VB-343 A. Blase - WF page 5



Drew 678 cakes of ice into the ice house.
Thrashed 564 bushels oats and 114 bu. barley; drew coal from West Albany;
500 posts to cemetery; 40 logs to Rosendale mill; sawed and split all the
wood on hand.
4 Feb Begin to fix the baskets we steam corn in.
15 Feb Frederick Wheatonkot dead drunk in Albany.
21 Feb Frederick Wheaton went off.
6 Mar Marcia Hillsgrove came from Canterbury the first part of November to teach
music part time at Watervliet and part time at Lebanon. Went home today
"not very successful here."
10-15 Mar Making baskets
27 Mar Aaron Sonburg sick 5 days; not to tableflfor 8 days.
4 Apr Franz SchweicK^er came - 42 years old.
5 Apr Had a man cut Dunsbach's daughter's throat. (At Dunsbach Ferry)
6 Apr Carl Graser came.
11 Apr Dr. Wade here about every day this week for Shubel Prentis.
13 Apr Shubel died in deacon's room.
15 Apr Dug1'the grave and attended funeral.
20 Apr Franz "set out." (This meant he decided tope a Shaker & probably confessed
his sins.)
May Are putting a cellar under their horse barn and raising the loft 4 feet.
18 July Lillian Shriver came to WF to live. /
Aug Two of their boys are Elmer^Gidley and Andrew Peabody.
18 Oct Canned the last tomatoes for the year. Had 2000 doz. #3 cans, 100 doz.
2 Ib. cans, 9 doz. plums, 23 doz. peaches, 74 doz. pears, 107 doz. string
beans and 200 doz. sweet corn.
22 Nov Williamv/Uohnson moved to CF. Have no tailor any more and "no sister to sew
for us except a little mending and making shirts."
Dec Had made between 400-500 cider cheeses this fall.

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17 Jan Is in bed. "Elmer^Gidley) stabbed my hand during work." (while pitching
manure, so hand undoubtedly became infected.)
"Business is going much brisker ... not many tramps are seen."
2-13 Feb His hand is bothering him but he bottoms chairs.
27 Feb "Go to work a little." ,
2 Mar "Elmer^Gidley and his brothejpenry went for good."
9 Mar "Sarah Jane Adams who lived here a spell 24 years ago, came back with two
girls 5 and 9, as Sarah J. Drum." (These were her grand-daughters and
her daughters appeared too.)
19 Mar "Cornelius Grimm, our good workman, left here for Germany with Eastman's
cattle ship." (Eastman was involved in West Albany stockyards.)
23 Mar Andrew^Peabody to the world.
24 Mar Chapman Buckingham got sick last night.
26 Mar Chapmanvclied last night.
28 Mar Dig the*^rave and attend the funeral.
Had 3 leave the family this month"to go to the land of carnal liberty."
Sisters have lost 3 and taken in 3.
9 Apr Mary wm Mathews to the world - aged 21.
4 May Florence ^Shriver off.
20 May Charles Graser turned off.
"The immigration into this country this season is immense - the Swedes
takdthefLead." Three more have left the family sdthere are 11 brethren and
18 sisters left.
CF have put a circular saw in their sawmill and sawed 8000 pickets at 7^ ea.
for the cemetery and 500 fence posts.