October 25, 1844 ~ Friday
25th I purchased a number of articles to take to my
family, such as 1 gal oysters, crackers, oranges, lemons
shugar, &c. took cars at rode to called at
, from thence to , found my
wife & two children with Sister . it was a happy
meeting. I found much better than
she had been for she had been sick nigh unto death
but had began to recover. I walked over to & spent a few hours with the family. Father
& went over with me to sister Foss & spent
the evening. I spent the night with sister Foss
fare $3.75 100 miles
October 26, 1844 ~ Saturday
26th [FIGURE] I wrote a letter to & &
spent the day at sister seemed some
better
October 27, 1844 ~ Sunday
27th Sunday I spent the day at Sister with my
family & &
seemed to gain strength
October 28, 1844 ~ Monday
28th A cold day. was better through
the day than she had been eat harty in the evening
she was taken with a relaps of the fever & the flem
seemed to almost fill her lungs she had a sick
night
October 29, 1844 ~ Tuesday
29th A hard rainy morning I went after to come & assist giving medicine to our child
who was vary sick. they commenced in the morning
[FIGURE] & it was with the greatest difficulty we could get
medicine into her or to get it to operate. at last her emeties
& injections operated powerfully & she had the sickest
day she ever had in her life she lay for 6 hours like a
dead person, she came to in the evening & rested well
October 30, 1844 ~ Wednesday
30th [FIGURE] I went to the beach in the morning got a few small
Hen clams. come home & eat them. is some better
to day but vary feble we recived a paper from . I wrote
him a letter