1895 Journal 1

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1895

 The Summer of 1895 chronicled a great many important events.  Grandma spent three months with us and took us to Yellow Sulphur Springs.  Mamma bought her 6 lots inCampJackson.  The Annual Meeting of the Doctors was held in Wytheville and Papa was made Vice-President.  Small-pox broke out atCripple Creeknear Uncle Wythe’s.  It was the best fruit season we have ever had, the apple and pear trees were so laden that even when propped some of the limbs broke.  We had a variety of delicious grapes, and 31 gal of delicious strawberries.  We lost all of our plants in the pit, but our yard was as lovely as ever before.

Sept. 1895

 Belisa is two years and a half old and talks nicely now.  She has such pretty little hands with dimples in them, and every one of  us kiss and admire them.  When you ask her what makes her so beautiful she says “Annie Fiffie makes Ber buful.  Annie washes Ber’s hands hard, Annie makes little holes in Ber’s hands” and when she was at the Yellow Sulphur Springs every one made such a fuss over her curly head, that as soon as any one called her pretty she clapped her little hand on her ringlets.

Sept 1895

 Aunt Lydia went to Chicago to see Gustave, and while there sent 8 lbs of candy to the babies.  Tinse had gone to see the little Baron, Belisa’s first baby, and thus as she did not have to hurry back to Tinse, she got to go two weeks to Chicago.  This cut Grandma’s visit short two weeks with us, as she hurried home as soon as Aunt Lucy wrote that Lydia was in Chicago.