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!

Monday, October 20, 2014

January 12-18, 1946



Saturday, January 12, 1946

Cooked, did regular work. Billie still sick. Bill and I went to town. Jack called in eve.



Sunday, January 13, 1946

Wind blowed awful hard and the lights went out. Awful cold and windy all night. Dolores called and Kennie came up today.



Monday, January 14, 1946

I washed. A very cold day. Bill didn’t work over to Jim’s. Billie home sick. Went down to the Dr. Davis’s tonight. Bill and Milan cleaned out little chicks.



Tuesday, January 15, 1946

Goden and Sally called and Jack this p.m. Very cold. Goden and Sally came last night.



Wednesday, January 16, 1946

Billie back-to-school. Did regular work. Milan helped me with the chicks.



Thursday, January 17, 1946

Did regular work. I did the chicks today.



Friday, January 18, 1946

Nice day. Cold. Billie home with bad ear. Milan didn’t work at mill tonight. Smart kids down in p.m. Ken and Dolores and Jack and Red Chandler called in eve.

Dorothea Crook Thomas, Rosalie Smart, Betty Crook Horton, and Nancy Smart



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