ENFebruary 3, 1877 - February 8, 1877
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To Day Mollie...Coltering
in planbead and haling and splitting
Railes to fence it in Trying to finish
it Wm Wallice & Robt Sidney
helping about planbead
1877 Butiful Day
Feb. 3rd finished Plant Bed in slash sowed
and fensed it up to day - and drained it
Jimmie Plowing on spring branch in
lot below spring-
4th Sunday cloudy & a
little cooler -
5. Ammon Hauling our fodder
& some Rails Jimmy Plowing
Silas malling in new ground
Looks like & did rast night
Weather moderate
6th
Ammond Dillard Hauling rails for
lot Back yard Jimmie plowing in lot
Silas mauling Jacob gone to Williams &
Thomas Tuckers to divide land
7th. Hauling Rails Jimmie Plowing
Silas Mauling Jerry &
wife here - moderate Smokey weather
8 Fencing here about
Jimmie Plowing Silas
Notes and Questions
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Line 2: planbead is plant bed.
Line 19: Did JWG mean "rain last" instead of "rast" ?
I like "rast" as a portmanteau of "rain last". Do you think this was written after JWG's stroke?
Of course, I'm only assuming he had a stroke because of his handwriting, and the difficulty he has in words, such as "planbead." But definitely this is after something has gone wrong with him.