First day meeting

First day, 4th [November 4, 1867] Went to Wm's, dressed & went to school and meeting. Raining very fast. Good school. Lotan came to meeting just after it set. After meeting, started to Peter's but it rained so we stopped at Jerrie's. Emily & the children were there. Just after dinner Peter & Fanny Albert & Marion came to bring cousin Ellen E. & her 2 children. She is here on a visit to her niece Isabel Well's (Cousin Nicholson's daughter). She is Aunt Nancy Millis's daughter & looks much like Grandmother used to. Stayed at Jerrie's all night. Lotan & Emily went home with Peter. They have been plastering & not fixed to keep much company till it dries. Had a good Carolina visit with cousin Ellen. Rain over."

My cousins and I went to the Sugar Plain Friends Church on "First day" morning. Although this is not the same building where our great-great-grandparents worshiped , we were glad to be in the house of the Lord and among Friends who have continuously met in this very place since 1838.

"Second day 5th [November 5, 1867] Went back to Wm's & helped do up chores till evening. Lotan & Emily came. Henry, Logan and Wm. Went to town & bought a stove but we can't get the use of it for a week. Went to our old cabin to sleep. Real open & cold."

This is a picture of the cabin taken some 30 years later.


"Third day 6th [November 5, 1867] Went with L. & Em. to Thomas's then came back to the cabin & helped cord up a couple of pairs of bedsteads we got of James Brown."

Ann's diary of her journey ends here, one month and two days after writing the first page. Ann kept other diaries, but none so interesting as this account of her trip from Iowa to Indiana in the fall of 1867.