Author: David Haldeman

Thursday, August 4, 1983
.2″ rain high 80 humidity 80%
Dave & I picked Mary & Ken up at 8. Drove to Prairies on RR right of rail at Rt 4 & 36 – Pix of Silene Regia & other prairie plants. To Piqua by 10:30 to visit Minnicks at 910 Caldwell. Bipp had the cookie jar (hand blown glass) from Sheneman’s corner grocery store that Laura had told me about & she gave it to me. Lovely lunch & then we went to Laura’s house (8th chile of Josephine Hildreth & Sylvester Bell.) She died July 15. On to Ohio Caverns to meet Bill Winegartner & family. Toured cave. Stopped at Ray F’s at E. Liberty & pd him $80. Del Goff, Marcella Haldeman here while I was gone.

Wednesday, August 3, 1983
90
Typed the Burroughs Club Program Book 10:30 to 2:30 – Took to Nan Weir on way in to town. To Mother’s – wrote Hemmerly Reunion Cards while she ate – I fed her.

Supper with Helen Romine at LK – stuffed pepper & rice $2.99 – Then to Palace Theater to see Marlon Brandon in On the Waterfront. Split a banana split at Isaly’s after the movies.

Dave work on his cave & discovered a sand deposit in the river bank.

Tuesday, August 2, 1983
84 nicest day since I’ve been home.
Ray Foertsch out to install air conditioner & 2 bug lights – reposition TV antenna, repair linoleum where burned by iron in kitchen, install 2 new toilet seats (after 30 yrs use!) Dave trimmed along steps to river.

Picked Mary & Ken up at 11:00 to go to Jessie & LOren Bakers for lunch & then to Jessie’s daughter Maret’s herb garden. Then to Behlehem barn. Found Earl Gray tea like Helen Lamb served. Supper at Hardy’s & home.

Monday, August 1, 1983
David called at 9 asking me to come to shop to help set up general ledger on computer. Got Royce started & got in by 11:00 in time for farewell party for Mary Walker Page who is pregnant (March) and has resigned. Discussed financial statement with Kass, Cheryl & David & then worked on GL – putting June 30 figures in. Intensive brain work. Others watched US Open* Parade but we worked right thru it. David left for home at 8:30.

[* Drum Corps competition]

Sunday, July 31, 1983 [in Roseville, OH at Stokely House]
Slept until 9 after a fitful night. Ancestor ghosts hovering, I suspect. After breakfast took walk back to graveyard but it is hopelessly grown up. Then got date the uneven part of the bookcase in the living room. Found David Stokely’s will and a note signed byu Elizabeth Hildreth (her mark) for $2,000 – which explains the “for hay what she has already received.” in the will.

Home by 5:30. Dave called & I went in to pick him up.

Saturday, July 30, 1983
I slept in the new (1840) part of the house. Had been Marguerite’s sons, Robert & David’s room but I pictured David & Abigail Hurlbut Stokely sleeping there. Up at 7:15 & drove to Marietta via Rts 93-37-60 – Rough, hilly gorgeous views. Genealogy Conference not too exciting. Topic was to have been research in S.E. Ohio but Carol Bell, speaker, talked in generalities. I bought Joseph Barker’s Marietta Reminiscences – mentions Benoni Hurlbut. Won year’s subscription to N.E.G & HS quarterly as door prize. Car froze – started when when aI stopped for canteloupe so didn’t get back until 5:30. Man came to fix light switch.

Friday, July 29, 1983
Left about 9:30 for Roseville to visit Marguerite Stokely Maddox at the Stokely homestead for the weekend – Beth Inman her companion left as soon as I got there & Marguerite started unloading her troubles. Beth is not kind to her – Probably first time in Marguerite’s life she has been so treated. She pads bills & has stolen from Marguerite’s purse. I took food for our meals but Marguerite had money pinned to her bra to take me to dinner. She is almost blind. Optic nerve gone. She needed someone to talk to.

Thursday, July 28, 1983
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Wednesday, July 27, 1983
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Tuesday, July 26, 1983
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