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!

Thursday, March 5, 2015

August 21 - 27, 1948 Wirt Cannell Died



Saturday, August 21, 1948

Hot. Canned corn. Ruby Hill up here. Bill and I went to town in eve.



Sunday, August 22, 1948

Bill and Uncle Lewis got our new cow at Yarmouth, also nice six month old heifer bought off Eleanor. We went in eve looking for chickens.



Monday, August 23, 1948

Washed. Nice hot day.



Tuesday, August 24, 1948

Delores came home. I ironed in eve. Bill down to Milan’s in eve.



Wednesday, August 25, 1948

Hot. We canned. Wirt Cannell died. Bill down to help Milan. Delores called in a.m. Kennard sick.



Thursday, August 26, 1948

Very hot. I washed. We all went up to Raymond Gammon’s poultry farm.



Friday, August 27, 1948

Another hot day. Canned. I got my new breadbox.

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