Tag: Spiceland Indiana

  • Reconstruction Diary Meditations: The Battle of Walnut Grove

    Reconstruction Diary Meditations: The Battle of Walnut Grove

    Sunday, September  23, 1866 Lizzie went to Spiceland meeting to bring Hannah Lymons to our house. She went to Uncle David’s for dinner, then to Jason Williams with H [and] L. Jason and his son Joseph are both sick; their recovery is quite doubtful. Mother went to meeting riding with Lizzie as far as S…

  • Reconstruction Diary Meditations: Who, What, Where?

    Reconstruction Diary Meditations: Who, What, Where?

    Keeping track of all the names mentioned in Mary Jane’s diary is a real challenge. She interacted with or mentioned over 200 people in the course of this one year in her life that she recorded. Impressive for a rural Indiana woman! Saturday, September  15, 1866 Mother and Milton started out to Plainfield to attend…

  • 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…