The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Diaries
Document Type
Book
Publication Date
1877
Abstract
The 1877 diary of Lucinda Merriss Cornell focuses on her day-to-day life at home as the mother of five and a homemaker in Westerville, Ohio. The diary begins with a list of fabric and sewing projects. It includes information on deaths of known persons. Notable dates include:
January 21: Mary Brinkerhoff died at 2 a.m. in Columbus
February 17: Lucinda, John, Abbie, and Charley Rogers went to hear the “Hon. Fred. Douglass” [Frederick Douglass] speak.
March 5: Lucinda discovers that her son Otto is sick with membranous diphtheria.
May 5: Lucinda, John, Blanche, and Otto went to Public Rhetorical evening at Otterbein college. Charly Rogers had a piece on Blue Glass.
May 13: Lucinda’s “old Aunt Sally Westervelt” died.
May 14: Lucinda went with the Straits to a Temperance meeting.
May 27: Lucinda visits the cemetery where Harry and Charles “Rolly” are laid to rest.
May 31: Charley Rogers graduates from Otterbein.
August 10: Mrs. Gantz died at 10 a.m.
August 13: John Cornell falls sick. [He is ill with a fever and cough for the rest of the month.]
September 8: A bell tolls, announcing Flora Tuller’s death from “spinal complaint.”
December 3: Mr. Wm. “Billy” Samuel died.
Recommended Citation
Cornell, Lucinda Lenore Merriss, "Diary from 1877" (1877). The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Diaries. 22.
https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/cornell_diaries/22
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Comments
Transcribed October 1993 by Kara Smith.