As usual, Mr. Lanham’s diary began with a description of the weather: “Cloudy and cold, with the sun peeping through the clouds at intervals.”
It was Sunday, so the family headed to church. Sunday school attendance was good. A Mr. P.H. Vandiver was buried that afternoon, having died Friday afternoon quite suddenly from “apoplexy.” (This was the term comm…
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