To day the boys are still splitting rails to finish enclosing the mill field. Martin with the wagon & 5 yoke of oxen loaded with five bales of cotton started for Huntsville. John went down to Fathers [Joshua James Hall] to work. I ground 6 bushels of wheat and 6½ bushels of corn. Nellie [Mary Alexandrien Sharp nee Lemaire] is still very sick. Dr. Murchison came to see her. Fawn [Florence Mahala Hall] is still sick, but still improving. My son James [James Wrigley Hall] was again taken with fever. I had a chill and fever myself. Billy Stewart, John Miller and Robert Stewart came out from Crockett on a fishing excursion and camped on the bank of the creek. weather changeable and warm with strong indications of rain. Ther: 93°.
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.
Monday, July 22, 2013
Wednesday, July 22nd, 1863
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