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Gals, Here is the next 3 diaries. I am missing the 1881 diary and it is so frustrating as you will see, as it is when he moves to Jacksonville to take over the Benjamin Lanning farm.1879Jan
1 - Everts and Ensign brought me the History of the Countys of Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins and Schuyler. Paid me? $10.00Jan 12 - Heard Benjamin Lanning was dead. (he died from swallowing
a bone which caught in his throat.)Jan 14 - Went to Mr. Lanning’s funeral. Good many there.Jan 15 - Went over to Elder Tapping’s Donation in eve. Gave him $2.00.Feb is bad weather
wise and they shovel snow out of road almost every day.Feb 4 - Went to town to the dedication of new Methodist churchFeb 11 - Uncle Huls and Aunt Marinda here. ( Huls Smith and Marinda
Harvey. She his father’s sister and youngest of all 13 of them. Only 10yrs yrs older than Asahel.)March 2 - Went to new church. Heard Mr. Noble preach.March 5 - Beggar come along and
I gave him bag of buckwheat.March 16 - Andrew and Hannah went down to hear the woman preach to new church.March 18 - Jane went to hear the woman preach (Asahel finally goes to hear her.
Mrs. Van Cott.)March 24 - Heard Mary Welch is dead. (Michael’s wife and neighbors on Sheffield Rd. They have gone several times to see her while she was sick.)March 27 - Heard Maria
Chase was dead. (Jane’s sister, wife of Obadiah) Died this morning at 9:15.March 28 - He and Jane go to Searsburg in morning. Stay overnite with John Farringtons.(He is married to Lydia
Ann Chase, Obadiah and Maria’s dau.)March 29 - funeral for Maria Chase was at 1o’clock. Went to John S. Smith’s to stay overnite. (He is married to another dau., Thenia “Hena” Chase.)April
5 - went to Farmer’s Club.April 17 - Andrew and I put up partition in bedroom.April 21 - Will VanDorn (he’s a carpenter, and s/o John VanDorn, who lives next by on Mecklenburg rd.) come
in afternoon and helped tear off wall and took down to fix clothes press.April 21 - Heard Harry Mott died. (He was 61 and is buried in Hayts cem.)April 22 - Sisson put on some lath
and plaster.April 23 - Went to Harry Mott’s funeral.May 9 - Heard Seneca Harvey was dead.(s/o Reuben Harvey and Lydia Bennett. He married Mary Ann Fish, d/o Charles and Marinda Fish)May
11 - Went to Trumbull’s corners to funeral at 11 o’clock.June 7 - Went to Trumbull’s corners to conference. Heard Alderman and Newell in daytime and Frank Wade in eve. Went to George
Rumsey’s to stay all night.June 8 - Went to church and heard Mills preach and in afternoon E. R. Wade. (Asahel is having ague off and on all this month.)July 12- Went to Theodore Larkin’s
funeral at Samuel Rolfe’s. (Samuel Rolfe is married to Amelia Kennedy d/o John & Lucretia Kenned. Don’t know the connection.)July 22 - John Farrington’s wife and Elmer came for visit.
(This would be Elizabeth, widow of Elmer Chase, bro to John’s 1st wife. She has now married her sis in law’s husband,)July 27 - Obediah Chase remarries Deborah Burlew. (She is d/o Peter
Van Dorn and Mary Irwin and widow of Samuel Burlew. He is 78 and she is 66)Aug 15 - Heard Mrs. Henderson was dead. (Asahel is sick with the Ague again, so can’t go to her funeral in
Podunk on the 17th…his birthday.) (She braids rugs as a business)Sept 4 - Asahel gives his sister, Hannah Sexton $75. to send to her son, Joseph. (I don’t know where he is, but I think
he comes home with something that kills them all in 1880.)Oct 2 - Burt (Rice) went out and whipped Chestnut tree. They picked up enough for 12 quarts. (must have been before the Chestnut
tree decline)Oct 11 - got 1 bushel nuts (either Chestnut or Hickory. He mentions both.)Oct 14 - Heard John Martin was dead. (he was 34yrs and s/o William Martin, who lives just up the
Mecklenburg rd next door to Andrew’s parents farm.Oct 15 - called to Mr. Martin’s in eve.Oct 16 - go to John Martin’s funeral in afternoon.Nov 3 - Heard John Korts was dead. (43yrs)
( He is s/o Jacob and Mary Korts, his wife is Eliza Ann Rolfe, d/o Chester & Matilda (Kirkendall) Rolfe.)Nov 17 - "Hannah Sexton pays me $75. she borrowed of me the first of September
to sent to Joseph to come home with.”Dec 13 & 15 - Went down to Myron’s (Sexton). He is sick (this is the first of what I think killed his family)Dec 20 - Went down to see how Myron
was.Dec 21 - Went down to see how Myron’s folks was.Dec 22 - Went down to see Myron’s folks.Dec 30 - Heard Uncle Byram (Lovell) was dead. (Elmira) (He is Japhet Byram Lovell, m. to Elizabeth
Beardsley and s/o Asahel Lovell and Hannah Byram.) Went to funeral in Elmira @ 2p.m.1880[note: you will now see why everyone is sick at Asahel’s sister’s house, which is just down and
across from his. According to the Mortality list for 1880, they all died of Malaria. There is a beautiful black stone monument in Ithaca City cem. shaped like an upside down U, that
Myron Sexton put there for his family.]Jan. 2 - paid for diary - $2.00. Robert and Mary Jane here. (Asahel’s brother and wife.) Jane went downJan 3 - went down to Myron’s. Very sick
there.Jan 4 - Went down to Myron’s. Joel and Silas called.(Asahel’s bros) Joseph Sexton died at 5:30 p.m.Jan 5 - Went to Myron’s. James came (Asahel’s bro)Jan 6 - Weent to Myron’sJan
7 - Went to Myron’s. They put Joseph in vault in Ithaca.Jan 8-15 - They go to Myron’s every day. Mrs Kirby comes to Myron’s to take care of Hannah.Jan 16- 29 - they go down to Myron’s
every day.Jan 30 - Lina (Sexton) Keator died this morning at 1:30 a.m. (she is dau and is married to Noah Keator) I went to town with Noah. Went to cemetery and to Mr. Carpenter (to
make caskets).Feb 1 - Went to Lina’s funeral at Baptist church in town at 2 p.m. Feb 2 & 3 - went to Myron’sFeb 4 - Went to Myron’s. Louie (Evelina) Keator died this morning @3 a.m.
(She was 10)Feb 5 - Jane and Andrew’s folks all went to Louie’s funeral. I stayed with Clintie (his grandson)Feb 6 - Let Myron have $50.Feb 7 - Went to Myron’s. Hannah Sexton died
this morning at 10 a.m. Jane and I went to town to see about casket for Hannah Sexton.Feb 9 - Went to Hannah’s funeral at 11 o’clock. (this left only Myron and Noah Keator in the household)Feb
19 - Went to Myron’s. Judge Ellsworth there to do some writing for him.Feb 24 - Went to town. Settled with Mr. Carpenter for Myron. Paid him $145.50 for caskets.Feb 27 - heard Henry
Brewer was dead.( This is Col. Henry whose farm was on a famous deer lick and so was called Buck Hill.)Feb 29 - started to go to Mr. Brewer funeral but was so muddy, we had to turn back.March
1 - Went to Old Maid Rhodes’s funeral to Henry Rhodes. (this would be Margaret Rhodes, d/o John and Mary Rhodes) (She died on the 28th and is buried in Gibbs cem.)March 9 - Heard Mrs.
Reuben Rolfe was dead. (Hannah Queal, d/o Michael and Jane Queal. She was 82 and is buried Rolfe cem.)March 10 - Went to Mrs. Rolfe’s funeral.March 22 - Heard Herm Barnes’s wife was
dead. (Martha J. Leonard d/o James & Hannah (Rumsey) Leonard. She was 24.) (Hermon is s/o R. N. Barnes and Susan Ann Fish. Susan was 1st wife of Joel Harvey, Asahel’s bro.)March 22 -
We went to Mrs Barnes’s funeral to Enfield Center,March 30 - Jane and I go over to Mrs Benj Lanning’s (Caroline B. Atwater d/o Elijah Atwater & Sally Hitchcock of Jacksonville)April
28 - Heard Zim Korts was dead. (this is Zimri s/o Jacob and Mary Korts. He was unmarried and 46. Buried in Gibbs cem.)April 29 - Heard Howland White was dead. (This is Peleg Howland
White, buried in W. Genoa cem., somehow connected to the Howland family. He was 75.)May 1 - They have just finished painting and wallpapering Hannah and Andrew’s part of the house.
Mr. Carman did the work.May 26 - Heard Ledra Sexton drowned in the little lake. (he is Myron Sexton’s brother and married to Deborah ___. He was 44. 1880 mortality list says he drowned
by accident)July 2 - George Ink called and I gave him $1.00 to fix graveyard on Townline.(Harvey cem.)Aug 1 - Heard Mr, (Noah) Keator was sick. (he’s the widower of Lina Sexton who
died in Jan.)Aug 3 - We went down to Mr, Keator’s (he’s living with Myron Sexton) He died at 5:35 p.m.Aug 4 - Ed Corbon went up to his Father’s trial with Fred Korts.Aug 5 - We all went
to Mr. Keator’s funeral to Baptist church in town.Aug 17 - I am 61 years old today.Aug 18 - Andrew’s folks went to Grange picic to Atwater’s landing (Goodman’s Point?)Aug 26 - Heard
Charley Baker was dead. (he is 23 and s/o John Marvin Baker and Sarah Rose Russell)Aug 27 - Went to Charley Baker’s funeral.Sept 2 - Went to Lytle’s picnic to falls on south side. Went
over to other side to Rumsey picnic. Sept 4 - Andrew’s folks went to Rolfe picnic to Glenwood in afternoon.Oct 12 - Andrew’s folks went to Howard Kort’s wedding in eve. (he is s/o Seymour
& Sarah E. Korts, Enfield.)Nov 9 - Heard Doc Chase was dead. (Dr. Henry B. Chase who lives in Jacksonville) (died of apoplexy on the 8th. Married to Tamer Ann Ganoung & s/o Abram and
Fannie (Davis) Chase.)Nov 10 - Went to Doc Chase’s funeral in afternoon.Nov 29 - Went over to Seth’s to Variatie’s (looks like) wedding at Seth’s. 120 attended. (Seth and Ellen’s only
child is Carrie and I have her marrying Frank Stevenson, Nov 30, 1886)Nov 29 - Heard William Newman’s wife was dead.(this is Hannah M. Rolfe, d/o Chester and Matilda (Kirkendall) Rolfe.
She was 49.)Nov 30 - Saw Poal’s house burn, south hill. (not sure who this is)Dec 12 - Sunday - Go to Enfield to church to hear Mr. Lewis in morn and Mr. Searles in afternoon. (they
go to church all the time now. Sometimes in Enfield, Kennedy’s Crns, or Ithaca.Dec 20 - Go to Moses’s 25th wedding anniversary. They had a large company. Got $55.00 in presents.Dec
25 - They had (besides Andrew, Hannah and “Clintie”), Mrs. Howland, John Lytle & wife & children, Myron, Moses and El (Ellen) for dinner.Dec 26 - Go down to town to church to hear Mr.
Hamlin.Dec 31 - Heard Chester Rolfe was dead. (he was 77.)1882 [ could not find a 1881 diary, but here is a deed that I found at the Tompkins Co. Court House, book 5, pgs 264-5, dated
March 21, 1881.]William W. Esty, grantee, to Asahel Harvey, grantor, a Freehoulder’s deed. Realistate of Benjamin Lanning - for payment of debts and funeral costs, sold at public vendue
for $9.430.00. State’s military hundred Lot #22, situated in Town of Ulysses. Asahel bought this and moved there and then in 1882, sold it to Elias J. Easling whose son, George married
Benjamin Lanning’s daughter, Emily. He then moved back to his house and farm on the Mecklenburg rd. Because the diary is missing, so much is unknown. (I think he is living in Benj
Lanning’s house in the begining of this diary as most of it pretains to “Jacktown” and Trumansburg. Andrew & Hannah now have the Mecklenburg Rd farm to themselves.Jan 1 - Went to Jacktown
(Jacksonville) to church to hear Mr. Hunt.Jan 8 - Jane went to church on foot.Jan 9 - Eugene Hulburt called here this evening (he is school teacher and married to Ruth Ann Rolfe.)Jan
12 - Mrs Cooper and Mrs. Skilton call in afternoon. ( I think Mrs. Cooper is Jeremiah Cooper’s wife, Lydia, who has the lovely white house on Rte 96 across from Swamp College Rd.) Lent
John Kirst my gun? (he lives Halseyville.)Jan 14 - Jane and he go to Trumansburg to Mr. Pease to dinner. (not sure which Mr. Pease)Jan 15 - Went to Jacktown to church. Heard one of
Bill Mott’s children was dead. (lives Krum’s Corners) (Nellie, 8yrs, buried Hayts cem.) They go down to see them toward night.Jan 16 - Went to Mott’s child’s funeral down to chaple in
afternoon. (Hayts chapel?)Jan 28 - Heard Mrs Sullivan was dead.(Susan Matilda Bennett, m. Eli Star Ketcham Sullivan. She was 66yrs, buried Hayts cem.) (she was m. 1st to Derick Dickerson
of Ulysses.)Jan 29 - Went to Mrs. Sullivan’s funeral down to chaple at 1 p.m.Jan 30 - Looks like all this month he is moving all of his farm equipment and hay and grain etc. back to
his home on Mecklenburg Rd. Also doing a lot of banking,etc.Feb 15 - Had lots of company. Mr Hixon and wife, Mrs. Loois, Mr & Mrs. Woodworth, Mr. and Mrs. Wager and Miss LaBar here to
dinner.Feb 17 - Mr. Mekeel’s people here for dinner.Feb 20 - Took load of things over to old place in afternoon. Mr. Easling also brought load of stuff.Feb 22 - Mr. Easling brought
a load of stuff and put here in house.Feb 23 - Mr. Easling again brought a load of stuff and Matty Updike here with him. (and again on the 24th)Feb 24 - Heard old Mrs Gibbs was dead.(Elizabeth
Danley, w/o John Wesley Gibbs, buried Gibbs cem. She was 81.)Feb 25 - Went to Jacktown, heard L. H. Owen was dead. (this is Levi Headley Owen, merchant in Trumansburg, buried in Grove
cem., 65yrs) Heard Seymore Korts was dead. (s/o John & Dorothy Korts, m. to Sarah R. Perry. He was 59, buried Gibbs cem.)Feb 26 - Jane went to church a foot. Quartly meeting. March
1 - went to Jacktown to electionsMarch 14 - “moved back to the old place." Mr. Easling’s folks moved in when we left. Heard Mr. Lanning was dead. (Elias, s/o Benjamin and Martha Lanning
& married to Nancy H. Smith, d/o Annanias Smith)March 16 - Went to Uncle Ellias Lanning’s funeral as bearer @ 11 o’clock. (he is buried Grove cem., was 88.March 19 - Heard Roger Howland
was dead.(s/o Jabez Howland and Mahitable White, married to Mary Eliza Pell & Uncle to Andrew Howland, he was 72)March 20 - Andrew and his mother went to Roger Howland’s funeral. March
20 - Heard John Rumsey was dead. (He was 61, s/o James Rumsey, Jr. & Polly Burd.)March 30 - Heard T. C. Van Devere was dead. (I think he lives in Jacksonville area, as Jane goes to his
funeral.)April 3 - Asahel signs over the Benj Lanning farm to Elias Easling. Elias pays me $1500. in cash and gave Asahel a mortgage on farm for $5500. and gave me a deed for house and
lot in Ithaca for the same. He got $1500. from Andrew, then took up a Savings Bank mortgage for $2266.00. Paid Burrett $1.50 for papers, paid for recording deed and mortgage $2.00,
insurance, $4.12.April 4 - Andrew helps Addison Harvey move (I think on Mecklenburg Rd. This is Samuel Addison Harvey, s/o Joel B. Harvey & Olive Rose & married to Catherine McCoy d/o
Wm McCoy & Mary Burlew)April 23 - Went to William Darragh’s funeral @ Baptist church. (He is a mason and has worked for Asahel, he was 77.)April 28 - Mr. Charles Van Order moved into
my house in townApril 29 - Heard Old Aunty Talmage was dead. (This is Rachel, w/o Henry Talmadge, she was 92. Not sure how she is connected.)April 30 - Jane and I went to Aunty Talmage’s
funeral at 2 o’clock.May 2 - Heard Mr. Warner was dead. (I think this is Joseph Warner, 71, who is married to Sarah E. Paddock, d/o Ephraim Paddock & Annie Mandeville, Enfield. They
lived in Winnebago, IL.)May 5 - Heard Mrs. Barker was dead.May 15 - start building onto barn. Jim Griffin to do it. (he is s/o Stephen Griffin, a house painter-carpenter in Enfield,
as is Jim.) A Kresge is his helper and the Fish men come to work on wall, this could be Charles Eugene Fish and maybe some of his brother’s sons. All masons.) They finish wall on
26th and raise barn on 27th.June 1 - Go to woods and draw down some sleepers.(British term for a heavy beam used for support.) Griffin works on barn and finally on the 14th finishes
the barn. Asahel settles with Griffin, paying him $40.17. (Pretty cheap labor!) Then next few days they moved a shed and paint and shingle everything.July 27 - Went to Trumansburg to
the Fire Parade.August - goes to Park church. Hear Mr. Striker.August 17 - They go to camp meeting in Willow Creek. (in Jane’s handwriting, “Mr. Hughston preached his text, Call unto
me and I will answer thee. I was excellent!” They go to camp meeting for several more days.August 28 - Andrew’s Aunt in Elmira is dead ? He brings her back to Seymore’s for the funeral.August
31 - Go to Ithaca to Show parade in morning.Sept 29 - Go to J. S. Smith’s silver wedding in eve.(this is John S. Smith who is married toThenia “Hena” Maria Chase, d/o Jane’s sister,
Sarah Maria Mack & her husband, Obadiah Chase.Oct 26 - Heard Willie Howland was dead. (s/o of Hemingway Howland & Helen Emley. He was 13.Oct 27 - Went to Willie’s funeral.Oct 28 - Heard
Mulford Baker was dead. (This is Jeremiah M. Baker, Enfield, who is married to Mary Jane Helms. He was 72.)Oct 29 - Went to Mr. Baker’s funeral.Nov 12 - Heard Charlie Jackson was dead.Nov
20 - Heard Old Mrs. Emley was dead. (she is Margaret, w/o Charles Emley of Enfield. She was 81.)Nov 21 - Went to Mrs. Emley’s funeral in Enfield.Dec 12 - John S. Smith’s mother died
last night. (this is Meribah B. Jones, who married Christopher S. Smith in Hector. She was 71yrs.)Dec 21 - Joel and Abibie here. (Abigail Wallenbeck, who he m. 6 Feb 1878) (d/o Solomon
Wallenbeck and Jane Austin)1883Jan 15 - “Very dry, have to take horses to Myron’s (Sexton) to get water. Farmers are most all troubled for water. I never knew it so dry this time of
year, so long.” (I think this is in Jane’s handwriting.)Jan 26 - Teeter’s girl died this morn. (Emma L., 17, d/o Jacob Teeter and Elizabeth. Buried Gibbs cem.)Jan 28 - All went up to
Teeter girl’s funeralJan 30 - Lake view house at corner of Lake, burnt last night.Feb 7 - Adda Kort’s was married in eve. (married Linus Bush, she d/o Seymore Korts and Sarah R. Perry)Feb
8 - Heard H. H. Mack was dead. Died in California Dec 12, 1882. “His life has been a failure, as far as comfort is.” (written by Jane.) (He is Holmes Hutchinson Mack, Jane’s brother,
b. 1819.) (Jane has sent him money from time to time)Feb 10 - They go and stay with Mrs Howland (Andrew’s mother who is Sally Korts and she is living with her brother, John.) while
John’s folks go to Miss Holman’s wedding. (I think this is Sarah L.)