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August 1878 Diary of Rhoda Spradling Totty
 transcribed by Birdie Totty McNutt

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The Diary(s) of Rhoda Spradling Totty is being provided here for those who are researching the TOTTY family and their friends, neighbors and families.
These are exact words as written by my great great grandmother in her own penmanship the only change(s) made are Capital or UPPER Case Letters on mentioned surnames or my comments in brackets [BTM].      The Diary(s) have been in private ownership by the TOTTY family all these years, and have never been published, or copied with the exception of excerpts printed in 1957 in the  "CENTENNIAL Forestburg, Texas a History of Forestburg Cattle and Watermelon Center" [Montague County] .
This is the FIRST time that the Diary(s) have ever been released with permission and "exclusive rights" in their entirety to anyone.    I am very honored to be the one given this priviledge.   I believe these diaries should be Shared by our families to help document and learn about our ancestory and how they lived and died in the 1800's.  I hope to do that by publishing the diaries.   They span 22 years of Rhoda SPRADLING TOTTY's life from May 9, 1876 to her death in April 1899.   Births, deaths, burials, marriages and the weather are documented throughout the books on many families and neighbors in Montague County, Texas.  Rhoda has a unique way of writing her thought's down for us to see what happened on a day to day basis.

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Transcribed from Original Diary by Birdie (Totty) McNutt ©1999
 

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August 1878 - Diary
of Rhoda Spradling Totty 

 

 AUGUST 1878

August the 1st Day     come home      John and Sarah gone home
2 Day        went to Bob’s Manda  baby died this morning     Anna come home with us  hottest day I ever felt or nearly so 
[BTM] Snap Bean b: June 20, 1878 d: August 2, 1878 s/o Robert and Amanda Perrin Bean.   Rhoda drew a picture of a coffin with the name Snap next to it.

3 Day      blew up cool this morning     Frank gone to the burying      Alan pulling foder      boys gone to the camp meeting  to night
[BTM] Snap Bean buried one day after his death.  Could he be one of the babies who is buried in the Totty Bean Cemetery?

4  Day   Sunday      all hands went to the camp meeting      took dinner with Night and Nan   enjoyed it very well    that is the dinner  the preaching the poores thing I ever heard
[BTM]Nan was likely the wife of Night Fugit/Fugate who Rhoda has mentioned often.

5  Day      Ben took dinner   Alan gone to have his tooth drawn   I have been Sewing on Lillies dress      did not get it drawn
[BTM]Alan must have had an abcess from his tooth.

6 of  August      hot as ever this morning      Frank went to the Camp meeting last night    Alan gone to Crosses     Joe Marshal Set till bed time     old man had his tooth pulled
[BTM]Dentist must be in town for all the tooth fixing going on.

7 Day      Ben and Louisa   Spent the day     glad to have them Stay     Bart got the wagon   Frank Started to grayson       hot no name for to day
[BTM] Frank was going to Grayson Co., he was likely going to see the Harville’s or there on business.

8   Day     went to see Mrs Cross      Staid till after dinner      Pea got home from camp meeting       Joe Marshall and his man here
9   Day     Ben come to get Mr Totty to go to Montague      all the boys here but Jase   Bart wanted me to go and see Tilda at Harvilles      Pea gone back
10  August        me and Lillie went to Harvilles    Tilda better      Sarah geting well..   Come home old man and Alan fixing to get supper      John come from Montague    big rain to night
11  Day   Sunday     rain rain this morning     old man gone to Marshalls      Lillie to Crosses      blew up from the north       real cool to night
12  Day   Spent the day with Mrs Springer      old man went to Harvilles     very cool..  wind from north all day
13  Day   Alan gone to work at Bobs      Me and the old man went to Bens to see the cane      met Mrs Chadwick She talked some      somebody brought the wagon and eat up my peach cobbler
[BTM Louise Chadwick was the neighbor of Joe and Mary Marshall and Jase & Bettie Totty Tillman.     Bart came and got the wagon earlier, did he bring it back and help himself to Rhoda’s peach cobbler?<g>

[BTM]  The next page was blank except for following notation by Rhoda 
Skipped this leaf through a mistake 
[BTM]Pages for Days 14 through 22 are missing

23 August    Alan got home    Harvilles folks very bad     Lillie had a chill     old man gone over there     Louisa and Ben come     I went with them to Harvilles  John very Sick
[BTM] John Harville was Rhoda and Capt. Totty’s son in law, he married Anna Totty their second daughter.

24  Day     Been 35 years Since I was married       Staying at Harvilles     he is very bad    don’t think he will get well    I am in distress    come home
[BTM]  The 35th Anniversary for Rhoda and Capt. F. M. Totty, not unusual back then, but a rare occurrence in current time period. 

25  Day  Sunday    old man gone to Harvilles     Frank dressed and went off     Lillie missed her Chill     Duck come to See her     Pea gone to Harvilles to night       been a lonely day for me    Frank got back in the night   I was mighty glad when I heard him coming home
26  August     hot as was this morning      old man gone to Harvilles      Ben and Louisa Spent the day here     peach coblar for dinner
27 Day   Louisas birthday  34 to day      John and Bart took dinner     Harvilles and Barts folks moved over got here just at night
[BTM] Where did they move from, maybe Bingham??,  and where were they moving to?   Did they move over to the Totty home?   Maybe Bart smelled the peach cobbler from last night<g>

28 Day      Harville better   Anna and Sid Sick     Bart went back to Bingham    Billy Bean took dinner
[BTM]Maybe Bart borrowed the wagon to move his family from or to Bingham??

29  Day     Cool wind this morning glad to See it turn Cool      Frank gone with George horse hunting
30 Day      Hauled corn    I went to Bens to See Mary Jane    come back by Crosses   Anna has fever    John better      Last Day of Aug cool this morning glad to See this month out     old man and Frank went to Pella     I am Sick to night

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

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