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1864 (cont.)
23 Aug. Canning corn
24 Aug. Canning corn, tomatoes & plums
26 Aug. Canning peaches
27 Aug. Canning corn
29 Aug. Wash ing, ironing & canning tomatoes
30 Aug. Canning corn
31 Aug. Canning corn
1 Sept. Canning corn
3 Sept. Canning corn
5 Sept. Washing, ironing & canning tomatoes
6 Sept. Drying corn
7 Sept. Canning & crying corn & cleaning cans
9 Sept. Cutting corn for drying, canning tomatoes
13 Sept. Canning corn
14 Sept. Canning corn, preparing apples to dry
19 Sept. Washing^ ironing in a.m. , canning tomatoes until 11 p.m.
20 Sept. Drying corn
21 Sept. Cutting corn for drying, preparing apples for drying
22 Sept, Drying corn
23 Sept. Canning corn, pealing peaches
24 Sept. Drying corn
27 Sept. Visitors from Groveland
28 Sept. Visitors from Harvard
29 Sept. Canning corn
1 Oct. Canning corn
4 Oct. Canning corn
6 Oct. Working on tomatoes all day
8 Oct. Finished our sweet corn
17 Oct. Finished canning tomatoes
20 Oct. Cutting apples for drying
24 Oct. Apple bee in evening
26 Oct.
27 Oct.
7 Nov. Apple bee at night
8 Nov. Sisters allbusy ^cutting apples for apple butter
10 Nov. Making apple butter
15 Nov. Cutting apples for apple butter
20 Nov. Apple bee in evening
Nov . 21 "Cutting apples for apple butter
25 Dec. "We keep Christmas today, had a very good free meeting, considerable
speaking among the brethren and sisters; the
brethren & sisters have have died
here, also attended meeting with us; weather very pleasant, wind south, the
very elen.e nts seem to celebrate the day."

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1865
1 Feb. Harriet Bui lard and 3 other sisters from theLebanon North Family come to
live at Watervliet South Family,
Thu,,Apr. 20 "We attend meeting this morning accordinlLto the Governor's request; if was
a day set apartto assemble in the churches, in prayer and supplications to
God." (Lincoln had been assassinated on April 14th.)