Tag: history of Quakers in Indiana

  • Reconstruction Diary Meditations: Expansion Excitement

    Saturday, September  8, 1866 Quarterly meeting today which was large. Several foreign preachers were there: Robert Douglas & Cyrus Carter from Ohio, also Benjamin Fulghum, John Carey & Joshua Jeffreys from different parts of our own state. A proposition for to establish another quarterly meeting to be composed of Carthage and Walnut Ridge monthly meetings…

  • Reconstruction Diary Meditations: My Fair Lady

    Reconstruction Diary Meditations: My Fair Lady

    Friday, August 31, 1866 Milton and I went to the Fair today; saw quite a number of very nice things, among them a knitting machine which knits stockings very completely, and a great deal of fancy work. I saw quite a number of friends whom I was glad to see. [I] heard that Wm Wales…

  • Reconstruction Diary Meditations: On Threshers and Literary Picnics

    Reconstruction Diary Meditations: On Threshers and Literary Picnics

    Saturday, August 25, 1866 The threshers finished at 9 o’clock and went to Clifford’s. Lizzie & I went to town this morn, she to take her music lesson. We did some shopping also [and] bought some new gaiters, dresses, etc. Samuel Gause and Mary came down to visit Alpheus and Ruth Emily. They found her…