Nov 1 – Ethan came down with the horse. We came home with the horse. Ethan came on the cars.[103]
Nov 2 – I took Lois home in morning. No work to day but chores.
Nov 3 – At work round house and barn. Cut some wood drawed some down.
Nov 4 – Went down to Katharines. Put up her partition in parlor.
Nov 5 – Not mutch done. Very nice weather Indian summer. Very smoky.
Nov 6 – At home. No one here. Fine day. Hannah went up to Mr Flanders in Evening.
Nov 7 – Mrs Elan Huntington buried to day.[104] Worked in barn some. Made plant stand for Mrs Randal 50¢. Went over to burg in Evening to hear Mr Blair lecture.
Nov 8 – Took the old Farming Mill to peaces. Nice dry weather, smoky.
Nov 9 – Went up to the Mill. Got Theodores wrenches to repair the pump. Rain some. Fixed stables so could put the cows in.
Nov 10 – Sorted the Apples. Charley drew in corn and corn fodder. Cold wind.
Nov 11 – Nice pleasant day. Worked round barn. Stoped up some holes put on some shingles.
Nov 12 – Filed saw for I D L Schram.[105] Went up to the mill got load sawdust to put in well.
Nov 13 – Mr Daniels called here a while. Ethan and Hannah went down to H. A. Browns Kalamazoo. Nice pleasant day.
Nov 14 – Fixed the well at the Barn. Very nice day rained just at night. Drawed load of wood.
Nov 15 – Worked round barn some fixed pump. Hannah sewing for Mrs Olmsted.
Nov 16 – [no entry]
Nov 17 – Cut some wood. Went over to burg. Fix pump.
Nov 18 – Went over to burg got plank for platform. Lou came on six forty train.
Nov 19 – Filed saw for Mr Randal 15¢ one for Dod Sumner 15¢. Snowed in the night.
Nov 20 – 28 Abz about 3 inches snow. Nancy, Lelah, Lou, Vern and Floyd here. Mrs T. B. Lord died in the night.[106]
Nov 21 – Nancy and Lelah went home on 11.40 train. Cold wind.
Nov 22 – 38 Abz nice day, smoky. Put rivet in Jays knife one in Lous curling iron. H. D. Streator paid me 25 cts for cutting of gun stock.
Nov 23 – Lois and Sate here all day. Ethan took them home in Evening. Mrs T. B. Lord buried to day.
Nov 24 – Went over to burg in morning. Bot pork 1 barrel of Jo Smith 1.50. Some rainy day.
Nov 25 – Took Lou over to burg in forenoon. Jim came home to day.
Nov 26 – Rainy morning. Jim took Hannah down to Galushas in morning. I went over to burg at night after Lou. Rained hard all night.
Nov 27 – Snowed and rained stormy day. Oscar Caton Carleton and wife[107] called here to see Hannah.
Nov 28 – Cold wind snow some. Jim cut some wood. I drew two loads. Jim went down got cask to seald pigs in.
Nov 29 – Nice day. Killed Dick pig he weighed 282 lbs. Took cask home.
Nov 30 – Chored round. Jim cut some wood. I drawed two loads. Cold wind.
——-
[103] Railroad train cars
[104] Minnesota death records show that Rebecca (Galusha) Huntington died November 4, 1887 in Minneapolis, Minnesota and FindAGrave.com shows she is buried in Mountain Home Cemetery in Kalamazoo, Michigan
[105] Neighbor, Isaac D. L. Schram
[106] Even though Michigan death records show the date of death as November 25, 1887, the grave marker has the date of death as November 20, 1887, which corresponds with Luke’s entry. FindAGrave.com shows that Mary (Hawes) Lord, the wife of Thomas B. Lord, died in Comstock and she is buried in Comstock Cemetery
[107] Neighbors, Oscar & Alzina (Rosier) Carleton
Letters & Diary Entries From the 1860s through the 1890s 