Saturday Oct. 5

I went with Lucy on the cars to Marietta.  It was nearly a year I think since I was there.  I thought of Henry who used to be there on my former visits.  They have quite a number of Persian curiosities which I had not seen.  After dinner Lucy and I went down to the Point shopping.  We got some very pretty pictures at Clines, also some patterns for flower painting.  Mrs. Buell called.  It rained in the evening.  Rev. Mr. Scott went down to our house tonight.  He is going to preach tomorrow in Warren.


Peggy's Comments:
Marietta was about 6 miles northeast from where Julia lived.  The cars she refers to are Rail Road cars that ran along the Ohio River from Marietta past where the Cutlers lived.  Here's a sketch of the area from an old map:

Warren Township, Ohio

The Marietta and Cincinnati Rail Road primarily ran east-west between Marietta and Cincinnati.  A little spur came down past the Cutler's Stone House (William P. Cutler was V. President of the Rail Road) so when Julia writes that someone has come down on the cars, she is referring to the railroad cars that came down on this set of tracks.  The Cutler's mailing address was Constitution, Ohio and they picked up their mail from the Constitution Post Office.   They attended church nearby and could buy dry goods in Constitution or at Scott's Landing.  Bigger shopping excursions required a trip to Marietta.

It is somewhat surprising to me that Julia hadn't made the 6 mile trip to Marietta, Ohio in over a year.  When she had last been there, her nephew Henry Dawes had been alive, practicing law there.  He became ill and died in August of 1860. (Sarah Cutler Dawes, Julia's older sister had 6 children:  

• Kate  (lived with Julia and the Cutlers in the Old Stone House)
• Henry (had been an attorney in Marietta until his death in 1860 at age 28)
• Lucy (unmarried, Lucy lived in Marietta and taught school)
• Jane (married Rev. John Shedd, a Presbyterian minister, they moved to Persia in 1859)
• Rufus (in 1861, he was a Captain of Company K in the Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers.  Rufus had been working for his father in Wisconsin when Lincoln's call for volunteers came out and so raised a company there, rather than in his native Ohio.)
• Ephraim  (a recent graduate of Marietta College, Ephraim helped his family including his Uncle William Cutler.  He had just enlisted in the 53rd Ohio Volunteers)

On October 5, 1861, I believe Julia was visiting her sister Sarah and Sarah's daughter Lucy.  The reference to "Persian curiosities" is to items from Jane Dawes Shedd, another of Sarah's daughters, who had been a missionary in Persia for some years.  Some of these curiosities have been passed down in the family.