File #5143: "Deborah Bowerman 7.pdf"

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12th of lmoth_ A letter from Jeramiah Lapp
Abbie Ellsworth & E Cadman.
_22 First day Quick silver 31 degrees
below zero, _ 19th Rachel Sills here for a visit
2m 4th Our Quarterly meeting a very good
o
one, came & had a little meeting in
our house one evening, _ Did not have
much company, WmRobinson & wife
Thomas Robinson & wife Chester Yerks &
wife, & Justine Robinson from Leeds.
_6th Vincent Bowerman died about
one oclock [sic] in the day, buried on the
8th of 2nd month 1885, Aged 93 years,
_19th Robert & Elizabeth Came up for a
visit stoped [sic] two nights with us,
29th Uncle Benjamin & Maria came
stoped [sic] three nights with us, had a very
good visit with them , ____ *
[R: there is a funny symbol here she makes that I’ve marked with an asterisk like I
did on the other journals. In the other journals she used it to then continue writing
about the same entry but in a later place. Anyway, here there is no other asterisk
and I’m wondering if maybe the bottom of the page got cut off and so we don’t
have that?]
[pg 7a]
1888 3m 4th Carrie & Rachel here for
o
their dinner on there [sic] way to the Yerwood
wedding.____
10th Elizabeth Cadmans [sic] Birth day [sic]
58 years old, does not seem posuble [sic]
11th Johnson Brewer passed away to his
long home about five oclock [sic] in the
morning, of a first day of the week

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