Norris Spurgeon 1918 daily journal

Description:	A daily journal for the year 1918 kept by Norris Elva Spurgeon (1886-1957). During the year of this journal, Norris Spurgeon lived on a farm near Borden in Monroe Township, Clark County, Indiana with his wife Cleadis Alberta Farnsley Spurgeon their two children Kermit age 8 and Glayds Marie age 6. Spurgeon was a school teacher at a public school in Bluelick and substituted at Borden Institute. During the summer months he farmed. He writes about his everyday life and records the weather each day. In January the area experienced a record snow fall. He writes a lot about his Ford car which he calls the machine. He has to make repairs to it all the time. He talks about other peoples cars and car wrecks. There are many deaths mentioned. Twice school was called off because of influenza and German measles. On November 11, he marked the end of World War I with the words End of War. Some of the people he mentions are his sister Mayme who married Dr. Warrick Barnett and their children Mary and Paris Wesley. His father is Paris Spurgeon. Newton and Perry are his fathers brothers. Dempse is his cousin.
Origin:	1918
Created By:	Spurgeon, Norris, 1886-1957
Source:	http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15078coll17/id/13105
Collection:	Clark County Collections
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Geography:	Memphis, Clark County, Indiana 38.512976, -85.809773
Subjects:	Journals (Diaries) Borden (Ind.) Bluelick (Ind.)

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