September 14
Laura M., age 15, North Carolina
September 14, 1997
Worked from 7-12. Showered. Went to Olive Garden with Kathy, Steven, Bryan. Took a nap. Cleaned house. Talked 2 Karen. Was home alonely so came to Ashley’s and spent night! We watched TV and painted nails and etc. Talked about stuff and she got phone calls.
Anna L., age 75, Illinois
September 14, 1960
Cleaned up Lo’s car as she was taking Marj Thomas to Honey Bear for lunch. A good day and apparently a good visit. Came home about noon from rummage.
Marcy S., age 14, Tennessee
September 14, 1938
When I got up I practiced a half hour, then breakfast and school. This is chapel morning and a young man named Johnson, from Bob Jones College who is holding tent services here spoke. He had us all sing “It’s Grand to be a Christian.” We nearly raised the roof. He certainly has pep and looks a lot like Clark Gable. After that we had our usual classes. Mr. Ballard made us sit in alphabetical order but Algebra wasn’t so dull today. Daddy came for dinner. It rained at noon and afternoon but cleared. I talked with Margie, Bobby and Margaret Louise till Mary came and then we talked till the bell rang. We had 8 definitions to know in English and I was the only one who got them all right. After school I walked down the hill a little with Mary because she had something to tell me while Elma waited for me to walk up the hill with her. After school I went up to Mrs. Lane’s and Mrs. Rodgers to try to sell some magazines and they said they’d let me know. Coming down the hill I saw George and Allan with the paper boy and they were reading the evening paper. When G. saw me he called that war had been declared. He and Allan were both running and when I finally caught up with G. he showed me the headlines, which were “Czecks and Nazis in Pitched Battle.” He gave Helen her paper and ran in to tell his mother. I told M. and then went over to ask Mrs. McClure to take a magazine but she couldn’t so I took the vase and an orange up to Mrs. McCarter. Then went over on Allan’s porch, where he, Helen and G. were discussing war. After talking a few minutes, G., H., and I went down to my house and built with the blocks till Jim came and got us acting silly. Finally H. had to go so I went in and practiced and studied and read. Meantime it had started to rain and the clouds looked very funny. After supper I made doll clothes and read the paper and then to bed. Rainy and warm today.
Henry S., age 25, Michigan
September 14, 1887
Kate and the baby and I went to Frankfort this forenoon. We had the baby’s picture taken, but we could not make her smile so it will be a sober picture. It was a nice day and we had a pleasant ride. I got our clock and had a little visit with the manager of the Telegraph office there. We had our dinner on the way back and got the Benzonia about 2 o’clock P.M., where we had a short visit with Dr. Taylor’s family. I took up a case of cards to the post office and hung them up to the public view.
*(R. Henry Scadin Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNC Asheville)
Abbie B., age 22, Kansas
September 14, 1871
George came with mail. Jake had been to the P. O. Two letters and two papers. Mr. Smith is sick again. George said they expected the doctor from Wichita. I gave him letters, and asked him to give them to the Dr. to mail in W. George had scarcely gone when I had a chill and went to bed. Philip got supper, and made me a cup of tea.
*(kansasmemory.org, Kansas State Historical Society, copy and reuse restrictions apply)
Cornelia H., age 26, North Carolina
September 14, 1862
Sister Jane, Dora, Matt & old Jinnie went to Asheville this morning. They thought of going to church. We had a very good season last night & it has sprinkled a good deal today & still cloudy. Willie is not so well today, frets a good deal. The hack has just started to Asheville with the baggage, it is well loaded. Berry will start early in the morning. I am writing upstairs. Mr. Henry is up here lying on the bed. Berry down stairs with a man from Columbia by the name of Skipper. The children there also. I expect it shall be rather lonely for a while now they are all gone, but I will get used to it soon. Mr. Henry is so kind, he stays with me all he can. No one knows how much I love him for he is ever kind. Old Mr. Common stays here tonight. I wish he would go home for he is a great bore. R. S. Tidwell is here also. He leaves for Cherokee in the morning.
*(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
September 14, 1668
Up betimes, and walked to the Temple, and stopped, viewing the Exchange, and Paul’s, and St. Fayth’s, where strange how the very sight of the stones falling from the top of the steeple do make me sea-sick! But no hurt, I hear, hath yet happened in all this work of the steeple, which is very much. So from the Temple I by coach to St. James’s, where I find Sir W. Pen and Lord Anglesey, who delivered this morning his answer to the Duke of York, but I could not see it. But after being above with the Duke of York, but said nothing, I down with Mr. Wren; and he and I read all over that I had, and I expounded them to him, and did so order it that I had them home with me, so that I shall, to my heart’s wish, be able to take a copy of them. After dinner, I by water to, White Hall; and there, with the Cofferer and Sir Stephen Fox, attended the Commissioners of the Treasury, about bettering our fund; and are promised it speedily. Thence by water home, and so all the afternoon and evening late busy at the office, and then home to supper, and Mrs. Turner comes to see my wife before her journey to-morrow, but she is in bed, and so sat talking to little purpose with me a great while, and, she gone, I to bed.
*(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.)