File #5167: "Deborah Bowerman 31.pdf"

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20_ Lydia & Rachel here for dinner
looking for a boy to work for
them , ____
21st Writeing [sic] to Mary Elizabeth
Garrett, _ Our Mary killed
the first flie [sic]. _ my sight failing
fast _ scarsely [sic] read what
I have wrote, ____

[pg 27a]
1891_ 4m 28th Levis [sic] Birth day [sic] 59 years
o
old _ A very cold day, plowing in [he]
garden. Four months a go [sic] the
23rd of this month I came down
stairs [sic], burnt a light every night
since most, And had my
breakfast in bed ever since.
28th Considers [sic] Birth day [sic] born in
1802, At Adolphus tow n ____

30, Jane Cronk & Lena here for
a call, also Lydia & her girl
Mary cutting my toe-nails,
made a great fuss about it
[?]m 3rd Walter & Mary Levens here
o
Carrie Lydia & the Children went
over to Stephen Hubbs, found them
all gone. __

[pg 27b]
1891 5m 7th Lydias [sic] Birth day [sic]
o
53, years old, spent the afternoon
at home with her Mother, the last
one very likely _ As I am feeling

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