The blog posts below are taken from my grandmother's diaries. Althea Green Smith Crook was lovingly referred to as Nanny to her immediate family ~ thus her diaries are called Nanny's Diaries.

Nanny wrote in her diaries when she remembered to - mostly in the evening. There will be some years in which she didn't keep diaries and there will also be some days/weeks in her yearly diaries in which she skipped or forgot to write in them. For the most part, these are her words - written as she wrote them. There will be typos, forgotten punctuation, and other grammatical errors - but I am rewriting these as my Nanny originally wrote them.

As with all old handwriting, there are some entries that I can't quite make out - and these entries will be followed with a (?) to signify that this may or may not be correct or I can't figure out what she is trying to write.

Thank you Nanny for leaving us 50 years worth of memories! We miss you!

Sunday, November 30, 2014

October 26 - November 1, 1946



Saturday, October 26, 1946

Nice day. Aunt Ava churned. We made some molasses cookies and pies.



Sunday, October 27, 1946

Nice day. Bill did plowing, thrashed some beans. Aunt Ava and Uncle Lewis went to Yarmouth, will leave about Wednesday for Florida.



Monday, October 28, 1946

We washed, warm. Mama taken sick about noon. Billie and Bob went coon hunting. Bill over to Ernest Holden’s.



Tuesday, October 29, 1946

Mama little better. I ironed. Very warm today and hot tonight. Light showers. Jean got another letter from home today.



Wednesday, October 30, 1946

Cloudy. Blanche called. I began to clean. Rained in p.m. Bill and I went to town in p.m. Paid our bills. We got our sugar today. Carlton, Bob and Raymond called in p.m.



Thursday, October 31, 1946

Nice day. I cleaned Billie and Dorothea’s bedrooms. Wind blowed hard in p.m. Ed Robbins brought cow up. Fern, Lloyd, and Jack called in eve.



Friday, November 1, 1946

Very nice day, cooler. I finished cleaning upstairs shed chamber and got all my curtains up. Jack very sick this afternoon in M. G. H. Being operated on for appendicitis. Bill home hunting with Milan.



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