Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Journal of Ida Belle Davis, 1913 to 1918

This journal belonged to Ida Belle Davis. Certain things seem to be written in another hand, as if the notebook was used for silent conversation. Some things are written {upside-down}.


Ida Belle Davis
Southside, Tenn.
March 6, 1913


Miss Mattie Harvey
Cunningham
Route #1, Tenn.

Miss Mallon Lawrence
Cedar Hill, Tenn.
Route #5

Mr. Claude O. Lacey
Vancouver
Washington
21st infantry
Company A









Mr. Banter Johnson
Pardue
Tenn.

Mr. Robert Gray
Clarksville
Route 1 Tenn

Mr. Lesbia Hagewood
Sobel
Tenn

Mr. Hugh Harvey
Harlem GA

Mr. Ray Dickson
Southside
Route 1
Tenn

Mr. Arthur Stewart
Neptune, Tenn

Mr. Eskew Bumpus
Centreville Miss

Always speak the Truth
Do unto others as you wish to be done by.
I had rather be good than rich.
Greet every one with a kind and gentle word.

Mr. Sam Basham
Clarksville, Tenn


Love one another
Obey your parents
Do not speak Evil of your friends.


April 27, 1913 Sunday
Mrs. Pitts Hagewood
Mr. Demps Hand
Mr. hester Monroe

{he said his sweet heart
who made your dress
Mrs. Myers
Pretty
Mrs. Serpton
Woman he sells pop to give his ring to him}



June account mama

Chick feed .20
gal milk .20
17 ice .60
18 milk .15
18 chicken feed 1.15

{Come and go to church with you tonight
where
to church
which church
who man
_name_
Rollins}
[Scribbled out]

[list]

Puzzle

Thursday June 4 1913
Miss Mattie Harvey
Miss Ora Swift
Mr. Marvin Bumpus
Mr. Willie Swift

June 6, 1913 Saturday
Mrs. Fannie Davis
Miss Annie Davis
Miss Ira Mai Davis




Miss Allene
?titis Simmons
pretty girl
yes I think she is too
She has gone to their old home to be gone a week or two

Do you like Wallis Millon??



"Thanksgiving" 1912
Mr. Stayton Davis
Mis Dorrie Phillips
Mr. Clarence Dunnaway
Miss Minor Workman
Miss Lucille Williams
Mr. Fountain Hagewood
Mr. Thomas Bumpus
Mr. Lewis Hargrow
Mrs. Clara Harris
Mr. J.W. Davis and family



Saturday July 26, 1913
Mr. Leebia Hagewood
Mr. ?B Davis and family
Mrs. Alfred William
will going my home
on July 10

Ethel
a
week
are you going to her home
she has a boy



Saturday night Aug 2 1913
Miss Clara Yarbrough
Mr Ray Dickson
Mr. Hubert Morrison

Sunday Aug 3, 1913
Mr. Sterline Wyatt
Miss Lillian Batson



Miss Vista Batson
here during the Baptist meeting

Aug 10, 11, 12, 13, 1913

Some love one, some love two, but I love only one, and that is you.

You are worth your weight in _Gold_



Aug 13, 1913 Thursday night

Mr. Terry Buckner
Mr. Marvin Bumpus
Miss Vista Batson

do you know Ethel's sister Honor she lives here works at hotel



Friday 15 & Saturday 16, 1913

Mrs. Vista Batson
-F-l-o-w-e-r-s-
Leaves May wilter, Flowers may die, true friends may forsake you, but never will I



They say she is not nice she don't do right Honor Heggie

I know her but I don't have anything to say to her because she don't do right

{My old sweetheart}
{My brother}



When land and hills divide us and me no more you see
Take your pin and paper and write a note to me
Vista



Aug Saturday 16, 1913

Miss Annie Elizabeth Davis

Aug 19, 1913
Miss Minor Workman
Miss Annie Davis

Aug 26, 1913
Mr. W.B. Davis and family



Aug 30, 1913
Saturday night

Mr. Terry Buckner
and
Mr. Marvin Bumpus



8-30-13

In the chain of friendship remember me as a link
M.B.B.

When this you see remember me a true friend in Tennessee
T.L. Buckner

Wednesday night Sept 17, 1913

Went to a entertainment given by our Sunday school teacher Mrs Merritts



Sept 16, 17, 1913

Mr. Stephen Batson
&
Miss Grace Batson

Sept 28, 1913
Sunday evening

Mr. Ray Dickson

Saturday night Sept 27, 1913

Mr. Ed Davis and family

Sept 1913 Sunday night
Mr. Wayne Harris
Jessie Fortner
Nathaniel Weems



Wednesday Oct 1, 1913

Mr. and Mrs. Gus Davis

Oct 5, 1913 Sunday
Mr. Ray Dickson

Saturday night & Sunday Oct 18, 19, 1913

Miss Bertha Justice
Mr. Sheton Davis
Mr. Marvin Bumpus



Sunday Oct 19, 1913

Mr. Ray Dickson

Oct 22, 1913 Wednesday
went to Clarksville

Oct 26, 1913 Sunday
Met Mr. THomas at Miss Annie Davis
&
Mr. Moody Hobbs
Mr. Stephen Batson
Miss Lucille Williams
Mr. Ewing Thomas
Ida Davis
all had a nice time
Oct 26, 1913 Sunday



Nov 1, 1913 Saturday

Spent the night with Miss Minor Workman.

Sunday Nov 2, 1913
Taken dinner with Miss Clara Smith

Nov 2, 1913
Mr. Lesbia Hagebook

Wednesday Nov 5, 1913
went to Newhope school house and spent the night at Mrs. J.B. Davis



Mr. HFarris Hodges
Cunningham
Tenn

Mr. Leonard Hall
Mr. GBrady WHall
Mr. Terry Buckner
Mr. Homer "
Mr. Oscar "

Miss Lola Harvey & Ida Davis
went to Mts Herman Saturday

Nov 8, 1913
also met Miss Mattie Harvey & Miss Mary Swift
Miss Thula Davis
here Nov 8, 9, 1913



Mr Hugh Harvey
Harlem GA
Route 2
c/o Mr. Whitaker
Mr Whitaker
Harlem GA

When the golden sun is sinking and your heart from care is free
While of others you are thinking won't you sometime think of me
W.PML??



Miss Lola Harvey
Mr. Foutain
Hagewood
Mr. Lesbia Hagewood
here Saturday

Nov. 8, 1913

Wrote with a pencil sealed with kiss God bless thoses lips are reading this
Thula Davis

ha! ha! if you see this you owe me a smile T.V.D.



Sunday Nov 9 1913
Mr. Lesbia Hagewood
Miss Lola Harvey
Miss Thula Davis
When you are far away and getting hold and can not see
Put on your glasses and think of me



Nov 15, 1913
spent the night with Miss Bertha Justice

Mr. Robert Gray

Nov 15, 1913
Mr. Lesbia Hagewood

Nov 15, 1913

Some love one
Some love two
but I love only you

Wednesday Nov 19, 1913
Mr. Lesbia Hagewood
went to a concert

Sunday Nov 23, 1913

Mr. John Davis and family
Miiss/Mrs Lola Harvey

Mr. Fountain Hagewood
Mr. Demps Hand
Mr. Ray Dickson

...where it is cool



Nov 26, 1913

Mr. JW Davis and family
Do you go with church tonight

I don't know

If I do I will go down town to ... service

do you want to go in court house yard



Thanksgiving Nov 27, 1913

Mr. & Mrs. Wilson Davis
Miss Ira Mai Davis
" Thula "
" Annie "
Mr. Robert Gray
Mr. William Blackwell
" Fountain Hagewood
" Ray Dickson
" Hubert Morrison
Miss Lucille Williams
" Dorris Phillips
" Vista Batson
" Minor WOrkman
" Elizabeth Harper
" Lola Harvey

Nov. 27, Thursday night
all went to a party at Miss Ruth Hagewoods



Saturday Nov. 29, 1913
Mrs. Pat Dickson
went to a box? party at Rise? chapel
Sunday morning Nov 30
Mr. Ray Dickson

Sunday evening Nov 30, 1913
Mr. Lesbia Hagewood

Dec. 6 1913 Saturday
spent the night at JB Davis Lola H Lesbia & myself
Went to Southside to pining ?



Dec 7, 1913 Sunday
Went to Rockspring & then home accompanied by Lesbia

Dec 13, 1913 Saturday
Mr. Robert Gray & Miss Annie Davis of Clarksville came out & stayed untill Sunday afternoon & then I went to Clarksville with them. We went to a party at Elizabeth Harpers on Saturday night Dec 12, 1913. Lucille Williams come home with us and stayed untill next day

Went to Clarksville Dec. 14, 1913 stayed three weeks



Dec 21 Sunday
while in Clarksville Annie Robert & I went out to see Miss Nellie Gray & to church that night.

Saturday night Dec. 27, 1993
Went out to St Bethlehem Miss Belle Williams Annie & myself & then to the JC Depot & then Robert & I went to the picture show that night

Sunday Dec 28, 1913
Mr. Stephen Batson
Miss Lucille Williams
Mr. Moody Hobbs
Miss Annie Davis
Mr. Robert Gray
Ida Davis
All had a nice time at J.W. Davis stay there


untill time to go to the train.

Tuesday Dec. 23 1913
Went to Blind Mary & had my fortune told

1914

Jan 1, 1914 Thursday
Mr. Carney Marbrough
Miss Annie Davis
Mr. Lewis Hargrove
all went to picture show

Jan 2, 1914 Same
went to picture show again

Jan 3, 1914 Friday night
Miss Nellie Gray
Mr. Richard Elliott
Mr. Stayton Davis
Miss Annie Davis
Mr. Robert Gray
Ida Davis
all played rook



Jan 3 1913 Saturday morning
Thula & myself came up on the train to Dodsville
... there by Lesbia spent Saturday at JB Davis stayed with Miss Nina Nicholson untill bedtime

January 4, 1913
went to Rockspring with Lesbia met Mr. Homer Cloud?

Wednesday night Jan 7, 1913
went to prayer meeting at Methodist church with Lesbia

Jan 14, 1914
Irmanll? Davis came over & stayed untill 17.



Jan 12, 1914

Lillian Batson
Ed Davis
John Weems
Ida Davis
all played rook

Jan 10, 1914

Went with Lesbia to Miss Mattie Harvey & to Mr. Marvin Bumpus home that night to a party met Mr. Eskew Bumpus

Jan 11, 1914
Spent the day with Miss Lola Harvey came home that afternoon



Jan 18, 1914

Went to Sunday S Lesbia & W.B. Davis & family came

Jan 24, 1914 Saturday
Mr. Robert Gray came

Jan 20 1914
I went to preaching at Rise Chapel with Robert SUnday night

Jan 25, 1914
Went to church at Southside with Lesbia

Feb. 1
Went to Rock Spring with Lesbia & went to Grace's for dinner

Feb 8
Went to church at Southside Ray Dickson came to see me in the afternoon & spent the night here



Feb 14 1914
Went to a Valentine party at the Hall & spent the night at Miss Minor Workmans

Feb 15 1914 Sunday
Mr. Robert Gray came out from Clarksville & spent the day & I went to Clarksville that day

Monday night Feb 16, 1914
Went to the picture show with Robert

Wednesday night Feb 17, 1914
Went to the show with Mr. Jesse Harvey



Saturday night Feb 20/21 1914
Went to show with Robert

Feb 22 1914 Sunday
Went out to Mortons flower garden & to church that night

Monday night 23
To church with Robert

Tuesday 24
To the show with Jesse

Wednesday 25
Went to opera house with Robert

Thursday & Friday night 26 & 27
Went to the Methodist church to Bible Conference

Saturday night 28
Went to show.



{Once I had a heart & it was true. But it flew from me & went to you. Now take care of that heart as I have done for you have two & I have none.

C.O.L.
Jan 31, 1914}



Mar 1, 1914

Nellie & Robert Gray Annie & myself all went out to Heitts? flower garden & to church that night

Tuesday night to the show with Robert

Wednesday night to prayer meeting

Friday night to the show with Jesse

Sunday Mar 8 1914
Stayed at home & went to church that night



Sunday Mar 15, 1914

Went out to Mollie's at Fredonia

Wednesday came back with Mr Weems to Cville

Thursday 19, 1914

S... .. snow went up in town to the spring opening

Mar 22, Sunday

Oscar Hand & Miss Ines Deoson?
Robert & myself went out driving to Dunbars came & to preaching that night at the Lillian Theater Br Taylor preached



Mar 24 Tuesday
Went over to South Clarksville to a protracted meeting

Thursday night went to church with Robert To?

Friday night Mar 28, 1914
Went to show with Jesse

Sunday Mar 28 1914
came home from Clarksville with Robert & the back water got up & he stayed untill Tuesday Mar 27 1914

April 4 1914
Saturday went over to Johns & spent the night



April 5 1914 Sunday
went to church with Lesbia to Rock Spring



Ida & Robert married Sept 26, 1915 at home 2.30 o'clock by Rev Simpson
went to there [sic] new home on 2nd st 412 Clarksville Tenn that night live there happily untill Dec 1 1916 then moved to 107 2nd st to take rooms? with Mrs & Mrs John Northington and are living there untill now still happy



July 22, 1916
Ida came out to her mothers at Southside Tenn to stay to be conofined which is ... the middle of aug. Robt at home & worked took his meals at Mrs JW Davis came out on SUnday to see his wife July 29 1916 & on every Sunday until Oct Monday 1916 They went back to their home with their little son which was borned Wednesday 6.30 o'clock Aug 30, 1916



Went to our home on Main St live there untill Aug 1917 moved to Dyersburg West Court? St Aug 1 1917 Robt worked in the Insurance business while there got a telegram Feb 1918 that my mother was very low & come at once
Came home RObt went back straighten up his business sold some of our thing crated the others moved out to my mothers Mrs JO Davis
Robt made a crop 1918



[Various shopping lists, budgets, etc]



{Can you sing nearer my god to thee by motion

hymn book}



Mr & Mrs JO Davis have returned home after visiting their sons JB & Ed Davis of Southside

Freeman? & Davis Mr Norman Freeman & Miss Thula Davis were married Mar 26 ... by Rev... at the parsonage he is a farmer of Clarksville Route 1? Miss Davis was a valuable employee of McNeal & Edwards



You ough to come sooner we just ate all the cream it was melting so fast



Say abc on your hand

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