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1896 Thomas Heraty's Diary
| Date | Day | Entry |
| Jan 3 | Fri | Youngsters got home from dance at Parnell at daylight. It was a wild dance. John and Connell and Tom Naughton, latter got a great beating. Andy Crogan kicked Connell in the face. Wm. O'Brien knocked out Crogan. A general wild time. |
| Jan 6 | Mon | Peterson from Cascade arrested Wm. O'Brien on a warrant sworn out by Andy Crogan as a result of the Parnell row on the 31st inst. Jim and Will O'Brien and Johnny went to Cascade with them. He pleaded guilty and it cost him $3.00 and costs. Total $7.00. |
| Jan 22 | Wed | Tom Ryder of Eden buried today. |
| Jan 28 | Tue | John Connell died at 6:15 p.m. |
| Jan 30 | Thur | John Connell buried. 200 teams. |
| Feb 17 | Mon | The big necktie party at Parnell tonight and the whole thing wound up in a fight. Dowling striking George McGrane with a pop bottle on the head, cutting him badly. |
| Feb 20 | Thur | Mrs. Anne Hickey died at Milwaukee this morning. 421 Marshall St. Died suddenly. |
| Mar 1 | Sun | Wm. Dwyre, son of Pat, died this morning of pneumonia. Was sick one week. |
| Mar 2 | Mon | Osceola priest's house burned at 3 � a.m. |
| Mar 3 | Tue | Wm. Dwyre buried today. |
| Mar 10 | Tue | Made out John Gaynor's fathers will. Tom Geraty died this morning at Dundee. |
| Mar 12 | Thur | Tommy Geraty buried at Mitchell. |
| Mar 15 | Sun | Old man Enright, John's father, died this morning. |
| Apr 1 | Wed | Old Mrs. Michael Connors of Greenbush was buried today at Osceola. She died at Berlin, Wisconsin. |
| Apr 4 | Sat | Dennis Doherty died at 12 o'clock last night. |
| Apr 27 | Wed | Ed Arimond and Miss VanBlarkum married at Dundee, Wisconsin. |
| May 3 | Sun | Went to mass at Osceola. There was no mass, only a harangue and tirade by the Honorable Esquire Maurice Moriarty vs. Reverend O'Donavan. |
| May 10 | Sun | A Mr. Walsh and Fanny Jordan called to be married. |
| May 19 | Tue | Fanny Jordan and Frank Walsh married at St. Rose, Lima. Flossie Jordan and John Delevan witnesses. |
| May 23 | Sat | Big dance at Calvey's Hall, Dundee. |
| May 27 | Wed | Old Thady Gwinn died at 11 o'clock yesterday in the town of Greenbush from rheumatism. |
| June 7 | Sun | Mrs. John Reilly of Scott buried at Cascade, died as a result of childbirth. |
| June 17 | Wed | John Lynch and Aggy Murphy married and Julia Gill and Mr. Foley of Sheboygan. |
| June 19 | Fri | Dance at Tom Butler's tonight. |
| June 25 | Thur | Mrs. Jas. Mangan of Bear Lake died at 5 a.m. |
| July 2 | Thur | Old Caleb Nelson died at 4 p.m. |
| July 3 | Fri | Michael Gaynor died at 11 o'clock a.m. |
| Aug 7 | Fri | Young Dan Reardon, Dennis' son, died today after a long illness of pneumonia and typhoid. |
| Aug 15 | Sat | A dance at Calvey's Hall tonight which ended in a Murphy-O'Brien row in which Murphy lost a bit of his thumb. |
| Aug 20 | Thur | Frank Kaiser killed in well. Son of Jim O'Brien, formerly of Scott, killed in R.R. accident in the northern part of the state. Also, the son of Martin Franey of Sheboygan, died of typhoid fever. |
| Aug 23 | Sun | Heard of the O'Donnell-Leahy racket at Beechwood. |
| Sept 11 | Fri | A big fight at Slattery's between Mike Connors and the McGrane boys. Whiskey! Whiskey! Threshing there in the p.m. |
| Sept 18 | Fri | Dance at Jimmy Gilboy's new cheese factory. |
| Sept 24 | Thur | Sold cow for $22.00 to Waldo butcher. |
| Sept 25 | Fri | Social dance at Dowling's. |
| Oct 18 | Sun | Eddy Gilboy and a Miss King of Forest called to be married. Father Burke is going to collect oats this week. |
| Oct 20 | Tue | Simon Gillen and Mary Amelia Studs married at Sheboygan. |
| Oct 26 | Mon | Heard of the death of Lavina Skelton Hays at Chicago yesterday. |
| Nov 10 | Tue | Jas. Prindeville and May Dwyre married at Osceola by Reverend Downs. Phill Gannon and a Miss Donavan, witnesses. |
| Nov | Thur | Heard today of the death of George Thackeray of Glen. Buried at Greenbush cemetery. I've known him since 1849, at Fulton, N.Y. Came to Wisconsin in 1852. Thomas Reilly of Mitchell buried. |
| Dec 2 | Wed | Old Roger Carey buried today. One of the old settlers of the town, he was. |
| Dec 13 | Sun | Osceola. Attended the funeral of James O'Brien. |
| Dec 22 | Tue | M. Butler called in a.m. and stayed till noon. I went up to Slatterys in p.m. and made deed from Mr. And Mrs. Slattery to their son Mike Slattery of the W � S.E. � Sec. 19 for $1.00 consideration. |
| Dec 23 | Wed | The Flynn vs. Gibbons suit at Sheboygan. |
| Dec 28 | Mon | James Twohig and Miss Hattie Conger married. |
| Dec 30 | Wed | Christmas dance at Dolan's tonight. |
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