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June 1877 Diary of Rhoda Spradling Totty
 transcribed by Birdie Totty McNutt

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Introduction

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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June 1877 - Diary
of Rhoda Spradling Totty 

 

June 1877
[BTM  First week of Diary is missing]

June the 5th      corn tossel in the fields       Sam Spencer hoed the pea patch        Joe Marshall and Mr. Dennis  was here today.
[BTM]    Sounds like farming in full swing,   Rhoda’s brother Sam Spencer helping out in the pea patch.  Any body know who this Mr. Dennis is or if he is related to the TOTTY’s.   Joe Marshall still has been unidentified as to relationship to our TOTTYs. 

6th Day      Saw a cotton square       Frank and Pea had a big row to night
[BTM]   boys will be boys especially when they are so busy working on the farm.

7th Day   Tilda and Lillie washed     Bally Spent the evening
8th Day     rode out went to Jaces       spent the day with Bettie and Joey B    come home     Joe Marshall  come home with the old man    Staying all night     Willie come home with one
[BTM]   Jace is Jase aka Jason TILLMAN who was married to Mary Elizabeth “Bettie” Totty and their young son Joey B.    Could this Marshall connection be only business and not family related?  Since I have a Marshall/Jennings/Rogers connection to my Totty family I wonder……… 

9th Day     a  roaring norther    cold      old man and Joe Marshall went to Montague    me and Lillie went to Bob  Beans     Frank went to clear Creek    Bart and Tilda and Pea to Bens      all hands left home
[BTM]   Barton A. TRAYLOR was married to Capt & Rhoda’s daughter Matilda Jane TOTTY, they along with Tilda’s brother Pea went to see Benjamin A. GAGE and their sister Louise TOTTY GAGE.

10th Day of June   frost   Ice     brought the compass      Ben Spent the day    old man and boys went turkey hunting
11th Day   old man  I gone to Gainsville       me and Tilda went to see Bally  to get her to sew and make Lillie a dress tonight
[BTM]   Bally is likely Balzora Springer Bourland wife of Samuel Robert Bourland a neighbor and sister to Mary Elizabeth SPRINGER who married Frank TOTTY.

June the 12th Day 1877     Me and Tilda went to Bens   Spent the day   boys got done  plowing in the Corn     Johns childrens went with us    May very Sick all day
[BTM]  Rhoda and Tilda sure visited-traveled a lot together when the men folks were otherwise occupied.  May TOTTY, John’s daughter  later married to Henry Oliver KUNKEL and had nine children.

13th Day of June   warm to day   Daniel Spencer was here to day    old man got home from 
Gainsville 
[BTM]  Daniel is more Spencer kin of Rhoda’s through her mother Susanna ___ Spencer Spradling.

14th   Day   Sprinkled rain    Mollie took dinner    Me and Tilda ironed     John  was here     Frank went home with him   Joe Marshall here too
15th Day   boys went to the Ross hole    let wod get away    Bart and Tilda gone to Walker’s to Set up tonight    Joe been hauling his lumber     very warm tonight
[BTM] Joe Marshall in process of building on his new land    I wonder if this was the family of Martha Ann Walker and what were Bart & Tilda going to set up for? could it be setting up to work the land?, house?   Again we see the name Wod pop up, who is he? And why or how did he “get away”?

16th Day    Ben and Louisa come down       the Trailor boys here tonight     Jase was out to day      been very warm day      Ben and Frank gone to Walkers to Set up
[BTM  Now Ben and Frank gone to set up at Walker’s, must be setting up their farm equipment to work or  something, any other idea’s]

17th  Day  went to Harvilles    Bart and Tilda went home with Louisa    feel very well to night   high hope of getting well and then I ask no boddy and 
[BTM] end of page, entry was not completed.

18th Day of June   Went to Johns to see May  she was up      Old man was cuting oats      quite warm to night
19th Day   Louisa come to day      Joe hauled off his corn    Bart went to Bingham      another  warm day 
20th   Day  cloudy and warm   Bally Spent the evening      Bart got back brought polly      Annie and Willie come down      Willie got fever      John and Sarah at Yandels       Ben here this evening I am feeling very well So glad of it.
[BTM]  Willie is William Marion Totty son of John by his first wife Martha Walker., and Annie is also their daughter Rhoda Ann Totty.

21st Day  of June      fine rain     old man in eestacies over it almost
22nd Day      went with the old man to daniels to get corn     Stopped and Seen Mrs Cheser      Stopped at Johns
[BTM]  Mrs Chesser would be the neighbor Frances Chessor, wife of James.  They are listed in the 1880 census of Montague in HH#345/346 with children Elizabeth 14, Uel 6, and James age 2.   Ben and Louisa GAGE were in HH#348/349.   Between the Chessor and Gage families were the HESTER families in HH#346/347 William 22 and Annie 21 and HH# 347/348 was Davis HESTER 55, Phebe L., 58, Benjamin 24, Elizabeth 13 and D. a son age 7.

23rd Day      John and Anna    John and Sarah  all come this evening   glad to see them   Staid all night
[BTM]  John and Anna are Rhoda’s and Capt’s son-in-law John HARVILLE and Anna nee Totty.    John and Sarah are my ancestors John Whitfield and Sarah Ellen YANDELL TOTTY spending the night with parents.

24th   Sunday     Jase and Bettie come this morning all here to day but Ben and Louisa    all gone home to night        Lillie went with Anna
25th Day       Ben Hodge and Ben Gage here      been thundering all evening     lighting to night
[BTM]  Ben Hodge was a neighbor of Rhoda & Capt.    I wonder if this is any relationship to my great Uncle Ben Hodges who married the sister in law (Ruby Rogers) of Green Whitfield TOTTY?.  Another possible Jennings/Rogers/Marshall/Totty connection?]

June the 26th  1877      old man got done ploughing       Frank went to the Store      Bailey come home with them  Staying all night     very smart man    thunder and wind    sprinkled rain
[BTM] Who could this be Bailey be? 

27th Day    the men all worked for Yandell       Me and Tilda Spent the day at Mr Springers      very warm
[BTM] the above mentioned YANDELL is most likely the father of Sarah Ellen YANDELL TOTTY. Was he name William Yandell?

28th Day    old man went to fugits    Me and Tilda  washed      the Buncomb Revernue collector come to Youngs great joy there       Bart got the ear ache       Frank gone to Harvilles after Lillie
[BTM]  What is the Buncomb Revernue collector?   Anyone know? 

29th Day   Cooking and geting ready to Start our trip        very warm to day

30th Day    Started    met John and Anna at the Cotton wood  had a very pleasant  day    camped at Duck Creek
[BTM]  Rhoda did not mention in her diary were they were going on their trip.
 

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

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