1851
Friday April 25 Have done some mending and been putting
things in order about the house Made Mrs
S Ames bed and stoped with her awhile
This afternoon mended Oakes Angier two coats.
dirty things they were! Met Mis[s] Foss coming from
school and called with her at Mrs Holmes & Mrs
Connors spent the evening with Mrs S Ames
Mr Harrison Pool & wife & Mrs Horace Pool called
Sarah Lothrop Ames was still sick and unable to get up and around. Once again, Evelina went next door to visit and helped out by making Sarah’s bed up fresh. Later in the day, Sarah had a companion, Mrs. Connors, sit with her. Was she being “watched” or was she on the mend? Who made the decision to have someone sit with her? Her husband or her female relatives?
Mending and housework otherwise took up Evelina’s time today. She and Jane McHanna were still carrying on with spring cleaning, but the effort was sporadic lately, with mending taking over much of Evelina’s time. In the transition from cold to warm weather, all the spring and summer wardrobes had to be brought up to snuff, “dirty things” that some of them were.
The Pools came to call this evening. Harrison and Horace Pool were brothers, fifteen years apart in age, who lived in the south eastern section of Easton, near the Raynham line and the Gilmore farm. They made mathematical instruments: surveyors’ tools, levels, compasses and thermometers, among other items. Harrison’s wife was Mary J Pool, a young wife close in age to Oakes Angier. Horace’s wife was Abby A. Pool, identical in age (43) to Evelina. Mary and Abby were members of Evelina’s Sewing Circle, two of the women who didn’t attend the meeting that Evelina held back in February. Evelina would have grown up knowing the Pool (also sometimes spelled Poole) family.
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