Mar 1 – Choring round as usual. Went over to Burg at noon. Got some medicin for Edna. Got Harness oil of Semour Miner. Mar 2 – At home. Jim had Bill[40] to draw straw. Mar 3 – Mercury 26. Cut some wood drawed some wood. Mar 4 – Went to Kalamazoo. Went to Hanks.… Continue reading Luke Keith’s diary entries for March 1886

Feb 1 – Cold good sleighing. No work but chores. Mr Albert Carletons House burned to day. Feb 2 – Cold day. Took Hannah over to Mrs Sumners. D went up to Scotts.[28] Cold. Feb 3 – Mercury 32 below zero in morning. Hank went to Kalamazoo. Theodore & Dick Barber[29] came down here. D.… Continue reading Luke Keith’s diary entries for February 1886

To read the entire diary and/or to see the scans of the diary, previous footnotes, tags of people mentioned, click here. 1886 DIARY OF CHARLES LUKE KEITH, JR.[1] Luke wrote his entries for 1886 in three different diaries: it appears that he first wrote the January 1-30 entries in the back of his 1885 diary,… Continue reading Luke Keith’s diary entries for January 1886