Today I actually started moving my gargantuan collection of information and photos to the final book file to write Book 3, Farewell to Eldred, the story of the Town of Highland in the years 1920 to 1950.
I am enjoying the Hackintosh (pc computer with a mac OS) my husband built for me and my new 27-inch monitor!
The 4 colors of index cards categorize: places and events; people; boarding houses; and water, bridges, roads that need to be in Chapter 1.
Notes for Aida Austin’s 1943 Diary: Aida (81) often walked to the Village (Eldred, known as Halfway Brook Village when she was young). Art and Bill Austin were her nephews in the Army. Marjorie Bosch was the daughter of Herman and Mary Bosch, Aida’s neighbors, who were so helpful to her and her brother Lon Austin.
1943
Saturday, January 2
I washed some this afternoon. It has been terribly cold all day.
Sunday, January 3
Sunday School this morning in the Methodist Church. Basil Owens funeral this afternoon and church tonight.
Monday, January 4
It rained some last night and Mr. Briggs brought Lon home from church. In the night the rain turned to snow and it has been snowing and blowing nearly all day. I was to the PO and store this afternoon.
Wednesday, January 6
I was to the store a little this afternoon. Lon went down just vefore I did but I got back first. He brought a lot of papers from May. It has been very cold.
Thursday, January 7
Very cold all day, but not windy. I was down this afternoon for the oil and bread. Lon was to prayer meeting last night. Bertha Wilson, Bell, and Mrs. Floyd Boyd were there.
Saturday, January 9
I was to the store a little after noon for bread and oil. I received a letter from May.
Sunday, January 10
Church in the Methodist this morning. Marjorie was down this afternoon and I helped her with her algebra.
Tuesday, January 12
I wrote to May and Arthur last night and went to the office early this morning but the morning mail had gone. I got some groceries.
Thursday, January 14
Lon was to the Village. I got a card from Willie from Hattiesburg. Continue reading
Christmas Cards sometimes arrive after Christmas. I went through my extensive old Postcard scans file and found a few cards that I don’t think I have posted. So here is a belated very old Christmas Card.
Each Book in the Memories from Eldred Series includes a war unfortunately. Book 3 which I am working on includes World War II. Recently my cousin sent me this greeting from my dad to her family in 1943.
Joseph Meyer, a glass cutter, and his wife Florence Van Eastenbridge had a son Raymond. Florence was the daughter of Mary van Eastenbridge Bosch and Mary’s first husband.
Alexander and Ida Wait had two children. His mother Mary Wait lived with them. Alexander, a carpenter, and his cousin Floyd Boyd would soon have a garage in Eldred called Wait & Boyds.
In 1915 Maggie Dunlap, a widow, and her sons: Charles, George, and Harold, lived in the area. Harold would one day have Dunlaps Restaurant on the southeast corner of Eldred.
Webster and Ida LaBarr farmed. Elbert Clark, an Austin cousin, was a stone mason. Harry Wormuth, a sawyer, was married to Mary Kyte, a granddaughter of Felix Kyte.
Fred and Margery Schwab who had had a boarding house in Barryville, were listed as farming.
Charles and Lottie Bradley Colville and their 3 children lived in Barryville. Charles farmed. Their daughter Ruth would soon write letters to her friend McKinley Austin. Ruth had a sister Esther and a brother Leslie. Continue reading
Homestead Cottage Burns Down
The Homestead Cottage on Collins Road that Mort and Jennie Austin ran, burned down in 1915 or 1916.
Mort and Jenny then purchased Mountain Grove House, which seems to be the Austin house on Proctor Road which was built around 1894.
