May 1885
1 May1 1885 • Friday
Hauled 4 loads of rock for pigpen and laid some of it up: got 1000 lbs of grain of Peart at 65¢.
2 May 1885 • Saturday
worked on pigpen laying up rock.
3 May 1885 • Sunday
Plymouth Stayed home all day; read and wrote. &c.
4 May 1885 • Monday
Layed up rock on pigpen.
5 May 1885 • Tuesday
" " " " "2 finished laying <rock> [p. 95]
36 May 1885 • Wednesday
Plymouth Commenced rolling grain, rolled 20 acres.
7 May 1885 • Thursday
Rolled 20 acres, rained in the evening.
8 May 1885 • Friday
Rolled 20 acres rained in afternoon, finished rolling.
9 May 1885 • Saturday
Went to the canyon, sowed. Madam mare run away and lost the single-tree.
10 May 1885 • Sunday
Went over to Square town to meeting &c.
11 May 1885 • Monday
Hauled 12 loads of rocks for the school and meeting house.
12 May 1885 • Tuesday
Hauled 9 loads of rock for the schoolhouse.
13 May 1885 • Wednesday
Rained all day, Stayed in and read the papers.
14 May 1885 • Thursday
Rained part of the fornoon, Took two loads of rock over to the town cite. layed off the corners of my house 18 x 13 and hauled & quarried 4 loads making 6 loads.
15 May 1885 • Friday
Took a load of rock over to my lot in town and put in a day’s work. (10 hrs) with team hauling rock for meeting house.
16 May 1885 • Saturday
Hauled five loads of rock for myself & worked 1/2 day with team hauling rock for meetinghouse.
17 May 1885 • Sunday
Spent the day at home. went up in Myron’s pasture to see Dazie
18 May 1885 • Monday
Hauled 2 loads of sand and one of [p. 96] rock for the School & Meeting house, one day.
19 May 1885 • Tuesday
Hauled Sand for School & meeting house
20 May 1885 • Wednesday
" " " " " " "4 Gene Robinson called and staid over night on his way to Farmington.
21 May 1885 • Thursday
Hauled Sand for meeting house.
22 May 1885 • Friday
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23 May 1885 • Saturday
Went to the canyon.
24 May 1885 • Sunday
Went up to Squaretown to meeting drove Dazie and took a load of folks. among whom was Alices’ father.
25 May 1885 • Monday
Plowed 1/2 day laid off lands &c. Mended harness. repaired plow &c.
26 May 1885 • Tuesday
Plowed 1/2 day with 3 horses. chored about in afternoon.
27 May 1885 • Wednesday
plowed on lower 80 acres.
28 May 1885 • Thursday
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29 May 1885 • Friday
" " " "7 cow had calf.
30 May 1885 • Saturday
Worked on cellar &c.
31 May 1885 • Sunday
Got Fred’s colt out of Pearts pasture and put it in E Wilcox’s Geo. Smith & wife took dinner with us.
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Footnotes
Footnotes
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[1]Richards wrote “Apr.” before crossing it out and replacing it with “May”.
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[2]Ditto marks for “Layed up rock on pigpen”.
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[3]“1885” is written to the right of this entry.
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[4]Ditto marks for “Hauled Sand for School & meeting house”.
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[5]Ditto marks for “Hauled Sand for meeting house”.
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[6]Ditto marks for “plowed on lower 80 acres”.
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[7]Ditto marks for “plowed on lower 80 acres”.