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1 January, 1880 |
Morning heavy white frost. Nels and JONES at mule shed. Nels to Darbyville. Very weak and feeble this morning though better in my limbs. Steve STARTS came today for dinner. Paid C. church for Steve S. dinner $.20. Bully RASOR here and brought a letter from Albert. Nels in Darbyville for all night.
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Fri |
2 January, 1880 |
Cloudy, sprinkling, disagreeable. Steve Starts at Josies all night and went with Jones to mule shed.
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Sat |
3 January, 1880 |
Day warm, April weather. Steve Starts left this morning. Got my coat of ROBY, making $7.00.
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4 January, 1880 |
Rained all night and today. Anna only one at church. Not well all day. |
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5 January, 1880 |
Rained all night and this morning. Nels and Jim started for Circleville to pay taxes. Paid Roby for making coat in full $7.00. Paid DURHAM festival dinner $.20.
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Tues |
6 January, 1880 |
Rained nearly all night, cloudy today. ROOF s hand stayed here all night. Nels got gallon of whiskey $3.00. Paid W.J. WOODS morphine $.75.
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Wed |
7 January, 1880 |
Sprinkling, damp, disagreeable. Borrowed of Mr. SCHOCK $15.00. Paid W.J. WOODS back $10.00. Paid V. ADKINS for Wut. YOAKUM for five loads of stove wood $3.50. Boys took some mules to farm shed. Hung my bacon to smoke. Received letter form Jno. MOORE.
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Thur |
8 January, 1880 |
Desparate damp, cloudy. Boys went to Circleville to pay taxes and see about mules. Nels paid my taxes $53.13 and Jas. CORTINALL $6.34. Nels paid my subscription for Dem and Watchman from No. 762 to 918 $6.00.
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Fri |
9 January, 1880 |
Rained last night and disagreeable all day. Nels went to South Bloomfield, mules. At home all day in town. Boys got back at night.
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Sat |
10 January, 1880 |
Day fine, moderate and clear. At home, not well. Nels looking at horses for Bob R.
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Sun |
11 January, 1880 |
Anna at church. Nels at Darbyville.
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Mon |
12 January, 1880 |
Night and morning snowing and quite disagreeable. Nels not home. Wife sick last night, Dr. WILLIMAN to see her. At home all day. Snowy, blustery day.
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Tues |
13 January, 1880 |
Morning clear, moderate and snow three inches deep, not cold. Nels not home last night, not here this morning. JONES sold 38 mules today. Nels did not get home today.
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Wed |
14 January, 1880 |
Morning wintery, appearance of fine day. Bought of A. YOUNG and Son oysters $.35.
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15 January, 1880 |
Day moderate, quite cloudy in afternoon. Boys changing and t..?..ning mules. |
This was the last entry in this diary.
Stephen A. Kinnear passed away eleven months later 18 November, 1880.
Exerpts from back pages of the 1862 diary.
26 November 1861 Wm. BALEY here for all night as agent for J. CLARK and Son.
Bought of Al CRAWFORD .2 calves.
Corn cut:
Morris HUFLY cut 200 shocks ...$5.00
Wm. GROCE cut 123 shocks . .$3.07
Mr. JACKSON cut 100 shocks $2.50
George HARGO cut 229 ½ shocks .$5.74
Tom FIELDS cut 238 ½ shocks .$5.96
FITZE cut 198 shocks .. $5.00
J.C. HARVEY
Jeremia FOLEY, Circleville, O.
George HUFFMAN ..$1.00
Jno. MCKINLEY ..$1.00
Jas. RIDGWAY ... $3.00
Church Accounts
Sun School Class Collection 1861 and 1862
Mrs. PICKERING s class .$70.00
Mrs. HUFFMAN s class ..$61.61
Mrs. SEYMOUR s class ..$25.92
Dry Run .. $55.70
Mrs. PRITCHARD s class .$28.01
Miss CARPENTER s class $ 0.00
Assessment on the Circuit
Darbyville . ..$185.00
Dry Run . .$ 60.00
Genoa . $195.00
Concord . . $175.00
Samual PICKERING ..... $ 1.00
Jacob WATSON put his mare in pasture Sept. 21, 1862 and she was taken out Jan. 23, 1863 making 4 mo. @ $1.85 .$6.25
Cesshalic Snuff ----- good kind
Finances Collected ---- 1862 and 1863
Mary SEYMOUR $54.92
Mrs. HUFFMAN .$81.46
Mrs. PRITCHARD .$26.64
Mrs. YATES ..$29.86
B.F. JOHNSON Swan P.O., Vinton Co. Ohio
Col. EWING Co. H 30 Reg.
Col. SMITH Co. B 13 Reg.
C.WORTHINGTON, Col. WOLCUTT, Leut. Col. Commanding Co. B 46 Reg.
Rev. A.G. BYERS, Chap. 33 Reg.
To measure grain and corn in bushels ---- multiply the width and length together and that product by the height in inches, divide by 2150 ---- you have the number of bushels.
To measure corn in the ear ---- multiply the width and length together and that product by the height in inches and divide by 2815 ----the cubic inches in a heaped bushel. Take 2/3 of the quotient for the number of bushels of shelled corn. This is based upon the rule of giving 3 heaping half-bushels of ears to make a bushel of grain.
Pennsylvania Rule:
18 ft 6 long
8 ft 6 wide
148 0
(x) 8
1184
(x) 4
4736
592 or ½ 1184
No. of Bu. 532.8
APPENDIX
Exerpts from back pages of the 1863 diary.
Church Accounts 1862 and 1863
Mary A. SEYMOUR col. amt. .. . $54.92
Mrs. HUFFMAN col. amt. $81.46
Mrs. PRITCHARD col. amt . $26.64
Mrs. YATES col. amt . $29.86
Hands Helping to Thresh Wheat
Alfred HOWARD Jas. SHEETS
W. WEIMIN Geo. SHEETS
Rus. MCKINLY
Linement
½ ? Gum Camphor
½ pt Alchohol
½ pt Spirits of Terpentine
½ pt ?
½ pt Hartshorn
½ pt Chloroform
Essence of hemlock 10 drops and rub the back
Receipe for Hog Cholera
Be careful to let no other stock have any.
10 parts cupras
10 parts alum
10 parts sulphur
3 parts antimony (poison) (black)
2 parts assfitta
10 parts rosin
5 parts saltpeter
2 parts tunugreek
All to be pulverized and mixed all together. Take one
Tablespoon full of the medicine, one of ..?.., one of common
Salt. Mix well together, which is difficult, for one hog at a
Time. Repeat the dose every other day for nine days, twice
A week for four weeks and once a week afterward for a
Preventative, feed them stove coal. Feed and water moderately.
Amount of rent unpaid April 1, 1863 in the hands of Jas. McCoy,
agent for collection:
Mrs. SHERRIFFS bal unpaid $17.34
Mrs. NEALY .. $ 6.00
Mrs. Smith DAWSON . ..$ 9.95
John MCBENZANDT
R.H. LIPTON Brigade Surgeon
1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 21 Army Corp
Wm. SNELLING near Jacksontowne L.C., O.
Ivd. (?) CRABB
Co. A 61 Rectoo
Washington, D.C.
11th Corps Army of the Potomac
Excerpts from back pages of the 1879 Diary
Asthma
Gimpson leaves well saturated with saltpeter then dry ? and inhale smoke.
For Neuralgia
Terpentine and organin equal parts. Apply externally.
Recipe for Elderberry Wine
Fill cask with pressed juice of elderberrys. Let stand until thoroughly fermented
Then add sugar to the extend or proportion of 64 lbs to a 40 gallon barrel of juice.
Got of COBLENTZ of Springfield, O.
August 22, 1879 settled with Mrs. WINFOUGH this day in full:
1 meal C.M. CAFFERTY .$ .14
130 meals thrashers .$18.52
16 pump men .$ 2.28
1 Mr. RENICK $ .14
1 self . .$ .14
1 Nels .. ..$ .14
Names on various pages:
Geo. BOBB, Sarah REDMAN, Neal TROUTMAN, Little I. SMITHSON,
Wm. COX, Williamsport, Robert PROCTOR, N.T. LANEY, F. COOK,
Charles SCHOCK, Jas. WEDINGTON, A.R. ALKIRE on the hill,
Isaac ROBISON, Isaac SMITH, A.S. Gulick (Able SEYMOUR GULICK).
Description of my watch:
Silver --- Waltham, Mass.
Wm. Ellery --- Foogs Patent --- 745927 and inside lid there is
2300 or 2369, cant see well and inside of outside lid the letter
A then an inscription with figures 2369 below the inscription.
-- 1 July 1879 S. KINNEAR
For Burns:
Begunday pitch and meat tallow equal parts sweet oil to make to
the consistency of lard, dip often.
Brownells Beauty ---- good late variety potatoes.
Cubeb berries ---- smoke for catar.
For Bed Lice:
Camphor, as much as can dissolve in alchohol and add 1/3 terpentine.