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This is 20 May Saturday 1905

Have not written in this diary
since 9th of May, many events have
occured since then; my dear old
mother died on the 12 of May 1905
of paralysis at the age of nearly 90 years.
Frank Woodman came over to tell
us. Sunday the body was brought to
the island and laid in the vault as
it was her request to be burried here.
Voltie went for Belle, and she came
home with him and staid till after
the funeral. Will and Flora, Ethel, Lottie,
Belle, Charley, Mary, William & Stanley
Woodman and Rachel and Frank Woodman
and Johny Bamford here to dinner.
Voltie carried them all back over the
river, they went in two skiffs. V rowing
one and Will D the other. V came back
towing one of the skiff home again
through the thick fog on the river.
The weather is disagreeable, windy rainy
and cold. I think V has lost all
his tomato plants by setting them
out on a cold windy day, plants will die.