Journal of Elijah Charles Clapp
1903 Diary
January 1903
1 chored around home
17 went to Lajara on the wheel for Joseph had quit caring the mail
February 1903
22 went to Sanford and bought a lot of S C Berthelson for 100 dollers in trust to be at the rate of ½ per year i gave him my not
April 1903
26 i had rode 356 on wheel
27 i moved to Sanford with 3 loads
May 1903
9 we came home on one wheel one would ride ahead and leave the wheel and the other would come and take it
11 went to clearing a place to make adobies to make a room 18 by 20
20 started to lay adobies on my house
June 1903
7 tended meeting Sanford and was received into the ward
July 1903
13 went to Richfield to build their meeting house
24 spent the day in richfield and played the violin to the childrens dance for nothing and in the evening i played for the young people and got to dollers cash
September 1903
12 went to the river for willos to lath the gable of my house tack them on
25 worked on my house laying floor up stars
October 1903
7 started to plaster on the Richfield meeting house
9 Mary helped me
12 at half past three oclock my wife gave birth to a nice boy (Alvin)
November 1903
22 Bro Carl C Fredrickson and i blessed our baby and gave hime the name of Alvin Louis Fredrickson was mouth