Page 99 - December 20, 1839 - Sley Ride

December the 20 .1839 Page 99

Fri 20 Clear this morning with a heavy frost

on it continued clear till in the evening

then it got some cloudy 5 or 6 went on

a wolf hunt and killed 3 wolvs we did

goe to Finches grove after night I went

down to H. Genings to meeting H.

Sat 21 Cloudy this morning and snowd some

very hard and it continued snowding all

I killed four Rabits and one plaesent quite

a deep snow at this time no more at a

this time but Remember me when oo

this you see Ruth Baismen 1839 21

Sun 22 Cloudy this morning I wrot all day it

snowd some in the evening no more at

this time but Remember me Maria.

Mon 23 Cloudy this morning I done nothing

much all day Father and Mother went

down to coopers mill and store and got me

one pound of powder two pounds of shot

one pound of lead price was 87 cts 1839

Tue 24 Cloudy this morning I drowd hay till

noon in the after noon I went up to Isa

Klepingers and got my hair cout after

night I went to Watch meeting it

lasted till ten oclock in the evening

Wed 25 Cloudy this morning and snowd some I

made a sley for to ride in I went to the

school house a while then I came home and

fixed and went to Watch Meting at

James Murfeys such a ride I never saw

Maria Mansfield Luesa Pulver and

Ruey ann and Mary Iam Wm Mansfield

I and John Pulver was in the sley we went

up and down from Erastus barnes thence

two miles north then back the road is

now caled the rase ground they make

fun of our ride but I never had

such a ride in my life H. L

Page 92 - October 31, 1839 - Fine Exhibition

October the 31. 1839 Page 92

Thu 31 Clear this morning quite pleasant we

gethered five loads of corn this makes

nine loads this makes the last day of the

Fri 1 Cloudy this morning quite cool the sun

shoen out some of the time I went to a

fine Exibition quite funy there was a

great meny out at it our tow girls and a

girl by the name of Luesa pulver went

from hear with me. H. R. Lucas

Sat 2 Cloudy this morning I cleaned up 15

bushels of oats and up to fix fence I

killed 2 hens Father went to mull and got or

Sun 3 Cloudy this morning and cool I went

to Salem meeting house to a prayr

meeting after night I went to H.

Genings to meetnig the sun shoen out

some two or three times no more 1839

Mon 4 Clear this morning till nearly noon

then it got some cloudy and smokey at

dark it began to blow and rain quite cool

Father and Mother went on a visit to

Jacob Klepingers I puled two loads of

corn in the fore noon I puled it down in

the after noon I drowed it in after

night it rained hard 1839 H. Lucas

Tue 5 Cloudy this morning and raining some

by turns all day I husked corn a while

then I came in and wrote a while after

night it snowd one inch in depth 1839

Wed 6 Cloudy this morning and snowing som

by turns till nearly noon I went

out and killed one dosen of praire

hens I killed 3 at one shot I got hom

at noon in the after noon I drowd wood

it broke away som 1839 no more at

this presant pearied of time william

H. Harison Harmon R Lucas

Page 91 - October 23, 1839 - Traden Party

October the 23. 1839 Page 91

Wed 23 Clear this morning quite pleasant I

went after my ox and got him again

noon in the after noon I went to mill

Thu 24 Clear this morning quite pleasant

I thrashed wheat up at Adam Bests

It got some cloudy and looked like

raine Benjamin Burch raised his

house Luesa Pulver was hear and

Margret Yarnald was hear all nig

Fri 25 Cloudy this morning and looks like rain

it rained a little in the evening it cleard

up we cleaned up 21 bushels of wheat in

the after noon I thrashed wheat 1839 r

Sat 26 Cloudy this morning it rained some

we cleaned up some wheat till noon in the

evening I went on a traden party Mr and

Mrs pierce wife staid hear was meeting

at Timmonses The boys cut a high swell

after night a trying to scare the girls.

Sun 27 Cloudy this morning and raining it

continued to hold out all day it thund

red quite hard I went to salem to

hear mr. Peters preach 1839. 18.

Mon 28 Cloudy this morning it broke away

in the evening and got clear I

helped Jonson graveses chusk corn

after night I helped him at a huske

Tue 29 Clear this morning with a frost on

it looks like it will be a fine day I

puled corn till noon in the after noon

I helped husk a load of corn 1839

Wed 30 Cloudy this morning and rained som it

got clear wee swaped with dolechide for a hor

we gave one yoke of cattle and ten dollars

for the horse I helped John graves to

get in corn we got in four loads 1839

Page 90 - October 16, 1839 - Quilten Bees

October the 16. 1839 Page 90.

Wed 16 Clear this morning quite pleasant I

look Joshua Burches waggon to hum.

in the fore noon in the afer noon I dug

my potatoes quite pleasant Harmon.

Thu 17 Clear this morning quite pleasant I

husked corn till noon in the after noon

I got my calf up out of the praire quit

pleasant all day Luisa Pulver and

Meriah Mansfield was hear to a

quilten no more at this time 1839

Fri 18 Clear this morning quite pleasant and

warm I husked corn all day after night

burned up a consciderable heap of fence

after night it turned some cooler e

Sat 19 Cloudy this morning I went over to

a sale at John Bars I got me an

old oxen for 20 dollars Thomas Huf

man went my bale David Klepinger

got a colt at 54. 62 cts John.

Graves went his bail 1839 Harmon

Sun 20 Clear this morning quite cool I went

over to hear a new preacher preach

at Salem meeting house at 11 oclock

after night I went to H. Genings

to meeting no more at this time 1839

Mon 21 Clear this morning with a frost on

quite cool I went to Bars after my ox

but dident get him. in the evening I

went to Erastus barness to get a wagon

but dident get none H. Lucas 1839

Tue 22 Clear this morning Father u sold 11 head

of calvs to James Servisons and 16 head

of pigs for 4. 6. to be paid in five

monthes this makes four loads of corn 1839

Mrs genings Mirs barnes Mrs pulver and

Mrs ogden was hear on a visit or rather

on a quileten bee no more 1839 H.

Page 85 - September 13, 1839 - Father's Meeting

September the 13. 1839 Page 85

Fri 13 Clear this morning with a heavy frost

I cleaned up oats it was nice and pleasant

all day campmeeting commenced on

My Fathers land I done several

things to day after night I went to

meeting no more at this time Harmon

Sat 14 Cloudy this morning and rained till

late in the evening it quite was a few

out no more at this time H. Lucas

Sun 15 Cloudy this morning and rained som

quite cool for the season it continued so

all day I was at camp meeting there

was a few out Harmon Patterson Joined

the Methedist episcople church 1839 80

Wm Campbell staid all night hear

I got hom 15 miuets past 12 18ooo

Mon 16 Clear this morning quite pleasant it

looks fine Camp meeting broke up at

ten Oclock quite warm in the after

noon I cut 9 shocks of fodder it

continued pleasant all day but after

night it clouded up and rained hard 1839

Tue 17 Cloudy this morning and raining a

little it rained by spells all day in the

evening I went down to Cooppers store

after quinine I took up a waggon wh

eall to Millses for to get fixed I got

my calf from Samuel Pulvers and

Luesa Pulver had a severe shake of

the ague quite hard no more at this

Wed 18 Clear this morning quite cool for the

season it got some pleasant on through

the day I cut up fodder ten shocks of

Thu 19 Clear this morning quite pleasant

till in the evening it got some cloudy and it

rained some I cut up ten shocks of fodder

Wily. Sims staid att night with us

Page 79 - August 5, 1839 - Congress Man

August the 5. 1839 Page 79

Mon 5 Clear this morning quite pleasant it

got some windy in the evening our august

election was held for the purpose of electing

new congress man I mowed in the fore

noon in the after noon I helped draw

in and stack hay late in the evening it

got some cloudy noe more at this time..

Tue 6 Cloudy this morning and raining a fine

little shower a heavy rain went around

to the South with some thundring and

lightning it soon broke away and the 10

sun shoen out I took up the wagon to 20

Wm Shigleys in the after noon I 183

went up to Mr. Garrets Harmon R

Wed 7 Clear this morning but soon got some

dim and in the evening it rained I

thrashed oats till it commenced Father

was getting his chickens together some

more at this time 1839 Harmon Lucas

Thu 8 Cloudy this morning and has the

appearance of rain it rained some two or

three times in the day in the evening it got

quite clear and winday I went on hunt

of bags in the fore noon in the after noon

I went up to Wm Shigleys to get

the waggon I cleaned up sixteen bushels

of oats for Father Luesa Pulver

Fri 9 Clear this morning quite pleasant Father

and curtus started to Chicago with a

load of chickens and onions I cleaned

up .30.1/2 of oats and thrashed one floar

of oats and bound up four dosens of oats

Sat 10 Clear this morning I cleaned up 25.

bushels of oats and then I went to

Laffayeette I got me my coat from

the Taylors price was 8. 38 cts and I

got several articals to quite warm too

no more at this time H. R Lucas

Page 77 - July 22, 1839 - Radical Campmeeting

July the 22. 1839 Page 77

Mon 22 Cloudy this morning and foggy some quite

pleasant the sun shoen out quite warm

but some few flying clouds over us at

this time I finished cutting our wheat

and I began to cut my oats in the evening

it rained some little 1839 H. R. Lucas

Tue 23 Clear this morning quite pleasant and it

is quite warm ther was severel showers went

round to the north we got one shower our selves

after night it rained again Wm Shigley

Father and mee cradled oats in a Wm Hunts

field / Mendenhalls cut theere wheat 1839

Wed 24 Cloudy this morning but broke away thee

sun shoen out but we got a shower we finis

hed our oats liking a few down oats quite

warm Luisa Pulver staid heear all night

Thu 25 Clear this morning quite pleasant it

continued so all day in the evening it got

som cloudy I bound and cut som oats the

radical Campmeeting commenced on pine

Fri 26 Clear this morning som foggy quite warm

I was binding oats Wm. Samuel. David

Klepinger helped us bind oats in hunts

field we dome fine buisness we bound

up 2. 30 dosens of oats four hands of us

quite warm in the evening it had the

appearance of rain Harmon R Lucas

Sat 27 Cloudy this morning quite warm it rained

a hard shower on mee when I was going to

campmeeting yon side of stogdens I cut som

oats before I started and at night I went

to Samuel Shigleys 27. 1839 H. Lucas

Sun 28 Clear this morning quite pleasant there

was considerable out to day I started home

at 12 O clock and as I cam hom I got a

shower and at four I went to H. genings

to meeting after night I got the bag

Page 75 - July 12, 1839 - Another Birthday

July the 12. 1839 Page 4.75

Fri 12 Clear this morning quite pleasant at noon

I went up to Wm Shigleys and got my

cradle and I finished my laying my six

teen acres of corn by and this makes

me in my twenty first year and I

feel my self highly favored and some

what thankful too that I am spaired

to this day I plowed in my other eight

acres of corn it rianed in the evening

Sat 13 Clear this morning quite pleasant it got

som cloudy and at noon it rained some

little quarterly meeting commenced at

Salem Meeting house I plowed till in the

after noon then I quit and cut some wheat

I went to meeting 1839 Tippecanoe Co

Sun 14 Clear this morning quite pleasant at

nine O clock I went to Meeeting the house

was in a measure full and they preached

at half past four in the evening they

held meeting again after night I staid

with S. Mendenhall S. . K went

with L. . Pulver in the evening

it got quite cloudy and had som little

of the appearance of rain at this time

TMon 15 Clear this morning with the exception

of a few flying clouds over us at presant

I plowed in my corn all day S. Pulver

helped us to harvest in wheat 1839

Tue 16 Clear this morning quite cool it conitnued

so all day I plowed till noon in the after

noon I went down to the battle ground

and then to the mill I got mee three

yards of fime muslin at 37 a yard and

a wheat stome at 18 cts S. Pulver

cut wheat for us and lewis graves

plowed faller ground I shall soen come

to the conclution to stop as quick as I can

finish those few lines at the bollom of

this holy book July the 16 1839 H. Lucas

Page 73 - June 28, 1839 - Great Oration

June the .28. .1839 Page 23

Fri 28 Clear this morning and quite pleasant in the

evening it gat soma cloudy I plowed in my

corn it turned some warmer than it has been

for some time Harmon Reasnor Lucas pensman

Sat 29 Clear this morning with the exception of a few

flying clouds it is quite warm Father came

home from Chickgo he got ten bushels of appels

Dried 2.50 cts per bushels four bolts of cotten

one barrel of sugar two hundred pounds of

coffey he all so lost a horse within ten miles

of home he died with the bots quite warme

I plowed in my corm so noe more at this

Sun 30 Clear this morning quite pleasant 1839

it got some cloudy in the after noon I went

up to the prayerer to l see the wheat and

then over to Salem to meeting and in the

evening I went down to Mr. Genings

to meeting S. K went with L. P.

desperate warme day noe more at prease

Mon 1 Partly clear this morning quite pleasant too

it got o little dime quite warm I plowed in

my corn Father and Mother went on a visit

down to Mr. Ginings Harmon. R

Tue 2 Clear this morning with a light fog on and

quite pleasant through out the day in the

evening was a few flying clouds over us

and thundered in the South I plowed in

my corn tilt noon theen I began to lay by

Wed 3 Clear this morning quite pleasant

it continued so all day quite windy I plowed

in my corn I plowed forty rowes of corn

Thu 4 Clear this morning quite pleasant

I went up to Delphi to a great oration

and big diner I seen g a great meny

people out there the mare fell down in

lafaye the wabash I went clean under

I came from Delphi to Pills burgh

Page 70 - June 11, 1839 - Road Work

June the 11 .1839 Page 70

Tue 11 Cloudy this morning and thunders some

in the west it has very much the appearance

of rain but dident it broke away and the

sun shoen out and turned quite warm in the

after noon it looked some like rain but soon

broke away and got clear and nice in the fore

noon I groubed breash in the after noon I

plowed my corn but very wet H. r L

Wed 12 Clear this morning and quite warm and

pleasant and nice it continued clear with the

exception of a few flying clouds till late in the

evening it rose a very dark cloud in the north

west after night it rained I made a mistake it

dident rain it only thundered and lightning

I plowed in the corn all day father and mother

went on a visit to Aarons Yarnalds 1839

Thu 13 Cloudy this morning and it rained some two

or three times the l sun shoen out of the time

it has some notion of continuing on I think

I plowed till in the evening then I quit father

helped me plow desperate cool for the season 183

Fri 14 Cloudy this morning and raining some it

has turned some cooler than it has been for

some considerable length of time it broke

away and got quite clear and pleasant I worked

on the road under Egbert Patterson he had

about twenty hands a working on the road

Sat 15 Clear this morning and quite pleasent it is

a few flying clouds over us quite warm I

plowed in my corn all day Mr. Green and

his companion cam out ond visit from town

I got my calf hom from Mr. Barneses 1839

Sun 16 Clear this morning and quite pleasent I

went down to Mr. Pattersons to meeting and then

hom and back to Mr. Gening to meeting at four

O clock then I went to Mr. barnards to meeting

after night S. R K staid with L. P

all night moe more at the tine 1839