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!

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

September 23 - 29, 1944



Saturday, September 23, 1944

Made pickles, green tomato mincemeat. Nice day and cooler. Up to Minnie’s in eve. Bill, Dorothea and I went to town in a.m.



Sunday, September 24, 1944

Nice day awful frost. First one. Fern up this p.m. They dug potatoes.



Monday, September 25, 1944

Washed, ironed and churned. Nice day.



Tuesday, September 26, 1944

Washed. Went to town bought a new churn. Rained. War news bad.



Wednesday, September 27, 1944

Cleaned the sitting room. Charlie and Jean came up. Fern and Lloyd brought up Dorothea ‘s new coat Fern made. Nice day but begun to rain tonight. War news bad.



Thursday, September 28, 1944

Rained all day. Cleaned the shed. Mama went up to Uncle Willis. Ironed tonight.

Mama - aka Allie Smith



Friday, September 29, 1944

Started cleaning in dining room. Fern and Virgin’s up in eve. Cold. Papa got hurt.


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