Feb 1 – Cold windy day. Took Lizzie over to cars. She went to Battlecreek to Mrs Grahams. Jim went to Kalamazoo. Feb 2 – No work. Jim chopping for Mrs Brown. Feb 3 – Went down to Marts. Nice day some wind. Mart grinding. Got letter from D.[23] Jay[24] very sick. Feb 4 –… Continue reading Luke Keith’s diary entries for February 1887

To read the entire diary and/or to see the scans of the diary, previous footnotes, tags of people mentioned, click here. 1887 DIARY OF CHARLES LUKE KEITH JR.[1] Jan 1 – Mercury 2 Abz.[2] Jim[3] went to Kalamazoo after Sarah.[4] Very cold day good sleighing. I not very well. Jan 2 – Mercury 22 below… Continue reading Luke Keith’s diary entries for January 1887