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1865 Diary of Mary Knox Herrick

May 31, 1865

5/31/2024

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Wednesday, May 31, 1865
The same men (came?) at noon.  Mr. Burdick come.  Father killed a calf.  Bell went to visit Lucia school with Helen and Eunice.
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May 30, 1865

5/30/2024

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Tuesday, May 30, 1865
Mr. J, Mr. L and Mr. Cook come to work on timber for barn.  Em had a letter from Libbie.
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May 29, 1865

5/29/2024

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Monday, May 29, 1865
Rainy in morn but cleared away.  Father and H been cutting and sawing more timber.
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May 28, 1865

5/28/2024

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Sunday, May 28, 1865
Rainy.  No one gone to church.
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May 27, 1865

5/27/2024

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Saturday, May 27, 1865
Father gone to Westfield with cider.  Henry plowed our garden and planted it.  He brought home some ?  Made cheese.
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May 26, 1865

5/26/2024

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Friday, May 26, 1865
Made my first cheese churned.  Mr. Jacobs here.
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May 25, 1865

5/25/2024

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Thursday, May 25, 1865
(and back with Billy)
Father in a fret.  Carried off some calves.  Mr. Jacobs here yesterday and today at work in cellar.  Whitewashed, cleaned bedroom.  Mrs. Blair come.
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May 24, 1865

5/24/2024

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Wednesday, May 24, 1865
I washed flannel sheets for (some time).  Bell washed color clothes then whites and cleaned kitchen.  Em rode over (and back with Billy)
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May 23, 1865

5/23/2024

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Tuesday, May 23, 1865
We brought up some heifers from (?) and sold two calves to Mr. Griswold.  Bell and myself dug in front yd.  Spun 1/2 run.
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May 22, 1865

5/22/2024

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Monday, May 22, 1865
Mr. Bowery died.
Rainy.  Bell washed white clothes and spread them out.  Father carried Em to her school then he drew in two loads of boards ???
Sent a letter to Lule.
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  • Resources
    • Blandford's History
    • Blandford Families >
      • Blair Family
      • Boise Family
      • Hayden Family
      • Knox Family
      • Wyman Family
    • Audio/Visual and Oral Histories >
      • Legacy and Oral Histories
      • Oral Histories
    • Blandford Cemeteries >
      • Old Burying Ground >
        • p 2 Old Burying Ground
        • p 3 Old Burying Ground
        • p 4 Old Burying Ground
        • p 5 Old Burying Ground
        • p 6 Old Burying Ground
        • p 7 Old Burying Ground
        • p 8 Old Burying Ground
        • P 9 Old Burying Ground
        • P 10 Old Burying Ground
        • P 11 Old Burying Ground
        • Names and Grave Locations Old Burying Ground
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      • Edna (Wyman) Hart Stories >
        • My Memoirs
        • Old Fashioned Recipes For Common Ailments
        • Remembrances
      • Doris W. Hayden >
        • I Remember
        • The Ashmuns of Blandford
        • Believe It Or Not
        • Blandford Postmasters
        • The Reverend Cushing Eells
        • Harvesting Ice
        • Hayden Pond
        • Kaolin Road in Blandford
        • Local Picture Writings
        • Mrs. Josephine Porter
        • Sunset Rock
        • How It Was Done
        • Weaving
        • Mari C. Gibbs
        • Obituary For A Law Office
        • Outlying Blandford Burial Places
        • Don't Wake Up Elizabeth
        • Hastings Family Reminiscences
        • Lucelia Cook's Diary
        • Union Agricultural Society Beginnings
        • Woman Ahead Of Her Time?
        • Blandford Baptist Church
      • Wallace R. Heady
      • Charles Taggart
      • Louise Mason >
        • The Huckleberry Trolley
      • Joe Mullens
      • Esther (Hart) Ripley
      • Harold Ripley >
        • Blandford Fair Memories
        • Moving Day
        • Two Of Us Are Left
      • Percy Wyman Stories >
        • A Day In The Life Of A Boy
        • The Kaolin Mine
        • Mrs. Josephine Sheffield Porter
        • Percy Wyman's Younger Life
        • Shoeing Cattle
        • Breezy Hill Farm
        • North Blandford
        • Building A Stone Wall
        • Going To The Grist Mill
        • Chestnut Trees
        • Evening Star Of Life
        • Bygone Fourths
        • Troubles With Overland 83B
      • Blandford Monthly >
        • Harriet Maria Hinsdale
        • Old Meeting House Marker
      • Madeline Waite >
        • North Blandford's Older Industries
      • Harry Waite >
        • Good Old Days In North Blandford
      • Irene Merrill Mason >
        • 1829 Turnpike and Gatehouse
      • Robert F. Wood >
        • Reverend Sumner Gilbert Wood
      • Sumner G. Wood >
        • Fifty Years Ago
        • How Blandford Viewed The Railroad
      • Elsie Gibbs Hill >
        • Frank Nelson Gibbs
      • Springfield Republican >
        • The Mountain House
        • Blandford Hunt and Banquet
        • Dr. Wallace H. Deane
      • Barbara McCorkindale >
        • Irreverent Look At Our Forebears
        • Blandford's Lost Gold Mine
        • Springfield Ski Club
      • The Blandford Girls
      • Rev. Frank A. Higgins >
        • Basketry In Blandford
      • Susan B. Tiffany >
        • Quilting
      • Clarence Bates >
        • Tanning
      • Barbara Brainerd >
        • A Town's Special Treasure
      • Duane Wyman >
        • Blandford Cemeteries - A History of Time
      • Betsy (Cross) Brooks >
        • J. J. Cross
        • Cobble Mountain, The End Of An Era
      • Dr. Howard Gibbs >
        • A Visit To Aunt Hannah
        • Deacon's Son and Parson's Daughter
      • Henry B. Russell >
        • More Blandford Notes
      • Plumb Brown >
        • Cheese Making
      • Natalie Birrell >
        • Gerald Wise
      • Lorinda Loomis Gibbs >
        • White Church at North Blandford
      • Gordon C. Rowley >
        • Musical Instruments 1st Cong Church
      • Hannah Gibbs Diary
    • School Photos
    • 1865 Civil War Diary of Daniel Ware
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