In this rather hot installment we meet, for the first time (kind of), the horse. For all her ongoing interactions with the animal, Ann does not mention it much.
Rose seems to be doing better — she eventually died of Bright's Disease — but Eleanor continues to fail, and when the entire family leaves for Bellevue "Father" George provides some support for his son George's family, helping with their farm.
Sat 5 Weather very warm attempted to go to the store could get as far as Whipples house and had to come back Father & I went to Pickets to supper it was his Mothers birthday her age was seventy one spent a pleasant evening
Sunday 6 Weather very dark & sultry I hope it will rain soon and cool the air We attended meeting Rose called in the evening Thomas Em and babies I and Josey took a ride George is in from Bellevue
Monday 7 Weather more pleasant there is a nice breeze
George called in the evening he has come in for Rose & the children
Tues 8 Weather warm I am alone George has gone to Bellevue has taken Rose Father will attend the lot
Wed 9 Weather very warm spent the day at needle work
Thursday 10 Weather hot spent the day at sewing etc.
went for a ride did not enjoy it was so warm fleas so thick on the horse
Friday 11 Weather very warm Josephines last day at school
I have spent the day sewing ^on^ Fathers shirts
I should like to see the folks in Arizona
Sat 12 Weather warm made a shirt for Father Anne was here tried to trim her sun [indecipherable]
Sunday 13 Weather warm Father & B Fawcett went to administer to Mr Whitelocks baby the weather is to warm to live I shall be glad when the warm weather is over for this summer received a letter from Maggie
Monday 14 Weather cooler cut apples went over to Georges lot I am longing to travel again We hear there has been a thunder storm in Nutrioso killed two of Ed Browns horses knocked Sister Brown down
Tueday 15 Weather fine it is the relief society but I forgot it was the day
From Charles Lowell Walker's Diary
Sunday 6th Hot with a little sprinkle of rain. Went to the ward Sunday School and gave a few hints about the sacrament.
Notes
Whipples house — Probably the Caroline and Eli Whipple home, 44 East 100 South, St. George.
Pickets to supper...his Mothers birthday — Horatio Pickett, son of Susanna Mehitable Rogers Sangiovanni Pickett Keate, who was, as noted here, celebrating her birthday. People with roots in St. George may recognize Horatio's name from their family death certificates since he was the undertaker.
Father will attend the lot — George Jarvis will do the necessary farming while George F. is helping his invalid wife.
B[rother] Fawcett — Patriarch William Fawcett (1814-1904)
Mr Whitelocks baby — Murkins Alma Whitelock. His mother was Amanda Terry and his father was John Albert Whitelock of Gloucester, New Jersey, teacher at the high school for one year.
In Albert Whitelock, St. George had an excellent schoolmaster and administrator. He was a good disciplinarian, one who was respected for his sound scholarship and his ability to inspire his students to do their best. In the opinion of George E. Miles...he was the best teacher St. George had known up to the time of his coming. He was at St. George for but one school year, 1883-1884. (Larson, I Was Called to Dixie, 551.)
Cut apples — processing apples to dry and store
Ed Browns horses...Sister Brown — Edward Mumford Brown (1849-1920) son of Lorenzo and Frances Crosby Brown, and his wife Ella Jane Dodge Brown (1849-1920). They lived in Nutrioso for about a decade and then returned to St. George. They had no children.
Sources
"Eli Whipple Home," [article and photo] Washington County Historical Society," accessed August 18, 2014, http://www.wchsutah.org/homes/eli-whipple-home.php.
Larson, Andrew Karl. I Was Called to Dixie: The Virgin River Basin: Unique Experiences in Mormon Pioneering. Utah: Deseret News Press, 1961.
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