10 Oct 1865 Stanton, with hired help, has put tile drains some
6, 8 and 10 feet deep, and entirely drained "the hill lot west of
the burying ground." Cost of tile drains and labor - $460.
(VB-338)
28 Nov 1865 Funeral of Elizabeth Train. "It was a beautiful
coffin made of white wood with a glass in so anyone cogfuld see
the head and shoulders. It is the first one ever made so here."
(PAB)
21 Feb 1866 Robert Wagan came from Mt. Lebanon and brought 2
doz. chair frames without varnishing or bottoms. Price - $44
(sizes 1, 2 and 3). (PAB)
9 Mar 1866 Girls are making paper boxes for a box shop in
Troy. Delivered 3000 they had finished and brought back more
to do. {PAB)
10 Mar 1866 Lydia Annas has finished varnishing the 2 doz.
chair frames 3 times and begins bottoming them. Finished March
27. (PAB)
23 July 1866 Chauncey Miller goes to Kentucky to see the land
the CF is considering purchasing - some 30,000 acres. (VB-338)
6 Aug 1866 "The ministry, elders and brethren over 21 years
of age met in the deacon's room to decide uipon the purchase of
some wilderness land in Kentucky, now offered for sale at about
40 cents per acre. It is agreed to make a purchase of some
30,000 acres in all, including 3-4,000 already paid for." This
land lies mostly within Floyd County, some in Morgan County DAB.
6 Oct 1866 Judge Ira Harris and wife visit. (It was his dau-
ghter and her fiancee who accompanied Pres. Lincoln & his wife to
the theater the night he was assassinated.) (PAB)
29 Dec 1866 A storm with violent wind yesterday; they find one
of the peacocks in the belfry of the dwelling house. (PAB)
1 Feb 1867 "A great many poor men came along today begging
for work, food and the like." (PAB)
6 June 1867 Painted the Meeting House & then its roof in the
morning. Hard rain in afternoon washed paint off roof "pouring
down in streams, as it were, of blood." Then the wind blew and
sprayed red paint all over the white sides "till it was a sight
to behold!" After the storm, brethren and sisters "unitedly
turned in with pails, brushes, brooms and rags, with plenty of
hard and soft soap, and by hand working until nearly dark" got
most of it off so it was thought that one painting would cover.
(DAB)
16 July 1867 Masons come and begin work on a cistern to hold
water from the Office slate roof to augment the reservoir of
pond water that supplies barns and wash house. (PAB)
7 Aug 1867 Have dr^awn sand to a place "between the wash
house and the ox yard" to raise a mound for a cistern to be
filled with soft water from the pond. Now George Price is
putting in a "wooden aqueduct of 3 inch bore" from the mill pond
to the new cistern. (VB-338) I
13 Oct 1867 About 50 of the world's people attended public
worship today. General Sheridan was one. After meeting he
stopped at the Office for 30-40 min. Many brethren and sisters
came to see him. "He was very free and pleasant and sociable."
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