My 64th year is gone into eternity. In the morning of this day Otis & I finished scraping in the dirt on the blind ditch. I had been 3 years getting this work done.

I attended with Patience, Dolly Jenks & Otis the funeral of Abraham Lincoln who was assassinated on the evening of the 14th of 4th mo. by a pistol shot by some ruffian.

This was the most melancholy event ever hapening in our country. The Wail of feeling & sorrow was deep throughout all the land. The discourse was given by Elder Warren the methodist preacher from 2nd Samuel, 3rd chap. 2 & 11 vers. S. A. Warner made some good remarks after the discourse was through by the preacher. The L. O. of good Templers moved in procession to the meeting house And the whole was a solemn scene of deep interest to us all.

4th mo., 19th, 1866. 5th day of the week.

This day brings me to the end of my 65th year. Spaired am I as yet. Elihu Cooly & Luther Green have just been called away by Death. Also Sister Watters was buried on 17. Yet my health is good, but I feel tired when I work which is all the time.

I drawed up a load of Maneur in the A.M. and howed the Brier bushes in the grave ground & scattered it over there & the pyeplants. Phillip Brown was here & helped me how & spred the dung. In the P.M., He & I ploughed a small land in the garden & I made a large onion bed & sowed part of it before night. Phillip packed up his house hold goods for Conway to goe the 2nd time as they had been moved here from Livonia 8 weeks before & Huldah had made up her mind to goe with him. I put in with Philip at evening & helped load the goods on Gideon's wagon. Took my horses & they started little after 3 o'clock morning. This was a time of sore trial to me & had been for some months as they had spent all the personal property