Journal: Jeanette Sperry

1904 (Friday) – The girls (Emily Esther and Retta Sperry) came over to sew again. Sister Lunt (Priscilla Pitt) and Aunt Ann (Ann Pitt) came here for dinner. In the evening, Mother (Caroline Webb) stayed with the children (Alfred Oscar, Jr., Lillian and Charles Gilbert Lunt) while I went to Sunday School Teachers meeting. Della […]

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1903 (Sunday) – It is again fast Sunday and I have been to meeting and again had the pleasure of bearing my testimony to the Lord’s goodness to me. I have been very busy and have neglected writing in my journal. Since last I did, my husband (Alfred Oscar Lunt) has been home. He came […]

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1902 (Thursday) – In the morning we had a few callers: Grandma Pitt (Caroline Wright), Sister Adams, Grandma Lunt (Priscilla Pitt) and Leah McCune (Margaret Leah McCune). Afternoon I took the babies (Alfred Oscar, Jr. and Lillian Lunt) to Relief Society, we had a lovely meeting, how I do wish I could remember all that […]

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1902 (Monday) – Emma Wood took the babies (Alfred Oscar, Jr. and Lillian Lunt) over to their Grandma Lunt’s (Priscilla Pitt) while I washed. We had dinner there. In the evening Pearl (Eva Pearl Sperry) and Ruth (Ruth Sperry) came down for a little while. I received a letter from Esther (Emily Esther Sperry).

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1902 (Sunday) – I had Grandpa (Alfred Lunt) and Grandma Lunt (Priscilla Pitt), Mother (Caroline Webb), Retta (Retta Sperry), Ruth (Ruth Sperry), Mrs. Ada Wood, and Emma Wood here for dinner. Mother, Retta and Mrs. Wood spent the day with me. I wrote a long letter to my brother Lon (Charles Alonzo Sperry).

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1902 (Wednesday) – It has been snowing today. I left Lillian (Lillian Lunt) with Grandmother Lunt (Priscilla Pitt) and took Alfred (Alfred Oscar Lunt, Jr.) with me over to Sister Adams’. He was very much interested in a cat she had, also a music box which interested him very much and he is very fond […]

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Journal: Jeanette Sperry

1902 (Monday) – Grandma Lunt (Priscilla Pitt) came and took the babies (Alfred Oscar, Jr. and Lillian Lunt) over to her place about ten o’clock and kept them until 2:30 while I did my washing, I felt very grateful to her as I could work so much faster without them . in the evening Minnie […]

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Journal: Jeanette Sperry

1902 (Sunday) – It is Fast Day, I went without breakfast but had dinner over to Grandma Lunt’s (Priscilla Pitt), at noon. I have been reading some of the life of Joseph Smith the Prophet in the Improvement Era, what a noble man he was and how Satan did stir up the hearts of man […]

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