Thursday, May 30, 1912

We kids went to the schoolhouse at nine, and all the schoolchildren marched to the cemetery in a body as it is Decoration Day. Mama and Papa and Uncle Jim and Aunt Lulu went too. I was with Olive and Josie. I saw Elma F. and she kissed me. I took Max B's tie pin from Glenn. It is awful pretty. Mama, Papa, Baby and I went to Grandma M's for dinner. After dinner, I went down to Jennings whee Olive was and she introduced me to her Aunt Mary, Mrs. Filley, Elma's father's wife. Olive and I went to Bolton's and Josie and Cecil went with us and we went down to Duttons. I went to see Mabel. Poor Girl! She introduced me to her Aunt Lottie. She is very sweet. Alonzo is the first dead person I ever saw but he looked natural. When we got up town we saw Mr. Young with Bolton's auto, so we all got in and went to Scranton. O, that road! It reminds me of so many things. In the auto there were Mr Young, his little stepson, Robert White, Harry Burns, his little girl, Elsa May, Cecil, Josie, Olive and I. When we got to town, we went up to the church to the funeral. Mr. Young took us out to the cemetery in the car, and e walked back as far as Jennings. There, Olive and I got in Buek's rig and rode home. Ogilvia, Clifford and Beulah were out tonight, and Beulah stayed all night. Zella got a book from Myrtle R.