DIARY OF OMAR EARSLEY - Town of Caroline Historian

Sunday 15Pleasant today. I staid at home. Henry Crum and Elbert Beckman was here partof day.Monday, September 16, 1878Father & I helped M. Rounsevell thresh, worked our team on machine. I cutbands. The boys cut bushed and alders. Pleasant & warm.Tuesday 17We drawed up some pumpkins & apples & got some hog feed boiling then dugpotatoes 'til noon. Afternoon rye cut & the buckwheat back of the barn with reaper &bound some of it.Wednesday 18We finished setting up buckwheat & drawed the remainder of the sowed corn intothe barn in the forenoon. Afternoon we finished digging potatoes and drawed them intothe barn. We had ½ acre, 50 bushels. 30 of seedlings & 20 of early rose.Thursday, September 19, 1878Father and I went up on other place & cut buckwheat & raked & set it up. Theboys unloaded the potatoes, boiled hog feed & chored about home. Aunt Jane & J.(or P)D. Yaple visited here.Friday 20Father & Miles A. Lawrence cut and Theron & I raked & set up buckwheat. Wehad 3 acres of new & 1 of old ground. They finished the buckwheat on the new ground& cut part of old ground. Pleasant & quite warm today.Saturday 21Rained all day. We chored about. I made a new arm to the reaper rake that webroke cutting buckwheat and went down to Uncle Richard's & to Clint Allen's to warnthem out on the road Monday.Sunday, September 22, 1878Pleasant but quite cool. I staid at home. Cold tonight.Monday 23Very heavy frost last night. Father worked on the road in Robinson Hollow. Ifinished cutting our buckwheat & Theron & I raked & set it all up. Eli Earsley &Clinton Allen worked out their 1/3 tax on road & Rufus Welch worked all day. I helpedafter I got our work done.PDF Creator - PDF4Free v2.0http://www.pdf4free.com