The Journals of Martha E. McMillan

expect to sit up to guard property and keep a sharp lookout for Coon. I expect to sit up for a while also as I dislike going upstairs alone to bed. Tis after midnight - how slow the hours pass! (51). 3 Nov. Sabbath. Cool and damp. James and I were at home all day alone. Robt not well. Eve. Sam G - here stayed with us all night (51). (Wood - This is the first church service Martha has missed in this journal.) 4 Nov. Monday. Morning. Moved the stove into the kitchen from the dining room. Afternoon. Packed the wool in the parlor. Eve - James at C - He and Edgeworth here for supper after his return (51-52). 5 Nov. Tues. Edgeworth here last night. James took the carriage down for Jennett and Matt. Aunt Matilda’s John here for dinner. Afternoon Jennett put down the carpet in the dining room (52). 6 Nov. Wed. Jane Jennett and Father and Mary here for dinner. Jennett put the sitting room carpet down fixed up our bed in the sitting room. Mary stayed with us to night she expects to remain for a few days (52). 7 Nov. Thurs. After an early dinner James and Edgeworth went to Xenia. Afternoon John called. Mary and I commenced papering the front sitting room. Christie and Dave hauling gravel. (Wood - Christie, Dave, and Bob/Robert seemed to be some of the regularly-employed hired people who work on the McMillan farm.) (52). 8 Nov. Friday. Mary still here helping me on with my work. Afternoon. James at Clifton at Mill. Dr. Caldwell and Harv Nesbit called. Christie and Dave still hauling gravel (52-53). 9 Nov. Sat. Pleasant morning. James at C - did not return till afternoon. Mary and I finished the papering the front sitting room. 3 O’clock. She and I drove down to Jefferies furniture shop- met father there so she went home with him and left me to drive home alone. I drove up to Dawes? and made a short call there. Eve - James has taken his hogs away this afternoon (53). 10 Nov. Sabbath. Bright sunshine. Dave at the U.P. church, James at the Old Sides - Bob and I at home alone - James did not return till late, it being the day of their Communion services were quite long (53). 11 Nov. Monday. Snow falling lightly. Old Lucy here ?. John, Joe C - and Jane here for dinner (53). 21