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**Henry Hausner (1824 – 1902) wife Urania Hausner (1828-1906). Henry was brother of Maranda Hausner (1830 – 1911) husband George Johnson (1813-1882) mother of Charles Johnson (1874-1925)
Charles married to Harriet King (1887-1978) parents of Maranda Louise Johnson Cornish (1922-1984).
Scrapbook
Lye Soap handwritten receipe – Hard Soap by Harriet Cornish (good hard soap) – 1 can lycons lye, ½ to ¾ package of 20 mile team borax dissolved in the lye water. 4 lbs melted grease
no more than 4 lbs as the soap will be no good when 5 ½ lbs of grease are used.
Smith Valley – poem cut out from newspaper. No date.
Fertilizer receipe, covered partial by newspaper articles - handwritten
Receipe for Bot Flies – hand written
Prayer for the table – handwritten
Newspaper article August 19 Enfield Center Home Bureau meeting with Mrs. Betty Lanning.
Handwritten page of cheese preservation newspaper clippings clued on top.
1948 handwritten note Maranda stayed with Alice, Jennie, and Jessie Thursday night March 19, 1948. 1906 accounts. On same page
1906 accounts noting farm work and hauling of junk, crops, hay for people.
1906 April 5 – To Seneca Shaw to Pery City Mush – Rat hides 6 @ .12 ½ each.
Notes of work for Orlando Walker
Mentioned multiple times: 1906 Will Rumsey Endfield Center Pedler eggs 9 dozen $1.44 Al (Ross) Edwards the Clothing Pedler on the road Old Rubber 35 1/2# @ .05 ½ - $1.97. Charlie Durling
the Ithaca Tea Man.
Ithaca Weekly Journal; Received Interest on Bank Book.
Note on December 1906 page Thursday Oct. 28, 1948 Roger H. Cornish fell from a load of beans while riding around the field.
1906 was January – December diary
Old newspaper 1913 page
1907 January – March – accounts, farm work, diary of events
Frank Beardsley meck shoeing horses
1908 January accounts, farm work, diary of events
1913 January – April accounts, farm work, going to ladies aid meeting, call from Dr. Sawyer for Maranda, sold B. Bears Dutch Pedler 16# hens,
On April 30, 1913 page note (from Maranda) Wednesday April 4, 1945 Roger Howland Cornish was struck by Kenneth Wright’s truck being driven by Arthur Kelsey while coming home school at
2:30 pm age 6 years. Dr.Burton took him to Montour Falls Hospital.
1916 January accounts, farm work, diary of events, bills due Kelly and Mosher, Trumansburg, Hopkins Drug Store, Medicine, A.T. Kelsey due at Mill,
June 1916 – Bought of Ezra Youngs, Trumansburg – pair of shoes, rubbers for Maranda (Maranda Louise Johnson Cornish – 1911 - 1984)
September 24, 1916 handwriting has changed. Note Arthur Lovelace paid our school taxes amounting to $9.22 for 1916. Also made up the deficiency in the money that Chas. Paid to Orin Lovelace
amounting to $17.67 in Nov. 1916 school money. This might be Harriet King Johnson’s handwriting Chas. Wife. Note looks like accounts were being straighten up and paid, notes dating 1917,
1918, 1920.
January 1918 handwriting changed back. Reference to Dady King brought for me of Alice King potatoes. (Harriet King Johnson father and Alice King was Harriets sister).
January 1918 accounts, farm work, diary of events, handwritting goes back and forth neat to large and bold.
April 1918 – Dickie cow had heffer calf in the woods Sunday June 2, 1918 pa (Charles Johnson) and Maranda (Johnson) drove them to the arn with the other cows. (large bold handwriting).
1918 paid for The Kansas City Weekly Journal and the Missouri and Kansas Farmer for one year.
1919 – 1920
1920 Will Rolison building us a kitchen chimmey. Father had Swicks horse to go to Ithaca to see the Osteopath. Molly cow had a bull calf down in pine grove.
1921 – 1932 notes but not as detailed as previous years. Talk of geese, chickens, cows.After 1925 Maranda and Harriet did chores, etc together.
1925 – Charles D. Johnson died May 4, at eleven fifteen o’clock at night 1925 born July 31, 1873.
1932 Mother King died.
1932 Novemer 22 Reginald towed Leslie smith twice $5.00 each $10.00
1934 – April – handwritting has changed. Detailed accounting, paid Phillips grocery, paid Miller groceries, Shoes for Robert (Robert Eugene Cornish 1935 – 2001). Louised worked for different
people. Louise is Maranda Louise Johnson Cornish.
1935 – paid Newman blacksmith (Enfield Center), cow record
1936 July handwriting changed ack to Harriet’s (big and bold).
1937 January Harriet’s handwriting detailed accounting
1937 Dand and I worked on the new hog house all day. Louise washed and helped some the children carried old pieces of boards and carpenter tools to the house tonight. Dr. at noon in
the Bailey Jones Hospital of Heart trouble and a growth in the stomach.Burton and Herbert Curry our welfare man took Dana to the Bailey Jones Hospital at 8:30 o’clock Tuesday night November
15, 1938. Dana Hiram Cornish was born August 24, 1882 died November 23, 1938. Dana was father to Reginald Cornish, Maranda Louise Johnson Cornish husband.
1938 – farm notes 2 pages
1940 – farm notes 1 page
1942 – farm notes 1 page
1942 – farm notes 1 page unusually hot.
1947 – farm notes 2 page – January 29, 1947 The rolison school house burned toght while we were eating supper at 6 o’clock. John Agard built our barn.
Notes from George Johnson Diary 1864 - Diary notes – helping Will Rollision mowing, thrashing, drawing lumber, drawing stone, September - November 1892 – W. Rollison working by the Mo.
$19.50 days on barn. Paid George Dart work on barn. John Agard work on Barn.
Statement letter found in Cornish Home – Charlie D. Johnson would be 98 years old July 31, 1972. Rest of Louise older. Charlie D. Johnson 6 years old when moved here. Jake Hausner moved
out more than 92 years ago. This barn was built when Charlie was 16 yrs. Old he helped to build it. Old barn struck by lightning and burned. Lillan Blada White Witch.
Calf record 1935 – 1944