My Great Grandmother's Journal 1898

I have been such a bad blogger!
I've been having to actually work at my job 
and have just no time for blogging! 
humph! 


The other I was dusting, no I really was......
and my Great Grand Grandmothers journal caught my eye.

When I was young I would spend the night at my 
Grandparents house whenever I could.

Great memories, Gram let me watch Star Trek!

We would also sit on the patio and Grandpa would read to me from his Mother's Journal.

I loved it! 
 I would picture her and everything in my mind.

Here's some entries.


Diary beginning July 19, 1891
Miss Effie M. (Mae) Collins


She would have been 21 years old.


Sunday July 19 - at home  Oscar rode up in buggy 


Oscar would be my Great Grandfather, he would have been 22 years old.


February 
27.  Did big washing, baking, scrubbing etc.
Adda and Kate came down in pm.  Charlie stepped on a nail.


 29. no coal, no school, heavy snow all day 
worked on quilts


Effie Mae was a teacher.  
She writes on each day how many pupils were there.
Seven pupils today, nine pupils, 
can you even imagine a class that small!!


July 
17. Oscar went to Platte for hay, in eve went to town in wagon
I saw a balloon. Came back home 


18. at home all day Oscar cut oaks


19. Wash day   Helga came form me I went down for dinner. Then she came up we worked on quilts.  Uncles went to Hackberry 


20. Ironed all day and quilted
November 
6. home all day  Oscar making sled


7. At home all day  Oscar went hunting


8. went to church


9. in bed most of am   ironed and patched


10. at home all day  Oscar fixing sled  darned socks


11. in bed all am 


20. Oscar and I home all day


21. sick  went for Dr. baby born 5 o'clock pm 
Mother came 


22. wash day   Mother dressed baby


23.  baked bread, apple butter, Mother dressed baby


What!??  She just popped out a baby 
and went back to washing the next day!


Think about it .......no TV, no TIVO, no Housewives of ANYWHERE!
Not only that, but she walked back and fourth 
from the school she taught at.
Both ways in the snow
(OK I added the snow part, but there was snow, it was Iowa)
Sometimes Oscar was able to pick her up in a buggy.


There are entries were Oscar was calling on her 
and there was a chaperone!! 


I can't even imagine life back then.


Remember my dinning room photos.

Here is Effie Mae, Oscar and Lambert.

Here are all their children.
My Gramps is the baby in white.
Lambert is in back, he was the oldest.

 And in this picture, Oscar is in the middle of the back row.
That is his family.

I sure wish I could go back and talk to everybody!
How cool would that be!!