19th of 4th mo., 1837.

This day I have completed my 36th year and with it has gone my Beloved Father who waisted away with the Consumption. Though slow in its progress yet shure in its grasp on man and shows the mortality of our species. He was resigned to his lot and his death was calm and peaceful.

In the A.M. of this day I went to David Smiths and got 500 of hay. Hiram Greaves & Gideon gathered in the saptubs in the P.M. Attended the funeral of Esek Brown which was solemn and the moreso when I contemplate on the manner in which the diseased had lived. Oh! that we may never defur to the dying bed the work of our entire lifetime.

19th of 4th mo., 1838

Today I am 37 years old. I worked at hanging a grindstone and went to meeting and in the P.M. went to Caleb Spragues to get some wheat.

On the 1st of 1st mo. of this year I commensed the daily reading of the scriptures in my family. This was begun more especially by the request of Patience who had for sometime had been advising me to the practice, a practice which I humbly trust has been attended with benifit to myself and family.

19th of 4th mo., 1839. Closes my 38th year. I ploughed in the orchard in the A.M. and in the P.M. ploughed wheat stuble in the lot first east of the old house.

This has been a year of universal peace and prosperity. The summer proved the warmest that has been since the great Eclipse in 1806.