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March 1
Laura M., age 15, North Carolina
March 1, 1998
Worked from 7:30-1:30. Came home & slept ’til 5:00! Went on walk. Did homework, painted boards, watched “Braveheart” on TV.
Laura M., age 14, North Carolina
March 1, 1997
Up at 10:30. Went to Pow-Wow. It was so awesome! Got a bracelet and leather pouch. 75 degrees! Went on walk x 2 with Bryan. Ate dinner. Talked to Sean.
Anna L., age 75, Illinois
March 1, 1960
Up early as Lo wanted to get to office to be by herself. However as always all were there and it continued thru out the A.M. so didn’t accomplish what she had planned as usual. Very cold this A.M. nearly zero but sun shining which helps and not as windy as yesterday. Carrie’s cold worse yesterday. Didn’t hear today. Amy picking us up for Service Class so late! 13 plus 1 guest. Handed in 2.25 for vanilla.
Marcy S., age 19, Missouri
March 1, 1944
Bright and cold. Eng. Lit. test at 9. Not so hard but hard enough. Girl in shorthand very friendly. Walked to Lela Raney together. Made appointment to see Miss Bigelow [?]. Gym at 11. Good lunch. Betty didn’t go. Sat with Mabel, June, etc. Shorthand during siesta. After siesta everybody rushed out to put up election posters. Betty and I helped Jane - in fact we put it up after much digging and hammering. Then I practiced. Betty cut gym. At 2:30 went to see Miss Bigelow. She recommended Vanderbilt, Chicago and U. of Washington!! Especially last 2. I got so excited and ran back to tell Betty. At 3 we went downtown to Municipal Building to roll Red Cross bandages. Betty got check and letter from home. Parents very hopeful about our California plans next year!! We talked about Washington. Weren’t supposed to wear sweaters to Red Cross and since it closes at 4 the lady didn’t think we need stay today but next week wear shirts. Betty forgot her money so we went back to hall. To town again. Got apples and cookies. Letter from Mum - they’re going to give me a string of pearls for graduation (!) and wanted to know what kind I preferred! Studied history til dinner. Betty was struggling with her book report. Good dinner! Some of the busboys sang. Went to library 7:30 and read history. Very interesting. Back at 9 and wrote long letter to family asking about possibilities of Washington next year!
Marcy S., age 16, Tennessee
March 1, 1941
Beautiful, bright, cold. About 9:30 Mom and Dad left for Chattanooga. I couldn’t go because of exams next week. Ruth had invited me to go with them, too. I practiced for an hour and a half in the morning and then dined at Clure’s. Was in mood to work and fingers flew on piano. Then went up to see Helen about tonight. She said it was all over about Mary and that Mary had made a lot of enemies through that and she was innocent! Mrs. McC said Mrs. Wilburn and Mrs. Burgess (blast them!) were running Mary down. Helen didn’t believe it about Mary, though. Good for her! When I got home I looked in the Hi-Lite and there was something else -- even worse -- against Mary. I got so mad I almost shouted, “I hate you, Jeanne Giles!” After studying, I worked on my friendship booklet for Latin. About 6:00, Helen came and we prepared and ate supper. I dropped a spoon in a bottle full of milk, almost burned the soup, and numerous other crazy things. After dishes we listened to radio, had a pillow fight, and so to bed. I took a bath. Helen got Mary’s note but I rescued it.
Henry S., age 26, Michigan
March 1, 1888
It has been a sunny pleasant day, thawing considerable. Fred Waters called here this morning and talked about Bookkeeping a little, he had some trouble with his studying. I did some practicing of writing this forenoon and this evening. I received a letter from ma tonight saying that Effie has a little boy, which makes me an uncle and Kate an aunt. I had another chance to sell Jimmie today, so I guess I will have a chance to dispose of some things.
*(R. Henry Scadin Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNC Asheville)
Henry S., age 25, Michigan
March 1, 1887
It was a year ago this morning that our little Johnnie it seems bad that Kate and I are so far apart at this time. I went up to the Court House this morning to send her a letter. I went over to Mrs. Barrs funeral with Fred this forenoon, but came back as soon as services were over to get my dinner and prepare for school. It has been very moderate all day and thawed quite a good deal. It is clear and beautiful tonight. I was at the store this forenoon and Mr. Case talked as though they should want me if I would work for them. I have been studying the telegraph alphabet tonight. Wrote copies also. Fred went up to a lecture. I didn’t feel real good someway.
*(R. Henry Scadin Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNC Asheville)
Melinda R., age unknown, North Carolina
March 1, 1864
Yesterday was appointed by our President Davis as a day of fasting & prayers on account of the distressed state of our country & the recent reverses with which we have such. The day was universally observed all business was suspended. Mr Sherwood preached from Isaiah 10th Chapter & 5th verse “O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger & the staff in their hand is mine indignation.” He was assisted in the services by Mr James McNeill. The prayer meeting for the evening was very full. Dr Cooper made a prayer & a few remarks. Mr Sherwood thinks that we are becoming too much puffed up & that God has sent these reverses to remind us that we can do nothing without his help. We had a letter from Aunt Malinda Wednesday which contained the sad intelligence of the death of Cousin Henry. He & Cousins George & William had reenlisted in the Confederate service for three years and had returned home on a furlough. They had gone over to Cheraw to see their friends there & Saturday morning after breakfast Cousin Henry was taken sick with a congestive chill and died by seven o’clock at night. We have been suffering some severe reverses lately at Roanoke Island and Fort Donnelson in Tennessee. They can easily take Nashville if they have not done so already. One of the Murchison’s brothers now taken prisoner at Roanoke, but has been released on pardon. Lieut K Murchison was not in the fight. May & Ella spent the day Wednesday with us & it rained so hard they had to stay all night.
*(Diary: Melinda Ray, 1861-1865, North Carolina State Archives)
Cornelia H., age 26, North Carolina
March 1, 1863
Clear & windy this morning. We had some rain last night. Mr. Reynolds preaches at the Academy today. The negroes mostly gone. Tena has the children. I am going up to her house soon as I get tired of being alone. I wish Mr. Henry would come this evening. Jinnie sleeps in the house at night. Betsey went home Friday evening.
*(Fear in North Carolina: The Civil War Journals and Letters of the Henry Family, Eds. Karen L. Clinard and Richard Russell, used with permission.)
Cornelia H., age 25, North Carolina
March 1, 1862
A. B. Jones went to Asheville & got the mail. No letter for me. I finished my dress & swept part of the yards this morning. It looks like rain. Stewed some fruit which I made into pies and custards after dinner. Atheline finished the yards. I did some mending in the evening. Louise McKinnish brought a little apron for me to cut for her little sister. Her mother is going with the child to Asheville Monday. It has very sore eyes.
*(Fear in North Carolina: The Civil War Journals and Letters of the Henry Family, Eds. Karen L. Clinard and Richard Russell, used with permission.)
Samuel P., age 35, London
March 1, 1668
(Lord’s day). Up very betimes, and by coach to Sir W. Coventry’s; and there, largely carrying with me all my notes and papers, did run over our whole defence in the business of tickets, in order to the answering the House on Thursday next; and I do think, unless they be set without reason to ruin us, we shall make a good defence. I find him in great anxiety, though he will not discover it, in the business of the proceedings of Parliament; and would as little as is possible have his name mentioned in our discourse to them; and particularly the business of selling places is now upon his hand to defend himself in; wherein I did help him in his defence about the flag-maker’s place, which is named in the House. We did here do the like about the complaint of want of victuals in the fleete in the year 1666, which will lie upon me to defend also. So that my head is full of care and weariness in my employment. Thence home, and there my mind being a little lightened by my morning’s work in the arguments I have now laid together in better method for our defence to the Parliament, I to talk with my wife; and in lieu of a coach this year, I have got my wife to be contented with her closet being made up this summer, and going into the country this summer for a month or two, to my father’s, and there Mercer and Deb. and Jane shall go with her, which I the rather do for the entertaining my wife, and preventing of fallings out between her and my father or Deb., which uses to be the fate of her going into the country. After dinner by coach to Westminster, and there to St. Margaret’s church, thinking to have seen Betty Michell, but she was not there, but met her father and mother and with them to her father’s house, where I never was before, but was mighty much made of, with some good strong waters, which they have from their son Michell, and mighty good people they are. Thence to Mrs. Martin’s, where I have not been also a good while, and with great difficulty, company being there, did get an opportunity to hazer what I would con her, and here I was mightily taken with a starling which she hath, that was the King’s, which he kept in his bedchamber; and do whistle and talk the most and best that ever I heard anything in my life. Thence to visit Sir H. Cholmly, who continues still sick of his cold, and thence calling, but in vain, to speak with Sir G. Carteret at his house in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, where I spoke with nobody, but home, where spent the evening talking with W. Hewer about business of the House, and declaring my expectation of all our being turned out. Hither comes Carcasse to me about business, and there did confess to me of his own accord his having heretofore discovered as a complaint against Sir W. Batten, Sir W. Pen and me that we did prefer the paying of some men to man “The Flying Greyhound” to others, by order under our hands. The thing upon recollection I believe is true, and do hope no great matter can be made of it, but yet I would be glad to have my name out of it, which I shall labour to do; in the mean time it weighs as a new trouble on my mind, and did trouble me all night. So without supper to bed, my eyes being also a little overwrought of late that I could not stay up to read.
*(The Diary of Samuel Pepys M.A. F.R.S., edited by Henry B. Wheatley F.S.A., London, George Bell & Sons York St. Covent Garden, Cambridge Deighton Bell & Co., 1893.)
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