ENMarch 10, 1877 - March 23, 1877
Facsimile
Transcription
1877 March 10th Sunday
March 11
Monday Ammon Scye cutting in new ground
Ma went up to Sallies Jim went with
her to day -
March 12. Tuesday Ammon Scye and Jim and
annie cleaning up and fencing grass lot
March 13th Wednesday finished cleaning up and
fixing grass lot in front of Granary
March 14th hauling out and scattering corn
stalks on grass lot
March 15th Jim plowing grass lot today
Ammon Scye thrashing out oats
March 16th Ammon Jim Throwing down
corn beds - scyharrowing in oats Ammon
sowing oats to day Annie sick
been laid up in the house 3 days to
day
March 17th Snowed all day today fencing all hands to day
March 18th Sunday snow on the ground all day
March 19th Monday Mauling wood and
hauling wood
March 20th Tuesday fencing all day
with all hands
March 21st fencing with all hands to day
March 22d fencing yard fence until dinner
after dinner throwing down corn beds and
sowing and harrowing in oats
March 23rd
fixed grass lot in front of Granary
put 1 Bus 3 pecks oats on lot 1½
Bus orchard grass seed and
Notes and Questions
Please sign in to write a note for this page
This is not JWG's handwriting.
Line 4: "ma" surely refers to JWG's wife, "Nannie"
This is a much steadier hand than the entries on preceding pages. Is it possible JWG is ill again? Could this be written by Jacob?
From early 1877 until the last entry of JWG's diary (April 1878), his handwriting worsens suddenly and never recovers. And not only the handwriting, but the spelling becomes "off" and the spacing becomes erratic. These are symptoms of a change in cognitive processing, and the causes include strokes, lesions, brain injury and dementia. Because the change occurs rather quickly and dramatically, I'm prone to believing he has had a stroke. Because this is the same handwriting as on page 10 in which Jacob is referred to in the third person, I suspect Sallie is writing.