Saturday, April 20, 2024

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Benjamin F. Pearson, Sunday, August 17, 1862

8 Oc my 4 children & I started in wagon to a basket meeting in Clemenger grove. 9 Oc Geo Clark Pr'd text Titus 2 ch 11 & 12 vs 11 Oc Oliver Williams P text Isaiah 11th ch 9th v. 3 Oc M. H. Hare P Elder P text 2nd Corinthians 4th ch 17th & 18th verses We then had the sacrement & Dismissed candle light Oliver Williams P in our church Centerville text Hebrews 6th ch 1st clause of 1st verse night Sister Temperance Ann Fisk & my Brothers son Augustus & his daughter Mariah Jane came to visit us before I leave for the army

SOURCE: Edgar R. Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October 1925, p. 87

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