IMH 75:2 174-175

"Chronicles of Upper Burnet" (1)

1881

Sunday, February 20th.

It froze last night and thawed this day, in fact it was such
another day as yesterday except that it clouded up before night
and began to rain. I geared up in my best "bib and tucker"
including the breeches I bought yesterday and went over to the
creek church. I saw but two souls there and there seemed to
have been a misunderstanding on my part. One of the two
"souls" was Alfred Kivett and I went with him over to John
Kivett's. We found nobody but the women folks at home and
soon took our separate ways to our own homes. I began another
letter to Dwight Calhoun(64)which will probably share the fate
of its predecessor. Alvin was if anything worse and Father did
not get any great distance from the house. The 0'Neals have
had some stock in the clover patch field since they got the corn
out.