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Thus closes my notes for the month of December and also for the year just passed and gone and now numbered with the things that were. Whether the Almighty will spare me to chronicle the daily events of the incoming year is more than I know but trusting in Him I shall enter upon the pleasing task, which is useful as a reference and may be profitable to those who have an interest in me.

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In the year 1860, James Madison Hall sat down to pen a few lines in a journal, and thus began a project that would continue on an almost daily basis until his death almost 7 years later. On the 150th anniversary of the beginning of that journey -- 16th January 2010 -- J.M. Hall's writings began appearing on this blog on a (hopefully) daily basis.

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Galveston Island games garden screen garden seed gardens gates Gayle geese gelding gentlemen George Georgia Gillespie gin Gladiator glass ware glazing glue kettle God Gordon Gorley Grand Cane Grand Junction Grand Lodge grapes graves Green groceries gulf Gum Lake gunboats hack Haden Haeff hail Hall Hall's Bluff Hall's Hotel Hallmark Hamil hand bills hand cars hands Hardin Hardin Co. Harlan harrow Hart Harwell Hawk Hawkins Hay Hebert heirs Henry Hepperla Herndon Hicks hides Hitchcock hogs holliday Hollsclaw homestead honey Horace Horn horns horse lot horse radish horses hotel household housewife Houston Houston Co. Howard Hunsaker hunting Huntsville hurricane Hurricane Bayou ice ice punch Ida illness In the News infantry injuries interrogatories inventory IOOF iron Island City J.H. Bell jail James January Jasper Co. Jemima jewelry Jim Joe John John F. 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