MARCH 1878

March the first Day    ligh wind come in like a Lion    rained a Sprinkle last night..  heard a Martin..   put up a box    I quilted a little     rolled the quilt    got cold feel     bad think now I will never see this month out may th Lord help me to Sill be patient  I want to live to get through my Bible    so glad to have Neva and Lillie with me
2 Day    feel better     Chadwick got corn and hogs     Parks got corn     Williamson wanted corn      John killed hogs      Alan went to mill     Valentine and Mr Totty Settled up      Harvill and Mose come Staying all night      Lillie went to Stay with Louisa   high March wind all day    Martins flying round      begins to look Spring
3 Day March    Been at home all day    finished reading my Bible through feel to thank God for the consolation I have had in reading the Word of God        Frank got back from Fort Worth       Alan went to Singing      Jase come brought Lillie
4 Day    went to Bens seen the cane     me and Louisa went to see Mrs Hester     Whitly come to begin his work       Pea got home come after me with the horses..   branded the yearlings
5  Day     Frank and Jase raked stalkes       warm like Spring     Me and Nerva Sewed on my dress      Lillie went after Cotton did not get it      Peas foot sore cant get out to do any thing and thats mighty bad of course
[BTM] Has anyone identified Nerva yet?

6th Day March     Mr Totty went to the gin got cotton       me and Nerva went to Mr Springers      Lillie went to Bens got Holly hocks     Peas foot got him laid up in the house
7 Day      put up my quilt      Jase helping to work Bourland plowed his colts      Nerva  Lillie and the boys gone to meeting to night      Niggers here after corn       Frank and Alan branded Bens yearlings
[BTM] What is “plowed his colts”?  This was the way Rhoda spelled the word could she have ment something else?

8 Day     Fruit man here  Nelse got his corn and went home      Pea went to work with Alan  I went to see Bally
9 Day     Margaret come  Nerva went home       Jase and Bettie Bart and Tilda come to Stay all night       Allen and Pea Staying at Bens  to night        Bens and Louisa went to Harvilles   Suses birthday 56 to day 
March the 10 Day   Sunday geared up the wagon and went to hear Gower preach    glad I went     boys went to singing      Bettie and Tilda went home      Dolly come
11 Day      Warm like Spring  Me and Margaret been quilting      commenced to make Soap     old man and boys burning off the woods
12 Day  Tuesday     made my soap     See men plowing from Bob Beans  down      Still warm and dry      men went to review the road       big excitement to night  after a cat
13  Day      old man went to the Burg     I got my quilt out     Frank got done making his corn land    John Totty come Staid all night
March 14  Day     commenced planting corn the first time     Still dry and warm      Bally and Mollie Spent the evening      dutch got chickens      John and Frank gone hunting to night
15 Day      the warmest day I ever Saw in March      Pea went to Dorcey  got lye fininshed making Soap for the year     Lillie went to Bens   Mary Jane and Gus come home with her
16  Day     another warm day      Pea look Lillie down to Clear Creek  to go to School    Margaret gone home     Alan and Frank working the road    old man asleep I feel like there is Some body dead and almost wish it was me but it aint and I am going to live as long as I can
17   March Sunday     took dinner with Bally      Frank went to Pella      Margaret got back from the Burg    Pea got back from Clear Creek      Dutch Staying all night      Still warm  enough for June      put Calf in the pen
18 Day   went to Bens come back the new road      moon full to night      Whitly here to buy meat
19  Day     Louisa and Lisa Spent the day       Bally come     old man went after corn     Alan planted corn       Still warm like Summer
20 Day     Bourland finished planting corn       I planted Beans       mule Sick   Doctoring  the mule and making Beer to night     having one of George’s times
March 21     old man went to the Burg got potatoes       Frank planted Corn     Pea worked in his clearing     Me and Margaret went to Grimes     Saw the woman with a nose
22 Day     we planted our garden      Frank Still planting corn     Brother Marberry Staying all night
23  Day     went to reds had our pictures taken     Saw Mansfield at the mill      Still warm and dry never Saw any thing like it in March       Frank Sick
24  Day      Sunday Ben and Lou and Jase and Bettie Spent the day      John come after some body to go after the Doctor for Johny Harville       Margaret went home Nerva come
25  Day of March       Mr Totty taken Sick Frank had a Chill        Bart come said Johny was very Sick had Dr Stallsworth      think Johny will die      hear of a great deal of Sickness      I think it has been the darkest day I ever Saw not to be Cloudy the air seems to be thick with Smoke and dust
26  Day    Bowen here      old man and Frank better      Jase helping Alan plant corn      rain this evening      boys all pitching horse Shoes    me and Nerva been sewing
27 Day     old man took more opium       Frank missed his Chill      Jase helped plant corn    extreme high wind all day      Me and Nerva went to see Bally       finished Lillies dress
28 Day  March wind from north cool..   old man took more opium      me and Nerva been sewing      Alan went to Bens      Pea went to Harvilles     Willie come home with him
29 Day    old man had a Chill      Alan gone to Bens       Nerva washed       I finished my Sewing      been reading my Bible      Pea and Willie bean working in the clearing
30  Day    Ben brought the wagon      boys and Nerva all went and had their pictures taken       I Staid and waited on the old man  been very lonely this evening  he has no fever but Still Sufering with his head
Sunday the last Day of March    heard distressing news Johny Harville is dead and I have not had the Chance to go and see them in their distress    Pea gone after Lillie      heard the old Lady Pamplin was dead
[BTM] Johny Harville is the son of John Harvill and his first wife Nancy J. Barnes Harville and step son of Anna Totty Harvill daughter of Rhoda and Capt Totty.   He was buried in the Perryman Cemetery in Montague Co. Texas.    Does anyone know who Ms Pamplin was?

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Transcribed from Original Diary by Birdie (Totty) McNutt ©2000