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, December 10, 2014

January 4 - 10 1947



Saturday, January 4, 1947

Nice day. Cooked. Billie’s heifer got hooked today. Bill and Billie went down into the woods. Betty got awful cold.



Sunday, January 5, 1947

Nice day. Bill and Billie over to Harrison and hauled wood for Hayd. Fern and  Lloyd called in eve.



Monday, January 6, 1947

We washed. Kind of cold. Kids back to school. Dr. Greenleaf came to see Billie’s heifer. $10.00.



Tuesday, January 7, 1947

Warmer. Ironed. Betty not so well today. Billie over to Aunt Linnie’s tonight. Bill worked in the woods. Lloyd brought 2 calendars.



Wednesday, January 8, 1947

I puttered around the house, didn’t do much. Mama sewed. We baked beans. Bill worked in the woods and on the car.



Thursday, January 9, 1947

We washed. Nice day. Bill still home.



Friday, January 10, 1947

Very cold. Billie home with toothache. He went up to Chet’s at night to do chores.
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