Mr. Ralph diary of Lawrence County.

Diary of Charles H. Ralph

1905 February 2nd: Clear all day. Groundhog seen shadow all day. Ground covered with snow. Cold. At home sick
18th: Shut down furnace. (see March 6, 1905)

March 6th: Furnace went on.
14th: Snow storm. Froze hard.
15th: Ground covered. Froze hard.

May 12th: Hail storm.

August 15th: Drivers strike.
16th: Strike settled.

September 16th: Saul Wade and C. H. Ralph went squirrel hunting at Pine Crick Sept. 15 &16. Found one dead one that had starved to death.
18th: George Eble died. 83 years old. Pearl McKnight died.

October 11th: First fire in stove at mine. Raining.

November 7th: Ed Ralph and son at Ironton Nov. 4th to 7th.
14th: Commenced to lay foundation for Charles Rauch’s house on corner 5th and Oak Streets.

1906 January 13th: Charles Rauch went to housekeeping.

February 2nd: Clear and cold. Groundhog saw his shadow all day
4th: Snow at night
5th: Ground covered with snow. 5 above zero.
6th: Cold and clear. 4 above zero. Snow still on. Too cold to thaw away.
14th: James A. Hunter died at Fresno, California February 12 at 8:30 A.M. Age 60 years. Buried Feb. 14 at Fresno.
25th: Sunday. Sick at home. Called Dr. Eakman.
26th: About gone up or down all day. Got doctor in evening. Was about pegged out.
27th: Snowed all night. Over one foot snow.
28th: Sick as hell, and can’t help it. Nice and clear and warmer.

March 1st: Clear and nice. Snow still on the ground.
2nd: Warm and clear. Snow about all gone. Sick at home.
5th: Went to coal bank. Weighed 120 pounds. Cold and cloudy. Spitting snow.
6th: Frost in morning. Warm in the day.
7th: Rain and snow storm.
8th: Warm and cloudy.
9th: Rain.
10th: Cold and cloudy. Spitting snow.
11th: Cold and cloudy.
12th: Clear and cool.
13th: Sleet and snow storm. Freezing.
14th: Cold and cloudy. Ground and trees covered with ice.
15th: A snow blizzard in afternoon.
1906 March 16th: Snow storm. Big snow on ground. Froze at night.
17th: Clear and thawing.
18th: Clear and thawing. Warmer.
19th: Rain and warm.
20th: Snow storm, “Blizzard”. Froze hard at night.
21st: Cold, clear, windy.
22nd: Cloudy.
23rd: Snow storm.
24th: Snow 2 inches deep and sleet.
25th: Snow and sleet on ground. Cloudy.
26th: Rain.
27th: Warmer and clearing.
29th: Rain.
30th: Rain and cloudy.
31st: Cold and snow.

April 1st: Clear and cold.
7th: Mrs. Bennett at Ironton 6th and 7th.

May 8th: Big frost.
9th: Big frost. Killed everything.
10th: Frost.
23rd: Sent C. R. Richey money purse.

June 15th: Mine inspetor here.
30th: Marie Russell at Ironton June 24th to June 30th.

September 3rd: George Middleton and C. H. Ralph went to Ohio Furnace hunting Sept. 2nd and 3rd. Got 6 squirrels.
6th: Clint Perdue hurt his leg. C. Klein went to Columbus, Ohio to Fair.

October 18th: M. P Ralph and family at Ironton.
22st: Sunday. Took dinner at Charles Rauch’s. M. P. Ralph and family was with us.
23rd: M. P. Ralph and family went home. Went as far as Ashland with them. (Last dinner with them, Sunday, 22nd.)
24th: Mrs. A. H. Keller married to Mr. Wright.

1907 January 2nd: C. R. Richey got home from California.
27th: C. R. Richey went away.

March 5th: Snow storm. Snow went and froze hard at night.
26th: Clint Perdue’s ankle hurt by new mule jenny.

April 2nd: Mine inspector here. Found scales OK. Back here 16th April.
9th: Blizzard and snow storm. Snow and cold at night.
10th: Cold and stormy, like winter.
12th: Snow storm. Bad as any in winter.
13th: Snow on ground and stormy.
14th: Cold. Froze hard at night.
15th: Cold and clear.
16th: Local option election in Ironton, Ohio went wet.
29th: C. H. R got his back hurt at coal mines.
1907 May 6th: Went back to work.
9th: John M. Corns died.
22nd: Mr Oscar Richey and wife sailed for Europe.
29th: John Klein married.

June 8th: Dave Grossman hurt. Fall of slate. Collar bonefractured and side hurt.
July 19th: John Harvey died. 93 years old.

September 5th: C. Klein gone to Columbus. I killed 1 squirrel. First one this year.
8th: Bess Bagwells baby boy born.
13th: Took cow to Ensingers. Heifer 6 weeks before to Melingers.

October 10th: Bess Bagwells baby boy died.
25th: Mrs. Mamie Boyce and Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Ralph went to Gallipolis.
29th: Got home from Gallipolis.

December 7th: Pushing ending. Price 3 cents car.
18th: Snow storm. First snow to amount to anything this winter. Hanging on trees.

1908 February 1st: Snow blizzard.
2nd: Clear and cold all day. Went back and took his hole with him, poor groundhog. Had all kind of winter for 8 weeks. Warm over day and freezes the night.
3rd: Cold and clear.
4th: Cloudy. Big snow at night. River full of ice. No boats running from Pittsburg to Cincinatti.
5th: Rain.
8th: Andy J. Jones died.
11th: Warm and cloudy. Sick.
13th: Mrs. James Stewart died 12 oclock midningt.
14th: Herman Baldwin, the teamster, got his velentine as freeman and chum of _____Mittenhauser. What a pair to draw to. Alma J. Ralph and C. H. Ralph both sick at home.
24th: Went to work. Commenced to build 14 x 14 bedroom. Cost $162.50
26th: Big snow storm.
27th: Big snow storm.
28th: Snow.

March 10th: Ora and children moved in with us. River almost a flood. 48 ft. at Ironton.
18th: Too warm to wear a shirt. Rain at night.
19th: Cold enough to wear an overcoat.
26th: C. Klein planted his potatoes March 25 & 26.
27th: Big frost at night. Sowed lettuce.

April 2nd: Forze. Ice.
7th: Rained.
8th: Rained.
24th: Planted potatoes.
27th: Charles Leipsig, driver, got mule’s leg broke.
28th: Killed mule.
1908 April 30th: Snow storm. Hail and rain. Froze ice at night.

May 1st: Cloudy and cold.
6th: Mrs. C. H. Ralph went home with Fred Russells on steamer Greenlie.
7th: Cold like winter.
8th: Rain and wind storm. Bought mule from Nance. Price $100.
(see Apil 27, 1908)
11th: Heifer found calf. (see Sept. 13th, 1907)
27th: C. R. Richey home from California. Mrs. Ralph home from Pomeroy.

June 3rd: C. R. Richey left for California.
14th: Old one (found calf see May 11th, 1907)
15th: Thomas Miller, bank boss, died. At Kelly Mines 6 years.
21st: Andrew Rauch died.
23rd: Mrs. Samuel Flemins died.

July 2nd: Sold old cow. $40.00 cow and calf.
22nd: Leo Ebert died.
28th: Joseph Gillen died.

August 21st: Curt Ralph and wife at Ironton.
24th: Curt Ralph and wife leave. Drove from home in buggy.

September 16th: Stewart Bagwell’s girl baby born.
22nd: Filled cistern. Dug dry well at home Sept. 22-24.
29th: Local option election in Lawrence County. Went dry. 1,530 votes. City went dry 67.

October 1st: C. H. and A. J. Ralph, Leon and Clifford Richey fishing Oct. 1st. to 4th. Camped under a rock 2 nights. Got 2 fish: one 2 lb., one 39 lb. catfish on bobline.
29th: Thursday. Local option went into effect 10 oclock pm. Everything dry.

November 3rd: Ron Johnson elected for congress over T. H. B. Jones.
6th. J. G. Lane. Loads of posts.
14th: Saul Flemins and Clemens girl married.
19th: Bess Bagwell married to Charles DeLong. (see Sept. 8 & Oct. 10)

December 24th: William Smith and son John and family left Ironton for California.
? 25th: Erold and Clifford took dinner with us. ______family at Mrs. Foxes. We had pheasant for dinner. Clifford killed it out at the bridge rock, Pole Cat Hollow.

1909 January 5th: Cold. Froze hard. Ed Ralph and wife at Ironton Jan 5th-7th.
6th: Cold. Froze hard.
7th: Cold. Froze hard.

February 2nd: Clear and cold. Bad weather. Groundhog seen his shadow. 1 month groundhog time.
4th: Wm. D. Kelly Bank Portsmouth = 753. Posts 3 1/5 cents each. Paid order on Co. $24.10.

25th: Henry Farmer & Co. received 1455 posts @ 2 ¾ cents. $40.02
1909 March 1st: John K. Richards died.
2nd: John S. Goldmans died
8th: Willie Baldwin married. (see June 10, 1909)
26th: Earl Richardson killed in Push bank.

April 1st: 204. John Tate Sr. died 9:30 pm. Age 69 years.
6th: Local option election at Ashland. Went dry.
13th: Maurice Ralph died.
14th: Mrs. C. H. Ralph and Clifford Richey went to funeral.
19th: Mrs. Ralph and Clifford at home from Pomeroy.

May 10th: Went on.
11th: 2 loads coal hauled.
13th: Hauled lumber to build house. 2 story.
15th: Commenced to work.
25th: Frank Smith’s Drummick boy baby born.

June 10th: Willie Baldwin hurt in West Virginia.
14th: Bess Bagwell and DeLong scrap on Tram Road.

August 13th: John Johnson (Wild Cat) died.
14th: At Hanging Rock fishing. “Water Haul” C. H. and A. J. Ralph, George Middleton, Clifford, Leon, Audrey and Jimiie Richey all took dinner under a rock camp.
23rd: Jas. Piketon knee hurt. Fall of rock.

September 2nd: Sells Bros. Show at Ironton in Beechwood Park. C. Klein gone to State Fair.
21st: Mine inspector John Burke here. His first trip.

October 21st: Went fishing at Hanging Rock. Slept under Rock by myself, C. H. Ralph.
24th: Wm. Smith got home from California.

November 2nd: Tuesday. Election day. Mayor Charles Golden reelected over T. J. Kennedy for mayor by 122 votes.
7th: Ezekial Harper took dinner at Ironton.
15th: Valentine Newman died. 76 years old.

December 7th: Chas. Peters Sr died. W. H. McGuggin died.
8th: William Richardson died.
15th: Took cow to Ensingers. (see Sept. 20, 1910.)

1910 January 13th: John Klein’s first baby boy born.

February 2nd: Groundhog saw his shadow.
6th: The first baby for DeLong, a boy. (see Nov. 19, 1908)
13th: Snow on the ground 12 inches deep.
15th: Warm. Snow all gone.
26th: At home sick from 26th to March 5th.

March 3rd: Col. J. H. Moulton died.
1910 March 8th: Mr. William. F. Smith and Clifford Richey left Ironton at 2:30 pm for California. Got to Bakersfield Sat. the 12th.

April 22nd: John Burke, mine inspector here 2nd time.
29th: Mr. Jas. E. Eakins fell dead on Center St. 76 years old.

July 7th: Mrs. Westlake died.
22nd: Pat Gallagher hurt in mine at Terre Haut, Indiana. Hurt freeing self.
26th: Pat Gallagher died.

August 9th: River down to 30 inches.
23rd: 18 inches. C. Klein got back from California. Lazy as ever.

September 1st: Erold went to Pomeroy to work.
5th: Erold Richey come from Pomeroy.
20th: Cow found calf.
26th: Sold the Clifford cow to John Cook for $45.

October 18th: David Nixon died.
22nd: Miss Mary K. Richey left Ironton for Arizona.
25th: Henry Miller, William Tate and Jessie Tate fight at mine.

November 8th: Late election. Gov. Harmon elected. Democrat. 100,000 majority.

December 3rd: River 9 feet. Coal barge raise from Pittsburg. First for over 3 months.
4th: Snowed at night. One foot deep on the level.
7th: Turned cold. Snow still on. Snow never got entirely off till Dec. 28th. Navigation supension on river from Cairo to Pittsburg on account of ice.
8th: Paid tayes $23.67.
11th: Snow storm fell during day. 7 inches on the level. C. H. Ralph, Kelly Mines, Ironton, Ohio.
13th: Mrs. Eliza Schafer died. Albert Hille killed on D. T. & I. railroad in a collision.
16th: Mrs. Ralph sick from 16th to 30th. Dr. Eakman was her doctor.
17th: Art Hanson had leg amputqated.
19th: Sstopped work at coal mine.
25th: Christmas at home. Alma sick. Stayed at home with her 3 weeks. Coal cost $1.50 ton out of the _____mine run.

1911 January 1st: Sunday. Warm and cloudy. Ice all out of river. Tow boats running 16ft. stage.
21st: Thomas Harrison died.

February 2nd: Groundhog day. Clear and cold. 6 weeks winter after the hog went into his den.
17th: Bennett Russell at Ironton Feb. 17th to 20th. Cold and stormy. Ground and trees covered with sleet and ice. Snowing.
26th: Mrs. David Grosman died.

March 9th: Gerard Goble died. 84 years old.
15th: Thomas Floyd moved out in Kelly house.
25th: Marie Russell and Harry Mills married at Gallipolis.
1911 March 30th: Snow storm.

April 1st: Ground covered with snow.
4th: Filled cistern.
18th: C. H. and A. J. Ralph went to Pomeroy on steamer Ohio. Went from Pomeroy to Gallipolis on train.
19th: Went home on steamer Tacoma. Hail storm at Gallipolis.
20th: Ed Ralph and wife at Ironton. Went out to mines 6 pm.
21st: Cold and sprinkling rain.
23rd: Mrs. Anna Baldwin, wife of Ed Tipton Sr, died.
29th: Saturday. Coal mines stopped for good. Put gas in Nail Mill. Weighed all the coal for 28 years. Last day at mine.

May 8th: Went to Malleable Works.

June 22nd: Phillip Miller at Ironton.

August 6th: Ironton A. Kelly died at Ashland. Born on Sunday and died on Sunday.
31st: Labor Day. Goerge Middleton died at Ashland, Ky.

September 14th: E. P. Ralph died at Gallipolis.

November 7th: County and city election in Ironton. T. J. Kennedy elected mayor by 74 votes over “Kid” Colettt. Kennedy 1060 votes, Collett 992. Both wet men. 68=74 official.
11th: Bennett Russell and Erold Richey come up to Malleable.
12th: Bennett went home. Charles Rauch and Audrey Richey spent Sunday at Malleable. Blizzard snow, sleet and rain. Captain Vance died.
13th: Froze hard.
15th: Erold Richey went to Meigs County.
22nd: Sick at Malleable Plant. Called Dr. Eakman 12 oclock midnight. Granma and Leon stayed all night with me.
23rd: Snow storm. Jimmie stayed at night. Went home in morning.
24th: Still snowing. Some better.
25th: Sarah Furnace worked up all stock on hand and blowed out indefinately. Erold Richey still up in Meigs County.
26th: Worse. Called Dr. Eakman.
28th: Some better.
30th: “Thanksgivin.” Cool and sun shining. Erold got home 29th. Was up to furnace morning. Granma still staying with me at the Malleable. Am sick, but getting better. Leon stayed at night. Went hunting with Ted Thanksgiving. Come up in evening. Stayed all night.

December 1st: Friday. Erold went to work at Furnace. Sarah Furnace went out of blast (see Aug. 17, 1912). Leon went hunting afternoon. Came up and stayed all night.
2nd: Leon went home noon. Stella Busch, Audrey and Jimmie Richey came up in evening and Granma cooked supper for them. Went home on street car.
3rd: Worst blizzard and rain and snow storm this winter. Erold stopped and got his supper with us. Leon come up at 6pm and stayed all night. Come at noon and took dinner with us. Went back to school.
1911 December 4th: Ora come up with letter from Clifford to Granma in afternoon. Was by ourselves at night.
5th: Clear and cold. Granma wrote to Clifford at Fresno: No. 1659 F St. 6th: Leon come up in evening. Got coal and water. Brought letter to Granma from Chester and went home.
7th: Clear and warm. Granma wrote letter to T. J. Harper, Pomeroy. Leon up in evening. Went back home.
8th: Clear and warmer.
9th: Clear and cool. Leon went to Jas. Howells hunting. Jimmie come up and stayed all night.
10th: Sunday. Cloudy and warm. Margaret Webber, Audrey, Helen Cook, Leon and Jimmie took supper with us.
11th: Cloudy and disagreeable. Rained in morning. Wrote Chester. Jimmie come and stayed at night.
12th: Rain and warm. Went down and paid taxes $15.21. Took dinner with folks down home. Leon up in evening and went home. Audrey come up in evening and stayed all night. Went to school in morning.
13th: Cloudy in forernoon. Clear and cool afternoon. Darby Kelly died. 77 years old. All day by ourselves.
14th: Cold and drizzling rain. Very disagreeable day. Leon up in evening. Went home.
15th: Rain all day. L. Hilgeberger stopped in forenoon. A. J. wrote to Clifford 1659 F Street, Fresno, California.
16th: Cloudy and very windy. Leon come in evening. Stayed all night.
17th: Cold and cloudy. Audrey and Jimmie up in evening. Took supper with us and went home.
18th: Nice winter day. Clear and cool. Darby Kelly buried at Kelly Cemetary.
19th: Clear and cool. Leon up in evening. Fixed Jimmie’s shoes. Stayed all night. Went home in morning before breakfast.
20th: Cold and cloudy. Leon up in evening. Stayed all night.
21st: Sold and cloudy. Sent cards to Chester and Clifford. Leon up. Stayed all night.
22nd: Drizzling rain. Foggy and very disagreeable day. Leon and Edna come up after school closed. Edna stayed. Leon went home at night. Still sprinkling rain. Sent T. J. Harper and Les Paine postals at Pomeroy, Ohio.
23rd: Cool and cloudy. Went downtown. Edna was all the company we had. “Pauline” Miller married at 12 oclock noon.
24th: Snow storm. Bad day. Erold, Leon and Edna took dinner with us. Audrey, Leon, Jimmie and Edna for supper. Jimmie and Leon went home. Audrey and Edna stayed all night.
25th: Monday. Cold and cloudy. Stayed down home at hights.
26th: Rain all day. Stayed down home all day.
27th: Leon and Jimmie stayed with Granma while I was down home. Come up in morning with Ted. Snow storm. Regular blizzard. Got letter from Chester.
28th: Cold. Jimmie went home in evening.
29th: Cold and cloudy. Leon and Erold took dinner with us at the Plant. Leon stayed all night. Went home in morning.
30th: Drizzling rain all day. Very disagreeable. Jimmie stayed at night.
31st: Sunday. Last day 1911. Joe Shafer and wife, Tom Charlton, George Ferry and brother, Audrey Richey, Leon, Jimmie and Erold Richey in afternoon. Leon and Jimmie stayed at night. Granma sick. Hoarse. Could not talk. Wrote to Chester.

1912 January 1st: Monday. Granma sick. Hoarse. Could not talk. Went down home with Jimmie. Leon stayed at night. Ora, Audrey and Edna stopped for a few minutes. In evening. Had been up to Meeks.
2nd: Ground froze and spitting snow. Leon with us.
3rd: Snow flurry. Leon stayed till evening. Went home. First night we was alone for over one month.
??????????B30 3rd: Cold and cloudy. Leon come up in morning and got Ted. Come back and stayed all night. McKeon killed growing hen. Gave it to me. First hen to lay got 4 eggs.
4th: Cold and snowing. Granma and Leon cooking old hen. Audrey stopped in evening and ate the gizzard and went home evening. Leon stayed all night. Worst wind storm this winter.
5th: Cold and very windy. A real blizzard all day. Snow. In afternoon Leon went home.
6th: Cold and cloudy. Eggs snow. Afternoon Jimmie come up and stayed all night. Leon come up and went back home. Got glasses by mail.
7th: Sunday. Snowed. Jimmie went home at noon. Had no visitors all day.
8th: Snow on ground and warmer. 6 eggs to date. Rain in afternoon. Snow storm till midnight. Turned cold. Went down to 3 above zero before 5 in the morning. Erold went to Cincinnatti.
9th: Clear and cold. Snow on ground. River full of running ice. Navigation suspended. Leon up in evening. Set trap and went home. Got one rabbit.
10th: Clear and warmer. Nice day. Leon took supper with us and went home in evening. Erold got home from Cincinnatti. Granma wrote to Clifford.
11th: River full of ice. Snow storm afternoon. 9 eggs. Leon up and home.
12th: Clear and cold. 5 inches snow on ground. Leon come up. Stayed all night. Froze hard.
13th: Me and Erold went to Columbus. 11 below zero 7:30 am. Leon went home in evening. Chief George reinstalled as Chief fire department.
14th: Sunday. Warmer. Leon and Charles Rauch took supper with us. Went home 8 oclock in evening.
15th: Cold and cloudy. Snowing part of the day. Got 50 cents feed at Rumbles. Owe Rumble $5.40 for chicken feed. Erold got home from Columbus Sunday at noon. Come up to furnace Monday morning.
16th: Clear and cold. Granma got letter from Clifford. Leon come up in evening after school. Went back home.
17th: Clear part of the day and warmer. Thawing in the sun. Had home phone installed in the McKeoun house. George Ferry first one called us. Audrey 2nd. Home phone 434K. Clifford 1248 J Street, Fresno, California.
18th: Clear and warm. Thawing. Snow most all gone. George Ferry called on us. Was tanked up. Jimmie come up in evening. Stayed all night. Snowed in night and turned cold and froze. Got a letter from Ethel Ralph.
19th: Cold and cloudy. Leon come up and stayed all night. Went home next morning.
1912 January 20th: Cold and cloudy. River full of ice. Jimmie stayed all night. Went home Sunday noon.
21st: Clear and cool. Mr. Schafer called on us for a short chat. Audrey come up. Brought Erold’s keys. Went home with Jimmie. Leon took supper with us and went home in evening.
22nd: Clear and warmer. River full of iced. Minnie Rucker to see us afternoon. Leon up in evening. Stayed all night.
23rd: Clear and warmer. Snow all gone. Leon stayed at night. Home in morning.
24th: Cold and cloudy. River full of ice. Leon stayed all night. Wrote post cards to Chester and Clifford Richey.
25th: Ice about out of river. Leon up. Stayed all night.
26th: Cloudy most of the day. Jimmie up in evening. Stayed all night. Got letter from Chester.
27th: Cold and cloudy.
28th: Cold and cloudy. Audrey and Jimmie up to see us and took dinner with us. Leon for supper and all went home.
29th: Rain and fog. Dismal day. Wrote to Clifford 1248 J Street, Fresno, California. None of the boys up.
30th: Disagreeable weather.
31st: Ora and Uncle John come in morning. Uncle John took dinner with us and went to Portsmouth in afternoon. Leon stayed at night with us.

February 1st: Snow storm. Leon stayed night. Wrote to Chester.
2nd: Cold and cloudy. Groundhog day. Freezing forenoon and cold and sunshine in afternoon. Leon stayed at night.
3rd: Cold and cloudy. Some ice in river. Snow storm in afternoon. Audrey and Jimmie come up in evening. Took supper with us and went home. Leon stayed all night. Big snow. Got letters from Chester and Clifford. Chicken fight.
4th: Sunday. Clear and cool. Charles Rauch to see us. Leon up afternoon. Had chicken.
5th: Cold and cloudy. Fell and hurt my wrist. By ourselves all day. Olive machine shop burned.
6th: Clear and cool. River full of ice. Gates’ Cigar Factory burned. McKeoun’s famous rooster broke his neck flying off the roost. Leon come up in evening.
7th: Some warmer. Cloudy most all day. Spitting snow now and then. River full of ice. Leon come up in evening. Went back home.
8th: Clear and cool. Nice winter weather. Got 50 cents feed, 25 cents meal for chickens. Leon up in evening. Back home.
9th: Cold and cloudy. Sick. Not able to go downstairs. Conrad Klein stopped to see me. Leon up and stayed at night.
10th: Cloudy. River full of floating ice. Sent Lisann postal birthday. 11th: Partly clear and somw warmer. River full of ice. Stage 5 feet. Sick. Not able to go away from the Plant.
12th: Cloudy and warmer. Snow all about melted. Turn cold in evening. Freezing. Got letter from Chester. Leon up in evening. Stayed all
night.
13th: Cloudy and cold. River full of ice. Leon up in evening and went home. Wrote to Dr. Hanp(?), St. Louis, Mo.
14th: Cool and cloudy. Ora sick. Wrote to Chester. Leon up in evening and went back home. Ice very thin. Gorged above.
1912 February 15th: Warmer and cloudy. Leon up and went back home in evening. Mrs. H. J. Baldwin took supper with us.
16th: Cloudy most of the day. Very little ice in river. Jimmie come up in evening. Stayed at night. McKeoun shipped 2 pullets to Rucker in Georgia.
17th: Clear and warmer. Jimmie stayed ll night.
18th: Unccle John Hammer, Leon and Jimmie took dinner with us. They went down home for supper.
19th: Warm and cloudy. No ice in river at Ironton. Gorged at Pomeroy and all the way to Pittsburg.
20th: Cool and cloudy. Leon up. Took supper and went home. Sprinkling rain at night.
21st: Cloudy and sprinklinhg rain least of time. Sent papers to Clifford, 1248 J St., Fresno. Some shore ice in river. Steamer Greyhound running from Huntington to Portsmouth, Ohio. Courier made 1 trip from Cincinnatti to Huntington and return. Rain and wind storm afternoon and night wind storm and freezing. Worst storm all winter. Erold was the only one to see us all day.
22nd: Stormy and cold. Snowing part of the day. No ice in river. Jimmie up for a short visit.
23rd: Clear and cold. River full of ice from gorges above Pomeroy. No boats running. Went down home in afternoon and back. Walked. Got 1 egg. Leon at night.
24th: Cloudy. Leon for supper and went home.
25th: Cloudy forenoon. Clear and warm afternoon. Leon up in evening. Took supper with us. Went home 9 pm. Got 1 egg.
26th: Variable sprinkling rain and wind storm at night.
27th: Clear and cool. Nice day.
28th: Clear and warmer. Granma went to Boyces and Hornes. Aunt Adaline Ralph come up to Malleable with her. Leon up and back in evening.
29th: Snow storm.

March 1st: Friday. Cloudy. River full of ice.
2nd: Snow storm at night. Uncle John and Leon to see us.
3rd: Cloudy and snow part of the day. Leon up and back home in afternoon.
4th: Warmer and cloudy. River full of ice. Granma found 6 eggs hen nest. Froze at night.
5th: Cold and cloudy. Snow on ground. Found hens nest 1 egg. Wrote to Chester. Leon up back. Sent papers to California.
6th: Granma and Adeline Ralph went down home in morning. Back in evening. Leon up and back home. Warm and cloudy. Snow all gone. Clifford letter.
7th: Warm and cloudy. Richey and strangers up and looked at Plant. Leon, Ed and Ora up in evening.
8th: Sprinkling rain. I got up sick in morning. Broke in two in the middle. Leon up and stayed all night.
9th: Cloudy. Snow on ground. Leon carried coal and water. Went home at noon.
10th: Clear and cool and nice day. Frank Boyce and wife and Leon Richey up in afternoon. Mrs. E. P. Ralph went home with them. Charles Miller and son-in-law up in morning.
11th: Snow storm. Leon up and back in evening. Mr. and Mrs. Boyce up.
1912 March 12th: Drizzling rain and foggy. Leon up all night. Snow.
13th: Snow and rain. Leon up. Stayed at night.
14th: Cloudy and cold. Got letter from Clifford, 1430 H St., Fresno, California. Rain at night. Leon stayed all night. Home in morn.
15th: Cloudy and windy. Got letter from Chester. Sent papers to Clifford. Jimmie stayed at night.
16th: Cold and cloudy McKeoun went to Cincinnatti.
17th: Clear, warmer, like spring. George Everly buried. Killed on railroad in Texas. Leon up for dinner. Jimmie up in evening. Audrey and Keiser boys up in evening.
18th: Nice and warm. Jimmiw brought check and took dinner and went back to school. I went down to Bank. Got money. Walked out home and back to Malleable Plant. Tired out.
19th: Clear and warm. None of the boys up. Sent Ira Lybba letter. 20th: Cold and cloudy. Rain in evening. Leon come up and set hen in carpenter shop. Went back home. Leon put tomato seeds in his hot bed March 19th, 1912.
21st: Wrote to Dr. W. S. Rice, Adams, N.Y. Uncle John and Mrs Schafer took dinner with us. Leon and Uncle John had supper with us.
22nd: Cold and disagreeable. Jimmie up in evening. Stayed all night.
23rd: Cloud and dismal. Jimmie all day and stayed at night. Audrey for supper. Went home.
24th: Cloudy and sprinkling rain. Audrey and Jimmie for dinner. Charles Rauch for supper. All 3 went home in evening. Lizzie Meek called in afternoon.
25th: Clear and warmer. River 49 feet. Sent paper to Clifford, 1430 H St., Fresno. Leon up for supper and went home.
26th: Clear and warm. Set Jimmie’s hen, ½ game, ½ chicken, on bench in coal house. Got hit under my eye with gun cap. River about on stand 49 feet. Erold killed hawk. Leon up for supper. Went back home.
27th: Warm and cloudy. Leon up in evening. Went back home.
28th: Cloudy and warm. Went down to Post Office. Sent to W. S. Rice, Adams, N.Y. $4.50 for truss. Rain in evening. Leon stayed all night. Rain all night.
29th: All kinds of weather. Rain, part of the time sunshine. Leon up in evening. Stayed all night. Got letter from Chester.
30th: Cool and cloudy. Set hen Plymouth Rock in barrell. Leon, Jimmie and Birch boy with us. All went home in evening. Picked mess greens.
31st: Last day of windy March. Warm and nice like summer. Leon, Jimmie and Kyser boy up in afternoon. Wrote to Chester. Sent it.

April 1st: Cloudy and dismal. Got truss from W. S. Rice, Adams, N.Y. Rain at night. Leon up and back home.
2nd: Cloudy and warm. Commenced to wear Rice truss. Leon up in evening. Rained.
3rd: Clear and cold. Erold set hen. Pat Tate and Jimmie Richey up in evening a while.
4th: Clear and warm. River 48 feet and falling. Leon up in evening.
5th: Cold and cloudy. Jimmie stayed at night. Went home in morning.
6th: Warm and cloudy. Pat Tate and Leon brought up Jas. Tate’s hen.
7th: Cold and cloudy: Audrey and Jimmie took supper with us. Rain in morning and vey windy.
1912 April 8th: Clear and warm. Leon and Uncle John up and stayed till 10 oclock. Sent papers to Clifford and letter to Lulu Geoglin at Pomeroy.
9th: Clear and warm. Leon up. Stayed all night.
10th: Granma walked down home. Audrey, Jimmie and Edna came up with her. Jimmie stayed all night.
11th: Clear and warm. Jimmie stayed all night. Got letter from Mrs. E. P. Ralph from Columbus. McKeoun’s hen commenced to hatch.
12th: Warm and cloudy. First chickens commenced to hatch. Ten. Wrote to Clifford.
13th: Cloudy and showers. Leon up in evening and went back home.
14th: Warm and sunny.
15th: Rain and warm. Went down town and back. Jimmie up at noon.
16th: Warm and clear. Wrote to Chester. Leon up in evening. Rained.
17th: Cloudy and windy and shower of rain in evening. Leon up in evening. Erold Richey and Lizzie Meek married at Cattletsburg, Ky.
18th: Cloudy. Cold wave. Got letter from Clifford 1430 H St., Fresno, California.
19th: Isaac Middleton died. Sent Chester postal and Clifford paper.
20th: Cool and cloudy. Sent letters to Chester and Clifford. Jimmie took string fish home. Reset Jimmie’s ½ game and ½ chicken 2nd time. Ora and Audrey up in evening.
21st: Warm and cloudy. Leon up. Took supper with us and dressed fiddlers for his Granma. Went home at night.
22nd: Clear and windy. Jimmie for supper and went home.
23rd: Clear and warm. Granma went down home to see her granddaughter, Mrs. Lizzie Meek Richey. Leon come with her and stayed at night.
24th: Cold and rainy.
25th: Warm and cloudy. Ed Fox up in afternoon. Insurance men here forenoon. No one at Plant. Over to river fishing.
26th: Cool and cloudy. Trying to rain. Got letter from Chester.
27th: Jimmie and Lizzie called for short stay.
28th: Leon, Erold and wife in afternoon. Rained at night.
29th: Warm and cloudy. Set black hen. Erold Richey commences housekeeping.
30th: Cold and cloudy. Got letter from Chester. Erold took home his first mess of fish. Fiddlers.

May 1st: Clear and warm. Erold brought us some bisquits. First they baked at home. They were good. Don’t care if he fetches some more same kind. Eggs 1912: January 9 eggs; February 5; March 9 to March 25, 22 to March 31; April 113. Total to May 1: 224.
2nd: Clear and very warm.
3rd: Clear and warm.
4th: Warm and cloudy. Jimmie up at night.
5th: Rain. Ora, Leon, Jimmie and Edna took dinner with us. Granma and Ora went to Foxes.
6th: Rain. Got letter from Adam Ralph.
7th: Rain and cool.
8th: Clear and nice day. Taft at Ironton in afternoon. Went down to Barnetts. Got Erold and Lizzie’s clock. One year ago today commenced at Malleable Plant 1911-1912 May 8.
17th: Roosevelt at Ironton for ½ hour. Ora and Mrs. Keiser called afternoon. Erold set black hen in carpenter shop. Rain and cool.
1912 May 30th: Decoration Day. Cold and cloudy. This book is filled with foolishness.

June 15th: Erold Richey landed 16 lb fish. Perch.
18th: Ora and C.H.R. took dinner with Erold Richey.

August 17th: Sarah Furnace stopped Dec. 1st, 1911. Commenced to stock up August 17, 1912. Raised steam and pumped up reservoir full of water August 28th. Went in blast September 7th, 1912.

September 5th: C. H. R. went down home. First time for 3 months.
29th: Mr. and Mrs. Boyce took supper with us.
30th: Chester R. Richey home from Oklahoma. Granma and Chester took dinner at Erold’s.

October 2nd: Erold and wife and Chester at Malleable for dinner. With them Granpa and Granma. Leon with us for supper.
3rd: Chester left Ironton for Texas.
28: Ed Ralph and wife and grandson, T. J. Harper and daughter Clara Jones at Ironton Oct. 28-31.. T. J. Harper, 64 Inns Ave, Columbus, O.

December 19th: Granma Ralph went down to Foxes. Stayed 2 nights. Come up 21st.
22nd: Sunday. Made a general clean up.
26th: Uncle John took supper with us with Leon and Jimmie.
29th: Mrs. Joseph Schafer called to see us at Malleable in afternoon. Charles Rauch took dinner with us at Malleable. Leon and Jimmie Richey all day. Leon went home in evening. Jimmie stayed all night.

1913 January 1st: Wednesday. Cold and cloudy. Leon went out hunting. Home all day. Nice weather most all month.
5th: Leon and Ted catched 2 rabbits. Leon went home in evening. Was with us most of his vacation.
6th: Clifford Richey and Opal Sollis of Bakerfield, California married.
20th: Got pay from Malleable Plant
24th: Mr. & Mrs. Oscar Richey went to Florida
25th: C. H. Ralph down home. First time for 2 months.

February 1st: Cold and cloudy
2nd: Clear most of the day. Leon up afternoon. Went home at night.
3rd: Drizzling rain most of the day. Commenced snowing 6 oclock in evening. 3 inches snow. None of the boys up all day. Oscar Richey back from Florida.
4th: Part of the time cloudy in forenoon. Clear and cool in afternoon. Ground covered with snow.
5th: Clear and cold. Freezing. Lizzie down in evening.
6th: Clear and cold. Snow on the ground. Coldest day.
7th: Clear and cold. Jimmie up in evening.
8th: Clear part of day. Leon up. Went home in evening.
9th: Cloudy. Some ice in river.
10th: Cloudy and warm. Leon up after school. Chicken fight. Had sick spell in evening. In a bad fix for a while.
11th: Rain. Cold at night.
12th: Clear and cold. Ice in river. Leon stayed at night.
1913 February 13th: Variable. Partly cloudy and clear and cold. 6 above zero 10 in the morning. Leon up and stayed the night.
14th: Cold and cloudy.
15th: Clear and some warmer.
16th: Clear and cool.
17th: Clear and some warmer. Jimmie up in evening for supper. Went home. By ourselves at night.
18th: Clear and warm. Leon and Edna went back in evening.
19th: Clear and warm. Leon up in evening, went back home. Jimmie took supper with us and went home.
20th: Margret Schafer up in afternoon. Partly cloudy and warm. Leon up and back home.
21st: Clear and warm like spring. Jimmie and Leon up in evening. Leon stayed at night. Jimmie went home.
22nd: Wind blowing hard all day. Clear and cool. Got cat in trap. Leon went home at night.
23rd: Mrs. Baldwin Harmon’s mother died.
24th: Ground covered with snow in morning and still snowing. Jimmie went to school from Malleable in morning. Wrote to Walter Sherwood and Chester.
25th: Clear and cool. Uncle John and Leon took supper with us at Malleable Plant.
26th: Cloudy and gloomy day.
27th: Rained.
28th: Cold and cloudy. Misting rain. Disagreeable weather.

March 1st: Sprinkling rain all day. Jimmie helped clean chicken coop. Turned cold and froze hard at night.
2nd: Clear and cold. Some snow on ground. Leon and Jimmie took dinner at Plant. Went home in evening.
3rd: Clear and warmer. Snow all gone. Jimmie stayed at night.
4th: Cold and cloudy. Democrat President. Look for dull times.
5th: Clear and cool. Granma went up to Erold’s in afternoon. Ora and Jimmie up in evening. Both went home. Got little dog.
6th: Cold and windy. Real winter. Spitting snow. Set hen in _____room. First hen set 1913.
7th: Cold and variable. Snow at night. Leonard Baker and Nida Meek married.
8th: Cold and cloudy most of the day. Jimmie was with us.
9th: Warm and cloudy. Leon and Jimmie took supper. In evening went home.
10th: Cloudy.
11th: Cloudy and disagreeable. Not very cold.
12th: Foggy in morning. Sunshine part of the day. Not very cold. Some of the boys up.
13th: Warm and sprinkling rain. Charles Wenig died 10 am. Mrs. C. E. Holt died 12 oclock noon. None of folks up.
14th: Cloudy most of the day. Warm sprinkling. Jimmie up at night.
15th: Cold and blustry. Granma got letter from Chester at Oil City. Leon here in evening. Got done trimming Mrs. Foxe’s trees. Jimmie took chicken down home. Came back. Stayed all night. I went down street. Got meat and ½ pint whiskey.
1913 March 16th: Snow storm. Real blizzard. Erold over to see us in morning. Granma washining dog in forenoon. Jimmie out in the Plant with the chickens. Granma wrote to Chester. Charles Wenig buried 2:30 pm. Mrs. C. E. Holt same time. Leon and Jimmie took dinner. Went home in evening. Ed Fox and wife and Edna sstopped a few minutes in afternoon. Went back to Mrs. Fox’s.
17th: Clear and warm. Elizabeth Richey stopped for a short time.
18th: Clear and wram. Elizabeth in morning and Jimmie up and back home in evening. Ed Belcher, Clerk of Courts, died.
19th: Clear and warm like spring. Audrey up. Stayed all night. 20th: Warm and cloudy. Went as far as Park with Audrey in morning. Ora, Audrey and Jimmie up and back in evening. Got letter from Clifford.
21st: 6 am. Worst wind storm this year. Blowed gable end of Malleable Plant down. Done big damage all over city. Wrote to Clifford.
22nd: Clear and cold. Sent papers to Clifford and Chester. Jimmie up in morning. Took two hens for Easter. I went down to Railroad Street in afternoon and back to Plant. Jimmie stayed with Granma while I was gone “about 15 minutes”.
23rd: Warm and cloudy. Uncle John and Jimmie up in morning. Took dinner. Went down hom in evening. Leon brought ice cream and went home.
24th: Warm and cloudy. “3 men looked the Plant over.” Peg-leg fishing for first time this spring. Jimmie up and back home in evening.
25th: Warm and stormy. Big storm all over Ohio. Worst for many years.
26th: Warm. Misting rain.
27th: Snowing.
28th: Cold and cloudy. River rising.
29th: River 60 feet. And still rising. The lower end of town all under water. Jimmie is with us. Sold john boat.
31st: Cloudy and windy most of the day. River on a stand 6 am 67 1/3 ft. Mrs. Andy Baldwin, Mrs. Charles Allen and 2 daughters, Mrs. Walt Allen called to see us in afternoon.

April 1st: Clear and cold. River falling. Jimmie went home. No one with us at night.
2nd: Warm and cloudy. Lillian Fox, Edna Fox, Nelly Burch and Jimmie up and back in morning.
3rd: Clear and warm. Jimmie, Pat Tate and Burch boy up and got potatoes.
4th: Cloudy and rain in afternoon. Got postal from Chester dated at
St. Louis 1st April. Got pictures from Clifford. Leon up and stayed all night.
5th: Edna and dog up and stayed all night.
6th: Clear and cool. Went down home and over in town as far down as Jones’ Stable. Charles Rauch up short time in forenoon. Went down home with him.
7th: Clear and cool. Audrey, Edna and Jimmie for dinner. Jimmie stayed at night.
8th: Cold. Partly cloudy. Got letter from Chester at Hot Springs, Ark. Got pay check $36.
9th: Cold and drizzling rain. Uncle John, Leon and Jimmie to see us. Chester got home. Jimmie went down with him. Granma down in Ward’s.
1913 April 10th: I scrubbed.
9th: Chester got home.
14th: Paid $84.30 to city for sidewalk. Took dinner at home with Chester.
16th: Chester went to West Virginia. At Huntington.

May 25th: Thomas Charlton died.

June 6th: Emma Stuart Flemming killed by her son.

August 16th: Captain T. W.Bennett died.
20th: Miss Margaret Boyce died at Deaconess Hospital.
22nd: Got letter from Marie Wills. Answered same day. Chester started for Oklahoma. Granma and Ora went to the cemetary and down home. Peggy Boice buried same day.
23rd: Called to again.

September 8th: Got letter from Clifford. Left Bakersfield for State of Washington. Granma come up to Malleable. Ora sick.
14th: Frank Boyce and wife up at Malleyble Plant. Leon fixed skiff for sailing.
18th: Leon left home. Come up to Malleable.

October 10th: Mrs. T. W. Bennett and Mrs. Russell stayed all night at Malleable.
11th: Granma took them down to Foxes.
13th: Went home to Pomeroy. Granma and kids went with them to Coal Grove.
21st: Margaret Schafer Webb died at midnight at Keller Hospital.

November 4th: Arthur J. Hamman elected mayor of Ironton. Majority over A. M. Collet 124 vote.
8th: Leon killed rabbit.
9th: Blizzard and snow storm. Real old fashion winter.
10th: Sarah Furnace blowed out.
27th: Thanksgiving. Misting rain. Very disagreeable weather. Granma sick at Malleable plant. Leon Richey with us all day. No turkey for dinner.

December 18th: Granma went down home. First time in 2 months. Cold and cloudy.
21st: Granma come back to Malleable.
23rd: Bellefont shut down.
24th: Edna stayed all night. Went home in morning. Leon, Granma and Mr. Ralph took Christmas dinner at the Malleable. Had chicken, fried and boiled. Cold and cloudy. Trying to snow and rain all day. Very disagreeable weather. Ora and Uncle John up in evening. Snow covered ground 8 oclock pm. Leon went to Congregational church at night.
25th: Both at Malleable all day. Leon went home in evening. Jimmie stayed at night. Ground covered with snow.
26th: Snow storm. Granma went down home. Uncle John and Jimmie with us all day. Leon got up supper for them. E. W. Johnson & Co.
28th: Girls from Gallia Co., Erold and wife called in afternoon. Ora and Uncle John called on me a few minutes in evening.
29th: Leon went home with Uncle John to hunt rabbits. Wrote Chester.
1913 December 30th: Toria Ralph and Celia Smith went home. Granma come up in evening with Ora and Edna.
31st: Cold and snowing. Some snow on ground. Froze at night. No one with us New Year’s Eve.

1914 January 1st: Fell down and hurt my left hand and wrist in the morning for a New Year gift. Cold and cloudy. Leon got home with 7 rabbits. Kept 2. Erold 2. 3 down home.
2nd: Arm very painful. Snowing.
3rd: Holt and Clasing come to see me in afternoon. Holt went home and called Dr. Eakman without me knowing anything about it. Doctor found my arm broke. Fixed it with pasteboard and cotton.
4th: Swelling bad in hand and very painful. Snowing and raining.
5th: Cold and cloudy. Snow on the ground and on the trees. Ora and Audrey up in afternoon.
6th: Cold and cloudy. Audrey up forenoon. Washed her dog. Took it home. Jimmie up in evning. Went home 10 oclock at night.
8th: Clear and warmer. Snow all gone. Wlked over to mailbox in morning. First time since I fell down and tramped on myself. Took back coal oil whisley.
9th: Cold and cloudy. Leo Webber, fireman on the D. T. & I. transfer engine number 608, killed at transfer incline 10 a. m.
10th: Cold and cloudy. Snow at night.
11th: Cold and blustry, spitting snow. Leon down home in evening and back. Arm hurting bad. Snow storm and cold at night.
12th: Cold and snow storm in forenoon. Ford Harris and C. E. Holt to see me in the morning. Clear, cold and windy in the afternoon. Jimmie got check for my pay.
13th: Clear and cold. Audrey up in forenoon with money for my pay.
14th: Clear and cold. Wrote to Clifford and Vina Bennett. Ora up afternoon. Had a bad night. Gallia County settled 1790.
15th: Clear and warmer. Got letter from Chester.
16th: Cloudy and colder. Arm not much better.
17th: Cold and cloudy. Leon got rabbit in trap. Made ______. Went downtown in evening.
18th: Cold and cloudy. C. H. Rauch called to see us in morning.
19th: Cloudy and disagreeable. Jimmie up and back in evening. Arm not much better.
20th: Warm and cloudy. Wrote Chester, Oil City, La. Got 1 bushel oats for chickens.
21st: Cold and blustry, trying to snow. Got letters from Vina Bennett. Got pint whiskey.
22nd: Cold and cloudy. Ora and Uncle John up afternoon. Got postal from Clifford in Texas. Got load coal. 3rd load = 150 bushel.
23rd: Clear like spring. Sent for tomato seed and book and buckles for table cloth.
24th: Give Mike Calahan bill for coal on Co. $12.00. Cloudy and disagreeable weather. Paid C. E. Holt grocery bills $3.63. Rain afternoon.
25th: Cold and cloudy. Leon and Jimmie took dinner with us. Had chicken. Elizabeth Richey up afternoon. Frank Classing to ______.
1914 January 26th: Warm and cloudy. Dark and gloomy. Bad weather. Ora up in afternoon. Audrey up in evening. Got package from Clifford.
27th: Clear and nice. Tillie found Baby’s pups.
28th: Warm and cloudy in morning. Clear and like spring afternoon.
29th: Cold and hazy. Clifford Richey got home from California.
30th: Cold and cloudy. Sprinkled rain. Very disagreeable. Clifford and Jimmie up. Stayed till bedtime. Wind and rain storm at night.
31st: Rain and wind. Bad, cold day. Granma went down to Erold’s in morning. Jimmie stayed all night with me. Wrote to Chester. The worst month I ever had.

February 1st: Sunday. Clear and nice sunshiney day. Clifford up a short time in afternoon. Jimmie all day. Half-soled his shoes. Went home in evening.
2nd: Groundhog day. Sun shining, so go back in your den. Give us 6 weeks the same as you dished out so far. Granma came home to the Plant. Edna up and back in the evening.
3rd: Cloudy and misty. Disagreeable weather. Clifford and Leon cooked chicken. Clifford, Leon, Jimmie and Edna for supper.
4th: Cloudy and damp. Bad weather , like March.
5th: Cloudy and damp. Very disagreeable weather.
6th: Cloudy and disagreeable. Leon fixed typewriter for McKeown. Thunder and lightning 9 in evening. Wind storm from 11 to 1 am.
7th: Snow storm. 20 above zero.
8th: Cold and cloudy. Real winter. Clifford and Jimmie got supper.
9th: Clear and cold. Nice winter weather. Clifford commenced reviewing at Davison’s school.
10th: Cold and cloudy. Sprinkled rain. Mrs. A. J. Baldwin called afternoon. Ora up afternoon. Got me ½ pint. Had toothache, earache and some few more ailments.
11th: Clear and ccol. Fine weather.
12th: Snow storm. Real winter day. Snow at night. 6 inches.
13th: Cloudy. Ground covered with snow. Rain afternnon. Not much. Big snow storm in evening.
14th: Snow storm. Clifford and Jimmie for dinner. Clifford took pictures. Leon the sitting for McKeoun.
15th: Clear and cool. Snow on ground. Ice in river. Elizabeth Richey up in afternoon. Leon and Jimmie got rabbit. Had it for supper.
16th: Clear and cold. 20 above zero. River full of ice. Paid Holt grocery bill $10.00. C. B. Clark (Jake) died. The 3 boys took supper.
17th: Clear and cold. 16 above zero. River full of ice. Snow on the ground. Went to 3rd. St. First time since broke my arm.
18th: Warm and cloudy.
21st: Snow and sleet. Real old winter.
22nd: Harrison Ballard died. Washington’s Birthday. Found dead in bathroom.
28th: Clifford, Leon and Jimmie got dinner. Had chicken. Granma sick. Clear and nice spring day. (Groundhog had real winter most of the time. Afternoon he went back in his den). Real old time and wind storm at night.

1914 March 1st: Sunday. Snow and sleet. Bad stormy day. Granma very sick. Called Dr. Eakman at noon.
? 8th: Clifford gone ______.

April 8th: Clifford went back to California.

? August 26th: Mrs. Fred Smith died 2 pm. Funeral 30th. Ora and Edna went.
28th: Riley Richardson, trustee, died.
29th: Jack Daniels, the barber, died.

September 1st: At home sick.
2nd: Wrote Granma and Jimmie at Pomeroy.
4th: Show at Park. Uncle John come in to the show. Clear and cool.
6th: Sunday. Leon and C. H. R. stayed on Wharf boat till midnight, waiting on steamer Tacoma, and she never come. A-men.
7th: Monday. Wait till noon. No boat. Give up the trip to Pomeroy. Labor Day.
8th: Leon started to Pomeroy. Took street car for Huntington 8 am. Got back home 11th on steamer Greenwood. Sent Jimmie a card. Cold and raining.14th: Gospel show at Ironton, Sept. 14-18, 1914.
12th: Cold and cloudy. Went downtown to see apple booths.
13th: Clear and cold.
14th: Clear and cold. Some frost. Granma and Jimmie got home from Pomeroy. Come by rail.
15th: Ora and Mother went down to see apple show.
16th: Wrote to Vina Burchett.
17th: Leon Richey quit Kelly Grocery Co.
18th: Got letter from Clifford. Got word over the phone Melissa Harper was dead. Mrs. C. H. Ralph, Elizabeth Richey and Audrey went to funeral at Pomeroy the 20th.
19th: Last day apple show. Never went to see it. Granma, Elizabeth and Audrey started to Pomeroy at 9pm on street car to Mellisa Harper’s funeral. Got back home 24th. Melissa harper died Sept. 18th. Funeral 20th, 1914. 66 years old.
20th: Clear and warm. Uncle John, Ed and Ora wetn to Mrs. Foxes in afternoon. Home by myself. Jimmie and Pat went to Malleable to see Ted and to take a skiff ride.
21st: Uncle John went home by way of Portsmouth on Bay Queen. River down to 2 feet. Ed went to Portsmouth to work. First day of school. Got letter from Chester. Sent it Granma at Pomeroy. Got letter from Granma. Peter Middleton died. Lizzie and Granma from Pomeroy.
22nd: Peter Middleton funeral at Mission Church.
28th: Wrote Chester and Clifford.
29th: Louis Henry (young Brumer) died by the carbolic acid rout. Buried Oct. 1st.

October 6th: Paid $33.25 gas piping house. Check on 2nd. National Bank.
9th: Sent to Chester’s drafts to his adress. Bought gas stove $6.25. Shinola $1.00.
10th: Lit gas for first time in house.
15th: Got letter from Chester at Drumwright, Ok. Wrote on 13th. Was going south a few days. River lowest ever was known. Less than one foot. No boats running for the last 3 days.
1914 October16th: William H. Marting died 5 am at Keller Hospital. 60 years old.
17th: River 2 feet. Rainy.
18th: River 3 feet. Cloudy and cold.
20th: River 5 feet. Falling.
? 22nd: Paid insurance on house corner 10th St.,____St. $10.50. Drawed $25.00 out of 2nd National Bank. Got letter from Chester from Hope, Arkansas. Sent letter to Oil City, La.
26th: Got last beans and tomatoes off garden. Froze hard at night.
? 31st: Bill_____spoke at Court House steps on 4th St. for drys.

November 3rd: Election for governor and county and state with prohibition and home rule. Willis republican elected governor over George Cox 20,000. Home rule yes 30,000. Prohibition lost out. County all republican.
6th: Ora sowed rye in back yard. Granma made 1 ½ gal. apple butter.
8th: John Dimick moved back home in Ironton. Got letter from Clifford. Disgreeable cold rain. Jimmie wrote to Clifford.
11th: Wrote Chester at Oil City, La. Granma and Ora went to Erold’s. Ora come back. Granma stayed for dinner.
14th: Got letter from Chester. Sent one to Clifford. Sent Chester’s boots to Oil City by parcel post.
16th: Open season for rabbit hunting. No hunting allowed. State quarentine. Foot and mouth disease in cattle.
17th: Granma went to grand jury. Ora went with her.
18th: They walked to Brumburg’s, then home. Clear and cold.
19th: Cold and cloudy. Spitting snow in forenoon. Snow afternoon and night. Covered ground 2 or 3 inches. Erold and wife went to Kentucky on a visit to hunt.
20th: Clear and cold. Snow all gone. Got postal from Erold at Ft. Gay, Ky.
22nd: Ed Ralph called to see us in morning. Clear and warmer.
24th: Ed and wife start home in morning on street car. Clear and cool.
25th: Received letter from Chester from Oil City. Clear and warm. River down to 12 inches. No boats running except the Bay Queen from Huntington to Portsmouth.
26th: Christopher Wenig died 4 am. Warm and partly cloudy. Thanksgiving.
27th: Charles Holt down to see us. Erold got home from Big Sandy. Warm and cloudy.
28th: Warm and cloudy. Leon killed rabbit.
29th: Rain and dismal. Chris Wenig funeral. Granma went.
30th: Warm and cloudy. Sent letter to Chester. Received one from Clifford.

December 1st: Warm and cloudy. Disagreeable misting rain. Leon starts to school to review short hand. Wrote Clifford.snow storm. River 18feet.
2nd: Warm and drizzling rain. Leon check on 2nd National Bank for $20.00
3rd: Drizzling rain. Cold.
4th: Harvey Beard electrocuted at Ohio Penitentiary. Cold rain, very disagreeable weather.
5th: Rained all day.
6th: Cold and cloudy. Elizabeth come and got clock. Erold went over in Kentucky rabbit hunting.
7th: Cold and cloudy. River 8 feet.
8th: Rain. Dark and dismal. Disagreeabole weather.
9th: Rain. Bad weather. Got letter from Chester. Leon killed rabbit. River 25 feet.
1914 December 10th: Cold rain. Adeline Ralph come to visit us.
11th: Cold. Snow and sleet. Wrote to Chester. Granma and Ora at Wav(verly?).
12th: Cold and cloudy. Freezing. Coldest day this winter. Got letter from Ed Ralph.
13th: Big snow storm. River 18 feet.
14th: Ground covered 4 inches snow. Sun shined about ½ of the day. Real old fashion winter.
15th: Cold and clear. 4 above zero.
16th: 5 inches of snow on ground. Almost zero in the morning at 6 oclock. Clear and sunshine. Coldest Dec. 15-16 for years. Went to courthouse Paid taxes $16.38 for December 1914. C. H. Ralph.
17th: Snow on ground. Zero. Cold, clear and frosty.
18th: Snow on ground. Cloudy. Mrs. E. P. Ralph went down to F. Boyce’s. Granma Ralph went with her. Came by Erold’s. Erold give us 2 rabbits.
19th: Rain. Snow most gone. River full of ice. Boats had to lay up. 10 foot stage.
20th: Cold and cloudy. Rain afternoon. Snow gone. River full of ice. No boats running. Stage 8 foot. Falling.
21st: Cold. Rain. Disagreeable. Jeremiah Paul died. The Aberdeen brick man.
22nd: Cold and cloudy. Got letter from Chester. Granma answered it and wrote Mrs. Curt Ralph.
23rd: Cold and partly cloudy. Uncle John arrived. Big snow storm after midnight.
24th: Biggest snow storm this winter. Erold stopped to see us in morning. Granma wrote Mrs. Jones, Pomeroy. Granma wrote Ethan Harper. River 2 feet and some ice.
25th: Christmas. Cold and clear. 4 inches snow on ground. Granma got stockings from Clifford’s girl. Uncle John here. Erold give us 2 rabbits.
26th: Clear and cold. Ground covered with snow. Cold at night. Went 3 below zero.
27th: Snow on ground and cold. Charles Rauch to see us in morning. Ora, Uncle John and Edna went to Mrs. Foxes’.
28th: Cloudy and warmer. Granma got letter from Chester. Rained at night.
29th: Cloudy and sprinkling rain. Uncle John went to Portsmouth. Granma wrote Opal and Clifford.
30th: Wrote to Chester. Cold and cloudy. Granma wrote to Lulu geoglin.
31st: Cold and cloudy. Granma wrote to Clifford. The finis of this book.
C. H. Ralph.

1915 January 19th: Buz Butler shot and killed at coal mines in West Virginia. Buried at Ironton, Woodland.
21st: Mrs. Margaret Tate Blackwell age 72 year died.

April 2nd: Grant Harper and Millard Bennett at Ironton April 2nd and 3rd.

May 17th: Roosevelt at Ironton, Ohio. 8 am. Bull Mooser.

August 21st: Charles K. Austin died August 18 at Detroit, Mich. 89 years old. Buried at Woodland August 21st. October 7th: B. R. Lane died. Age 79 years.
1915 September 6th: George Cox, furnace bookkeeper, died.
14th: Gospel show at Ironton, Sept 14-18, 1915.
15th: Captain G. W. Keys died.
21st: Tuesday. Erold and Elizabeth Richey’s girl baby born.

October 24th: Elizabeth Richey and Baby at our home. First time baby was away from home.

November 11th: Went downtown to Court House and Memorial Hall. Paid taxes $16.38. Paid water rent $2.85. Weather warm like summer. Got cold at night. Rained all night. Got letters from Clifford at Drumwright, Oklahoma.
Decemder 8th: Clear and cold. Leon and George Ferry hunting. Got 3 rabbits. Got postal from Toria Ralph. Wrote to Maggie at Columbus. Got letter from Chester. Got Christmas box from Clifford (raisins).
9th: Cold and cloudy. Hazy and dismal. Walked to John Harvey’s.
10th: Cold and cloudy. Granma wrote to Clifford at Fresno, Ca. (Mailed 17th, registered.)
11th: Sent letter to Chester. Cold. Rain and sleet. Pat Tate killed rabbit. Leon give us 2 flickers.
12th: Rain and sleet. Very bad weather. Leon sold ferret. $5.00.
13th: Snow and sleet all day. Cold and disagreeable. Audrey got letter from Chester.
14th: Cold and cloudy in morning. Clear afternoon. Leon went to Bixby’s in afternoon. Myself sick all day. William Roth’s daughter Gertrude died. 22 years old.
15th: Cold and cloudy. Froze hard. Got sack flour. Ground covered with ice. Rain and sleet.
16th: Rain. Snow all gone.
17th: Gertrude Roth buried. I walked to Robinson’s Drug Store and back in forenoon. Sprinkling rain. Got letter from Maggie Ralph at Columbus.
18th: Cold and cloudy. Ground covered with ice and snow. River rising fast. President Wilson married.
19th: Clear and cold forenoon. Got cloudy in afternoon. Leon took pup to his gal in Ashland. Logs running in river.
20th: Cold and cloudy. Leon got 1 bird. Audrey got package from Mrs. C. R. Richey., Drumwright, Okla. Granma box from Lena Richey, Drumwright, Ok.

December 20th: Monday. Bad day. Cold and cloudy. Sick at home and can’t help it.
21st: Clear and cold. River 42 feet, falling.
22nd: Clear and cold most of the day. Erold down a few minutes in evening.
23rd: Cloudy most all day. Erold went hunting. Ed and Ora and Edna Fox went to see Uncle John at his home. Sick. Got postal from Geoglin.
24th: Cold and sleeting in forenoon. Erold did not have good luck hunting. Only killed 2 rabbits.
25th: Rain forenoon. Snow all afternoon. Melted at first. Layed on in evening. If ground had been dry or froze, would have been over 6 inches. Had no company. Took dinner by ourselves. Had mince and pumpkin pie, cheese and buttermilk, raisins, oranges and baked apples washed down with sassafrass tea. Erold and Elizabeth and baby took supper with the Foxes. Uncle John at home sick.
26th: Cold and cloudy. Snow on the ground. Audrey and her Bean went and brought their baby down. Ora and Edna took baby home.
1915 December 27th: Cold and cloudy. Got post card from Opal and Clifford. Granma wrote Chester at Dunwright and Lulu Geoglin at Pomeroy, Ohio.
28th: Cold and cloudy all day. Ora got parcel package from Clifford and Opal with Christmas presents for the family. Eugene Shepperd died. Rain all night.
29th: Cloudy and misty. Very disagreeable. Lillian Fox stayed over night.
30th: Sun shining in morning. Part of day cloudy. River 42 feet, rising. Leon went hunting. Got 1 rabbit. Last day to hunt. Mrs. Fox and sister at Ora’s.
31st: Last day 1915. The bells and whistles blowed and rang the old out and the new in at midnight. Misted and rained all night.

1916 January 1st: Sprinkling rain all day. River 45 feet on a stand. At home all day. Had no callers. Cleared off at night.
2nd: Clear and cool all day. Big frost in morning.
3rd: Clear most all day. Em Ensinger salled in afternoon.
4th: Engineer J. R. C. Brown discharged. City put down crossing over 10th Street.
5th: Wind storm in morning for a few minutes 6 am. Hip and leg giving me trouble. Can’t walk very good. Rain afternoon and night. Snow and sleet. George B. Davis died. Steamer Kanawha sunk 10 miles below Parkersburg.
6th: Cold and partly cloudy. Wrote Clifford at Fresno. Snow at night. 6 inches on ground in morning of the 7th.
7th: Warm and cloudy most of the day. Got two letters from Clifford and Opal. Leon went hunting on the Richey farm in afternoon. Got 1 squirrell.
8th: Clear and cold. Snow on ground 5 inches deep. Melting in afternoon.
9th: Snow on yet. Clear most of day. Rain at night. At home. No one called to see us.
10th: Sprinkling rain all day and night. Foggy and disagreeable. Mail carrier only one trip. Got along 2 pm. Rain all night.
11th: Rain all day. Wrote Maggie Ralph, Bidwell. Ohio. Raining at night.
12th: Warm and cloudy. Rain at night. River 40 feet. Judge Ezra Dean died. 90 years old.
13th: Cloudy and cold. Snowed some. Coldest night this year.
14th: Clear and cold. Froze all day in the shade. 15 degrees coldest. River 44 feet. Mathew Rambacker , carpenter, died. 70 years old.
15th: Cold and cloudy. River 46feet on a stand. L. C. Richey, 178 Abby St., Fresno, Ca.
16th: Cold. Snow storm in afternoon and evening. Froze hard night.
17th: Clear and cold. Coldest day this winter. 3 above zero at 6 am.
18th: Clear and cold. Zero at 6am. Coldest this winter. Uncle John Hammer died at his home at Lyra, Scioto County. 78 years old. October 29th, 1915 last time Uncle John visited Ironton. Ground covered with snow.
19th: Ed Fox, Ora and Audrey went out Lyra to funeral.
20th: Uncle John buried at Wheelersburg. Got letter from Opal Richey.
21st: Clear and warmer. Got letters from Chester and Curt Ralph.
22nd: Warm and cloudy. Very disagreeable. Foggy all night.
23rd: Dense fog till noon, like rain. Clear most all day. Erold stopped to see us 5 minutes.
24th: Sent Opal Richey quilt by parcel post Fresno. Wrote letter to Clifford.
1916 January 25th: Warm and cloudy most all day. Wrote Chester.
26th: Warm and cloudy. Leon went to Portsmouth. Elizabeth Thimmis to Berth Earl lots 10th Street. 3rd ward number 315-318. 31 degrees.
27th: Warm and dry.
28th: Warm and cloudy. Wrold, Elizabeth and Mary Elizabeth took supper with Ora. I was sick.
29th: Warm. Rain all day. Foggy and dismal. Rupture about to get away with me.
30th: Sent sassafrass to Clifford. Rain. Esqr. Thomas Golden died. 81 years old.
31st: Warm. Rain all day.

February 1st: Tuesday. Cold and cloudy. Letter from Chester at Augusta, Kansas Jan. 28th. Snowed at night.
2nd: Ground covered. 4 inches snow. Cloudy all day. Groundhog had no shadow on Ironton. Tow boat Sam Brown blowed up at Chesapeak opposite Huntington. 14 killed and drowned.
3rd: Ground covered with snow. Clear and warmer. Snow melting.
4th: Clear and warmer. Snow melting. Weeks boy come and got chair for Erold’s folks.
5th: Warmer and cloudy. Snow about gone. Wrote Chester at Dunwright. Rain at night.
6th: Sprinkling rain all day. Foggy and dismal. Capt. George Bay died. 81 years old. Cold and froze at night.
7th: Cold and cloudy forenoon. Clear and cold afternoon. Froze hard at night.
8th: Cold and cloudy. Wrote to C. A. Ralph, Bidwell, Ohio. Got letter from Clifford at Fresno.
9th: Sprinkling rain. Very dismal all day.
10th: Cloudy and warm.
11th: Cloudy. Granma in bed sick.
12th: Rain all dday. Granma up and around house.
13th: Big snow. Ground covered 4 inches. Erold called few minutes in afternoon. Granma some better.
14th: Clear and cold. Snow on the ground. Granma and myself sick. Had Dr. Oriel in evening for Granma.
15th: Clear most all day. Got letter from Chester.
16th: Had bad sick spell. Called Dr. Eakman. Had rheumatis and lumbago. Had a bad night.
17th: Clear and warmer. Both Granma and self in bad shape. Not able to do anything. Jimmie got letter from Opal and Clifford.
18th: Cloudy. Sprinkling most all day. Both of us sick.
19th: Snow in afternoon. Wrote Clifford, 178 Abby St., Fresno.
20th: Clear and warmer. Mrs. L. Folger to see us. Frank and Maye McKnight died.
21st: Clear and warm. Fixed up box of pillows and bedquilt for Chester.
22nd: Clear and warm most of the day. Rain at night. Sent letter to Chester.
23rd: Cloudy and dreary. Sent box to Chester at Drumwright, Ok. by parcel post.
24th: Sprinkling rain all day. Leon sick with grippe. For the last 8 weeks bad cough.
25th: Cloudy and rain all day. Leon at home sick.
1916 February 26th: Cloudy. Edna and Tillie went and got medicine from Dr. Eakman. Wind storm at night.
27th: Clear and cold. Leon Richey missed Congregational Sunday School first time in over 16 years. In bed sick. Snowed at night.
28th: Cloudy. Snow at night.
29th: Variable cloudy most of the day. Groundhog give us all kinds of weather all month. First day cold and cloudy. Snow at night. 2nd day cloudy. Snow on ground.

March 1st: Cloudy and dreary. Not very cold. Looks like snow. Both os us sick. Leon is better. Working on typewriter.
2nd: Cloudy. Rained all night.
3rd: Cloudy and dreary. Snow storm in sfternoon. Leon took typewriter he repaired to Ashland. Erold stopped in to see us about 2 ½ minutes in evening. Ed Lawless killed at Etna Furnace. Snow storm at night.
4th: Snow forenoon. 4 inches snow on ground. Leon went to Portsmouth in morning looking about work. Got promise of work. Come home in evening. Got letter from Clifford.
5th: Clear and warmer. Bagwell called to see us. Leon went to Portsmouth to work 7 pm. Mike Ferry went with him.
6th: Warm. Like spring.
7th: Clear. Looks like spring. Got letter from Chester at Wist, Ok. c/o E. M. Dorsey, Box 113. Mrs. Schafer called to see us in afternoon. Wind storm at night.
8th: Worst snow and wind storm this year. Real blizzard. Got letter from Opal Richey. Hilgebergens moved out on farm.
9th: Clear and cold. Got letter and dog picture from Chester. Granma wrote to both Clifford and Chester.
10th: Cold and cloudy. Ora got letter from Leon at Portsmouth.
11th: Clear and cold. At home all day by ourselves. No callers. Sick at night.
12th: Clear and warmer. Erold, Elizabeth and Mary Elizabeth down on visit to Ora’s. Took dinner and supper. Had their new baby “automobile”.
13th: Warm and cloudy. Got letter from Chester at Ft. Smith, Arkansas. Letter from Leon at Portsmouth.
14th: Warm and raining all day. Dark and dismal. Can’t get outdoors. Snowed at night.
16th: Clear and cold. Sun shined all day. Snow went. Wrote first letter to Leon T. Richey, 921 7th Street, Portsmouth, O. Got first letter from him March 10, 1916. Malleable Plant sold to Dayton Ohio Co.
17th: St. Patrick’s Day. Clear. Sun shining and cold. Got postal from Leon at Portsmouth.
18th: Clear and cold. Granma washed.
19th: Clear and cold. Preacher Ball called to see us.
20th: Firsts day of spring. Rained at night. Warm and cloudy.
21st: Variable. Looks like spring. Granma walked up to Jack McKnight’s. I walked to Ferry’s Store and back home. Thunder and rain at night.
22nd: Clear and warmer. Wind storm blowing about 50 miles an hour. Ora got postal from Leon at Portsmouth. Rain in evening and night.
23rd: Clear and cold.
24th: Clear and warmer. Folks cleaning up fixing for garden. Granma got letter from Chester at Drumwright. Mase Webbs poisoned eating horse radish.
1916 March 25th: Clear and warmer like summertime. Had hair cut first time in 3 months.
26th: Rain and cooler.
27th: Cloudy and cold. Sent letter to Chester (Drumwright). Thunder and rain in afternoon and night.
28th: Raining all day. Got letter from Clifford and Opal. Wrote Leon at Portsmouth.
29th: Cold and cloudy. Got 2 postcards from Leon at Portsmouth. River 40 feet and rising.
30th: Clear and warm. River 49 feet and rising. Ora went to Richey place to stop hauling over her road.
31st: March going out like a lamb. Warm and clear. Come in cloudy and disagreeable, look like snow. River 50 feet on a stand. Minnie Rucker called to see us. She moved to Hog Skin with her father. She left next day for parts unknown.

April 1st: Saturday. All fools Day. Nice spring weather. River falling. Clouded up in afternoon and rained. Leon come up from Portsmouth. James Rasberry died.
2nd: Cloudy and cool. Charles Rauch called to see us. Erold Richey wife and baby in afternoon. Emma Ensinger in afternoon. Rained.
3rd: Cloudy and cool. Wrote letter to Clifford. Got letter from Clifford. Leon went to Portsmouth.
4th: Cloudy and disagreeable.
5th: Cold and cloudy. Rain in evening. Mrs. Wright and Ora talked.
6th: Clear and cold. Ed Fox up from Portsmouth and back in afternoon. Base Fischer got money order $26.00 from her beloved husband. Froze at night.
7th: Cold and cloudy. Froze at night. Wrote Leon at Portsmouth.
8th: Ground covered with snow. Cold and rainy. Paid gas bill $2.75. Rain and snow at night.
9th: Real winter. Snow and sleet. Leon up from Portsmouth. Went back Monday morning 10th.
10th: Sun shine in mornign. Clouded up afternoon.
11th: Got letter from Chester at Drumwright, Ok. Got postcard from Leon at Portsmouth. Rented garden lot to Floyd Keiser $6.00.
12th: Warm like summer. John Rhodes died.
13th: Warm and cloudy. Got card from Leon, letter from Curt Ralph. Keiser planted potatoes. Ora planted peas and lettuce.
14th: Cold rain. Windy. John F. Schrader died.
15th: Clear and cold. John Rhodes funeral.
16th: Rain afternoon. Thunder and lightning and rain at night. Erold’s folks here all day. Leon and girl for a few minutes in afternoon.
17th: Clear, cold and windy. Granma wrote Chester at Drumwright. Leon went bck to work at Portsmouth 6am.
18th: Cold and partly cloudy. John R. Kennedy, 535 St. Clair Ave., Cleveland, O.
19th: Clear and warm.
20th: Partly cloudy. Put on clean shirt. Wind storm at night.
21st: Cool and cloudy. Got letter from Opal. Planted potatoes. Frost at night.
22nd: Cold and cloudy. Granma got first letter from Lena, Chester’s wife. Heard from Lulu Geoglin.
1916 April 23rd: Received blossoms from Opal and Clifford. Roy Herity. Audrey’s company hires Leon up from Portsmouth. Cold and cloudy.
24th: Cyrus Moore died. Granma wrote Lena and Opal. Ed Fox up and back from Portsmouth. Leon went to Portsmouth 6 am. Sent Pat Tate postal. Cold and cloudy.

May 11th: Sick ever since 24th. Tonight 11th. Some better. Not able to walk. Siting propped up in chair. Some better. William Noltie died May 9th.
18th: Walking around. Go out to stable to eat. In bad fix yet. Granma wrote to Clifford. Wrote Chester May 15th. Lulu Geoglin May 18th:
20th: Walked out to porch for the first time in 4 weeks. In a bad fix yet.
21st: Elizabeth and baby called to see us. Took dinner with Ora. Erold come down for supper.
22nd: Cold rain. Got letter from Chester. George Cox, boss of the Republican Party of Cincinnati died May 20th.
? 25th: Sent $3.00 money order for truss to Brewman. Got pstal from Leon at Portsmouth.
26th: J. H. Lucas died 7 am. Dry and very hot. Ora went to Dr. Eakman. Erold down in buggy hunting men to work at furnace. Audrey got express package from Mrs. Goerge Richey.
27th: Ora got letter from Clifford’s wife. Ora sick.
28th: J. H. Lucas funeral. Leon up rom Portsmouth. Ora sick in bed. Hail storm in afternoon.
? 29th: Rain. Got truss from J. T. Brewman, Mich.
30th: Decoration Day. Rain. School children did not march. Charles Gray died.
31st: Clear and cold. Erold, wife and baby in afternoon. Ora in bed sick. Sent postal Leon.

June 1st: Clear and cool. Got postal from Leon. Elizabeth and baby here. Elizabeth helping do the work. Ora still sick. Charles Gray’s funeral. Wearing new truss 1st day.
2nd: Cloudy and warm. Elizabeth and baby went home. Ed Fox home. Rain at night.
3rd: Partly cloudy and cool. Walked over to George Ferry’s. First time in 5 weeks.
4th: Clear and warm. Erold down in automobile.
5th: Cold and showers. Granma got letter from Chester, Rena had gone to ? Vanburn to her mother’s. Sent pad to J. L. Bresman.
6th: Rain all day. Wrote to Chester.
7th: Cold. Rain. Ora no better.
8th: Showers and cool. Erold brought Elizabeth and baby down in auto.
9th: All about the same.
10th: Rain in evening. Leon up from Portsmouth. Wrote letter to Mrs. South for Ora. Liz and baby here. Minnie Rucker here part of the day. Audrey and Bean went to Hornbuckle wedding.
11th: About same old thing.
12th: Got pad from Michegan. Ora some better. Leon went back to Portsmouth. Come up again 18th. Warm. Cloudy. Did not rain.
18th: Ed Fox up on 18th. Got letter from Clifford. Up in mountains California. Wrote to Chester. Rain and rain.

July 14th: Clifford visiting Arizona since he got back from mountain trip July 5.
1916 July 12th: Judge Ezra Dean died. Age at least 90 years.
15th: Dry and dusty. Lon Folger finished painting house. $50.00 for outside woodwork. $8.50 for roof. Leon up from Portsmouth. Set 6 super mountain rose tobacco.
19th: Elias Muller’s girl baby born.
21st: Granma went to see Elias Muller’s new baby.
24th: Granma got letter from Chester at Drumwright. Very hot weather. 94 degrees.
? 28th: Wrote Chester. December 11th: Portsmouth Nance and Grandad’s wedding.

August 1st: Some cooler. Big rain all around us. Missed us. Jimmie quite the Ironton Grocery.
2nd: Dry and hot. Jimmie went to Portsmouth. Scott Wilson looked our house over. Going to try and sell it.
3rd: Hard rain. First for a month.
4th: Got letter from Clifford at Drumwright.
5th: Hot as ever. Sick as hell and can’t help it.
7th: Hot. 96 degrees in shade. Granma washed. Rain at night.
8th: Primary election for state and county offices. Ain’t voted for 4 years. R. W. Dovel Probate Judge. L. Corn, Clerk of Courts., C. H. Hulchinson, Sheriff, W. H. Crawford, Auditor, A. D. Markin, Treaurer, John J_____, Recorder, Jas. T. Egerton, Surveyor, Tom H. Jenkins, Prosecutor, C. E. Stewart, Coroner, Wm. Riley, Frank Dawson and Ed Brammer, Commissioners. For Governor, E. B. Willis.
11th: Granma wrote to Chester and Clifford news.
12th: Big rain. Cooler.
13th: Cold and cloudy. Louis Smith got back from Hanford, California.
14th: Cloudy part of the day and cool. Leon up from Portsmouth. Went back 7pm. John Duncan shaved me. Coolest 14th August since government kept the weather.
15th: Cold rain. Very disagreeable.
16th: Cloudy. Some warmer.
18th: Warm and cloudy. 93 degrees in the shade.
19th: Warm and sweltry. Got letter from Chester and from Clifford. Clifford has been fishing. One night got 90 catfish and 2 bass. Minnie and John went to Portsmouth on visit to Ed Fox. Leon come up from Portsmouth. Hot and rain in afternoon. Brooks Holt, Charles Holt and son got killed in West Virginia.
20th: Hot and Sweltry. Lou Folger and wife give us ice cream. Made me sick. Eat a hogsfill. C. H. R.
21st: Leon went to Portsmouth. Clear and warm.
23rd: Cool and cloudy. Charles Rauch stopped to see us about 10 minutes.
24th: Got 25 cents mountain rose. One month since got mountain rose.
25th: Clear and warm. Wrote to Clifford Richey.
26th: Wrote to Clifford at Drumwright. Big rain and wind storm.
27th: Cold and cloudy.
28th: Cold and cloudy. Sick with cold. Mrs. Joe Shafer called to see us. Had California fever bad. Chester Richey and wife got here from Drumwright, Okla.
29th: Clear and cold. Foggy at night.
30th: Cold and clear. Charles Rauch called to see us. Foggy at night.
1916 August 31st: Chester and wife, Granma and I took dinner and supper at Erold’s. Chester brought his fine dog with him. They all took skiff ride. Edna Fox was with them.

September 1st: Warm and cloudy. Chester and wife went to see Frank Boyers.
2nd: Chester and wife went over to Richey place and Kelly Coal Tipple. Leon up from Portsmouth.
3rd: Clear and cold. Sold oil stove for 50 cents. Took it back. Erold and wife and baby down. William Tate’s boy born. Named Haze Tate.
4th: Warm and cloudy. Labor Day.
5th: Clear and hot. Chester, Jimmie and myself went to Hanging Rock fishing. Got 3 minnies and sun burnt.
6th: Hot. Chester went downtown. Jimmie had toothache. My face almost blistered. Jack McKnight’s girl baby born.
7th: Chester and Rena went home 12:30 on C. & O. RR. Very hot.
9th: Got card from him at Cincinnatti.
11th: Got letter from St. Louis. Will get home Sunday, 10th.

October 5th: My birthday. Wrote to Chester. Had squirrell for dinner. Erold killed it. Granma and I all to ourselves.
12th: Fox family moved to Portsmouth.
13th: Wrote to Chester.
14th: Got postal from Leon at Portsmouth. Gone to housekeeping. 1674 Highland Ave. Mrs. Joe Schafer called in evening. Stayed till 9 oclock.
? 23rd: Perry Jacoway family rented part of our house. Moved in. Paid in advance for 1 month ending Nov. 21st.
25th: Erold give us a squirrell. Got 3.
26th: Renter paid $5.00. Got postal from Edna Fox.
29th: Went up to Erold’s. Had Leon and girl, Granma and I for dinner.
30th: Got letter from Clifford. Ed Ralph here for dinner.
31st: Answered letter. Ed Ralph went home.

November 1st: Clear and cold.
2nd: Clear and cold. Sent postal to Edna Fox, 1614 Highland Ave.
3rd: Clear and foggy. Got letter from Chester and Lulu Geoglin. Nannie Wright here to get adresss of the Foxes. Had on her war clothes.
? 4th: Partly cloudy and warmer. Perry Jacoway paid $3.00 balance on rent. Paid to Nov. 21st.
5th: Clear and warm. No one to see us.
6th: Granma very sick. Called Dr. Eakman at 8am. Erold come down.
7th: Presidential election. Ohio went democratic. Wilson elected.
8th: Clear and cooler. Wrote to Chester.
9th: Got letter from Opal Richey, California.
10th: Answered Opal’s letter.
12th: Rain in morning. Leon and Jimmie up from Portsmouth. Erold stopped about 2 minutes.
13th: Clear and fine weather.
14th: Cold wave. Snow storm. Worst known for this time of year. Got letter from Chester. Got dog’s picture.
15th: Cold and cloudy.
16th: Clear and cold. Sent letter to Chester. Granma washed Tillie.
17th: Cloudy and warmer.
1916 November 18th: Cloudy till noon. Cleared up. Sunshine and warm. Erold stopped in about 5 minutes. Had game hen butchered. Last one from Malleable Plant.
19th: Clear and frosty. Cooked chicken. Leon up from Portsmouth. Went out to Johnsons.
20th: Clear. Walked to Bagwells. The longest walk for 3 months. Granma sick. Not able to get out in kitchen.
21st: Frank Cochren killed.
22nd: Granma very sick. Had to call Dr. Eakman.
? 24th: Some better. Erold and Elizabeth down. Howard Clark on ______.
25th: Granma not much better. L. Folger went to pay taxes $20.00.
26th: Lou Folger to see us in morning. Granma able to sit up to have bed made. Mrs. Bagwell sent us dinner. Mrs. Richey to see us. Erold here for a few minutes.
27th: All about the same.
28th: Granma still mending. Has to keep her bed. Insurance agent here. Paid $2.80.
30th: Thanksgivin. Leon and Jimmie up to see us. Had good dinner. Mrs. Ferry sent us turkey, potatoes, cranberries, dressing. Lou Folger pumpkin pie. Mrs. Bagwell soup.

December 1st: Wrote to Chester.
2nd: Elizabeth Richey operated on at Keller Hospital for appendicitus.
3rd: Misting rain.
4th: Erold and Mrs. Meeks had Mary Elizabeth at our house in evening.
5th: Wrote to Chester and Clifford.
6th: Got letter from Curt Ralph. Wrote Lulu Geoglin. Mrs. Albert Schafer died. Age 46 years.
7th: Gloomy lonesome day. Got skiff back to furnace. Been stole over a month.
8th: Cloudy and warm. Got letter from Chester. Mrs. Joe Schafer called short time. Granma better. Made biscuits for breakfast. Turned cold at night. Snowed a regular blizzard. Erold give us rabbit.
9th: Cold. Snow on ground. Edna Fox and pup to see us about 3 minutes in morning. Ora stopped a few minutes.
10th: Mrs. Al Schafer funeral. Mrs. Duncan died from a fall 3 days ago. Elizabeth still at hospital. Getting along as well as could be expected.
11th: Sent money order to L. C. Richey, Fresno, California. Mrs. Catherine Duncan buried. Snow storm. Real blizzard. Cold, freezing. Leon Richey and Ida Kitchen married at Portsmouth.
12th: Leon Richey and wife called to see us in evening for the first time. 3 above zero.
13th: Snow storm and blizzard. The worst this winter.
14th: Cold and cloudy. Freezing. Big snow at night. 8 inches.
15th: Clear and nice in afternoon. Wrote to Chester.
16th: Cloudy and warmer.
17th: Cloudy and warmer. Granma got breakfast before I got aout of bed. Fist time for 3 months. Erold and Folger stopped in the morning few ?? minutes. Elizabeth still in hospital. Improving. Perry Jackoway lost $5.00 on a bet.
18th: Snow storm. Granma sick. No one to see us. Got letter rom Clara Jones.
1916 December 20th: Snow on ground. Cold and cloudy. Granma got breakfast. Had pancakes.
21st: Ground covered with snow. Foggy and gloomy. Granma got breakfast. Made biscuits. River full of ice. No boats running. Sent letter to Toria Ralph.
22nd: Snow storm before 6 am. Clear and nice weather all day. Got parcel post from Chester. Box fine cigars and slippers for Granma. Granma baked big raisin cake. Peter Kingery’s wife died.
23rd: Got letter from Opal Richey dated 17th. Clifford had gone duck and quail hunting. Erold has said Elizabeth would come home from hospital Sunday. Got our Christmas gift. Erold brought it. Leon Richey here. Give us photo of wife and self.
24th: Sunday. Clear and warmer. Mrs. Kingery’s funeral. Had rabbit ?? ??? from______. Elizabeth Richey home from hospital.
25th: Christmas. Got letter from Clifford. Jimmie Richey up from Portsmouth afternoon. Mrs. Jos. Steavens brought us turkey, apple sauce cake, pumpkin pie, oranges. Apron for Granma. Handkerchief for the old man. Old lady Ratcliff head cheese_________. George Ferry apples. Snow gone. Clear, warm and nice day.
26th: Warm and cloudy. Got postal from Clifford dated 20th. Sent letter to Chester. Got postcard from Madge Ralph. Elizabeth at home. Still improving.
27th: Sprinkling rain. Dismal. foggy day. Peter Kingery moved from Kingery Ville. Snow at night.
28th: Clear up. Took snow off. Got letter from Opal Richey. Sent letter to Clifford. Clear and warmer afternoon.
29th: Clear and cold. Got box from Clifford and Opal. Cake, raisins and figs. Erold went to express office for it.
30th: Cloudy and disagreeable.
31st: Clear and cold. Foggy all forenoon. Erold to see us a few minutes. Folger called to see us in forenoon. So ends the year 1916.

1917 January 1st: Stayed up till the bells and whistles blowed the old out and the new in. It rained between 1 and 2 oclock, then froze. The whole earth covered with ice. Turned warm and foggy by 8 am. Everthing thawed out. Ground covered with mush ice. Got letter from Chester. First letter this year. Leon was here for a few minutes. Went out to Richey place. Got in trouble with one trespassing. Drawed gun on them. Went to George Ferry’s and had quarrel with Mrs. Wright over telephone. Took his wife to Portsmouth in evening. Mrs. Ratcliff, Mrs. Folger and Mrs. Jos. Schafer called to see us.
2nd: Cloudy and dismal all day.
3rd: Clear and cool. Folger here in morning.
4th: Bad. Foggy and dismal. Wrote to Chester. Thunder and lightning at night.
5th: Warm. Misting rain most all day.
6th: Erold stopped for a few minutes.
7th: Clear and cool. Filled cistern.
8th: Clear and nice. Wrote to Clifford and Clara Jones and Curt Ralph.
? 9th: Clear and cool. Pat Schafer_____. Granma baked a raisin cake from ? box Clifford sent us. __________.
10th: Cold and cloudy. Erold Richey called to see us. Snow at night.
1917 January 11th: Real blizzard and snow storm early in morning. Cold. Cloudy all day. 3 or 4 inches snow on ground all day.
12th: Clear and cold. Snow on the grpound 3 inches deep. Good rabbit hunting. George Ferry only one called all day. Buffalo Bill died. Was a Free Mason. His wife’s sister had a priest baptise him after he was unconcious and made a Catholic of him.
13th: Ground covered with snow. Deepest snow for years. Snowed most all day. Rain at night, then snow storm. Hugh Russell died.
14th: Ground covered with snow and ice. Clear and cold. Erold stopped in about 3 minutes at 5 oclock pm. Snow at night.
15th: Freezing rain 6 am to 1 pm. Cold and cloudy all day. 18 inches snow on ground.
16th: Cold and cloudy.
17th: Cold and cloudy. Snow all ground yet. Got ½ pint whiskey. Admiral George Dewey died Jan. 16th. Age 80 years.
18th: Warm, cloudy and disagreeable. Snow all on the ground, yet looked like more snow or rain.
19th: Clear and pleasant. Thawing, melting the snow. Got letter from Chester dated 16.th. Bought lot. Building house in a new town, Dilworth, Ok. Adress: Dilworth, Oklahoma, via New Kirk.
20th: Cold and cloudy. Ora and Edna up from Portsmouth. Edna called to see us.
21st: Cool and cloudy. Snow still on ground. Rain afternoon took snow off. Froze at night. Albert Schafer called to see us in evening.
22nd: Cold and cloudy. Snow all gone. Wrote to Chester.
23rd: Clear and thawing. Wrote to Clifford. Got letter from Toria Ralph.
24th: Cold and cloudy. Snowed a few minutes in evening. Wrote postal to Ed Ralph. Mrs. Duncan called to see us.
25th: Warm and clear. Snowed last night. Sun took it off today. Charles Rauch called to see us. River 42 feet. Full of ice. Falling.
26th: Clear and cold. John O’shea died. C. R. Richey’s adress Dilworth via New Kirk, Oklahoma.
27th: Warm and cloudy. Weighed at Ferry’s 116 lbs.
28th: Warm and clear. Leon up from Portsmouth. Stopped in a few minutes. Erold and Elizabeth down in evening. First time Elizabeth out since operated.
29th: Warm and cloudy. Misting rain. Got letter from Chester at Dilworth, Oklahoma.
30th: Clear and warm. Granma baked a cake. Was sick at night.
31st: Cloudy and warm. Granma sick. Called De. Eakman. Erold come down this afternoon. Got pictures of Rena.

February 1st: Cold and snowing. Sent postal to Chester. Granma in bed. Very sick. Snow storm at night. Last big snow 1917.
2nd: Groundhog seen his shadow. Clear and cold. Almost zero. Sent postal to Chester. Granma very sick at night. Erold come down.
3rd: Clear and cold. Granma no better. Letter from Clifford.
4th: Cloudy and some warmer. Granma still sick. Not much better. Worst snow and wind storm this winter in afternoon.
5th: Warmer and thawing. Granma not so well. Both of us down sick. Not able to care for one another. Called Dr. Eakman at noon.
6th: Erold here. Both of us down.
7th: No better.
1917 February 8th: Cloudy. Granma and myself not much better.
? 9th: This is the last I will ever write in this book. ___________. I am done with it. C. H. Ralph.
22nd: George Washington’s Birthday. E. P. Fox called to see us. Brought us 1 quart fine whiskey. Granma and myself getting better. Able to be up and around the room and help take care of ourselves a little bit. Got worse afternoon. Granma worked with me all night. Some easier in morning. Erold here a few minutes.
23rd: Got letter from Lulu Geoglin. Her father very sick. Answered. I was very bad at night.
24th: Called Dr. Eakman.
25th: Leon up from Portsmouth to see us. Elizabeth and baby at Portsmouth on a visit to Ora.
26th: T. J. Harper died at Pomeroy. Neither of us able to go to funeral.
27th: Wrote to Ethan Harper.
28th: Big snow storm. About 4 inches on ground. Erold down to see us.

March 1st: Snow on ground. Cloudy and disagreeable. Got letter from Chester at Dilworth, Oklahoma. From Clifford at Fresno, Calif. Gas bill $3.25.
2nd: Big snow storm as we have had all winter. Snowed all day.
3rd: Snow still on the ground. I sent letter to Clifford. Snow at night, big as any this winter. Put on pants and shoes for first time for a month.
4th: Snow about 6 inches deep. Erold here in morning, hunting men to work.
5th: Sent letter to Chester.
6th: Got letter from Opal. Sent picture to Lulu Geoglin. Potal to Edna.
? 7th: Perry Jackoway due 2 months rent $16.00. Paid $3.00. Balance due $13.00. Clear. Snow melting.
8th: Snow gone. Sent letter to Clifford. Clear and warmer.
9th: Got letter from Ed Ralph. 10th answered.
10th: Granma cleaned house. Clear and nice.
? 11th: Cloudy and dismal. Jackoway paid gas bill $1.63. Balance due $14.37.
12th: S. W. Smith died. Got letter from Rena, Lulu Geogline.
13th: Rain. John Duncan shaved me.
14th: Paid life insurance.
15th: Clear and nice. Went out to water closet first time for 6 weeks. Fire Marschall ordered new roof on kitchen. Erold stopped in evening about 1 minute.
? 16th: Cold and cloudy. Rented garden lot to Perry Jackaway $8.00. Charles Rauch called to see us. Granma sent letter to Rena Richey. Sent letter to Opal Richey.
17th: St. Patrick’s Day. Wind blowing hard all day. Got postal from Edna. Leon to see us in afternoon. Snow at night.
18th: Snow storm. A regular blizzard all day. Very disagreeable. Bad day. Ground covered with snow. Got pictures from Chester of Diworth, Oklahoma. Froze at night.
19th: Clear and cold. Granma washed and walked over to Ferry’s store.
20th: Clear and cold. Walked to Ferry’s forst time for 2 months. Rained all night.
21st: Cold and cloudy. Got letter from Chester and answered it. Erold, Elizabeth and Mary called to see us in evening. Henry Klein died.
22nd: Granma went down to Lou Folgers. He is in bed sick. Clear and cool.
1917 March 23rd: Rain and disagreeable weather. Thunder and lightning at night. Sick all night. Out in a bad night.
24th: Clear and warm.
25th: Clear and warm.
26th: Clear and warm. Sent letter to Clifford. Sick today. Indigestion.
27th: Cold and cloudy. Rained. Erold brought down medicine for me from Dr. Eakman in the morning. Got letter from Ed Ralph.
28th: Clear and cool. Feeling better. Walked over to 9th. St. and to Boll’s Meat Wagon in the morning, and burnt it cooking. Old lady Calahan called to see us.
29th: Clear and windy. Erold called for a few minutes in morning.
30th: Clear and cool. Granma got letter from Chester.
31st: Clear. Warm and windy. Nice day for last of March. Leon up from ? Portsmouth. Perry Jackway paid $2.00.

April 1st: Warm and cloudy. Erold stopped in, hunting men for furnace. John Duncan and wife had a squabble. He got drunk. Kissed and made up. Rained most all night. Lou Folger and wife to see us in evening. Lou looked about as thin as myself.
2nd: Misting rain and disagreeable. Rained all night.
3rd: Clear and cool. Something got wrong with one of my eyes. In bad shape. Blood vessel broke. Called Dr. Elsworth. Lou Folger called to see me.
4th: Warm and cloudy. Got letter from Curt Ralph. Rain at night.
5th: Cloudy and rain. Dr. Elsworth called and examined eye. Said it was some better. Says it would take some time to cure it. Congress declares war with Germany. Granma wrote Chester. Eye kept me awake all night. Rain and wind storm all night.
6th: Cold and stormy.
7th: Clear and cold. Frost. Leon called to see us. Cold rain at night.
8th: Cold rain. Bad day. Granma very sick at night. Up all night by myself.
9th: Clear and cold. Granma not any better. Erold here for a few minutes. Called Dr. Eakman. Very bad till mignight. Got some relief.
10th: Paid Dr. Eakman’s doctor bill $5.00. Erold called few minutes. Charles Rauch and 2nd. Wife called to see us.
11th: Clear and warmer. Feeling bad. Eye hurts. Granma sick at night.
12th: Warm and cloudy. Granma not much better. My eye getting better.
13th: Clear and cold. Both of us better. Able to get around the house.
14th: Clear and cold. Erold stopped in about 2 minutes to tell us his slut had 4 nice pups. Had nice new greens for dinner. Got letter from Clifford Richey and Chester.
15th: Jimmie up from Portsmouth. Erold and family spent evening with us. I have lumbago and lame back. In bad shape. Back weak and eyes getting better.
16th: Able to set up. Back very painful. No better.
17th: Back bad. Got letter from Edna Fox.
18th: Called Dr. Eakman. Lumbago. Indigestion.
? 19th: Had a bad spell in evening. Erold and Jackoway got me in bed. Elizabeth and baby here. So bad, did not see them.
20th: Not quite so bad.
23rd: Paid Eakman $1.50. Doctor come and looked at me. Stayed in bed. Lumbago. Indigestion. Full of gas. Did not give me any medicine. For me to take castor oil and salts.
1917 May 24th: No better. Got letter from Esau harper. Want Granma to help pay for tombstones for all the dead Harpers in meigs County.

May 1st: In bed flat on back.

Miscelaneous:

E. L. Ralph, Gallipolis Ohio (1910)

Run coal 61 days 1911

(names in coal list, 1911)
John Henry, Chas. Miller, Isaac Middleton, Henry Tipton, Hays Tate, Jack mcWright, G. W. E. Butler, John Grommets(?), Ed Galagher, Mase Webb, Lawrenz Grounds, Chas. Wenig, Geo. Riedal, Anthy. Heineman, John McKnight, Ed Tipton Sr., Chas, Ward, Jake Kelly, Wilber Hall, Butler, Henry Miller, Wm. Tate. (B41)

J. W. Clark, Ironton, Ohio, James Richey, March 30, 1913 (B43)

Walter Sherwood, 341 South 3rd. Street, Flat 14, Columbus, Ohio (B44)

Dr. L. M. Jones Sr. Steamer Telegraph (B49)
May 22nd, 1909, Kelly Coal Mines. (B49)
C. H. Ralph, 1914 (B49)
January 19th; 1915 (B49)

C. H. Ralph, Kelly Mines 1883-1911. (B54)

Mr. John W. Smith (B55)

L. C. Richey, 175 Abby St., Fresno, Ca. (B56)

Perry Jacoway (B68)

Ironton, Ohio June 5, 1912 James Richey (B81)
Mr. Frank Keeler, c/o M. L. Pratt Mfg. Co., 35 West Lake St., Chicago, Ill. (B81)

Miss Opal Sollis, Bakerfield, Calif. (B83)
This is a duck (drawing) (B83)
Dr. Hains and Hains, Room 52, 101 N. High St., Columbus, O. Send 2 cent stamp. (B83)
1674 Highland Ave, Portsmouth Leon Richey (B83)