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.
Showing posts with label Johnson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Johnson. Show all posts
Friday, May 29, 2015
Monday, May 29th, 1865
To day I am still at Booth's. Capt. Harrison and I took a long hunt after squirrels. In fact I am now willing to hunt all the time in order to occupy my mind and keep it from dwelling all the time upon home. A large party of gentlemen came over on the cars from Beaumont and put up at Booths, entirely crowding us out. Be it remembered that the President of the United Sates (Andrew Johnson) issued his proclamation liberating and freeing all the negro slaves in the south. and by this high handed and unlawful act I am deprived of nearly all my property that I have been working for for the past 30 years nearly all the Capital that I had being invested in that species of property. Weather clear & hot.
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Sunday, May 19th, 1861
To day I remained at the house and occupied my time in reading. In the evening the little woman, Mrs. Wrigley and Miss Emma Johnson with myself and James Wrigley took a strole to see the Steamer Ruthven arrive. we all got a magnificent ice punch and returned home. weather clear and warm.
Monday, July 5, 2010
Thursday, July 5th, 1860
To day we left Livingston in the coach with the same crowd at day light and arrived at Smithfield to dinner Thence to Johnson's for supper and to Liberty at 12 o'clock P.M. stoped with Wrigley. expenses of the day $1.50. weather clear & warm.
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