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1919
Thursday, March 6, 1919
Cloudy most of the day. No rain yet. The men folks cut wood in the woods.
Josie ironed. I got dinner. Kate Harvey come and eat with us. She worked some button holes in Reese Smiths waists
I made a canvas for Jim. Henry and Edna went to school.
I got a letter from Fanny Emerson this evening.
9 15 oclock
Tuesday, March 11, 1919
A cool windy day the men folks put on the canvas for their plant beds this morning and cut & mauled this evening.
Kate Harvey come a few minutes to day. She eat dinner with us. She brought me some homony. I went with her part the way home. I carried Edna & Franklin to Marvins and Carrie looked after them while I went to Posie Reynolds and got some turnip salit.
We heard to day that Tom Lumpkins and Tom Johnson was dead, one of them at Danville and one at New Port News. Johnson Reynolds went to Danville to be at Lumpkins burial.
Jim got a letter from Nellie telling him that Mr Walker is very sick.
Jim & Ben walked over to the store at Renan to night. Mr Lewis was not there so they come home soon and went to bed.
10 oclock
I finished pickin the 1919 crop of cotton to night.
Wednesday, May 7, 1919
A cloudy day. No rain to stop any one from work.
Josie hung the spring house door and cleaned out the spring house. This evening Josie and all the children went to Georg Blairs.
I choped some in the flower garden and helped Jim take off two canveses.
1921
Thursday March 3, 1921
A changable day. Clear tonight and the wind blowing. Jim and Ben hauled stalks and corn this morning. Ben hauled wood this evening. Jim cut in the woods. Josie baked a cake in the oil stove this morning.
I went to see Mrs Edmons. Found her sitting up. She looks feeble. She is improving. They have a col woman staying there. They were making a canvas for the plant beds. Miss Carter stopd here a while. We all are all ways glad to see her.
Wednesday March 9, 1921
A cloudy day. Rain & thunder this evening. The first thunder cloud of the year. Henry went to school. Edna did not go.
Ben & Jim hauled some feed and corn this morning. Ben bought Kates heifer from Edmons this morning. Jim & Ben plowed this evening until it rained. Carrie come a few minutes.
Josie & Carrie went to the turnip patch to cut salit. It rained and they had to quit. I went to the plant bed this morning. This evening I sowed on the canvas for the plant bed.