VB-338 CF Journal page 18
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years, living some yhears at the CF and from there
went to the WF where she officiated in the elders '
lot many years." k
23 July C. Miller goes to Kentucky to see the land the CF xs
considering purchasing - some 30,000 acres.
24 July Geo.'/Price to NYC to see aboutjzi a couple of pea
machines that are reported not to work well.
2 Aug Elizabeth'^Seely, one of the sisters at the Office,
died having been confined some 4-5 weeks,-much of the
time insensible. Disease paralytical.
"She has been an industrious, hard-working, faithful
sister, much beloved."
6 Aug Decide to buy the land in Kentucky, 3-4000 acres
already paid for. Mostly within- the county of Floyd
and some in Morgan County.
10 Aug Elder Giles in putting a partition in the east cellar
of the Stone Shop for a place to winter his bees.
12 Aug Meeting House crowded and hundreds of people could not
get in and had to remain outside on the walks, at the
windows and doors, traveling the streets, about the
buildings and barns.
13 Aug Thomas Almond takes charge of the boys while Nehemiah
White goes on a visit with 5 others to al1 the eastern
Societies.
26 Nov Began evening school at the schoolhouse "for the good
of the youth, mostly designed for improvement in com-
position and discussion on various subjects of lite-
rature . "
29 Dec "It is recommended and strongly urged by the Ministry
to have all the children hereafter taken into the So-
ciety bound to us by indenture."

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1867
15 Jan Nehemiah White goes to Mt. Lebanon to find out how they
put up garden seeds. One person there can put up 300#
in a day, whereas at Wvlt 2 persons put up only 100 Ibs
in a day.
23 Feb Thomas Almond decides ^to leave and two of his friends
came after h im with a sleigh and team.
1 Mar Thomas came back today to "get his girl, one Ada Woods.
He was lounging and hanging about the mill and barns
until about 7 pm when he got word to Ada that he was
after her and she, of course, eloped with him in a
secret manner, or only by the knowledge of an indivi-
dual or two who were privy to the case."
12 Mar Caty Hallenbeck, who had decided to leave, was taken to
the house of one of the Albany Gardeners "as a place
outside as suitable as any to be had for her."
13 Mar Caty returned, "having become disheartened at the pros-
pects before her as to the enjoyments of a worldly life
and felt she could not abide it." She appears penitent
and submissive and is again received.