Saturday, January 5, 2013

Monday, January 5, 1863


Mrs Dawes & Lucy returned to town this morning.  I wrote to Mrs. N. Carter enclosing 40 dollars from William.  He went down to Parkersburg on the evening train & will head to morrow morning for Washington by way of the N. W. O. & O & B railroad --
Singing school at school house begun to-night, taught by Mr. Myron Hitchcock.  Kate, Annie and I went-

Peggy's comments:
The person to whom Julia sent $40 is hard to read in the original, but I believe it is Nancy Carter, Julia's half sister who was a 72-year-old widow.

Mr. Myron Hitchcock is listed in an undated article about music in Marietta published in Historical Marietta.  In the article, it states that both he and his brother ran singing schools.  It also states that Myron became a soldier and died during the Civil War.

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