1851
July 19 Saturday To day I have been sitting with mother
sewing on muslin & cambric insertion mending &c
It has been very showery accompanied with heavy
thunder and very sharp lightning Oakes Angier
went to Mr Algers after some butter to night and
carried Mother home Orinthia is here to day
called this afternoon to see Abby Torrey
Yesterday’s hot, sticky weather gave way to thunderstorms today, with “very sharp lightning.”
Hannah Lothrop Gilmore returned to the family farm, driven there by her grandson Oakes Angier Ames. He went on to pick up some butter at the farm of Bernard and Vesta Alger, who lived not far from the Gilmores on the turnpike road. It’s curious that Evelina was buying butter this summer, because earlier in the year she had been selling it.
Orinthia Foss was back at the Ames’s for a visit, up from the home of Elijah and Nancy Howard where she was boarding. She went into the village to pay a call on Evelina’s niece, Abigail Williams Torrey. Evelina, meanwhile, spent her Saturday mending everyone’s clothes, and working on an “insertion” for one of her dresses.
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