July 1841 to Maria Mansfield

in Laffayette Fair field Township at

at Mr. Elices this being Septembr 6. 1841

Harmon Reasoner Lucas

Departed this life February the 26th 1846

in Tippacanoe Co Ind

Maria Ireland

Departed this life February the

26th 1894 in Jones Co Iowa

just 48 years between there deaths

Page 140 - 1843 Accounts

November the 21 1843 140

Charles Lamb Dr. to Harmon R Lucas

Nov 21 ten chickens 5 cts each . . . $ .50

Dec 13 4 bushels of potatoes . . . 1.00

1 bushel of turnips . . . .10

Apr 12 6 bushels of oats . . . 1.32

Nov 8 1 load of hay guess 12 hundred . . . 0.00

at 7 dollars per tone . . . 4.20

Nov 9 1 load of hay weight 12. 92 pr . . . 0.00

at 7 dollars per tone . . . 4.55

. . . 11.67

to cash . . . 8.30

. . . $ 19.97

Sep 8 th

Wm Mered 1 meels 1

JW Ireland 1 . . . 3

G Bates 1 . . . 3

R Wiles 1 . . . 3

Page 112 - March 10, 1840 - Home Again

March the 10 . 1840 Page 1. 12

Tue 10 Clear this morning I got to Laffayette

at 11 oclock I staid a while and came

out home my bill was 87 cts it got quite

windy and cool it snowd some in the evening

I got home at four oclock P. M Harmon

Wed 11 Clear this morning quite pleasant I went

down to Hiram Geningses then I came

back and went down to home and found

them all well quite cool 1840 Harmon

Thu 12 Clear this morning quite pleasant I

had a hard time to ove hall my books

I got them all rited at last in the

evening it got cloudy and snowd some

some Father got three lots and a half

of land of Daniel Yanders at 8

dollars per acre five years to pay it in

wheat and pork at market price 1840

I went to meeting at saleme 1840

Fri 13 Cleare this morning I went up to

James Irelands in the evening it

got cloudy I went down home 1840

Sat 14 Cloudy this morning and rained som

in the evening I went home againe it

rained some of the time Harmon

Sun 15 Cloudy this morning quite cool I went

meeting at Saleme then back home after

night I went to meeting again 1840

Mon 16 Cloudy this morning quite so it rained

I cut stalks ta day after night it

turned in to raining quite hard 1840

Tue 17 Cloudy this morning but soon broke

away the sun shoen out I began to

make rails some warmes at noon

it got quite clear I cut timber

till night then I went to E.

Pattersons to meeting Harmon

Page 98 - December 12, 1839 - Yankee Bee

December the .12. 1839 Page 98

Thu 12 Cloudy this morning quite cool late

in the evening it broke away and at

sun down it got clear and the moon

shown out I helped Erastus Barnes

get in the corn from string town it

was a yankee bee as they call it H . L

Fri 13 Cloudy this morning and looks like

snowd it was a fine day I helped

to make a corn crib and other things

Sat 14 Cloudy this morning and snowing some

by turns all day I killed 3 hens and

in the evening I got on my colt and got

hurt by a fall mendenhalls and wife

was hear on a visit no more at pres

Sun 15 Cloudy this morning and snowing rite

smart quite blustry at 11 oclock I went

to meeting right smart out at it the

preacher came hear and took refreshment

after night I went down to E. Pattersons

to meeting house full no more at this

Mon 16 Cloudy this morning and snowd some all

day I fixt fence till noon in the after noon

I went to J. Ireland and cut some wood

Tue 17 Cloudy this morning snowd some Father

helped H. Genings to kill hogs I drowd some

fodder and killed two quails noe more at this

Wed 18 Cloudy this morning at noon it broke

away and moderated some in the fore noon

we got in a load of corn in the after

noon we got wood after night we went

to H. Genings on a visit and came to

home 5. minuets after one oclock 1839. 21

Thu 19 Cloudy this morning at noon it broke

away and turned in some warmed I

got wood all day no more at this

present time but Remmen me 183

Page 96 - November 29, 1839 - Mud and Logs

November the 29 . 1839 Page . 96 .

Fri 29 Cloudy this morning and it rained

lightly it thoughed rite smart quit

smokey all day Mr. Genings got

2 barels of salt one for him self

containing 2.90 pounds and Mr

Barnes one containing 3.00 pounds 21

I drowd stable logs all day it was 39

quite heavy draging through the mud 18

Sat 30 Cloudy this morning and sleaty quit

a disagreeble day Father raised his

stable quite a disagreeable and mudy

day I drowd logs all day no more at

Sun 1. Cloudy this morning quite smokey

I went up to J. Irelands to seeson a

ground to tend then I came to meeting

I got my colts up from Mendenhalls

after night I went to Salem meting

house. Harmon. R. Lucas 10840

Mon 2 Cloudy this morning it rained some

two or three times in the day I cut rails

timber till noon in the after I went up

to David Knites to lake him 1.37 cts

it snowd one time I was braking my

colt S. Pulver and Father settled

up every thing up to this time he ow a

me 14. dollars 37. cts Wm Hunt

commenced his school no mor at this

Tue 3 Cloudy this morning it rained some I

made some rails for S. Colbert S

Pulver helped me make rails Mrs.

Pulver and the preacher and simes was

hear after night we had a husking we

had five at it. it got clear but soon got

cloudy again no more at present 18

Wed 4 Cloudy this morning it rained some

I helped to caut out the windows out

Father went to mill at no more

at this time 1840 H. Lucas

Page 59 - April 11, 1839 - Trembling Pen

April the 11. 1839. Page 59

Thu 11 Clear this morning with the exception

of a few flying clouds some cool to it

continued clear till nearly night then it got

cloudy and at night it bgan to rain quite

hard I went to Lafayettte I got me two

blind bridles and a collar at five dollars I

got me a hat at fifty cts at MC Cormicks

one dollars worth of trimmons and twelve

cts worth of shot I foand a six pence two

Fri 12 Cloudy this morning and raining it

rained till ten O clock then it broke away

som about twelve the sun shoen out in

the after noon it got qute clear and nice

I don mothing in the fore noon in the after

noon I made fence ine the after noon

Sat 13 Clear this morning with a heavy frost it

continued clear all day James W Ireland he

spaid four hogs one died in less than five minut

after sh was spaid their was an election held

for the purpose of electoon Captain Lieutenan

and ensign James W Ireland got two vots

more than Timmons Wm. Graves got in

to be Lieutenant and Silas Colbert got

in to be ensign I voted for them all my 21

self I mustered two up in the praire 1839

Sun 14 Clear this morning with a heavy frost I

went over to Mr. Mendenhalls and staid

all day at night I went over to Feeldens

and staid all night in the evening it clouded

up and had the appearance of rain but dident

Mon 15 Clear this morning some cooler it has the

apparance of a fine day it thundred some

quite warm I plowed for oats in the evening

it got som cloag after night it rained som

little a man of words and not of deeds

is like a garden full of weeds and no

Dear miss it is with much trembling

of the pen at this tim tha presume

to address you on this subject 1839

Page 54 - March 12, 1839 - Got an Atlas

March the 12 1839 Page 54

Tue 12 Clear this morning it soon clouded

up again then it broke away and

turned warmer I helped down

to the mill with our cattle I

paid lain 18 dollars for store good

I got me an Atlas and geography

and vile of cinim drops for one

dollar and 25 cts a Brush and comb

62 cts haff pound of tee 75 cts

in the after noon I got wood 1839

Wed 13 Cloudy this morning and smokey

early in the morning it turned in

to raining it rained a while then

turned in to snowing quite hard

about two O clock it got clear and

quit windy and cool I worked for

John Graves one fourth of a day and

Isaac Klepinger raised his house

Thu 14 Clear this morning and some

cooler in the evening it clouded up

and increased its coolness I worked

for John Graves John bought a

blind horse he gave 22 dollars for

him I paid James Wi ireland ten

dollars and got my note Psalm.

Father got a bear from greens

Fri 15 Clear this morning and a heavy

frost it clouded up again and staid

cloudy all day it had the appearance

of rain I worked for John graves

till two O clock Harmon Lucas

Sat 16 Clear this morning and some frost

it continued clear till in the after

noon then it clouded up in the

night it rained some I worked

for John graves all day then I went

down to to the sugar camp 1839

One day after date we or either

of us promised to pay John

tom tit 50 dallars and ten cts

Page 33 - November 12, 1838 - Subscribers

November the 12. 1838 Page 33

Mon 12 cloudy and rained a little quite warme

Mr. Mendenhall bought a barrel

of salt he paid one dollar and a quart

down it broke away some but rained

sevrel times through the day in the

evening it rained hard I gethered two

loads of corne Wm Simes signed five

Dollars and paid it down Adam Best

signed 2.50 cents Jacob Klepinger signed

and paid one dollar Benjamin Enoch

Wood paid one dollar Wm Burch paid

one dollar and eighty cents Benjamine

Burch signed one dollar and thirty one

James W Ireland signed 3.00 dollars

Benjamin Lucas signed one dollar

Eligah Timmons signed one dollar

Tue 13 some broken wind blows quite hard at

present it turned quite cold it was

partly clear all day I helped to gether

three loads of corne Mr. Mendenhall

helped us gether all day so ends the

Wed 14 tollerable pleasent to day I gethered

corn Mr. Mendenhall and me gethered

four loads of corn it clouded up late in

the evening after dark it rained some

I went over to Salem meeten house to

prayr meeting it was rather intended

for the purpose of letting out the

stove for to be keped up warm and

the house cleand and candles to be

found to be for one year Benjamine

Lucas under took it for six Dollars

Thu 15 sprinkled some this morning it was

cloudy all day and desperate cool all day

I gethered or drawed fodder for John grave

Fri 16 clear this morning and quite cool it was

cold all day it snowed all the after

noon I went and found my colts over

to moatses creek amen to me c 1838

Page 32 - November 6, 1838 - Raise a Stable

November the 6. 1838 Page 32

Tue 6 Very smoky and some cloudy and cool it

continued cool till in the after noon then

began to snow desprately hard it got harder

and harder till night then it paused a while

then it commenced hard night I went to

help Mr. Benjamin Burch to raise a

smoke house and stable the names

as--rted on this page begins with

Wm Burch Joshua Burch Jacob

Kleppinger Aaron Yarnold John

Clark Joseph Bolen John Graves

Adam Best. Sollomond Best

Silas Colbert Jacob Potter Benjamin

Burch John. G. Smith Eligah timon

now the wemond Mrs Kleppinger

Mrs Burch Mrs. Wm. Burch Mrs

Ireland Miss Harriet Burch

Wed 7 it is a drisling this morning and continued

so all day very smokey and tollrable

warm rain for the tim I cut logs for a

Thu 8 clear and very coald this morning the

sun shoen out nice it was broken all

day I husked one load of corn by my

self father came home from court

Fri 9 clear and pleasent this morning it was

considerable warmer than it was yester

at noon at clouded up and got deperately

cold I gethered one load of corn I killed

two praire hens at two shots 1838

Sat 10 clear this morning as it could be it

clouded up in the after noon I cut wood

this makes fiften loads of corne

Sun cloudy this morning it snowed some

in the morning I went over to hunt

my coalls and at eleven O. clock

I wnt over to Salem meeting house

to hear Selkelk preach how

the mew preache cam on to day

Page 18 - July 15, 1838 - Binding Wheat

18881222 July the fifteenth 1838

Sun 15 the sun rose clear and pleasent this

morning with the exception of a few clouds

flying over us wind south west I went

Mr. Simses school hous to hear Mr. Paul

preach and in the after noon there was

singing school and at night I came home

Mon 16 clear and pleasent and continued so till

night I bound wheat for Wm Pierce

Tue 17 clear and pleasent and continued so with

the exception of a few flying clouds

I bound wheat for Wm. Pierce 75

Wed 18 clear and pleasent and continued so

with the exception of a few flying

clouds I Bound wheat for Wm Pierce

Thu 19 some cloudy this morning and had

some appearance of rain but dident

rain till about an hour by sun then

it raind some little lots of faun now

I bound wheat for Granison Pierce

Fri 20 clear iwith some clouds two about

twoo .O. clock it raind terable hard

shower lwith heavey thundring and

and lightning and continued some

showery throug out the afternoon the

sun shoen out before it went down

I Pound wheat for John Graves

Sat 21 cloudy this morning the sun shoen out

some few times in the day it raind a

shower in the fore noon and quite a

little while at four it raind and still

contineud so till night I cradled

for James Ireland till four .O. clock

Sun 22 cloudy this morning but broke away

it was some cooler than it has been for

some time past I went over the school

hous to hear Mr. Griffeth preash 183

Page 2 - More Doodles, Other Hands

44 + 14 + 53 = 1.11

16 x 2 = 32 + 28 = 60 x 8 = 480

28 + 28

12 x 5 = 60 + 7 = 67 - 4 = 63

17 + XX

I paid John Shigley

$25 00 and on the day

of the october Election

16 60 Making in all $42,10

J W Ieland

postoffice rjch Ieland

Janes vill Brimen County Iowa

I Alexander Sony

ABCDEFGHIJ

Even green Postoffice

Dibjke County Ioway

Yo Nonnon Janes

28 - 4 = 24

Prassers postoffice enecott

Sim Co Iowa

12 by 16

10 by 12

14 by 14

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:

___________________________________________________

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