I made cookies and got dinner and dressed a rooster this P.M.
Iliff* came and spent the eve
He has rented the Horatio Smith^ place- to move this month-
Aunty's new cot bed came by express-
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| The front of Irene's diary |
*Iliff (pronounced EYE-lif) refers to my grandfather, Iliff Willard Dolton, Sr. (1897-1981), Irene's only child with Willard Dolton.
^Could this refer to a house owned by Civil War veteran Horatio Williston Smith of Butler, NY, or his father Dr. Horatio Smith? Could they be relatives of Irene?
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