May 6 - May 8 , 1865

1865 May 6th. Mrs. Benedict here teaching
school, Planting corn on creek

7th Sunday, pretty day warm

8th Planting corn on Creek & finished
at 12 oclock. Planted Pumpkins seed
snaps & simblings & fixed up all
the Dikes on Creek again
Jordan Lowry & Abram helped
us plant Corn on Creek Saturday
& this day. Jordan & Buck came back
helped us finished, Planted Peas
on Lot. Rained this evening &
we set out some Greens in Garden
cleaning up new ground fixing
Garden for Greens putting up some
crows in Corn field
Thank God we have not been
molested yet by marauders except
the stealing Lewis & Hester,
Lately Mr. Lincoln President of
the United States has been killed
Seward has been killed & since
Andrew Johnson has been killed
also by JW Boothe one of the
actors in the theatre at Washington