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!

Saturday, December 27, 2014

May 3 - 9, 1947



Saturday, May 3, 1947

Rain. Bad day. Washed. Billie and Bill laid new tie up floor. Bill got his tractor back. Yellow cat had kittens. Bill lame.



Sunday, May 4, 1947

Rained.



Monday, May 5, 1947

Rained. We washed. Bill kind of lame, didn’t work.



Tuesday, May 6, 1947

Rained. We cleaned Ferns entry.



Wednesday, May 7, 1947

Sunny and rained hard before noon. Cleaned Ferns attic, shed chamber, back hall and Es’s room. Velma went to the hospital.



Thursday, May 8, 1947

Clear and windy. Fern and I cleaned Uncle Os’s and Sara’s room. Dorothea has gone down to PTA and going to stay down to Sara’s stay all night.



Friday, May 9, 1947

Cleaned Ferns room and hallway today. A very cold day but no rain. Bill quite lame today. Velma came home.

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