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31. DIARYOF ALSON WARD Feb 1845 16~Sabbath Wokeup in the morning found it raining quite hard found the water higher than I have known it for a long .time H. ran, over the dam i.n several .P1aces in fr.ont ·of _tbe..miJ'.)._Accor.ding to. the testimony of _seve~al it thundered quite ·violently in the ni'ght a number of _times I 'did not hear it myself . In the forenoon went to church It was communionthere were quite a number connected Converts at the last protracted meeting most of them There were perhaps fifteen connected themselves with the church and a number more placed themselves under the care of the Session
17,Spent the day in the mill It was a unusually warm and pleasant day as warm as an April day In the afternoon took up the lower run of stone finished them in the evening. 18.Spent the day in the mill it was an uncommonwarm day for the time of year. The going is~ getting quite bad on account of the thawing. Yesterday the farm of AbrahamPells deceased was tried at auction to be sold. The highest bid that was offered was thirty nine dollars per acre two or three years 1.00 I think last spring he paid forty seven dollars per acre The administrators did not allow it to be sold.
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19.Spent most of the day clearing out the corn house a small part of the splitting wood & In the morning Father went to the Valley and pond hills to engage our former hired girl and returned home about two oclock He stopped to see Aunt Suckey at Daniel I wards he thought that she could live but a short time. In half an hour Daniel 1 s hired man came after Father informing us of th~ death of Aunt Suckey I think it was in her nintyeth year. Father went over and remained until night. John H Green and myself sat up with the corpse . 20. In the morning returned home from Daniel I's and after breakfast made preparations for going to Hughsontown to inform Mr Pulloe of the funeral of Aunt Suckey started about half past ten oclock in the morning arrived there about four oclock a very muddyand tegous journey but not cold in the least. Called at D Hughson's to get Mrs Hughsonto return with me by a request of Uncle Daniel s family but she did not on account of sickness of one of the childfen returned as faP as D Remsonsand staid all night Mr and Mrs Remsonwent to a party in the evening I spent the evening with the girls and a young married man a Doctor by profession settled over the river expecting to move and settle at Franklindale I have forgotten his name it rained very little about eleven in the evening. 1
21. Madepreparations for starting for home started about nine oclock in the morning and came leisurely along through the mud until I arrived at Mr Jerry Platts about eleven oclock Stopped and took dinner with them Was well entertained until time to leave which was about two oclock. Mr Platt and wife live in fine style and have the means to live as they please and I think the disposition to enjoy it disposing for the good of themselves as well as others It was an uncommonand warm and fine day I did not get home in time for the funeral therefor Father had to leave the mill to its own tending I a~rived home soon after sundown.
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22.Spent the day in the mill it being a very warm day and the whole of this week has been of this character. The thermometer has ranged as high as sixty and has not settled to the freezing point during the week this I think remarkable for this season of the year indeed there has been but a few cold days during this month some quite cold early in the month. 23.Sabbath. Spent the day home it being a rainy and unpleasant day.
