Edna's Diaries: Threshing Time

Friday, March 18, 2011

Threshing Time

This photo is marked Rio, Illinois 1893.

Photo Details--Left: Woman holding the baby appears to be Edna's Mother Martha Melinda (Sperry) Snow. I would imagine the baby could be Edna's sister's baby--Howard LeRoy Mead born Dec 1892. Edna's sister was Celia Lurena (Snow) Mead, wife of Franklin Mead. I believe the first gentlemen (left) sitting in the wagon is Franklin Mead. The thinner gentlemen to the right appears to be Edna's father--Gilbert Spencer Snow.

Above is Edna's brother in law--John William Harriman with the jerk line on the binder, Lebanon Missouri

3 comments:

UnknownMarch 20, 2011 at 6:24 AM
This post got my attention. My own great-grandparents, Leonard & Lilly Inman homesteaded in Lebanon Missouri. I remember visiting thier farm in 1965 when our family traveled from CA to VA.

Blessings!
Gail
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Mrs. DMarch 20, 2011 at 6:37 AM
Wow, Gail! How long had your Inman ancestors homesteaded in Lebanon Missouri? Perhaps your relatives knew my relatives?? Can you tell me more about Leonard and Lily Inman. What was Lily's maiden name? Will you post something about them on your blog site?

Thanks for stopping by and reading about Edna.
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UnknownMarch 24, 2011 at 4:32 PM
Mrs. D. ~ I am not sure of that answer -- I know they homesteaded there prior to 1919 when my grandmother was born and I know they sold the homestead off after my Great grandfather died in the mid 1960's. I remember traveling across country and stopping and staying a few days with my grandgrandmother at the homestead farm when I was 5 - that would have been 1965. I can't imagine it would have been too big that everyone pretty much knew everyone -- small world :)

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Gail
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Edna's Diaries, 1902 - 1957

Edna Irene Snow was my great grandmother. She was born April 6, 1878 in Rio, Illinois.

I was six years old when grandma Edna passed away in October 1957. I remember visiting her for the last time in the nursing home. I reached up to touch her hand, and looked at her face and she smiled back at me. I remember bits and pieces of her voice, but I do not remember her speaking to me that day.

How wonderful to get to know Edna through her diaries. I invited two more people who knew her well--her grandchildren Mary Jane and Gale (my father and his sister) to write about grandma Edna. While areas of the diaries are confusing to me, Mary Jane and Gale will have explainations and details.

There are many years of Edna's diaries to share with you, wonderful photographs, history of Sperry, Snow, Harriman, and Mead families, as well as world and local events during those years.

Her diaries begin in 1902, just 4 years after her marriage to James Howard Harriman. Please be patient with her brief entries duing those first years of her diaries. Her diaries start out rather routine, but over the years her daily posts become longer, complex, and reveal the life of a determined woman.