Friday, August 7, 1868

Another fine day. Ruth has been doing her iorning. I have been fixing a dress for Gerty and doing house work, and oh how awful cross Gerty is! She just sy____lls all the time.

It looks very much like rain this evening.

James is at work at the shop.

I have not heard from up the river since I left there.

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Neice Notes: James was Ruth's husband. I don't know what kind of shop they kept.

Thursday, August 6, 1868

This has been a beautiful day. I baked bread again and made apple pie for dinner. It is the first pie I have made since I was sick, and the first apple pie I have had this year.

Ruth has got a very sore finger. She burned it the other day, and it is very sore.

We had company again to day. It was Lizzie Robinson and her two Children.

Wednesday, August 5, 1868

This has been another pleasant day. Clara and I went down town this afternoon to get her shoes that we took down the other day to be mended. They were 30 cents, and in the afternoon we went over to Mrs. Merrill’s a while and then Jennie Fot came to spend the afternoon with me, so I went home again and had a good visit.

Tuesday, August 4, 1868

Another pleasant day. Ruth has been doing her last week’s iorning. I baked bread and made the sheet that I commenced.

Gerty is a great deal of trouble. She is so cross! She is teething.

James is at work in the shop yet. Ruth is sewing on John’s pants this evening.

Oh, how different it looks here than what it did when I was here before!

Monday, August 3, 1868

A pleasant day. Ruth did not wash to day. Her and I went down town this afternoon. Ruth got some cloth to make some pants for John, and she got some cotton to make a pair of sheets, and she got me a pair of cotton stockings. They was 20 cents.

We called on Mrs. Brown as we was coming home.

I commenced one of the sheets.

Saturday, August 1, and Sunday, August 2, 1868

Saturday, August 1, 1868

This has been a very pleasant day indeed. We hurried around this morning and got ready, and Annah and George and me and Cad went down town and went over the river to see Ruth, so I have seen Jane for the first time since I have been here. Got to Ruth’s about noon. She is well and had a washer woman to do her washing. Little Gerty is not very well to day.

Sunday, August 2, 1868

This has been a pleasant day. Little Gerty is better to day. Clara is better to bad [?] and Ruth and me went down to meeting this forenoon. It was in the Jackson Hall. The text was in Acts 6 chapter and 3 verse. I saw my old friend Annie Fot.

It has been raining a little this afternoon.

Clara and I are going to stay a week with Ruth’s if we can.

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Neice Notes: Ruth is another one of Celia's older sisters, who lived on the outskirts of Saginaw. Gerty was Ruth's baby daughter.