Journal of Elijah Charles Clapp
1891 Diary
January 1891
thi 1 i hawled a load of hay for Brown
fri 2 i hawled hay for j Brown and in the evening my wife save birth to a girl
sat 3 i chored around home
sun 4 did not to to meeting for the small pox was in sanford
mon 5 i hawled hay for myself
fri 8 i blessed and named our girl (Sylvia)
sat 10 went to the pingons after wood and borke my wagon tongue and wagon
wheel and still came home with my load
sun 11 no meeting on account of small pox
mon 12 i stayed home because our baby was sick and at 9 oclock that night she died form cold
we 14 we buaryed our baby
thi 15 i stayed home and chopped wood
fri 16 i went to richfield to colect some grain but could not get any
sat 17 i went after wood over east
sun 18 i did not go to meeting
tus 20 tried to colect some grain but could not do it
wen 21 i went down to hajara to get some wagon stuf to fix my wagon
thi 22 i tended meeting called by the Bishop to stop the smallpox
24 i made a worke bench so i fix my wagon wheel
sun 25 i stayed home on account of the smallpox
mon 26 worked on my wagon
thi 29 i chored around home and got a grist redy to go to mill
fri 30 went to conejos to mill
sat 31 i chored around home
February 1891
sun 1 i was home
mon 23 i stayed home and helped c c f kill a pig
tus i and c c f went to the sawmill i fetched some wood and some edgeing
thi 5 sawed wood for self
fri 6 fenced my hay
sat 7 cored around home
sun 8 no meeting
mon 9 i went after wood came tu 10
wed 11 worked on a gate for the Bishop and went to Richfield to colect some grain
thi 12 i went to the east hills after wood and came home fri 13
sat 14 went to richfield to get some grain and got it
sun 15 i did not go to meeting smallpox
thi 19 i choped wood so that i could go to Alamosa to burn brick
fri 20 dodds and i went to burn the brick
fri 27 fired and quit burning at night
sat 28 i came home came as far as the excelso farm with Wm. Buttler
March 1891
sun 1 i went to the farm after my beding
wed 4 to eastdale and took my wife with me
fri 6 came home and fetched some wood with me
sun 8 conference held in Mannassa and meria n Lyman, Grant and John Henry Smith was there
tus 10 i hung s c B gate poasts which come to $6.25 cents
wen 11 i went to richfield to colect some grain
fri 13 i took the hind wheel down and put new felles in it and gixed it up
sat 14 helped c c f for helping me
sun 15 i tended meeting in sanford
mon 16 made redy to go to eastdale
tu 17 started on my journy after poasts came home snowed 4 in
mon 23 i was going to eastdale again but it set in to snowing so i did not go snowed 3 in
sun 29 i tended meeting sanford
mon 30 i went to eastdale
April 1891
wed 1 it snowed all day
thi 2 i went to the ute mountain after some stuf for a pig pen
fri 3 came back to sanford
sat 4 prepared to to to east dale again
sun 5 i did not go to meeting
mon 6 started for Eastdale to move but did not get there for my horses give out so we
camped on the Rio grand river camped just dark next morning came to Eastdale
about 9 in the morning and pitched our tent on our lot in the west part of town
wen 8 i went back to sanford after some more things and hay
thi 9 came home late
fri 10 i rested and staked on my lot
sat 11 I i went after poasts lor tomis crowther to pay on my mare which I got of him
sun 12 I went to sanford after hay and took some poasts with me the conejos river had raised
the pull for nely was to hard so she lost her colt that night
mon 13 i choped wood for h a jones
tu 14 helped doad and burk burn on our kiln and stayed all night and wen 15 came home that night
the watter in the rio grand came up to the box
thi 16 i worked for R owens to get. his team to plow
sat 18 i plowed with riles horses for my self
sun 19 i tended the first meeting ever held in this place Bro. S Dunn presideing 5 men present
Clapp, merian mortenson, Andrew Mortensen . Ephrem Mortensen and thir wives
mon 20 i cleared brush of the land
tus 21 harrowed my grain
thi 23 i went up on the canal on publick work one ½ day in the afternoon i sowed wheat
fri 24 harrowed my wheet
Sat 25 i started to sanford to get some hay and potatoes
sun 26 i did not go to meeting
mon 27 i fetched a load of wood for Nielson
tus 28 i heped Sanford hooman to kill a pig
wen 29 i stared for home but i got stuck in the rio grandee river it had raised so much that
could not pull through. i went home next morning went back with Rile owen
big horses and c Jensen went with me but the river had still raised so we
could not pull through we swam all four horses so i had to go back up the
river and cross up by Pete Hansesns but finding so much water we had to camp
on R Hansesns but only making 10 miles today 1 of May
May 1891
sat 2 got across the reo grandee and came to the twin chery and there i got mired down and lost serval
of my things camped with in 5 miles of home came sunday morning the 3
wen 6 worked on the ditch
thi 7 i started watter my wheat
mon 11 i sowed my barely
tus 12 i hunted for my horses and found onely one
wen 13 i sowed otes for andrew ,mortenson ½ day
thi 14 i plowed for rile ownes
fri 15 i helped sanford Doolman make ditch
sat 16 harrowed on my barley.with sanford team
mon 18 i helped s hollman pileing brush
sun 24 tended meeting in eastdale
mon 25 i hayed of mone on my garely and wattered
fri 29 watered and put in garden
sun 31 i tended meeting in Eastdale
June 1891
mon 1 i wattered on my barley
fri 5 i made ditch to otes and planted some pottoes
mon 8 i plowed with s. hollman team in the forenoon and in the afternoon planted potaots with nell
sat 13 i went to sanford with my mare and marien mortenson 2 mares
sun 14 came home just in time for meeting
tus 16 i started to hunt my mare and hunted till sun the 21 and could not find her
tus 23 i started to make a mud mill for A mortenson
thi 25 i started to mold adobes molded 12 hundred
fri 26 1800 sa t 27 2020
sun 28 tended meeting in Eastdale
mon 29 5072 tus 30 4090
July 1891
wen 1 i went after wood for myself
thi 2 i helped Brother Dunn and M Mortenson make a mud mill
fri 3 i went to sanford Luey after my mare
tus 7 i helped S A Dunn and M Mortenson and J Jenson clean out Jensons well the first well
in eastdale
wen 8 i worked on the publick ditch
sat 18 hunted for my mare
mon 20 plowed out my potatos and mare kicked me on the leg so i was not able to do much for serval days
August, 1891
sat 1 went up and pulled weeds out of potatos
tus 4 worked on the first ortison well started in Eastdale on funks lot
sat 15 we all went to the ute mountain to pick beries and i fetched 16 poasts
tus 18 i went with dunn after poles in the east mo and fetched 22 green ones
fri 21 i built a flue for funk
sat 22 i fixed my wagon
sun 23 Bishop Berthelson made his first visit to Eastdale and organised us in to a branch of his ward
mon 24 i went after logs for a house
wen 26 first snow
fri 28 i started to build on my house
mon 31 i went to east mountains for logs for my house
September 1891
wen 2 we went down to rio grande to pick curns
thi 3 i worked till meeting and then tended the first fast meeting ever held in Eastdale a good turn out
fri 4 i went to ute mountain after logs
sat 5 layed them up
mon 7 went after logs to the ute mountains
sat 12 i went after logs for Mary Berthelson
mon 14 i worked for andrew Mortenson a ½ day in the afternoon i worked on my house
tus 15 i worked on my house
sat 19 i shicked wheat for myself
mon 21 i worked on my stacke yard
tus 22 i went to the east mountain after poles
thi 24 i worked on my stack yard
sat 26 i fixed for makeing adobies for Funk
mon 28 i made adobies 2500
October 1891
fri 1 i went after poles with W Lulen
sat 2 i went to the ute mountain after wood for Whittager Brother Funk took it over for me on the adobies
mon 5 i prepared for the binder to cut my otes
tus 6 i went to the east mountain after loges for stable
thi 8 i filed a pit to make some more adobies and chored around home
mon 12 i worked for g Hollman makeing a stack yard
mon 19 i helped Luelon fix his grainery for 2 ½ bushels of wheat
tus 20 helped them thrash
thi 22 i plowed our potaots out
fri 23 i covered my potatos seler
sat 24 plowed the rest of them up
sun 25 tended meeting in Eastdale
mon 26 i made the rest of Funk adobies makeing five thousand in all
tus 27 i worked for Wm. Luelon on his stack yard for a load of otes straw
wen 28 fineshed and started on my house
fri 29 i worked on my house
fri 30 i worked for F F Mortenson on what i owed him for helping San Holman thrash for me a 1/2 day and the other half i worked on my house
November 1891
sun 1 i tended meeting in eastdale
mon 2 worked on my house
tus 3 i went to costilla to vote and went to the canyon came home wed 4 with logs for my stable and some for the house
thi 5 i worked on my house
sun 8 dobed on house
tus 10 Abraham Jonson from utah came and stoped with me and we fineshed dobing
wen 11 me and brother Dunn went down to the rio grand to baptize my son joseph
thi 12 worked on house
fri 13 i went after poasts to pay on my mare
sat 14 i went to Sanford with and a little wood for Mary Berthelson
mon 16 went to lajara to get windows for my house but i could not get them came home that night
we 18 i started on the fire place and went after a load of rock
sat 21 fineshed. the fireplace
sun 22 tended meeting in eastdale
mon 23 worked on my house
thi 26 i went to the sawmill after lumber for the flore
fri 27 came home with 8034 feet of second clase lumber it came to $7.29¢
sat 28 lade the flore
sun 29 did not go to meeting
mon 30 worked on my house
December 1891
tus 1 worked for Funk makeing a fire place
wen 2 i worked for A mortenson on what i owed him for plowing
fri 4 i dobed on my house
sun 6 no meeting in Eastdale
thi 10 i went to Sanford with a load of sedor for T. V. Peterson on what i owed him
fri 11 my birthay i went down on the Excilcor farm with Brother Dunn to try to get some hailing but did not get it
sat 12 i went to pinons after wood for H A Jones to pay on a mechine that l got of him
sun 13 i tended meeting in Sanford
mon 14 being very cold i did not to home
tus 15 i started home in compney with heming mortenson we had a very cold trip but came home betwene 11 and 12 oclock
we 16 i chored around home
thi 17 i went after wood stable logs
sat 19 started on my stable
sun 20 no meeting to stormv
mon 21 i made a cuberd for sister Funk
tus 22 i went after stable logs
fri 25 i spent chrismus to home with all eastdale
sat 26 built my stable to the squre
sun 27 no meeting