DIARY OF OMAR EARSLEY - Town of Caroline Historian

Friday 20Cold & stormed some. Father & H. Crum went fox hunting. I went up on otherplace to fodder the sheep and to Mr. Rounsevell's to see about a scalding tub to kill hogstomorrow. Frank & I went to the Temperance meeting at U. Valley.Saturday, December 21, 1878Stormed all day. John Church helped in butchering. We killed beef & I went onthe hill & got a load of pole wood and got the water hot before dinner. Afternoon webutchered 1 hog & 2 Spring's pigs. I went to Slaterville to lodge in the evening.Sunday 22Father & Willie went on the other place & foddered the sheep. I went up to AuntAnn Patch's & to Silas'. He has just moved into his new house. Wind west & blowedquite hard.Monday 23Cold west wind. I went to Slaterville to mill & got our saw that was at LawrenceShop being filed. Father hooped a cider barrel and Mother washed. We got the pork inthe cellar this A.M.Tuesday, December 24, 1878Very cold this morning. 6 degrees above zero. Father & I sawed the beef down &cut it up & hung it out to freeze, then Father put a hoop on the washtub. We cut up theport in evening.Wednesday 25 – ChristmasCool west wind. In the forenoon I went on the other place with J. Hayne's horse,Father drawed a load of wood for Haynes & one for ourselves. Afternoon we drawedmanure, the boys helped. No school today.Thursday 26Father & I drawed manure from the basement across the creek on to the cornstubble. In the evening Father packed the port and the rest of us cut the sausage meat.Quite cold today.Friday, December 27, 1878Father & I went on the other place and foddered the sheep. Cut 13 logs forlumber and brought a load of hay home with us at night. Orville S., Charles Crandall,Theron & I went over north to meeting in the evening.PDF Creator - PDF4Free v2.0http://www.pdf4free.com