November 1877

November the 1st Day       big rain this morning    wind from north to night     Bart and Tilda come to night
2 Day   Johns birth day  30 to day   Mrs Cross and Mrs Young and me ...isit   had " a very pleasant time  Cool to night    I .... T..... and ..... all night     Allan fell in the C..........
[BTM]  this would be my great grandfather John Whitfield TOTTY's birthday.  It is so exciting reading about the everyday happenings in the life of our ancestors.  Makes them closer now that we are getting to know more about them   Mrs Young may likely be the neighbor of John & Anna Harvill on the 1880 census she is listed as Jane age 53 (widow) born in Alabama as were her parents. She had a daughter Severe age 20 and a son Heggs age 25 both born in Texas.  Mrs Cross would likely be the neighbor of Rhoda and Capt. living in HH# 371/372 on the 1880 Census.

November the  3 Day     Bart went after Cox for Louisas baby    Tilda Staying with me to night    Frank and Alen hauled corn   been one clear day   feel bad to night   looked for the old man and Pea     they did not come
[BTM]  the baby is most likely Frank TOTTY GAGE, son of Louise and Ben.    Matilda staying with Rhoda while her husband Bart goes for the Doctor.

4th Day     Jase and Bettie come down    old man  come this evening   glad to see him    Throckmorton come after me in the night   I went Staid all night   northern blewing in the nigh  cold this morning
5 Day    come home  found John and Sarah keeping house     boys hauling corn  Sun Shining again to day
6th Day of November  my 53rd birthday   Harville wnt home too wet to haul corn  John and Sarah hauded a load  the Mr Parrs took dinner    old man went to Daniel Bourland   got cotton and cards
7th Day     Frank  got done hauling corn      John been hauling corn      old man put up the window    I have been sick with a pain in my Shoulder   Sarah doing for um       Bart and Jim picking cotton
8th Day     Cold wind   Boys gathered corn  at the Yandells   place old man went to Bens   I went to See Mrs Young  Says Sarah went to See B........anty   at....town tonight   ...............................
[BTM] Sarah could likely be the neighbor Sarah Cross or Sarah Yandell TOTTY.

November the 9th 1877      John and Sarah went home       cold today    Jim picked cotton   Frank went to mill Alan Cuting wood      Young hauling cotton      wind got Still to night
10th Day   White frost      Frank and Alan worked the road    Ben and Louisa come to night    Pea come home all glad to see him
11th  Day     big frost again   Bart and Tilda and Jase come      had a big crowd  all gone home   felt bad to see Pea Start    Frank and Mose went to meeting come back for dinner   John and Anna come Staid all night
[BTM  Wonder where Pea was going for Rhoda to feel bad about him leaving?   Mose may likely be Mose SPENCER who was living in household with F. M. & Rhoda in the 1860 census while in Cooke Co. TX.

12 Day     went to Throckmortons before day met Mrs Taylor and Mrs Walton  dressed a boy (  )     come home       Whitly here to rent the land      excitement about Felin runing away      Young got Wod to go to Market 
[BTM] Could Felin be the name Fealing? 

13th Day   Frank brought the Molases home    old man and Alan picked cotton   Bart went to the Burg   I went to See Bally   She had a chill    warm and cloudy to night
14th   Day   clear and pleasant    John  Anna  Bart and Tilda come to day   old man and Alan picking Cotton  Mrs Springer spent the evening   Mr  Springer diging potatoes
15th  of November 1877   Beautiful day lookes like a weather breeder as Mother Totty used to Say   Anna went home Tilda went with her    Frank and Bourland Started to Gainesville
[BTM]   Rhoda is speaking about Matilda TOTTY as being Mother Totty, it is interesting to find out one of her favorite sayings, but what a unusual thing to say "looks like a weather breeder".

16th Day   John and Bart come back to gather corn      Hardy come to rent Land   old man and Alan picking cotton   Alans time out to day  Me and Lillie washed this evening    another beautiful day   Moon Shining bright to night  boys  gone possum hunting to night
17th Day    cooked the possom      Harville and Bart took dinner      Hodges called     Young and the old man settled      warm like Spring to day    Frank got back from Gainesville was 20 years old yesterday    him nor me did not think of it being his birthday untill to night       weighed on hundred and 49 pounds to night    Young and Alan Settled up   Alan come out in debt    feel sorry for Alan  know so well how he has worked and waited on them      Lillie gone to See Ida   another beatiful night warm and clear
18th Day   Sunday     old man and me got ready to go to Bens     Bettie come I was glad  She come we staid at home   enjoyed it very well        rained to night      Hildreth got Back   Alan gone to Bens to night     Frank went to Bobs L...........got home rained so She co...... not co.........
19th November Monday 1877   Rained  a young flood this morning   John and Anna come from barts     could not go home for kennan branch      John and Anna Started home this morning     Mathis come to day on a trade with Leaper..      Mrs Springer come to tell the old man to put the pigs up if he pleased   untill Mr Springer got back from Market with his cotton
21 Day  Dr Cox called got his money   Bourland and old man settled    Frank killed a hog    wib wanted to borrow money       I went to See Bally  She was quilting
22nd Day    got my Bible and glad of that      Frank Bought a Book     old man went to the Burg  Bought boots and Lillies Shoes      I washed am very tired to night but my bible says there is a time coming where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest    may the Lord help me to hold out faithful untill that time comes
23 Day   Warm and pleasant     Mrs Springer come to See about the pigs   I went to Youngs to get my iron
24th Day   old man went to Forestburg      me and Lilie went to See Anna    a roaring norther to night    Bart and Tilda and Pea come to night glad to see my so..............
25th of Nov........................
Mose took dinn...............
Started back.................
all leave..........
26th  Day old man...........
to Bens this evening...........
me to go to Dennis.............
27 Day       cold and c..........
Creed Rob.t... to ........
Ben come this evening   Said ............
28th Day   old man went to Bob........
and Lillie Staid at home ..................
28th Day  a new norther  ver...........
cotton Lillie went hom.........
the fire heard Mrs. Whi...........
the family to night    co.............
Last Day of November    c...........
Joe Marshall was here  to...............
hauled his cotton   I have............
is about warn out my........
gone the year will   so...........
be gone from this world..........
dies     there is so l.........

This concludes the Diary for the year 1877.   The month of December 1877 is completly gone due to deteroriation from the old brittle papers.   As you can see even parts of the month of November was almost all gone, but I tried to transcribe ALL the above diary entries by Rhoda has she wrote them and as I could read them to transcribe. 

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