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 74 - July 5, 1839 - Harmon and Sarah

July the 5.th. 1839 Page 74

Fri 5 Clear this morning quite pleasant

it got some hazy and som cloudy quite

pleasant I plowed forty rowes of

corm three times in a row Harmon

Sat 6 Clear this morning quite pleasant

all day my trile was with Taylor but

I dident attend to it Father went and

him take the watch back I plowed in

my corn no nore at this time H. Lucas

Sun 7 Clear this morning and quite pleasant

at eleven O clock I wento to Salem

Meeting house to hear Horatia Barnes

exhort at four I went back to meeting

but dident stay long quite warm all day

Be humble learn thy Self to scorn

Kow pride was never made for man

Harmon R Lucas Sarah Mndenhall

Mon 8 Clear this morning quite pleasant in the

evening it rose a cloud in the North West

and rained some late in the evening it

rose a cloud in the West quite warm I

thrashed wheat in the fore noon in the after

noon I plowed in my corn 1839 H

Tue 9 Clear this morning quite pleasant all

day Father went up to Mr. Sheetses

Mill. I plowed in my corn all day 1839

Wed 10 Cloudy this morning and thundered som

and lightened som and rained som too

quite warm and sultry it got some little

pleasentor in the evening and got quite

windy Father got home from mill I

plowed in my corn all day H . L

Thu 11 Clear this morning quite pleasant and

windy too it got som cloudy in the after

noon I plowed corn Lewis Graves

helped us half a day in the evening

it got som calmer thean it was 1839

Page 71 - June 17, 1839 - Taylor Suit

June the 17 . 1839 Page 71

Mon 17 Clear this morning quite pleasent and

Father started a trip to chigo again hime

and taylor had quite a fuss in the morning

somthing concerning sof a traid which I had

made quite warm and pleasent and nice till

late in the evening it rose ea cloud in the

West and looked like raine I plowed in my

corn all day I was suid for the first time

I ever was suid in my life by Alexander

Taylor the villon I was suid withe a penalty

under one hundred dollars my age was

Nineteen years ten months and thirty six days

of age when suid Lord help me to gain the suit

Tue 18 Some few flying clouds over us at this

time the sun shoen out some I took my cradle

up to get Wm Shigley to put a stalk

to it the wind blew very hard I plowed

in my corn all day after night I staid

in the waggon to kill rack coons amen

Wed 19 Clear this morning with a heavy diew

some time in and through the day it got some

hazy and in the evening it got cloudy and

and look like rain I plowed in my corn 1839

Thu 20 Clear this morning with the exception of

being hazy or smokey quite pleasent at

noon it got some cloudy and rained some

at three O clock in the evening it broke

away and the sun shoen out late in the

evening it came up a cloud from the west

and at dark it raind accompaned with a

heavy thundring and sharp flashes of lightning

it continue raining all night I plowed in

my corn all day create a breathing spirit

Fri 21 Cloudy this morning and a raining slowly

and continued to hold out till late in the evening

it broke away and got clear and cool I went

Harrisons Ville to tend a suit betwene mee

and taylor I laid over my trile fifteen days for

the want of a wittness out of the stait and went to mill

Page 56 - March 24, 1839 - Burning Stubble

March the 24 .1839 Page 56

Sun 24 Clear for a few moments then it

got cloudy and soon rained and

snowed some then it broke away

the sun shoen out in the evening

it came up a snow squall it turned

coalder I went to meeting at Salem

meeting house then over to mendendes

halls I was out to see a certain percen

Mon 25 partly clear with a heavy frost it

got quite clear in the evening the

wind stired rite smart all day I

cut logs rowled groubed and other

things father he plowed this field

Tue 26 Clear this morning with a heavy

frost a still breese a moveing now

the a rouse in the evening wind

in the evening it clouded up and

looked like rain in the night it

rained some I groubed all day dear

Wed 27 Clear this morning quite warm it

continued so all day I groubed and

cut logs in the after noon wee went

out and burnt our stubbles off.

Thu 28 Cloudy this morning and has the

appearance of rain it rained some two

three times in thee fore noon in the

after noon it rained all the time

I cut four acres of stalks in the fore

noon in the after noon I went to

Mr. Taylors and got me a watch

I ame to give hime 15 dollars for it

against the first of September next

Fri 29 Cloudy this morning and raining some

it broke away and turned some cooler

the sun shoen out some I cut some

logs in the after noon after night it

snowed some I went to fast meeting

at mr Gening so more at present