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Greenwood Cemetery is located three miles west of Trumbull.
Minnie Talbert was a daughter of Harrison B. Talbert and Matilda Rittenhouse Talbert. CLICK on photos 3, 4, and 5 and read the captions. I have included much of her father Harrison B. Talbert's data here so I can easily edit it.
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Photos six and seven to the right are photos of an 1863 Civil War letter Harrison wrote to his two nephews Alonzo and Louis about education and freeing the DARKIES. The letter is typed out in the captions below the picture. CLICK on...
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Greenwood Cemetery is located three miles west of Trumbull.
Minnie Talbert was a daughter of Harrison B. Talbert and Matilda Rittenhouse Talbert. CLICK on photos 3, 4, and 5 and read the captions. I have included much of her father Harrison B. Talbert's data here so I can easily edit it.
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Photos six and seven to the right are photos of an 1863 Civil War letter Harrison wrote to his two nephews Alonzo and Louis about education and freeing the DARKIES. The letter is typed out in the captions below the picture. CLICK on the picture, then after reading the caption CLICK on the picture AGAIN and AGAIN to enlarge.
Also included are some of the other 61 interesting CIVIL WAR LETTERS that Harrison wrote home. If you desire read them. CLICK on the letter slowly three times to enlarge.
If you want to read all of his 61 CIVIL WAR letters go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/civilwarwest/
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NEXT IS TALBERT DIARY DATA FROM 1905 - 1922
The primary individuals mentioned are HARRISON B. Talbert, brother HADLEY Talbert, and Dorothy Rittenhouse who appears to have been raised by their parents Jesse and Hannah Talbert in Shelby County, Indiana. This does not include all entries for these families.
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1905
1905 March 24 - Coe comes home on visit. Charley goes to Elias. (Harrison's daughter Mrs. Cora Talbert Carter from Springfield, Ill. comes home on visit. Son Charley goes to visit son Elias at Central City, Nebraska.)
1905 March 26 - Sunday Frank S visit us. (Harrison's daughter Myrtle and husband Frank Smith visit us.)
1905 April 7 Help Wheeler T. Shingle (Help Hadley's son Wheeler Talbert.)
1905 May 23 - (Indiana Talbert nephew Alonzo Myers) Alonzo comes on 11 O'clock train.
1905 May 24 - Visit Wilson & Hadlys. (Wilson would be Joshua Wilson and family. There was a Mr. Hadley family but they are referred to as Mr. Hadley. Alonzo would have known his Uncle Hadley and also the Wilson family.)
1905 May 25 - Alonzo starts home on 2 O'clock (train)
1905 June 18 - Sunday, all children at home. (Harrison's living children - Elias, Ed, Cora, Myrtle and Charley. Adult children Jesse and Minnie were deceased.)
1905 June 23 - Coe & Myrt leave for Hastings. Coe aims to start home tomorrow morning. Springfield Ill. (Cora Talbert Carter)
1905 August 23 - A little daughter (Lavern) comes to Eds today to stay. (Son Ed Talbert of Hastings.)
1905 Sept. 18 - (Harrison's son) Charley goes on (mail) route. King has calf.
1905 October 12 - Go to Will R. (William and Dorothy Rittenhouse. William is a brother of Mrs Harrison B. Talbert, and Dorothy appears to have been raised by Harrison B. and Hadley Talbert's parents.)
1905 October 13 - Stay all night at Mr Carters. Fix Wills well. (Is this Carter also a relative from Indiana????? Apparently Carters lived very close to Rittenhouses.)
1905 Nov. 15 - Helping Will R. fix up old house. (William and Dorothy Rittenhouse.)
1906
1906 March 9 - I (HBT) go on (Rural) mail route & upset mail wagon.
1906 March 31 - Get home from Hastings 12 M. Cleo comes with us. (Cleo is Ed Talbert's son, HBT's grandson.)
1906 April 2 - Work on Granma House. (Grandma Elizabeth Rittenhouse died in 1903.)
1906 June 19 - Bessie R comes on visit. (Bessie Rittenhouse daughter of William and Dorothy Rittenhouse. Remember Dorothy was raised by Talberts.)
1906 June 28 - Tyler baby passes away 10 O'clock A.M. Stomach & Bowel trouble. (Hadley Talbert's granddaughter.
1906 Oct. 5 - Coe (Cora) starts home for Springfield, Ill. with Al Carter.
1906 November 26 - Move to Town [Trumbull]
1906 November 29 - Charley & Effie is married at Sundown [Charley Talbert & Effie Hawthorne were married at the S. R. Hawthorne home 4 east of Trumbull. They moved into the big Harrison B. Talbert house 1 west of Trumbull. Built in 1887 and still lived in in 2011.]
1906 November 30 - Visit Hadly (The day before, on the 29, Harrison's son Charles married Effie Hawthorne and on the 26 Harrison had moved into Trumbull so there was plenty to discuss with his brother Hadley. Within five months Charles died and Harrison and wife moved back to the big house on the farm.)
1906 Dec. 7 - Called to Grand Island. Myrt is dangerously ill with Uremic poison. (Gets well.)
1906 Dec. 29 - Received the sad news of Uncle Docs death Dec 20 at Elwood, Ind.
1907
1907 March 20 - Charley has a successful operation [in upper left bedroom] for Appendicitis. About 10 A.M. by [Dr.] Artz, Shaffleberg & Sample [Charley died in that bedroom one month later.]
1907 April 15 - Cora arrives from Springfield (Ill.)
1907 April 21 - Sunday Charley not expected to live.
1907 April 24 - At 9-45 A.M. Charley peacefully passes away. Bless God for a Christians death & hope. [Lived in bed for over a month after surgery]
1907 April 25 - A very large funeral. Good Sermon, good exercises Snows 5 inches. [This was still horse and buggy days. Effie told me the weather on that late April day was just HORRIBLE. Effie had been married 4 months and was now a widow at 19.]
1907 June 2 - Sunday P.M. (son) Ed takes us a ride in Auto mobile to Prosser & back. [Probably second time in auto.]
1907 July 6 - (Nephew) Wheeler T. cuts wheat for me.
1907 Oct 29 - Eve Wills come to gather corn. (Either Will T or R.?)
1907 November 13 - (Nephew) Bert helps me on Engine. (Most likely a one cylinder engine with a big flywheel.).
1907 December 25 - (Christmas) A beautiful day. Good entertainment last night. Josh's (Wilson), Hadly's (Talbert) & (son) Eds (Talbert) take (noon) dinner with us (Harrison B. Talbert). Many presents, Gloves, Ring Muffler, Shirt etc.
1908
1908 January 6 - (Written by Frank & Myrtle Talbert Smith) P.M. Ma - Pa & Cora started for Ind. On 3 PM train for Hastings.
1908 January 20 - (cousin) Bert & Mary came in eve to stay while Frank is gone. (This entry was written by Myrtle Talbert Smith.)
1908 January 31 - 4 in of snow. Began to blow about 10 AM resulting in blizzard all day. Wheeler Talbert brought over Corn, 3 loads. (Written by F or M Smith.)
1908 Feb. 7 - Went to Uncle Hadley's for supper and evening. (Written by F or M Smith.)
1908 March 1 - Sunday Go to Bert Ts.
1908 March 9 - Ma & Phoeba go to Hastings. (Phoeba is probably a Talbert relative visiting from Ind.)
1908 March 12 or 13 - Riley
Zike passes away 8:30 PM. (Talbert relative.)
1908 March 31 - Go to (Grand) Island to move Frank (and Myrt to live at our home and farm.)
1908 April 4 - Riley Talbert (from Omaha) visits us.
1908 May 2 Phoeba & I go to central City (and visit son Elias and family).
1908 June 2 - Surprise at Hadlys. (Several couples would stop by for a surprise evening.)
(William and Dorothy Rittenhouse)
1908 June 13 - Will R & wife come & we look after bees.
1908 June 16 - Phebe starts Home Via Chicago.
1908 Aug. 1 - 12M (noon) Coe (daughter Cora) is operated at hospital at Hastings for appendicitis. Stand the operation fine.
1908 Sept. (Nephew) Wheeler T. commences threshing.
1908 Dec. 16 - Will R. has Pneumonia.
1908 Dec. 20 - Will Rittenhouse passes peacefully away.
1908 Dec. 21 - Stay with Dorthy A. R. (Dorothy Rittenhouse who was kind of a step sister of Harrison and Hadley.)
1909
1909 Mar. 6 - Dorthy & Tom R visit us.
1909 May 6 - Myrt has operation. Work at graveyard fixing lot.
1909 July 22 - Girls Mira & Golda arrive at Hast. (Talbert relatives Myra and Golda Myer from Indiana.)
1909 Aug. 17 - Visit (nephew) Will Talbert (a son of Hadley Talbert.)
1909 Sept. 1 - Mira, Golda (Myer) & (daughter) Cora leave on 3 O'clock train for Denver.
1909 Sept. 23 Mr Burdick suddenly passes away last night at midnight. (Maybe someway he is related to the Hadley Talbert family.)
1909 Oct. 9 - Have a good time at Rileys (Talbert, Omaha,NE) but leave in morn & come to Carters, Lincoln, Neb. (Carters - relatives???)
1909 November 17 - (Harrison) Quite sick. . . . (next day) 18 - Hadly stays with me today & night Get awful sick. Heart bad but I did not know it at the time. (Whole family comes home to see him. Cora helps with him for three weeks.)
1910
1910 January 25 - Will T(albert), Josh W. & Ellen Wilson visit us.
1910 February 11 - P.M. Ma (Matilda) & I (Harrison) go to Hadlys (Talbert).
1910 (next day) February 12 - Send letter containing $5.00 (which was a lot of money) to Enos (Hadley and Harrison's brother)
1910 (a few days later) February 24 - Visit Hadlys. Ed (Talbert) stays all night with us, two wagons with binders.
1910 February 28 - Go to Hastings to help (son) Ed load his (train) car for Wauneta Chase Co. Neb. (Ed farmed out there for two or three years and then moved back to Hastings.)
(Next day)
1910 March 1 - Beautiful day, finish loading Eds (railroad) Car & I come home. Ed leaves on 8-40 train for Wauneta.
1910 July 7 - Frank cutting wheat for (Eli) Harmon. Myrts birthday, thirty two.
1910 July 12 - Go with E.(rnest) Ormsby to Clay Center In Jimmy Cahorns Auto. About 20 Surprise Mama 68 Birthday.
1910 Aug. 11 - Ma & Vona visit Hadleys.
(Matilda and Vona daughter of Riley Talbert of Omaha visit Hadley Talberts.)(Vona was about 22 years old.)
1910 October 4 - P.M. Strong wind. Poulson & Bert (Talbert) moves (Eli) Harmons house.
1910 Nov. 30 - Crating Stand, Clock & Gun for (son) Elias.
1910 Dec. 6 - Zero. Tom Rittenhouse & I go to Hastings.
(Tom appears to be a son of William and Dorothy Rittenhouse.)
1910 Dec. 28 - Will Talbert & wife visit us. Ma is poorly.
1911
1911 January 19 - Ma & I go to Hadlys.
1911 Mar. 17 - Wife & I go to Ed Talberts.
18(th) - Work at Eds until 2 O'clock. Get Buggy from Paint shop. Wife & I come home. (Ed moved back to Hastings from Wauneta.)
1911 Apr. 19 - My 69 Birthday. Receive over 30 Postal Cards from Indiana. Get Albert Talberts Pictures. 20(th) - Receive some more Postal Birthday Cards, over 40.
1911 April 24 - Have Visitor Mrs (Anna) Wilcox from Seattle. A niece I had not seen since a little girl & Now Granma.
1911 (next day) April 25 - visit cemetery.
1911 (next day) April 26 - Have a big (noon) dinner at Hadlys. Nice day. (Probably all the Talbert families and Anna Wilcox.).
1911 April 29 (another Talbert relative) Myra (Myer) arrives from Denver on the 11 O'clock train.
1911 May 1 - Anna Wilcox leaves on 11 O'clock train for Broken Bow. (Probably to see Indiana Carter Ash who probably is a relative through the Carters.)
1911 May 9 - Go to Hastings with two Buggies, Myrt & Myra.
1911 May 17 - Dorthy R.(ittenhouse) comes from N. (and leaves after Decoration Day on the 31st. Her husband William is buried at Trumbull.)
1911 June 24 - Early morn Rainbow. Golda arrives from Ind. (Relative Golda Myer.)
1911 June 26 - P.M. Myra (Myer) & Golda (Myer) leave us.
1911 June 28 - Bert (Talbert) starts threshing at Geo. Gossards.
1911 June 30 - P.M. Bert threshes for Kinsie on Hazle.
1911 July 18 - Mr Smith, wifes, & I go to Aviation meet.
1911 July 28 - Visit Mrs Hadly, Mr Rader, take (noon) dinner at Wm Talbert, visit Edith Hart.
1911 Aug. 2 - (Eli) Harmon & Wife (Tacy), self (Harrison) & Wife (Matilda) go to Ringlings Show.
1911 Aug. 4 - Ma & I go to (son) Elias (at Central City) on noon train.
1911 Aug. 9 - Go with Mrs Clayton in Auto to Dedication of Lone Tree Monument, 3 mi from city.
1911 Sept. 1 - Go in Auto with Wm T to Hast. (Will/William Talbert)
1911 Sept. 18 - Go to Rileys in Omaha. (Riley Talbert)
1911 Sept. 26 - 6 P.M. attend a birthday Supper for Wm Talbert.
1911 November 8 - (Nephew) Bert T. works on Chimneys.
1911 November 15 - Ma & I go to Hast. have a fine visit with (son) Ed. Has been sick 3 weeks or more with Typhoid fever.
(Son-in-law Frank Smith now sick with Typhoid fever.)
1911 Dec. 15 - P.M. Will Talbert Saws wood for Frank & I.
1912
1912 January 19 - Hadlys & Berts visit us & Jes Rittenhouse.
(next day)
1912 January 20 - (Probably hired man) Harry Waters leave us. Jesse R.(ittenhouse) helps with chores.
1912 February 7 - 12M (noon) Wife & I go to Hadlys visiting.
1912 February 29 - (Frank Smith) Brought old Daisy home from Uncle Hadley's.
1912 March 9 - Ma went to Uncle Hadley's.
(Stays three days.)
1912 March 12 - Ma returned home from Hadleys.
1912 March 29 - (Frank Smith wrote) Cora & Ma went to Uncle Hadley's. Bert & Mary stayed all night (probably at Frank and Myrtles).
1912 March 31 - Jesse Rittenhouse came in evening.
1912 April 19 - My 70 Birthday. Go & Vote at Primary for Teddy Republican ticket.
1912 May 8 - Cora goes to Bromfield Ballgame. (Giltner)
1912 May 31 - Wife & I go to Will Talberts visiting.
1912 June 4 - Visit Mr Ormsby & Hadlys.
1912 June 16 - Visit with Bro Hadlys.
1912 June 29 - Frank cuts wheat north of house. Jes (Rittenhouse) cannot stand it to shock (wheat). Sick at stomach.
1912 June 30 - Jes fixing to go home tomorrow.
1912 July 4 (4th of July) - Hadlys invite children to (noon) dinner, & wife & I happen down there & stay for dinner, have good time.
1912 September 22 - Sunday Hadly & (his wife) Mary visit us.
1912 September 25 - Go to (nephew) Will Talberts to help Bell (Will's wife) with peaches, stay all night.
1912 October 13 - Sunday Go to Berts for (noon) dinner.
1912 November 1 - Frank & Myrt get home (from Haxtun, Colorado).
1912 November 3 - Wills (Talbert) visits us. (Probably came over to
visit with Frank & Myrt about Haxtun because it appears Will Talbert and family move there in a month.)
1912 November 22 - Franks & us Visits Wills. Women to help sew.
(next day)
1912 November 23 - Go to Wills after four hogs. Costs $24.00. (Probably selling his livestock so they are ready to move to Colorado.)
1912 November 29 - Frank hauls for Will T.
1912 November 30 - Beautiful day. Frank hauls for Will again.
1912 December 4 - Myrts sewing bee. (Nephew) Wills freight car leaves Hastings this morn.
1912 December 10 - 3 P.M. Cora leaves for Denver. & P.M. a son comes to bless Elias & Irma's home. Name Wm Harrison (Talbert).
1912 December 25 - (Christmas) Beautiful day, take (noon) dinner & spend (Christmas) day at Bert Talberts.
1913
1913 January 11 - Jesse R.(ittenhouse) stays here last night.
1913 February 2 - (Son) Eds birthday.
1913 February 4 - Haul two loads Wheeler Talbert Co(rn?)
1913 February 9 - Sunday I go to church. Stay at home rest of day. The last day at old home where we have lived about 20 years. (THIS IS THEIR 1887 FARM HOME one mile west of Trumbull. As far as I know they lived there from 1887 - 1913 other than for about six months, during 1906 and 1907, while son Charles and wife Effie lived there. During those months they lived in a house in Trumbull.)
(next day)
1913 February 10 - Move to Wheelers (Talbert) place in Trum. It is rented.
1913 February 24 - Dorthy (Rittenhouse) bargains for two lots $100.00 each.
1913 March 3 - (Harrison Talbert's daughter and son-in-law) Frank (Smith) finishes loading his (railroad) car.
1913 (next day) March 4 - Frank(s) & Jes (Rittenhouse)go off on frt. (Harrison Talbert has sold his farm and his daughter Myrtle and son-in-law Frank are moving to Haxtun, Colorado. With the farm being sold the elderly Harrison & Matilda Rittenhouse Talbert have moved into Trumbull. Jes Rittenhouse is related to Matilda but it also appears that in the 1860 census Jesse's mother Dorothy became an orphan and became a stepsister of Harrison and Hadley. This is the way it looks in 2011.)
1913 (four days later) March 8 - Hadly & I haul Cobs & wood. (Probably hauling cobs and wood from Harrison's farm to his new house in Trumbull.)
1913 March 13 - Dorthy R. Buys Berts house. (Dorothy Rittenhouse. Maybe Bert Talbert had a second house in Trumbull?).
1913 March 21 - Zero, very nice day after it warmed up. Nice crowd at Aunt Jane Sleeths funeral. (The Sleeths were very good friends from Shelby Co. Ind., or maybe even related.)
1913 April 15 - Mr (Adoloph) Lambert dropped dead 8 A.M. (Niece Sarah Talbert Lambert's father-in-law.)
1913 April 17 - Drive team (of two horses) to Mr Lambert's Funeral Ha(stings).
1913 April 18 - Zab (X. A. Lambert) eats dinner with us & leaves on 3 O'clock (for Haxtun). (Apparently Sarah and children did not come back for the funeral.)
1913 May 5 - Tell E. Ormsby that I will trade for place Wheelers etc. (Wheeler Talbert)
1913 May 8 - 4 A.M. leave Hast. (by Train) for Haxtun Col. Arrive at latter place 5-15 P.M. & at Franks for supper.
1913 May 14 - (Haxtun, Colorado) Go home with Wheelers (Wheeler Talbert)
1913 May 16 - Stay with Wheeler last night, today visit Jim Prince, Ed Labrie, Eat (noon) divver at Jo Clines. Stay at Wills (Talbert).
1913 May 17 - Make Chicken Coop for Will T.
1913 May 18 - Sunday go with Wills (west) to Fleming & then to Zabs (Lambert) for (noon) dinner.
1913 May 25 - Sunday nice day. Go to Haxtun church, a splendid memorial service by Bro Tire. (Norman) Aces, Zabs (X.A. & Sarah), & Wills (Talbert), at Franks (& Myrtle) for (noon) dinner.
1913 May 28 - Visit Aces, Zabs, Wills & past Wheelers.
1913 June 10 - (In Nebraska) Finish up trade (purchase) for Wheeler Talberts house & lot in Trum.
1913 June 28 - (Son) Eds family, (son) Elias family & Mrs Wray visit us & take (noon) dinner. (Elias's son) Billy has grown & is a fine looking Boy.
1913 July 4 - (July the 4th) Take (noon) dinner with Hadlys.
1913 July 8 - (Nephew) Bert (Talbert) goes threshing.
1913 August 14 - Clear & hot hardly sleep last night. Berts machine burns. 98 (Either his steam engine or threshing machine.)(Bert probably thought the world was against him when his machine burned up. But in two weeks his mind would change when his cousin Ed is killed in an auto accident at Hastings.)
1913 August 27 - Cellar nearly done Cleo helps us. (Grandson Cleo, age 9 - Ed's son.)
1913 August 29 - 3 1/2 PM. Ed has fatal auto accident about quarter mile east of asylum (Hastings). About 7 P.M. Bert & wife, Ma & I go to Eds.
(next day)
1913 August 30 - Clear & hot 10-30 last night Ed passes away amid great suffering. Cleo is heart broken. (Hasting Daily Tribune 30 August has a lengthy account of this accident. The steering wheel and column had a lot to do with Eds death.)
1913 September 1 - Clear & hot high wind & dusty, very disagreeable. Something like 30 (open) Autos accompany Procession to Greenwood Cemetery.
1913 September 2 - Clear & hot. Bert, Coe, & Myrt go to Elias (at Central City). (Probably a big discussion on what to do with the aging Harrison and Matilda and who would look after them. Mainly fell to their cousin Bert because he lived at Trumbull.)
1913 September 5 - Cora starts for Denver.
1913 September 11 - Commence on house Myrt leave on 3 O'clock for Haxtun Col.
1913 September 29 - P.M. Hadlys get ready to move (to Haxtun, Colorado).
1913 (next day) September 30 - Nice day eat (noon) dinner with Bert (Hadley's son), packing (Hadley's railroad) car in big fashion but give out going in Morn because they (Hadly and Mary) are not ready.
1913 (two days later) October 1 - Hadlys getting ready.
1913 (next day) October 2 Hadlys get off on freight (train) with two cars. (It appears that Hadley and wife lived in Colorado for three or maybe more years before moving back to Trumbull. Their son Bert did not move to Haxtun Colorado, but many of their children etc. did.
1913 October 9 - Sunset Social 14 present, a good time. Bloated cow on alfalfa. (Nephew) Bert stuck her twice. (Bert pokes holes with knife twice in the side of the cow to let the gas out, thus saves cow.)
1913 October 28 - Between 3 & 4 start with Bert for Hastings & Get home after dark. 8 above.
1913 November 20 - Berts starts away for Col. (to visit parents and siblings).
1913 November 26 - A regular mob at Thanksgiving supper. Go to Hansen after Elias & Irma.
1913 November 28 - Mrs Ray goes to Hast. on 3. Have an awful good time visiting with (son) Elias. (Out of four adult sons Elias is the only son still living. Jess died in 1901, Charles 1907, and Ed had just died in 1913.)
1913 December 24 - Cloudy & snowing. Myrt comes on evening freight. (Harrison, Matilda, and Myrt) Leave on 12 O'clock for Elias (at Central City). Arrive at Elias all right. Snows some 3 or 4 inches.
1913 December 25 (Christmas) Clears off last night & gets quite cold. Snow drifts some. Frank arrives (from Colorado) at Elias on 11-45 train Christmas Day & we have Xmas dinner together at Elias.
1913 December 27 - Come home from Central City. Frank & Myrt join us at Aurora (on train).
1913 December 28 - Sunday Frank sings Morn & Eve. At night Dave Eller Preaches.
1914
1914 January 5 - Frank & Myrt (Talbert Smith) leave on freight for home (Colorado). I hate to see them leave. Am awful lonesome. (About every relative is dead or living in Colorado!)
1914 January 17 - Go with Bert (in auto) to Hastings. Girl born at Tylers. (Mrs. Tyler was Bert's sister.)
1914 February 10 - Real warm Thaws real fast. Go with Bert in Auto to Hastings.
1914 February 18 - Hadly and Mary arrives from Col.
1914 (next day) February 19 - Hadly, Berts, & Luellen visit us.
1914 (three days later) February 22 - Sunday quite a blizzard. Blizzard increases all day long. Drifts awful.
1914 (two days later) February 24 - Hadly & Mary stay with us last night.
1914 March 2 - Hadly & Mary leaves for (Haxtun) Col on 3-O-clock passenger.
1914 May 9 - Sell cow to Tyler. (Most likely Arthur Tyler.)
1914 June 14 - (Trumbull area) Sunday visit Hadlys.
1914 July 28 - Clear & hot. Stay at home & chore. Mr. Hadlys leave for Wills. (Will Talbert, Haxtun Colorado.) (E. L. Hadley's daughter Belle married Will Talbert. Will was a son of Hadley Talbert. The Will and Belle Hadley Talbert children had two Grandpa Hadleys, that being E. L. Hadley and Hadley Talbert.) (Hadley Talbert came from Indiana and E. L. Hadley came from Illinois.) (A few years later Will and Belle Talbert moved to the Minden, Nebraska area.)
1914 August 14 - (Harrison and wife are visiting daughter Myrtle and other relatives at Haxtun, Colorado) Frank & Myrt, Ma & I go to Hadlys (Hadley Talbert). Have a good visit.
1914 (nine days later) August 23 - Sunday go to Haxtun Church. Eve go home Wm T.(albert)
1914 (two days later) August 25 - Eve go to Hadlys (Talbert).
1914 August 26 - Stay with Bro. (Hadley).
1914 August 27 - At Wheelers (Talbert) go to Church.
1914 August 28 - Hadly & Mary take us to Zabs ( X. A. Lambert). Boys out breaking (sod). Fetch in a live Rattler. When dead I cut off Rattles.
1914 August 29 - P.M. go with Zabs to Haxtun, stop at Franks on way home.
1914 August 30 - Sunday Go with Franks & Scotts to (religious) Camp meeting. Have a good time & seen all of Trumbull folks except some of Lamberts. (The next few days they see other Trumbull people.)
1914 September 14 - Wife & I go with Zab Lambert to Sterling 30 miles west.
1914 September 22 - Leave Haxtun 10 A.M. (On the way home they visit Albert Harmon at Hamlet, Nebraska. Harrison and Matilda were visiting in Colorado for over five weeks. They arrived in Trumbull on the 26th.).
1914 September 26 - Arrive home on noon train. Eat (noon) dinner with Berts. (I am sure that was a little longer than normal noon meal since Harrison would be telling Bert about all the relatives in Colorado. Hadly at that time had lived in Colorado for one year.)
1914 November 23 - Dorthy R & Bessie Lundberg of Loup Co. Neb. Come visit us. (Bess is a daughter of Dorothy and William Rittenhouse. She (Dorothy? xxxxx)later married a Knight.
1914 November 25 Mrs (Riley) Talbert comes from Omaha to visit us. Go Thanksgiving Supper.
1914 November 26 - Go to Mr Burgers Golden Wedding. Mrs (Riley) Talbert (from Omaha) goes to thanksgiving (noon) dinner at Berts (Talbert). (I wonder if Mrs. Riley Talbert, Florence was also from Shelby Co. Indiana.)
1914 December 1 - Dorothy & Bess leave for home.
1915
1915 January 3 - Sunday Nice day, Berts come home with us for (noon) dinner.
1915 January 28 - Clarse's Sewing 4 B
(Maybe Hadley Talbert's daughter Mrs. Arthur Tyler?)
1915 January 29 - Tyler sold out.
1915 February 10 - Hadly & Mary comes (from Colorado).
1915 (six days later) February 16 - I Harrison) take (noon) dinner at Tylers, with Hadly & Mary. (Mrs. Arthur Tyler, Clarice, was a daughter of Hadley and Mary.)
1915 (five days later) February 21 - Sunday Take (noon) dinner at Berts, with Hadlys & Tylers.
1915 March 3 - I believe it snowed all night & know it snowed all day. (Brother) Hadly & Mary staid last night.
(Bad snow for a few days.)
1915 (nine days later) March 12 - Eat (noon) dinner at Berts with Hadlys. Hadly & Mary leave for Col. (on train).
1915 July 9 - Wife & I go to Hast. & see Liberty Bell. A very large crowd at Hast.
1915 July 16 - Help Will
1915 Aug 17 - Leave Hastings 4 A.M. Arrive at Haxtun (Colorado) 5 P.M.
(two weeks later)
1915 Aug 31 - Leave Haxtun Col. 10-A.M. Arrive at Hastings 8-P.M.
1915 Sept 3 - Elias comes on 3-O-clock
1915 Sept 4 - Elias leaves on 11-O-clock
1915 Oct 18 - 2-O-clock Barn arrives (from Hastings). Frank & Myrt comes midnight. (Frank and Myrt Talbert Smith came the whole way from Haxtun, Colorado in their auto.
1915 Oct 19 - Beautiful day Frank & Will lays foundation to Barn. (It appears as if Will & Belle Talbert have now moved back to Trumbull from the Haxtun Colorado area.)
1915 Oct 20 - Frank & Will fix eave to Barn. Frank & Myrt goes to John Whitlaws.
1915 Oct 23 - Nice day. 10-A.M. Start in Franks Auto to C. City. Arrive 12-30 A.M. (2.5 hours auto ride which was quick.)
1915 Oct 30 - Work at Barn. Franks visit Copes & Belle Talberts. (More than one Belle Talbert?)
1915 November 14 - Sunday Berts & us visit Belles. (Could be Bert's stepdaughter??? or sister-in-law Belle.)
1915 November 20 - Bert moves old barn up home.
1915 December 18 - Nice day. (Bert Talbert) Finish roof on Charley Roggys house. 10 A
1915 December 23 - Talbert Will & I haul manure.
1915 December 24 - Snowed seven inches last night. Good Xmas entertainment. Leave on 12 (noon train) for Docs (son Elias at Central City).
(H. B. T. makes the following entries in the diary until the end of the year but the entries look as if a very sick man was writing.)
25 December 25 (Christmas at Central City) Nice Xmas day, but am Sick in bed. Intestinal Grippe.
(The next year 1916 was not a good year for Harrison and Matilda Talbert. From this day, Christmas 1915 and for the next several months Harrison is ill. Once he is OK Matilda takes ill until 22 October 16. Then she is momentarily OK but shortly takes ill again and dies early in 1917.)
1916
1916 January 7 - Am sitting up. 10 A.
1916 January 8 - (Son) Elias came at 3 P.M.
(From this date until February the family must have been very concerned about Harrison's health and maybe even his ability to live. Also wife Matilda was no spring chick to be taking care of Harrison / Harry.)
(Five days later)
1916 January 13 - 21 B Elias goes home (to C. C.) and (daughter) Myrtle comes on noon train (from Haxtun, Colorado).
(Next day)
1916 January 14 - I'm gaining little each day - can eat more. (Daughter) Cora and (brother) Hadley both got here today (from Colorado).
1916 January 18 - Cora began taking care of papa.
1916 January 22 - Papa better but Myrtle has hard sick spell before 12 - midnight.
1916 January 25 - 6 Below zero. Papa better & ate (noon) dinner with Myrtle.
1916 January 28 - 8 Below zero. Papa & Myrtle sat up a little, Papa (Harrison) better.
1916 February 8 - Will (Talbert) & family visit us.
(Since Christmas Harrison / Harry has been seriously ill.)
1916 February 15 - (HBT) Walk out doors firt time (in 1916).
1916 March 4 - On the 12 came Elias Irma & Billy, Lucy Cleo & Lavern.
(HBT when well went to S. S. & Church every Sunday and sometimes twice.)
(H. B. T. is nearly well.)
1916 March 19 - Sunday go to Church for first time in nearly 3 months.
1916 March 25 - (Son of Dorothy) Jes Rittenhouse & Mr (Frank) Majors come from Sand Hills.
1916 April 7 - 3 P.M. Hadly & Coe (Cora)leave for Franks Colo.
1916 May 24 - Dorthy (Rittenhouse) comes on 3-O-clock (from Sandhills, Loup County area.)
1916 June 10 - Early morn rains quite a shower. Ten O-clock A.M. start with Elias to Franklin (Nebraska) to see his land, rained all the way (to) Minden, Get home 11-O-clock P.M. = muddy. (That would have been in a rag top Model T Ford - Tin Lizzy.)
1916 June 13 - Go to Wills (Talbert). Eve come home.
1916 July 15 - Dorthy goes to Jims. (Appears that Jim Rittenhouse was living in the area and not the sandhills.)
1916 July 18 - Last night Ma (wife Matilda) is awful bad. Faints & a long time before I succeed in getting her back in bed.
1916 July 20 - Evening Elias & Billy comes (in auto).
1916 July 22 About 6 P.M. Doc (son Elias) starts for home (in cooler air), take super at Will (Talberts)
1916 July 23 - Sunday Clear & hot, Dorthy R. Stays with us.
1916 July 24 - Wife improving slowly.
(Ma now ill for three weeks.)
1916 August 10 - Ma seems about same, no better.
1916 August 12 - Mr Smith (Frank's relative?) drives Myrtle S. & Lizzie from Island. (Daughter Myrtle now helps with Ma for the next two weeks.)
1916 August 28 - (After almost 8 weeks) Ma doing fine. Myrt starts home to Haxtun Colo.
(Two days later)
1916 August 30 - Ma haas spell of Cholera Morbus.
1916 August 31 - Ma still quite sick.
1916 September 5 - Teleg to
Coe. (Telegraph daughter Cora.)
1916 September 8 - Coe comes home from Hastings. Geo Loucks to stay with us for a while. (???? Is George kind of a nurse?????)
1916 September 10 - Sunday Elias & Irma & Billy, come in Tin Lizzy. Leave at 4 P.M.
1916 September 16 - 10-P.M. Franks arrive.
(Daughter Myrtle & Frank Smith from Haxtun, Colorado.)
1916 September 17 - Sunday beautiful day. Frank, Myrt, Coe & I go to Church at Hast. (Ma still ill.)
1916 September 21 - Mrs Talbert (Mrs. Riley / Florence Talbert) from Omaha arrives 3-O-clock (train).
1916 September 23 - Beautiful day. Out 50th Wedding Anniversary and celebrated by our own children & grandchildren, 12 in number, received Some magnificent presents. From children $30.00 in gold, Stones, Childs, Miss Cope, Perry girls, Mr Cope & others.
1916 September 25 - Mrs Riley Talbert leaves (via train).
1916 September 26 - Franks start home (via auto for Haxtun, Colorado).
1916 October 2 - (I) Go to Jack Shears (Scheer) & Harvard to see furnace. Wife & Cora visit Mr Clines (William and Amanda). (First since July 18 that wife Matilda has been well enough to visit.)
1916 October 14 - Go with Will T.(albert) to Hastings.
1916 October 18 - Go with Will (Talbert) to Hastings. Entertain at supper Bro Cope, Deflone, & Lyttle. Nellie & Doyle (Hart), Miss Davis, Miss Northup, Miss Dreitzler. Had a jolly good time. (Later Pastor Cope would marry Nellie Hart.)
1916 October 22 - Sunday Ma goes to church first time for 4 months. (If you were not well enough to go to church you were really sick.)
1916 October 25 - Hadly & Mary comes from Colorado. (This may be when they moved back to Trumbull, Nebraska???).
1916 November 9 - Ma Invited out to (noon) divver, Mrs Larson. (Nephew) Bert moving barn out of Town for Ray Dudgeon.
1916 November 9 - Bert moving barn out of Town for Ray Dudgeon.
1916 November 22 - 10-O-clock Ma had bad spell, cause bad circulation.
1916 December 30 - Cora & Georgia C.(probably Cline) Entertain Mr Breed & Churchil at Supper (probably at the Talbert house). Ma & I go to Clines (William and Amanda Cline the parents of Georgia Cline).
1917
1917 January 11 - Hadlys, Berts & Sarah Lam.(Lambert) Take supper.
1917 January 18 - 3 1/2 A.M. Coe leaves with Will & Mrs Combs for Haxtun. (Cora, Will Talbert)
(Fred Yocum & Alice Yocum - Alice was a daughter of William Rittenhouse and Dorohty Rittenhouse.
1917 January 19 - P.M. Fred Yocum & family comes in Auto & stay all night. Coe arrives at Haxtun.
(Home - Loup County area of Nebraska)
1917 January 20 - Yocum & family leaves for home.
1917 January 31 - Whizzing cold, & wind howling from N.W. 8 B. I go (walk) to (Trumbull) Depot, buy ticket for Hastings but Train so late I come back home. One of the worst times I ever saw. Cannot keep com(fort)able right round the Base burner (heater). Cora come home on freight with hands & Ears frozen coming (walking) from Depot.
1917 February 2 - Mostly clear but real cold all day long. 22 B. Go with Earnie Hawthorne to Doniphan to Mr Herrods funeral. (Ernest was a brother of Effie Hawthorne Talbert Hultquist.)
1917 March 22 - We get to Haxtun it is snowing. (Because they went by auto H. B. T. left his diary at home. He has a daily entry for the rest of the month but it is weather only, no personal data.)
(Wheeler Talbert)
1917 April 9 - Visit Wheelers Etc. (Haxtun, Colorado)
1917 April 11 - Start home.
1917 April 14 - (Trumbull, Nebraska) Plant some Spuds. Ma not well.
(Hadley Talbert)
1917 April 16 - Hadlys leave (probably for Haxtun, Colorado.)
(Matilda Rittenhouse Talbert)
1917 April 19 - Wife in bed all day, so bad out nobody comes, awful lonesome Birthday.
1917 April 22 - Sunday (over) 40 autos at church. Wife but little better, Made quite an effort to get Nurse or somebody to stay.
1917 April 24 - (With horse and buggy) Meet Myrt at Han(sen) 7-30 A.M. (came by train).
1917 April 30 - Mama takes worse by vomiting at midnight last night & continues all day today.
1917 May 2X - Ma has another another Stroke about 12 & passes away. About 12-25 & and now I am alone = no not alone, God is with me.
1917 May 3 - Elias & Irma come.
1917 May 5 - Morning clear 7 nice but soon clouds up & is cold. Ma is laid to rest in Cemetery West = Greenwood.
1917 May 9 - Doc(tor) comes to see Cora, has Lumbago & cold.
1917 May 11 - Myrt starts home. (Haxtun, CO)
1917 May 12 - Elias comes in Car
1917 May 14 - Cora leaves on freight for Stapleton (Nebr.)
1917 May 16 - Eat dinner at (nephew) Berts (Talbert).
1917 May 20 - Sunday Attend Berts 37th Birthday at Home.
(June 2 - Harrison had his sale and goes a wandering.)
1917 June 7 - Move to Hadlys new house, (at Trumbull) I stay all night.
1917 June 13 - Stay last night with Lucy (Talbert, Hastings), visit with Regans
1917 June 14 - Stay last night A. J. Gaymons, nice day Come home.
1917 June 15 - Start for Sandhills.
(Tom Rittenhouse son of William and Dorothy Rittenhouse.)
1917 June 16 - Stay at Sargent (Nebraska). Eve go to Tom R. Stay at night.
(Alice Yocum was a daughter of William and Dorothy Rittenhouse as was Minnie Dunbar, Mrs. William Dunbar.)
1917 June 18 - Stay with Fred & Alice Yocum. Eve go to Will Dunbars.
1917 June 19 - Will Dunbars visit T. Millers & Wills (probably Dunbars) old place & Almeria (Nebraska).
(Harry R.'s real name was Harrison Talbert Rittenhouse. He was a son of William and Dorothy Hale Rittenhouse. Will D. and Harry R are listed on the same 1910 census page. They lived only a short distance apart for the Nebraska Sandhills.)
1917 June 20 - Stay at Wills another day, Harr R. visits us. Rains.
1917 June 21 - X Stay with Fred Yocum. Eat (noon) dinner with Tom & Dorthy. 2 P.M. start for Sargent. (By auto or horse and buggy?) (Fred & Alice Rittenhouse Yocum daughter of Dorothy. Tom Rittenhouse son of Dorothy Rittenhouse.)
X Elias Francis Talbert Jr. born June 21, 1917.
1917 June 22 - Stay all night at Sargent. Leave 5-40, change (train) cars St Paul for G(rand) Island, Leave 2-30 for Kearny, arrive 3-30, Leave for Stapleton 4-30, arrive 8-P.M. Nice except hot, 5 P.M. rains. (Sargent, Broken Bow, and Callaway are all in Custer County but because of no road HBT had to go the whole way back to GI and Kearney to get to Stapleton, which was a new little town.)
1917 June 23 - Stay at (Stapleton, Nebraska) Hotel with (daughter) Cora, nice day, & nice little Town.
1917 June 24 - Sunday Stay with Coe (Cora), Go to church Morn & Eve.
1917 June 25 - Leave Stapleton on morning train for Calaway, leave here (Callaway) 3-P.M. for Broken Bow, (probably via auto) about 30 mi rough road, a(rrive) 5-P.M.
1917 June 26 - (At Broken Bow) Stay with Indiana Ash. (Mrs. Jesse Ash, Indiana Carter Ash)
1917 June 27 - Leave 8-30, arrive at Seneca Tod R. 11-A.M. (Who was Todd Rxxxxx, was there a Todd Rittenhouse?)
1917 June 28 - In eve arrive at Bess Lumbergs Sterling Col. (Daughter of Dorothy and William Rittenhouse - Lundberg(sp))
1917 June 29 - Leave Sterling 9-A.M. Arrive at Frank (& Myrtle Smith, at) Noon, at night go with Franks to Daily (Colo) to Farmers Union, good time. Lots of letters awaiting me, One containing $854.00. (Must have been a down payment on something Harrison sold or maybe a life insurance claim on Matilda?)
1917 July 9 - Go to Wheelers. (Wheeler Talbert)
1917 July 18 - Go to Zab L.(ambert). Take big drive N.E. in P.M. Come around past Ellsworths (Talbert), visit little bit. (Zeb/Zab Lambert = X. A. Lambert/Xavier A. Lambert
1917 July 19 - Pick cherries at Zabs Eve go to Woods.
1917 August 1 - Eve go with Myrt to Haxtun, try to drive Auto a little piece & it runs away with me. Tried to climb brick wall but failed. This runaway cost me.
1917 August 28 - (At daughter Myrtles near Haxtun, Colorado) 9-A.M. Spencer & Scott Wilson & families drive in on way to Trenton Neb. & going Via of Wauneta they invite me to go along & I do so, Arrive there about 3-O-clock. Ride with John Caraker out to Mr Stocks, Arrive about 4 in eve, Stay all night with them. Beautiful day.
1917 September 1 - Arrive last eve at Trum. With Wilson Boys.
(Spencer & Scott, sons of Joshua & Sarah Jane Wilson.)
(Chub = Charles Bierbower who married Lewellen Talbert,
a daughter of Hadley and Mary Talbert.)
1917 September 2 - Sunday Go to S.S. & Church, then to Chub Bierbowers for (noon) Dinner. Then meet Doc at Aurora, & then home with him.
(For some reason they called son Elias Talbert of Central City Doc.)
1917 September 3 - At Docs big day in Central City, Reception for Soldiers. Some 10 to 15,000 people present. Eve drive with Doc to Wolback, 40.
1917 September 4 - Wolbach 9 mil Brayton, 10 mi to Greeley rough Country, 8 mi to Belfast in sand hills, 10 mi to Erickson, Rough, Rougher, Roughest. Then to __________ mi then to Burwell 10 miles. Then 30 to Ord stay night.
1917 September 5 - Nice day takes Doc til noon to work Ord. 1 P.M. leave for N. Loup 12 mi. Then to St Paul 10 miles stay for night.
1917 September 6 - Make two or 3 stops & then home (to) Central City by night.
1917 September 8 - Come home to Trum. Giltner last night 3 in(ches of rain)
1917 September 12 - (Brother) Hadly & I work at it, finish walling 6 ft wall.
1917 September 13 - Hadly & I work all day & get it finished up.
1917 September 14 - Work a little at Hadlys, Leak well. P.M. rains some, Coe leaves for Hast.
1917 September 19 - Nice day, tear down Hadlys old hen house, commence New.
1917 September 22 - Hadly & Mary go with Chub & Luellen (Talbert Bierbower) for Col. Will R. gets Samuelson house to place. In Eve Go with Gossard to Hast. After new Min.(ister). Let Cora have money.
1917 September 24 - Leave Trum. On the 12-O-clock train for Central City. Arrive there about 3 ½ O clock.
1917 September 28 - Go with Doc to Polk, Hord Etc. Visit Bro Cope & family, so busy only stay little bit.
1917 September 30 - Sunday Beautiful day, Go with (grandson) Billy to S. S. & Church.
1917 October 6 - Come home to Trum. Nobody at home at Hadlys (Talbert)
1917 October 14 - Sunday. Go to Hast. Leave 10-O-clock train for Lin.(coln, Nebr.). Take 1-25 train for St. Jo. Arrive St Louis 4-A.M.
1918
1918 February 20 - Arrive at Meridian (Mississippi) 10-30, Leave 1-30. Pass Corinth, Tupelo Miss. Union City (Tenn), Jackson Tenn. Cross Miss. River above Cairo. (Ill.)
(H.B.T. is now going back over territory where he served in 1863 during the Civil War. Union City, Tennessee; Cairo, Illinois; Rolla, Missouri; St. Louis, etc.)
1918 February 21 - Leave St Louis 9-A.M. 12-O-clock pass Rolla, does not look like it did in (Civil) war times. Arrive at Cassville (Missouri) dark, Go to Hotel.
(CASSVILLE is in SW Missouri, the Ozarks.)
1918 February 22 - Nice day David T.(albert) comes to P.O. Him & Roc B. know me. Go to Davids for (noon) dinner. P.M. go to Jesse's (Talbert) See him, Wife & Abels old place. (Harrison's brother Abel Talbert.)
1918 February 23 - See some Davids Ranch, He owns 2300 acres.
1918 February 24 - Big crowd at Davids his wifes Son to leave for war (WWI) on Mon. Go home with Jim T.(albert) Go to church Sun night.
1918 February 25 - Visit (brother) Alpheus (Talbert) old Mill & farm. Then come to Cemetery. Where Alpheus, Eliza, Mont, Jake & Lou were buried , on hill E Cassville. (Lou & Jake Bower ??????)
1918 February 26 - Roc B. takes me down Valley of Flat Creek. See fine country but such a chilly wind come home. (Probably in an open touring car.) (Roc B- was there a Roc Bower?)
1918 February 27 - Aunt Rhoda & I go to Cordy Lamar. N.W. 14 mi at Purdy (Missouri) have a grand good visit. Cordy very religious.
1918 February 28 - Visit with Jim Talbert, have real good time.
1918 March 1 - P.M. Jim T. takes me over to Jesse T. Stay all night, have a good time.
1918 March 2 - Jess takes me over to Exeter, visit with his boys, Alfred & Bert Talbert. Stay night with Mary Worley Mc xxxxx(???McHale???).
1918 March 3 - Sunday Splendid time at Lu xxxxx Thompsons.
1918 March 4 - Mr Thompsons boy brings me to Cassville. Eve leave Cassville for home (Trumbull, Nebraska), Via Kansas City.
1918 March 5 - At Kansas City in morn trade (shop) quite a bill at Mont. Wards (Montgomery Wards) $13.00. Leave 2-O-clock for St Jo (Missouri).
1918 March 6 - Arrive at Lincoln 1-30-A.M. at Hast. 5-A.M., At Trumbull about 12 (noon).
1918 March 7 - At Trum. Beautiful day, get Trunk Unpacked.
1918 March 14 - Leave 12-M. for Central City (son Elias/Doc).
1918 March 16 - Stay with Doc until eve, Leave for Franks.
1918 March 17 - Sunday Get to Crook (Colorado) 3-30 (A.M.) stay until morn. Phone to Franks & they come after me 10-A.M. 3 P.M. go to S. S.
1918 March 21 - Last night visit Dinsmores, tonight visit Zabs (& Sarah Talbert Lambert.
1918 March 26 - Go Wauneta (Nebraska) offer land for sale at $35.00 per acre. Mr Rowley (the renter) offer me $10,000. Puncture Tire twice & break Spring. (Probably a half section of land / 320 acres.)
1918 March 29 - (Haxtun area of Colorado) Visit Wheeler (Talbert).
1918 April 5 - P.M. (Norman) Aces visit us. P.M. go to Haxtun, While waiting go to Sleep & Ace come off & leave me.
1918 April 8 - I visit Henry Lamberts. Frank & Myrt go to Fleming.
(Henry probably the son of Zab and Sarah Lambert.)
1918 April 10 - Go with Mr Dinsmore to Haxtun, then home to Franks. In eve Frank starts to take Myrtle & I to Crook. Awful Sandy.
1918 April 11 - All stay at Hotel. Myrtle & I leave 3-30 (A.M.) for Central City (Nebraska). Arrive there about 12 M (noon) O.K.
1918 April 12 - P.M. We all go with (son Elias) Doc to Polk. (Preacher) Cope ready to leave.
1918 April 13 - Go with Myrt to Omaha on way to Detroit Mich.
1918 April 14 - Spend day at Chig. (Chicago) 10 of us. Eve leave for Detroit.
1918 April 15 - Nice day 8 A.M. arrive at Detroit, get 8-Dodge cars & leave some time in Eve. Travel some 50 miles. (HBT was a passenger he never drove.)
1918 April 16 - Rained a little & clears off. Some nice & some rough (roads). Travel through Elkhart, Southland, LaPorte, Westville, & Valparaiso, Ind.
1918 April 17 - Rains all day one inch or more, cars stall often. Stay all night at Aurora Ill. (Cars stalled because spark plugs or other electrical parts got wet and would ground out.)
1918 April 18 - Fair day. Travel over fine country. Lodge Davenport, Ia.
1918 April 19 - Cloudy & cool. Dinner Iowa City. Supper Grinnell Iowa, See Mrs Childs. Nice Country a little rough. Lodge Des moines Ia.
(Mrs Childs is the daughter of Mr White, whom H.B.T. had for several years rented land from at Trumbull, Nebraska.)
1918 April 20 - Drive from Des Moines to Omaha. Gets so slick on account of Snow have to stop & put on chains. Country quite rough, awful long hills. Hunt up Coe (daughter Cora in Omaha).
1918 April 21 - Leave Omaha 10-O clock. (Noon) Dinner at Fremont. Eve stop to clean cars & I come on train to Central City.
1918 April 24 - (Trumbull, Nebraska) (Daughter) Myrt & I take (noon) dinner at (nephew) Berts. Eve Bert takes Myrt to Hansen (she is) on way Home (Haxtun, Colorado).
1918 April 25 - Leave 3-P.M. for Hast.
1918 April 26 - Stay with Lucy (Pine Talbert) last night. Eve leave for Sutton (Nebraska).
1918 April 27 - (Probably at Sutton) Stay with Doc Stone last night. Give me thorough examination. Finds me in good condition.
(Appears that Doc Stone is now living in Sutton rather than Trumbull.)
1918 April 28 - Stay with Carters. Go to Church & S.S. Leave in Eve.
(Carters in Lincoln who may or may not have been relatives.)
1918 April 29 - Stay with Rileys (Talbert in Omaha). Buy new shoes.
1918 April 30 - Eat dinner with Coe two days. 6-30 leave Omaha for Chicago. (Daughter Cora Talbert in Omaha.)
1918 May 1 - Arrive at Morristown in Eve. Stay with Pheby. (Probably a relative who may have visited them in Nebraska.)
1918 May 2 - Eat (noon) dinner with Rileys (?), stay with Sarah (probably Wicker).
1918 May 3 - Beautiful day. Eat (noon) dinner with Toad & Jane.
1918 May 9 - Go to Rugby, then to Greensburg, then to Shelbyville for license to get married to Sarah A. (Wicker) Talbert. Dept. Co. Clerk comes to Morristown to make out License. Married 8-P.M. at Roy S. Hysoms. (Mrs. Roy Hysom was a niece of Sarah Wicker Talbert) (Harrison and Sarah Wicker Talbert lived in MORRISTOWN.) (Sarah's father was Thomas Wicker. Siblings living about 1924 were Mrs Dortha Carter of Morristown, Mrs. John Nigh of Greenfield, Thomas Wicker of Shelbyville, George Wicker of rural Morristown. Dortha or Mrs. John Carter had daughters Maude and Gertie and son Walter.)
1918 May 26 - Sunday a large crowd out at Old folks Singing Class. See a great many old acquaintenances.
1918 May 31 - Visit Jap Wickers, have lots of strawberries and a good time. (Probably Sarah's brother Jasper Wicker.)
1918 June 4 - Visit & take dinner Nan Myre. (Nanxxxxx Myre or Nan Myer, Nancy Myer - maybe a relative of the Talberts.)
1918 June 7 - Nice day work at Febys toilet, Harry Wagoner & I. (Feby or Phebe or Phoebe maybe is a relative.)
1918 June 15 - Work for Nan Myer. (Wife) Sarah improving.
1918 August 24 - Nice day send off Papers on Wauneta (Nebraska) land $11,000.00.
1918 September 13 - Go with Harry Wagoner to Shelbyville. Lawyer advise me to go to Neb.(raska).
1918 September 17 - Leave Morristown Ind -10-10 for Neb. Via St Louis. St Louis 9 At night.
1918 September 18 - Arrive Hast (Nebr.) late eve. Stay with Lucy (Pine Talbert). Nice day.
1918 September 19 - Arrive at Trum. 12-noon. Stay with Hadly (Talbert).
1918 September 20 - Leave on Freight for Hast. Too late for McCook train so I stay with Lucy.
1918 September 21 - Go to Sutton to see Doc Stone. Nice day & nice time. He says I am not much sick, a little Stomach trouble.
1918 September 22 - Leave Sutton & go to McCook on Sun.
1918 September 23 - Leave McCook in Morn. Arrive at Waunetta 10-30. Visit Bank & with Mr Stock & Mr Rowley (the renter). Windy.
1918 September 24 - Leave on train for Imperial. Rectify objections on Abstracts. Hire Auto back to Wauneta before night. Looks like Snow.
1918 September 25 - Hire an Auto, pay $8, to take me to Elsie (Nebr.) on (R.R.) high line (to Haxtun, Colorado). Get to Franks all right.
1918 September 26 - Nice day. Make trade for (purchase) Freemyers N.E. ¼. $12000.00, half down & I assume Mortgage. Eve go to Crook (Colorado) Leave 7-30.
1918 September 27 - Arrive 5 A.M. at Central City (Nebraska). Go with (son Elias) Doc on Route to Polk etc. Nice Day. Eve leave for (daughter) Coes , Omaha.
1918 September 28 - Spend the day in Omaha, have good time, Leave 6-30 for Chicago.
1918 September 29 - Sun. Leave Chicago 9-30 for Indianaplois, arrive 3-15. Leave for Morristown -4-P.M., Arrive 5-P.M. Find Sarah much better, but not well. Beautiful day.
1918 October 20 - Sunday No Church or S. S. on account of Flu (epidemic).
1918 November 3 - Sunday Sunday School & class, first time in 3 weeks. (flu epidemic.) Dr McFadden visits.
1918 November 11 - Monday Clear nice day, big frost. (Wife) Sarah about so. Reported again this morn, Peace restored, Praise the Lord.
1918 November 16 - Make door for H.(arry) Wagoner Yesterday. P.M. Ike Talbert drops dead Paralysis.
1918 November 18 - Go to Ike Talberts funeral.
1918 November 20 - Flora Talbert visits us, take her to Manella (Manilla, Ind.) to visit Belle Tal(bert). (Could this Flora Talbert be Florence Talbert / Mrs. Riley Talbert from Omaha, Nebraska????????
1918 November 30 - Clear beautiful day. White frost this morn. Sarah growing weaker. Lays & sleeps in Coma. Condition, expect end to come soon. It is wonderful but she seems better in P.M.
1918 December 3 - Beautiful day. 10 A.M. (wife) Sarah (Wicker Talbert) passes away & I am alone again in the world. No, God is with me. Bless his Name.
1918 December 4 - Quite lonely today.
1918 December 5 - Beautiful day. Put Sarah away in grave at Blue River Chapel. Bro Lida preached funeral.
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Part of Obituary (I got this from the internet in 2011.)
Mrs. Sarah Talbert, wife of Harry Talbert, died this morning about 10 o'clock at her home in Morristown, ….. sufferer for some time.
She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Wicker. ….. She was born in the year 1849 and was 69 ……… Three sisters Mrs. Jane Nigh of near Morristown; Mrs. Esther Rhoads, of Van Buren township, and Mrs Dorothy Carter of Hanover township. The brothers are David Wicker, Thos., Jasper and George. ….. Rev O. F. Lyda officiating. Interment … Blue River cemetery.
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1918 December 6 - Break up house keeping. I have no home. Busy packing Harry Wag. & D. Wilcoxon help me.
1918 December 9 - Harry Wag Vira & I go to see Albert Engle 3 miles W Shelbyville. See Mad Talbert.
1918 December 10 - Stay last night with Toad T. Finish packing & Ship goods to Nebr. $14.60. Rains 1 ¼.
1918 December 11 - Go with Ella Z. to Jake Hesters, good time. (Most likely cousin Ella Zike.)
1918 December 15 - Sunday clear nice day, so warm sit out on Porch at Harry Wagoners where we take (noon) dinner.
1918 December 16 - Beautiful day. Bid Good Bye to Morristown, attend to business at Indianapolis, Stay all night M. Powels.
1918 December 17 - Leave Indianapolis 12-O-Clock (noon) arrive at Chicago just in time to miss 6-25 train, Leave 11 P.M.
1918 December 18 - Arrive at Omaha 4-P.M. get up to (daughters) Coras before dark.
1918 December 20 - Raining all day long. Visit Riley Talbert.
1918 December 24 - Cloudy Snows about 3 inches last night. Real wintery. 4-10-P.M. Leave Omaha, Arrive Central City-7-30, (son Elias) Doc waiting.
1918 December 25 - (Christmas Day) Big time at Docs.
1918 December 26 - At (nephew) Berts (Trumbull, Nebr.)
1918 December 27 - Wintry. Help Mary, Bert wash. Stay at (brother) Hadlys, expect to make home here. Goods come from Indiana.
1918 December 29 - Sunday Beautiful day. Go to Trum. S.S. & Church.
1919
1919 January 7 - Bert & I work at Shop.
1919 January 8 - Get Shop enclosed, Bert helps me.
(Lucy Talbert, Lucy Pine Talbert)
1919 January 13 - Go to Hast. on way to Franks. Stay with Lucy (Pine Talbert).
1919 January 14 - 5-A.M. leave Hast. 8-30-A.M. leave Holdrige, soon come to Snow, Holyoke 1 foot deep not so much at Hax(tun). Frank waiting for me.
1919 January 28 - Writing letters & cards.
1919 January 29 - Attend Ed Labries Sale up by Wheelers (Talbert). See a good many (Trumbull, Nebraska) friends. Sale good. (LaBries were from the Trumbull community.)
1919 March 10 - Frank & I wash, Myrtle has Flu. About 4-O-clock Frank goes to bed with Flu. I have all to do.
1919 March 28 - Put up fence between Mr Freemyer & I. Three barbed wire fence. (Three strands of barbwire.) (The "I" land most likely is the land he bought from Freemyer on 26 September 1918 after he had sold his Wauneta, Nebraska land.)
1919 April 7 - Stormed all last night & all day today, Soft Snow melted a good deal as it fell, Drifted pretty bad.
1919 - April 8 - Cora gets to Sterling in morn but stays over.
1919 April 9 - Get Cora home to Franks a little after noon.
1919 April 15 - Visit at (X. A. & Sarah) Lamberts, Stay with Henry, Sarah. (Or did Harrison mean stay with Henry and Florence or Zab and Sarah?)
1919 April 16 - At Wheelers (Talbert) & Ellsworths (Talbert). Eve go to Woods.
1919 April 18 - Clear & hot. I make Soap. Girls (Myrt, Cora, etc.) busy preparing (for my) Birthday. Nice bunch of flowers from (son) Elias.
1919 April 19 - Real nice day. P.M. go to Haxtun get back to Franks 5 ½-O-clock. At Six commence gathering to celebrate My 77 Birthday. The grandest time I ever had, some 70 attended, rcvd. Many valuable Presents & eight dollars in Silver. (Money still based on silver and gold.)
1919 April 20 - Sunday Visit & take (noon) dinner with Zab Lam(bert).
1919 April 24 - Leave North Platte 1-30 P.M., Arrive Central City, at Docs 6-P.M.
1919 April 25 - Go with Doc to Polk. Cora comes.
1919 April 26 - Stay with Doc. Buy new Hat 5.00.
1919 April 28 - 2 P.M. begins to rain. Leave C. City & come to (brother) Hadly at Trumbull.
1919 April 29 - Rained all night & most of day, all told about 3 inches.
1919 April 30 - Cora Goes to Hastings.
1919 May 4 - Sunday Go to Church at Trumbull, then (nephew Will) Wm Talberts for (noon) dinner.
1919 May 6 - P.M. Pack Trunk.
1919 May 7 - Leave Trum. 12 M (noon) for Central City, arrive 3-P.M.
1919 May 10 - 2 P.M. leave for Trum., in Auto. Doc & family go to Prosser.
1919 May 11 - Sun. rains all day, stay at (brother) Hadlys. (Son Elias) Docs go home in rain.
1919 May 12 - Leave Trum. for C. City 12-M. Still raining 1 ¾ inches. Leave for O.(maha) -5-50, arrive 9-P.M.
1919 May 13 - At Cora's Nice day. Eve take a big Auto ride over City. Good time.
1919 May 14 - Real busy helping Cora.
1919 May 15 - Buy Furniture. Eve go to Rileys (Talbert).
1919 May 16 - Put up Screens on Coras Rooming House.
1919 May 28 - Leave St Louis 8-A.M. Kan. & Ms. & Western-Ill. Arrive Indianapolis 2-40 & Morristown 5, Stay with Phebe.
1919 June 1 - Sunday At Church at Blue River or Home coming. Morn & P.M.
1919 June 2 - Help Vira wash. Go to Church at night.
1919 June 6 - Go with Alonzo to Blacksmith Shop by Jap Wickers. (Jasper Wicker)
1919 June 7 - Go with Harry Carter to Morristown.
1919 June 8 - Sunday Beautiful day. Go with Harry Carters to Home Coming at Liberty Church. Eat (noon) dinner under shade of Beach Tree.
1919 June 9 - Work for Harry Carters at Screen windows.
1919 June 13 - Work at Febys all day. Stay at J. Nighs. (John Nigh)
1919 June 16 - P.M. Wash & Vira Irons & makes Ice Cream & I eat it.
1919 June 17 - Go to Morris(town). Eat (noon) dinner with Phoeba. Stay night D. Wilcox(on).
1919 June 20 - Come home with Harry Wagoner from Morristown.
1919 June 21 - Nice day go with Harry Wagoner in P.M. Shelbyville. Dr McFadden Says I am improving, continue Medicine.
1919 June 28 - Visit Vis Myer A.M. P.M. go to Shelbyville.
1919 June 29 - Sunday Go to church with Harry W. Dinner Jo Dongans. Go home with Jo Carter.
1919 June 30 - At Jo Carters, Uncle Jo Talberts old farm. Working at gate, getting warmer. (I think Jo = Joe?)
1919 July 1 - Visiting at Jo Carters.
1919 July 3 - Dry & hot, take dinner at Harry Carters, Go to Blue River Chapel to prayer Meeting, 39 present. Hallaluia time. Elsie 46.
1919 July 4 - (4th of July) Hot 96 in shade. No Celebration at all at Morristown. At Jo's visit Josh Talbert. (Joshua Talbert)
1919 July 5 - P.M. go to Shelbyville.
1919 July 6 - Sunday Nice day. At Jo Carters, P. Wicker, Thos Carmony, then Go to Blue R. Chapel.
1919 July 7 - Eve Jo Carter takes me to Perry Hursts.
1919 July 8 - P.M. Visits with Vira Keller. Stay at Perrys.
1919 July 9 - Eve go with Perry Hursts boy to Rushville. Visit Cynthia Nigh all day.
1919 July 13 - Sunday Stay at Febys until eve meeting, come home with Harrys.
1919 July 19 - Still at Japs. Eve Vis Myers Wife take me to Wagon(ers). Feby come home with Harrys & I too. Go to Shelbyville.
1919 July 21 - Go to (cousin) Ella Zikes stay all night. Visit Mellis Talbert.
1919 July 29 - Eve go to Jo Carters, their 20 Wedding Anniversary. In eve go with them to Toad Talberts Morristown for supper.
1919 August 3 - Sunday To S.S. at Blue River with Lon Talbert. All night at His place. With him to Mr Wilkinson for (noon) dinner, with Harry W to Tent Meeting P.M. & Night.
1919 August 4 - At Harry W. Eve go to Phebys.
1919 August 13 - Eve thunder showers. Go with Harry F(ogle) To Hartsville, Rugby & Hope.
1919 September 1 - Eve go to Jack Carters & stay all night.
1919 September 2 - Eve go to Jo Carters & stay all night.
1919 September 3 - Nice day warmer, go with Jo Carter & wife to State Fair. Good time See lots of people. Autos, Fine Stock & Airplanes. Blue River to Prayer meeting. 45
1919 September 4 - Stay with Harry Carter. Go to Prayer meeting Morristown.
1919 September 5 - Beautiful day. Go with Lonzo Talbert to Rushville Pike S.E. to Brookville, over most broken Country, but beautiful Valley Scenery. Wagon Roads, canal, Rail Road, & River White Water all in one valley. (Probably Lonzo is same as Alonzo Talbert but I do not really know?)
1919 September 6 - At Toad Talberts.
1919 September 7 - Sunday Go to Nazarine S. School & Preaching by Bro. Kerst. Eat dinner with Phebe & several others. Night Preach Naza(rine)
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1919 September 15 - Beautiful day. Put monument to Father, Mother, and Uncles graves At a cost of $129.00. Harry Waggoner take us over. Phoeba, Vira and Myself. Get back about Noon. Stay with Toads.
(Harry Waggoner, Phoeba, Vira are mentioned several times in the diary. If they are related, which they very well may be, they should be included in this typed version more so but are not. For more details about these people get a complete copy of Harrison B. Talbert's 1905 - 1922 diary.)
1919 September 16 - Come to Febys with Harry W. visit around Morristown, visit with Lon Haney a Comrade I served 3 years with in 3rd Ind. Battery And had not seen for 55 years (since 1864, the Civil War). Stay with Ella Zike. (Alonzo Haney)
1919 September 17 - Nice day go with Wily Youngs, West & South of Reedville, find a good many Paw Paws. Eat dinner & stay all night with Earnest Talbert. (Ernest Talbert)
(Papaw - a tree growing in the central and southern United States and having an oblong, yellowish, edible fruit with many seeds.)
1919 September 18 - Harry comes to Earnests for me before I am dressed. I go home with him.
1919 September 19 - Go with Harry Wagoners to Phoebas. Rains hard before Noon. Clears off, I go to Porter Coles. At night visit Mellis Talberts.
1919 September 20 - In morn Go to Jo Carters. In eve I go Harry Waggoners. Stay all night.
1919 September 21 - Sunday Go to Nazarine Church, then to Ves Myers for (noon) Dinner. Rains hard & long time as muc |
