D'ABuckingham - 1880 page 35


20-25 Sept Setting slabs in cemetery. Finished on 25th & "they look well "

9 Oct A brother or 2 from each family with oxen & cart from each are drawing sand and dirt
into burying ground - 75 loads.

12 Oct Gravestones all set, dirt drawn & leveled, seeded.
28 Oct C. Copley so feeble that he has gone to the nurse's dept. to sleep.
2 Nov DAB is laying down his grapevines for the winter.

9 Dec C. Miller took a "box of fancy articles toleave at Wm. Whitney's (Albany dept 0store)
to sell on commission. 11

"Some of the potatoes raised from the grapevine are very large, weighing over a pound \f
each. They are generally a good slze 0 Yield well. " /^

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1881
4 Jan Ann Buckingham & Lucy F. are "weaving some silk window curtains" for Bateman ladies
from Albany.

16 Apr DAB tieing up his grapevines. Isnow 78 years old.

21 Apr DAB and a boy paint Elder Sisters Shop.


10 May "We, the elders, whitewash their dwelling room, west of hall, with Albastine,"

7 June DAB "attaches two crossbars to south entrance of Meeting House, one to each door 0
Also paints doors and casings."

27 June See a comet in northern sky. Name unknown.


2 July President Garfield shot.

19 July Henry George badly afflected with carbuncles or boils 0


1 Aug "Elder *eac@ Daniel commenced shingling the cottage for the demented (the west side),
and repairing the roof."


2 Aug DAB commenced making new fence on road side of burying ground "that part belonging
to ChF."

26 Aug Digging the new "grape potatoes." Some weigh 1 lb. 71 1/2 Ibs., 1 3/4 Ibs.


3 Sept DAB painting pickets for cemetery fence.

20 Sept President Garfield died.

1 Oct Have finished cutting & drying sweet corn. Total 240-250 barrefs.

21 Oct DAB went to Albany to have impression taken for an upper set of false teeth.