Thursday, April 9, 2015

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: March 18, 1863

Planted out a few trees today, which I had gotten from a man in Lynchburg; paid $25 for them, and can hardly see them in the yard. Heard Phil say that Mr. Jim Smith had sold some fine seed potatoes for 25 cents apiece, and that $20 was paid by Mr. Tutwiler for one bushel of onions. . . .

SOURCE: Elizabeth Preston Allan, The Life and Letters of Margaret Junkin Preston, p. 161

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