Diary

Author / Creator

Wright, Evlyn, (Mary Evlyn), 1881-1949, creator

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Summary

Diary begins May 10, 1912. Evlyn writes about the weather, her school and students (she resigned from teaching in 1945), her family (brothers Cyrus, Clyde, Oscar and George, sisters Maude, Bertie, ...

Diary begins May 10, 1912. Evlyn writes about the weather, her school and students (she resigned from teaching in 1945), her family (brothers Cyrus, Clyde, Oscar and George, sisters Maude, Bertie, Ada and Florence, neices Lucile, Glenna, Margaret Isabel, Constance, Muriel and Marjorie, nephews Myron and Bud), doing chores (washing, ironing, cleaning, sewing), illness (pleurecy, small-pox scare, Spanish Influenza, measles, scarlet fever, diptheria, pneumonia, a tumor, operation on a goiter (1936), hospitalizations (1943), breast cancer (1946)), visiting graves (her mother's, father's), hearing a speech by President Taft, attending church and Sunday School, shortages of coal and other difficulties due to World War I, signing of the Armistice, declaration of war (1941), a nephew's death from a gunshot wound, a tornado, a flood, earthquakes (1931, 1937), a trip to Colorado (1927), deaths of her sister Berta (1930) and brothers George (1931), Clyde (1936), Cyrus (1937), and Oscar (1940). Evlyn's diary ends on August 31, 1946.

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