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1883 Thomas Heraty's Diary
| Date | Day | Entry |
| Jan. 20 | Sat | Patrick Scanlan arrived here at 8 p.m. Tim brought him. |
| Jan. 25 | Thur | Val Detting has agreed to advance on mortgage on Scanlan farm $3000.00 Scanlan left got Vandalia from Sheboygan. |
| Feb. 18 | Sun | Attended funeral mass of Miss Mary Mangan. Buried at Osceola. Met Mike Walsh of Milwaukee at Osceola church. |
| March 4 | Sun | Attended mass at Osceola. Father Horan said he was leaving Osceola. |
| March 18 | Sun | Gave Miss Coleman order for $140.00 Father O'Neal's first mass at Osceola. Mag Fixmer called to be married. |
| March 20 | Tue | Johnny Devine at Connells in the evening talking new factory and cheese. |
| March 27 | Tue | John Foley, John Mullen and Mag Fixmer were married. |
| March 28 | Wed | Bill Jepson was buried. Mrs. Shufflebottom at Glen (Glenbeulah) shot herself and child. |
| April 10 | Tue | Pat Egan killed up at Quinnesec by the caving in of mine. |
| April 21 | Sat | George ? Glidden died. |
| April 25 | Wed | Pat McHugh buried in Mitchell. |
| May 1 | Tue | Went to church in a.m. and helped Nickel set up monument. Thomas Crosby was married to Miss Kennedy. |
| May 5 | Sat | Dance at Crosby's for Tommy and his wife. |
| May 21 | Thur | Born a boy to George Lindsay family. Died a few minutes after birth. |
| May 23 | Sat | Heard Tom Riley married. Old Alcox at Cascade died. |
| June 17 | Sun | John Gannon and Bid Hughes called to be married. |
| June 20 | Wed | Amanda Reiley died at 3 a.m. |
| June 24 | Sun | Terry Fee and Bridget Carlin were called to be married. |
| July 1 | Sun | At home till 6 p.m. Went to Slattery's to settle school business and make out report. |
| July 2 | Mon | At tornado at New Cassel, Kewauskum and vicinity. |
| July 15 | Sun | Brookmire of Dundee was buried. |
| Aug. 8 | Wed | Grandmother Scanlan died. |
| Aug. 10 | Fri | Mona went to Sherman via Plymouth and got there to attend grandmothers funeral, who was buried today. |
| Aug. 15 | Wed | The grand Festival and Picnic at Mitchell. The whole family attended. Everything moved fine till the Osceola rascals commenced a disturbance which disturbed the whole meeting. Sold a lot of stuff and took in a good deal of money. Miles Gallagher's team ran away and running home from picnic, tipped over the buggy and broke his arm and demoralized the whole family. |
| Sept. 9 | Sun | Hard frost killed all the corn in the county. Ann McNicholas and Dan Sullivan called to be married. |
| Sept. 12 | Wed | Dan Sullivan and Anne McNicholas were married. |
| Oct. 9 | Tue | Mrs. Luke Gahagan died this morning. |
| Oct. 11 | Thur | Mrs. Luke Gahagan was buried. |
| Oct. 23 | Tue | Hired young Keys to teach the school at $42.50 for 4 months. Dance at Robert Skelton's tonight. |
| Nov. 5 | Mon | Paid Mike Slattery $5.00 on account. |
| Nov. 12 | Mon | Everything froze solid this morning. School begun by W. Keys. |
| Nov. 11 | Sat | Tom Crosby was killed in a mine up in Negaunee, Michigan. |
| Nov. 12 | Mon | Tom Crosby's body brought home from Negaunee tonight. |
| Nov. 13 | Tue | Tom Crosby buried. |
| Nov. 16 | Mon | Ed Connell got home from the Murray factory. |
| Dec. 19 | Wed | Old Mrs. Mangan died at 7 o'clock this morning. |
| Dec. 21 | Fri | Old Mrs. Mangan buried and with Mary Cannon attended funeral. |
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