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leaves, thinking it might be the last time
I should ever be there, the way things are
g oing. ____
6m 6th Select meeting day Vincent & myself
o
going out for the last time I think, both of us
being quite feeble this spring. _ Stanley [Pumphery?]
& w ife attended our quarterly meeting. _
Uncle Aurther & Aunt Jane down stoped [sic]
three nights with us.
6m 10th Rachel’s Birth day [sic] 11 years old, Mary
o
Carrie & Thomas came out to dinner with us.
O, if I, as one forgiven,
Reach at last; that happy shore;
How shall all the hosts of heaven
Shout, and wonder, and adore!
The above lines written by Rachel. Bloomfield. 1879
[pg 70]
1879 6m 4th Nelson & Rachel gone to Napanee
o
m yself trying to cut father some shirts quite
an undertakeing [sic] more than I expected, shall
not try it again. ____
6_12th Reubie Haight from Snowden brought
m e M E Garrett Photograph, I sent her mine in
return, he returned to Bellville [sic] the 13th.
22n First day no meeting, Levi & Thomas came
d
out for us did not go, they spent the day with
us, took father & Rachel back with them.
7m 12th Levi & Mary went down & met Nancy
o
A nderson, brought her here, to spend a few weeks
20thW e all went over to Meeting & then down
to Levis for our dinner, home again in the
evening. _19th took Rachel down to see the
D octor, he gave her a bottle of medicen [sic]. 1879,

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