Jun 3 – Lou went home on the one thirty five pm train. Paid Doc McBeth $2.00 two Dollars at the Depo at Galesburg.
Jun 4 – Received two barrels potatoes from Shelbyville. A cold day for June.
Jun 10 – Jim and Cory wer married to day.[66] Verry nice day. Dell, Lois, Ethan, Hannah and Charley, Nancy and the girls went to the wedding. Took some wheat to mill.
Jun 12 – Will Clark came over this afternoon. Pleasant day.
Jun 20 – Clara Clark[67] came to day.
Jun 21 – Sarah and I went down to Nancys.
Jun 22 – Jim and Cora started for Chicago. Came to Hanks. Took the 3 oclock train for South Haven. Mrs Kellog killd her self to night.[68]
Jun 23 – Ed Allen came to Hanks in fore noon. We started for home about one PM. Bot oil stove $1.80 one pr shoes $2.00 one pail .30.
Jun 24 – Lois came over stayed all day. Verry hot.
Jun 25 – Took Clara over to burg this morning. Clara and Lois went to Kalamazoo. Got my watch at Wilsons charges $1.00.
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[66] His son, James, married Cora Meredith
[67] Clara (Youngs) Clark, the wife of his grandson, Charles Clark
[68] FindAGrave.com shows that Sarah (Brown) Kellogg was despondent and committed suicide by taking a mixture of morphine and nux vomica. She died June 22, 1891 in Kalamazoo, Michigan and is buried in Mountain Home Cemetery in Kalamazoo
Letters & Diary Entries From the 1860s through the 1890s 