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.
To day Sam* Sharp went back to Crockett. I repaired my wagon to go to Crockett. The hands are busily engaged breaking out the middle ? box between the corn rows. Weather clear but rather cool.
*This Sam is a 2nd great-grandpa to the Keeper of this family history blog.
To day I started 3 plows planting corn. I also received notice and a quietus (but I say no more on this subject) I also paid Darby all I am due him for splitting rails save 59 for which I still owe. Weather clear pleasant.
YAZOO DEMOCRAT [Yazoo City, MS], March 17, 1860, p. 2, c. 4. Negro's Crop.—Our attention was directed to a load of five bags of cotton in Broad street this morning, and we were informed that it was the crop of the "house gang" (for the information of our friends up towards the North pole, we will tell them that the house gang signifies the cook and negro children about the house too young for regular work) belonging to Mrs. O'Conner, of Mount Vintage, Edgefield district, S. C. The cotton was of extra quality, and brought 12½ cents, producing nearly $250 for the cook-woman and her little "drab shets," a very comfortable sum to spend in luxuries, and more money than thousands of poor men and women in New England see in one sum in the whole course of their lives. Augusta Dispatch.
To day I purchased some articles at the sale of the effects of W. F. Wall decd. and in the evening returned home and found the little woman [Margaret Hall Stewart nee Sharp] well. Still planting corn. weather clear & pleasant but cool with frost at night.
To day still in Crockett, and on this day I lost my 500$ suit against Cooper, thus paying pretty dearly to accommodate a friend. at home still planting corn with 2 plows running. Weather cloudy & very cold with frost at night.
