Agendas

1878 · rif. BK0196 — Michigan 1878. Diary measuring 3 x 5 inches. 95 dated entries ranging from a few words to a few sentences with appx. 21 pages of miscellaneous notes mainly accounting. Cover quite worn good; contents very good. A diary belonging to Jane S. Coop of Michigan filled out between 1874 and 1878-the diary is a daily 1874 journal which Coop has filled out sporadically with years for each entry generally included. Coop mentions the weather and sleighing temperance and prayer meetings-including a "covenant meeting" in which "6 names were dropped or excluded from the Church . for neglecting the ordinances" December 29 1877-and deaths including her "Dear sister . in Calafornia Orange Las Angelos Co" July 8 1875 and her mother who died of consumption later in the month. The longest-running series of entries details the death of Archibald likely Coop's husband in 1876. She writes between July 28 and August 10: "Archibald was taken sick in the morning . A. is sick pain across him & vomiting I kept hot cloths across him . Sent for Dr Perkins he says it is 'Strangulated Hernia' left medicine. H. came & stayed. A. doesn't seem any better vomiting very affonsive from the bowels bloated . Perkins came morning says there'l have to be an operation performed came in afternoon with Barms McCormine operation under influence Cloriform 1 ½ hours Semuel & Duane here Seumuel took care of him all night . A. is quiet under the influence of opiates; flighty no movement of the bowels since friday morn just before he was taken sick Perkins does not want any now; fear of displacement . Perkins does not think A can live no movement of the bowels Sent for Perkins bath tab . A. died ½ past 11 oclock A.M. Cough all forenoon congestion lungs in night died sitting up in bed in Semuels arms very quietly at the last". Of interest to historians of life in nineteenth century Michigan. . unknown books