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, August 1, 2015

January 1 - 5, 1956



Sunday, January 1, 1956



Billie worked for Lloyd. Very cold. Dorothea to church. Betty and Jill got up late. Did up the work.



Monday, January 2, 1956

I washed. Dorothea had to work. Billie worked at Lloyds. Bill didn’t have to work.



Tuesday, January 3, 1956

Cloudy and snowed. Bill and Charlie Kimball here for supper. Had to work till late plowing. Bill took jersey calf heifer over to Raymond.



Wednesday, January 4, 1956

Very nice day. Billie turned out the cows, took some pictures of them. I wash curtains today. Billie got a Holstein calf up to John Linscotts.



Thursday, January 5, 1956


I ironed curtains, washed windows. Aunt Ava and Uncle Lewis called in p.m. Cloudy. My check came. Billie and I downtown, paid bills.


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