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1865 Diary of Mary Knox Herrick

June 30, 1865

6/30/2024

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Friday, June 30, 1865
H mowed this forenoon and raked in afternoon.  Got in 4 loads.  Looks rainy.
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June 29, 1865

6/29/2024

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Thursday, June 29, 1865
Our folks got in 1 load.  Hen. Allen come.  Going to have 3 calves Saturday.
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June 28, 1865

6/28/2024

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Wednesday, June 28, 1865
Bell washed.  I worked a bed quilt.  Our folks mowed with machine on side hill above the orchard.  Got in 3 loads.  I went strawberrying.  Made me sick all night.
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June 27, 1865

6/27/2024

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Tuesday, June 27, 1865
I’ve gone to making soap.  H. patched house for Fred, like to have been flooded out.  Our folks mowed below the garden this afternoon with machine.
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June 26, 1865

6/26/2024

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Monday, June 26, 1865
We did not wash.  Rained in afternoon and at night rained very hard.  A letter from Lib to Em.
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June 25, 1865

6/25/2024

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Sunday, June 25, 1865
Went to church in afternoon.  Father carried Em to Bufords and took me to ride.  Rode up to Cs.  She is alone.
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June 24, 1865

6/24/2024

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Saturday, June 24, 1865
I’m washing.  Men work on barn.  Bessie helping Charlie.  They most finished the outside of it.  Paid Mr. Jacobs 10 dollars.
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June 23, 1865

6/23/2024

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Friday, June 23, 1865
Had Mr. J. And Mr. C. And Mr. Cowel come.  Em come home.
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June 22, 1865

6/22/2024

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Thursday, June 22, 1865
Mr. Cook and Mr. Jacobs work on farm.  Bell is in.  H did not come.  Hoed potatoes come up.  A shower.  Made strawberry preserves.
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June 21, 1865

6/21/2024

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Wednesday, June 21, 1865
Rainy in morn.  Bell feels better.  Gone to working.  I helped some in afternoon.  Went and picked some strawberries.  Em come home.  Eunice and Celia B come.
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    • 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
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        • 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
    • Stories, Memoirs and Histories >
      • 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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